Macron welcomes political parties in the face of announced blockages

Two days after the parliamentary elections that ushered in Macron, Emmanuel Macron is regaining the initiative in the face of the risk of blocking his reforms in the Assembly, by inviting opposition politicians. Six of them will be received in succession at the Elysée on Tuesday: Christian Jacob (LR) starts the march at 10:00, before Olivier Faure (PS) at 11:00, François Bayrou (Modem) at 15:00, Stanislas Guerini (LREM) at 15:00, Marine Le Pen (RN) at 17:30 and Fabien Roussel (PCF) at 18:30, before others on Wednesday like the leader of the EELV party Julien Bayou.

Ukraine: Russia intensifies its bombing, Kiev hits its drilling rigs

Ukraine on Monday accused Russia of further intensifying its deadly bombings in the east, where its troops are resisting relentlessly, and according to Moscow, in return hit drilling rigs in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea (south), annexed in 2014. On the threshold of a week described as “historic” by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with a summit in Brussels that could grant Kiev the status of a candidate to join the European Union, tension has also risen sharply further north between Russia and Lithuania, which has restricted the transit of Russian freight by rail to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. The head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell then said that Lithuania was applying European sanctions on the transit of certain types of exports between Russia and Kaliningrad, but was not imposing any blockade on the Russian enclave.

Russian Nobel medal sold for over 100 million dollars, for Ukrainian children

Dmitry Muratov, the Russian editor-in-chief of the independent investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, auctioned off his $103.5 million Nobel Peace Prize medal on Monday to benefit children displaced by the conflict in Ukraine. The amount of the sale in New York, won by an unnamed bidder over the phone, will be donated to UNICEF's program for Ukrainian children displaced by the war, according to Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale.

People need to understand that a conflict is happening and that we need to help the people who are suffering the most,” said Dmitry Muratov. Commenting on his choice of UNICEF as the recipient of the funds, he replied: “It is essential for us that this organization does not belong to any government. It can work above governments. There are no borders for her.”

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