195 countries look at climate forecasts ahead of COP26

While floods and fires are ravaging the world at a breakneck pace, 195 countries have begun the adoption of new forecasts by UN climate experts, a report "crucial to the success" of the COP26 climate conference in November. Seven years after the last assessment, this new IPCC report comes amid an avalanche of disasters that have put the impacts of climate change back on the front page, from exceptional rainfall in China and Germany to extraordinary temperatures in Canada.

Covid-19: US maintains restrictions on international travel

What does not matter if they are tested or vaccinated: the US borders remain closed for the moment to international travelers. The White House evokes the rapid spread of the Delta variant, despite calls for reciprocity from Europeans in particular.  While the countries of the European Union have decided to reopen their own borders to Americans, provided that they are vaccinated against Covid-19 or present a test born However, travellers from the Schengen area, the United Kingdom and Ireland have not been able to enter the United States since March 2020.

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Quatorze people were killed Sunday in Niger in an attack in Banibangou (west), near the border with Mali, a region where civilians are regularly targeted by suspected jihadists.

Qysiariesan President Kais Saied sacked the defense minister, a day after his decision to suspend the activities of Parliament and sack the prime minister, aggravating the crisis in which the young democracy has been plunged for months, causing concern in Washington which has called for the respect for democracy.

Electric vehicle maker Tesla, boosted by record deliveries in the second quarter, earned more than a billion dollars for the first time over three months but warned that the chip shortage remained a threat.

French basketball players, contenders for an Olympic podium, started their tournament badly with a loss to Japan (74-70), at the Tokyo Games, Tuesday at the Super Arena in Saitama.