Ukraine: Evacuation of Sloviansk still in progress
"There are currently 23,000 residents left" in Sloviansk, the city's mayor said in a video, a city that was home to about 110,000.The shelled town of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine continued to be evacuated Wednesday by civilians. After four months of tensions, this city is the new target of Russian forces who want to control the entire Donbass basin.

Resumption of the Avignon Festival after two years of pause
The most famous theater festival in the world, starts Thursday, in a festive mood certainly, but cautiously because of the health crisis. The traditional parade with the sound of drums also took place last Wednesday, for the first time since 2019. Following the opening of the new venue for the Avignon Festival, the streets of the "City of the Popes" are crowded with festivalgoers.

Elisabeth Borne's call for compromise rejected by the left
In a speech of about an hour and a half before the parliament, the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, invited to compromise to meet the economic and climate challenges at stake. A speech that failed to convince the opposition, which finds it empty and does not hide its distrust. The latter also tabled a motion of censure shortly before the speech.

IN BRIEF
Elisabeth Borne, Prime Minister, revealed last Wednesday the government's intention to re-nationalize 100% of the energy company EDF, which is heavily indebted and has been ordered to set up a new nuclear program.
Four years after the shocking images of the collapse of the Genoa bridge, in which 43 people lost their lives, were broadcast worldwide, a mega-trial involving 59 defendants opened on Thursday in this Italian port city to determine responsibility.
The heads of the U.S. FBI and Britain's MI5 warned Wednesday against a surge in Chinese commercial espionage in the West, in a rare joint address at British intelligence headquarters in London.
Tour de France: Against all odds, Belgium's Wout van Aert saved his yellow jersey in Arenberg on Wednesday after a wild ride on the cobbled fifth stage, won by Australia's Simon Clarke.
Rafael Nadal qualified for the semi-finals of Wimbledon where he will meet the volcanic Nick Kyrgios who "found the opening" to the last four.