Heat wave: a third of France on guard, records expected
A third of the country is on the alert in red or orange, with a thermometer often exceeding 40deGC: the unprecedented early heat wave is increasing in France, with temperature records expected until Saturday. A total of 37 departments, or 18 million people, are concerned. As of Friday, the 40th of the GCE will be frequently reached or even exceeded in a large south-western quarter, according to Météo-France. On Thursday in Hérault, in Saint-Jean-de-Minervois, the thermometer has already climbed to 40degC: a record of precocity for metropolitan France outside of Corsica, according to Météo-France. On Saturday, absolute records could fall on the Landes, Poitou-Charentes, Vendée axis. The Ministry of Health has activated a free number of Canicule Info Service (08.00.06.66.66) and the Ministry of Education has announced that students and middle school students in the 12 departments in red will be able to stay at home on Friday.
Ukraine suspended from the verdict on its application for EU membership
Ukraine was suspended on Friday from the verdict of the European Commission, which is due to give its opinion on the country at war's EU candidate status, a way for Kiev to protect itself by joining the “European family”. “Ukraine is part of the European family”, wanted to reassure German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a visit to Ukraine on Thursday, with his Italian and French counterparts, EU heavyweights. The leaders of France, Germany and Italy, as well as their Romanian counterpart, said on Thursday they were ready to “immediately” grant Ukraine the status of candidate for membership of the European Union.
WTO: agreement reached on fisheries, Covid vaccines and food security
The World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial announced that it had approved “historic” agreements on fishing, the lifting of anti-Covid patents and food insecurity in Geneva on Friday. It's “an unprecedented set of results. It has been a long time since the WTO achieved such a large number of multilateral results. The results show that the WTO is capable of responding to the emergencies of our time,” said WTO director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, before the heads of delegation of the organization's 164 member countries. The conference aimed not only to address food insecurity created by Russia, but it also wanted to eliminate subsidies that facilitate overfishing and empty the oceans, temporarily lift patents that protect anti-Covid vaccines, or even R& to form the WTO itself.

IN SHORT
The World Health Organization (WHO) called on all nations to invest more in mental health on Friday, saying that “the suffering is enormous” and has been compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic.
A shooting Thursday outside a church in Vestavia Hills in Alabama (southern United States) left two people dead and one injured, the city police said, adding that a suspect was in custody.
Three Palestinians were killed Friday morning in an operation by Israeli forces in Jenin, a stronghold of armed factions in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian agency Wafa said.
In basketball, the Warriors were crowned NBA champions for the seventh time in their history, after winning (103-90) in Boston on Thursday thanks to Stephen Curry, who scored 34 points, and an iron defense.