“ violent” repression of anti-government protests in Iran: an Iranian commits suicide to alert

An Iranian man committed suicide on Monday by jumping into the Rhône in Lyon. According to a posthumous video, he wants to draw attention to the “violent” repression of demonstrations against the government in his country. “When you watch this video, I'll be dead,” he announced. According to the police, he was found drowned at the end of the day on Monday, December 26, 2022. The man affirmed in this video posted on several social networks that “the police are attacking people, we have lost a lot of sons and daughters, we have to do something”, before committing the irreparable.

Russia: soon oil sales to countries using the ceiling price will be banned

Russia has decided to ban the sale of its oil to foreign countries that use the Russian black gold price cap starting ^February 1. This decision has had little impact on market crude prices; in reality, this ceiling is intended to deprive Moscow of significant revenue to finance its military intervention in Ukraine. So it was set at the beginning of December at 60 dollars per barrel by the European Union, the G7 and Australia.

Fight against Covid-19: the United States wants to impose entry restrictions

American officials have indicated that the United States is considering imposing entry restrictions on travelers from China, where authorities abruptly relaxed their COVID-19 measures. Indeed, while the main pillars of the “zero Covid” policy practiced by the country since the beginning of 2020 have been dismantled in a few weeks, infections have soared throughout China. At least that's what prompted American officials to worry about the risk of new variants of the virus appearing.

To this end, American officials said that the United States “is following scientific evidence and the advice of public health experts, consulting partners, and considering taking similar steps (...) to protect the American people & raquo;. They did not fail to mention concerns expressed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as measures adopted by Japan, India and Malaysia.

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The latest data from the network operator RTE mentions that electricity consumption continues to fall in France, with a fall of 7.4% last week compared to the average of the previous years (2014-2019) in the same week.

The continuation of a measure taken during the Covid-19 pandemic to immediately deport migrants without residence permits arrested at land borders, including potential asylum seekers, has been announced by the Supreme Court of United States.

Iran Human Rights (IHR), an Oslo-based NGO, reported that at least 100 Iranians arrested in more than 100 days of protests in their country are facing charges that carry the death penalty.

Rafael Nadal was delighted to find his rival Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open (15-29 January in Melbourne) without a tournament in 2022. He considers this return “good for tennis”.