Refiners' strike: the TotalEnergies strikers will decide whether to continue or expand their movement.
After a day of strikes and demonstrations across the country on Tuesday evening, the CGT proposed the “renewal of the movement.” Indeed, after three weeks of strike, the strikers at TotalEnergies' oil sites will have to decide today whether to continue or expand their movement. In reality, a wage increase is considered too low by the CGT and a national mobilization for wages started half-heartedly on Tuesday.

IVG in the Constitution: a transparent bill from the Senate
This Wednesday, the Senate will discuss a transpartisan bill to include the right to abortion in the Constitution and which will serve as a prelude to the debate promised by the presidential majority in the National Assembly, even rejected by the right. The discussion will take place in the hemicycle. Within the framework of a space reserved (“parliamentary niche”) for the ecological group, this text will be debated at first reading. The author Mélanie Vogel (ecologist) pointed out that it was by senators from seven of the eight political groups in the Senate, with the exception of the Republican Party.

War in Ukraine: Russia is preparing to evacuate the population of Kherson
Faced with the counteroffensive by Kiev, which denounced the numerous strikes that once again targeted its energy infrastructures on Tuesday, Russia is preparing to evacuate the population of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine where its troops are facing a particularly “tense” situation. The Russian army would “primarily ensure the safe evacuation of the population” from Kherson, without any other indication, according to Russian General Sergei Surovikin, who has been in charge of operations in Ukraine for ten days. The capital of the eponymous region, occupied by Russia since spring and annexed in September, is targeted by Ukrainian strikes on its “social, economic and industrial infrastructures.”

British government: Liz Truss faces MPs for the first time

On Wednesday, October 19, 2022, the British Prime Minister clashed with MPs for the first time since the abandonment of her economic program in the middle of the campaign. It's the test of his ability to bounce back and stay in Downing Street. In this oratory exercise, Liz Truss is much less comfortable with than her predecessor Boris Johnson. This is her third session of the weekly parliamentary questions meeting but it is already a question of political survival for her. After six weeks in power, she has been rejected by the public, contested within her own majority and is already seeing her authority reduced to shreds.

IN A NUTSHELL

Former Prime Minister Jean Castex is expected to head RATP. He was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Agence de Financement des Infrastructures de Transport de France (Afit France).

Pled guilty in the United States to having made “the unthinkable choice” in 2013 and 2014 to collaborate with the “terrorist” group Islamic State (IS) in Syria, the cement manufacturer Lafarge will pay 778 million dollars.

The NGO KidsRights said today that the effects of climate change threaten one billion children, as the living standards of minors around the world have not improved over the past decade.

Instead of 1 million subscribers promised by Netflix, 2.4 million additional subscribers finally joined the platform this summer. This is a victory for the streaming leader who has taken drastic measures after losing nearly 1.2 million subscribers in the first half of the year.

Before the Spanish courts, Neymar denied on Tuesday that he had committed any irregularity during his transfer to Barca in 2013, saying that he did not participate in the negotiations and signed what his father asked him to do.