Putin and Xi meet amid tensions with the West

The presidents of China Xi Jinping and Russia Vladimir Putin are meeting in Uzbekistan on Thursday for a regional summit that looks like they are facing the West, in the midst of tensions exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. Xi and Putin will be joined in the city of Samarkand, a key stop on the ancient Silk Road, by the leaders of India, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran and other countries for a two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. For Putin, who is striving to accelerate a pivot to Asia in the face of Western sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, this summit is an opportunity to show that Russia is not isolated on the global stage.

France will cap gas and electricity price increases at 15% in 2023

France has announced its battle plan to get through the winter: while the risk of outages is very real, the Prime Minister called for sobriety and European solidarity, and capped the rise in gas and electricity prices to 15% in 2023. Like its European neighbours, the French state will continue to spend billions of euros to mitigate the impact of the worst energy crisis in Europe since the 1970s. An exceptional energy check will be paid at the end of the year to 40% of households, i.e. 12 million households: 200 euros for the most modest 20%, and 100 euros for the other 20%.

The British are showing patience in greeting their beloved queen

Food, bottles of water and above all a very large dose of patience: tens of thousands of Britons are determined to pay their respects at the coffin of their beloved Queen Elizabeth II in London on Thursday, before a grandiose funeral on Monday. The endless queue, which extends for several kilometres and could reach up to fifteen, from Westminster Hall to the south-east of the capital, across the Thames, is far from discouraging them.

The final step before the 10-day funeral of a painful national mourning, the body has been accessible to the public since late Wednesday afternoon. She was then transferred in an emotional solemn procession from Buckingham Palace, Elizabeth II's official residence during her record 70-year reign.

Pogba case: brother Mathias Pogba and four others in police custody

Investigations into the extortions reported by soccer player Paul Pogba were accelerated with the detention of Mathias Pogba, the elder brother of the Juventus Turin player, and four others. Mathias Pogba, 32, presented himself “early in the afternoon (Wednesday) to the investigation department and was taken into custody” and according to a source familiar with the case, three of the people in custody are friends or relatives of the Pogba brothers.

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