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    Ukraine: what to remember from Friday, November 18

    As the snow begins to fall on the country, Kyiv has asked for “additional support” from the EU to deal with the energy crisis that is rocking the country.

    A widespread power cut in kyiv (Ukraine), November 8, 2022. ( NURPHOTO / AFP)

    The snow has fallen and Ukrainian energy capabilities are melting.

    Portugal: a short-lived upturn

    “European Micro” examines a social phenomenon in Portugal today, the theft of food in hypermarkets. Families with young children and elderly people cannot feed their children or live on their retirement: this is what statistics from Portuguese supermarkets reveal.

    A hypermarket in Portugal in Lisbon. (Illustration) (CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES)

    European Micro is now devoted to Portugal, with Ana Navarro Pedro, Portuguese journalist correspondent in Paris.

    Eurozapping: inflation pushes to fly in the UK, Banksy paints in Ukraine

    In the United Kingdom, it is one of the consequences of inflation, at its highest for 40 years. Filmed by a CCTV camera: thefts in a supermarket.

    Ocean Viking: legal chaos for migrants

    Friday, November 18, due to lack of time and resources, justice was unable to process all the files of migrants from the Ocean Viking. This means that 123 of them have been released.

    Most of the Ocean Viking migrants who were held in a center on the Gien peninsula (Var) were released on Friday, November 18.

    Ukraine: nearly half of the national energy system is “out of order”, warns kyiv

    As the snow begins to fall on the country, Ukraine on Friday asked for “additional support” from the EU to deal with this energy crisis.

    A person walks on a snowy street in Lviv, western Ukraine, on November 18, 2022. (AFP)

    Winter is approaching and Ukrainian energy capacities are melting.

    Ocean Viking: Faced with legal chaos, migrants are virtually all free

    Justice is overwhelmed, Friday, November 18, because of too many migrant files to process after the Ocean Viking arrived in Toulon a week ago. The legal chaos provokes strong reactions.

    Little by little, the reception center for migrants at Ocean Viking is emptying.

    Ocean Viking: “180 files to be decided in 24 hours, it is radically impossible” for justice, estimates the president of the bar of Toulon

    Sophie Cais, however, believes that “human means” have been put in place to be able to examine the situation of all migrants. She denounces a “serious lack of translators” in certain languages.

    A woman and a child, passengers of the Ocean Viking, upon their arrival at the “Giens Cap Levant” holiday center in Hyeres, November 11, 2022. (AFP)

    Sophie Cais, president of the order of lawyers at the bar of Toulon, estimates Friday afternoon November 18 on franceinfo that to ask the judges of freedoms and detention to “rule in 24 hours on 180 files” of migrant survivors of the Ocean Viking “is radically impossible”.

    “We are concentrating on the generators”: as winter approaches in Ukraine, concern in the European headquarters for humanitarian aid

    The European Union’s Emergency Response Coordination Center in Brussels has been providing shelter, food, vehicles or medical aid to Ukrainians since February.

    An employee of the Emergency Response Coordination Center (ERCC) in Brussels, January 29, 2020 (AFP)

    In the crisis room under the wall of giant screens are displayed maps, statistics and six clocks which indicate the local time in different points of the globe.

    “It will take decades to clear everything”: in Ukraine, painstaking work to neutralize the explosives that litter the liberated territories

    An area equivalent to a third of France is polluted by the deadly traps represented by mines and other remnants of the fighting. The marking of risk areas and information campaigns are a short-term priority.Soldiers from the demining unit inspect fields near the town of Snihurivka, in the Mykolaiv region (Ukraine), on November 12, 2022. (ANADOLU AGENCY / AFP)

    This is one of the great challenges facing Ukraine: how to clear tens of thousands of square kilometers polluted by explosive devices of all kinds?

    Ukraine: what we know about the acts of torture reported in Kherson and described as a “phenomenon” of “horrible” scale

    Since the liberation of this large city in the south of the country, testimonies have multiplied, after eight months of occupation by Russian forces.

    A police station in which Russian soldiers allegedly tortured Ukrainian prisoners, according to testimonies from residents of Kherson collected after the departure of the occupying army, on November 16, 2022. (ANADOLU AGENCY / AFP)

    “I have yet to see ‘torture’ on such a scale”. Dmytro Loubynets, in charge of human rights in the Ukrainian Parliament, described, Thursday, November 18 on national television, the abuses observed in Kherson after the departure of the Russian forces.

    Eurozapping: inflation puts the beer industry in difficulty in England

    In this brewery in Stroud (England), galloping inflation is putting beer production at risk. “The biggest increase since last year is electricity, which has doubled.

    Elon Musk reinstates the accounts of several personalities banned from Twitter, but has “not yet made a decision” concerning Donald Trump

    The former US president was banned from the social network in January 2021, after the Capitol was stormed by his supporters.

    Elon Musk’s Twitter account, November 14, 2022. (NURPHOTO / AFP)

    Arrived for three weeks, the new boss of Twitter dictates his rules. Elon Musk announced on Friday, November 18, that the suspended accounts of several personalities

    United States: Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos and fallen star of Silicon Valley, sentenced to eleven years in prison for fraud

    The 38-year-old entrepreneur claimed to have developed a revolutionary machine for performing blood tests. The scam was exposed in 2015.

    Elizabeth Holmes, on November 18, 2022 in San José (United States). (JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

    “I am devastated by my failures.” Former Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced Friday, November 18, to just over 11 years in prison for fraud in the management of her start-up Theranos, which promised a revolution in blood tests.

    United States: the special prosecutor “will not investigate impartially”, accuses Donald Trump

    The US Attorney General on Friday appointed a prosecutor to independently investigate the former US president, three days after he announced his intention to run again in 2024.

    Former US President Donald Trump after a press conference at his residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida), November 15, 2022. (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

    Jack Smith’s work will be scrutinized. Barely appointed by the US Department of Justice to independently investigate Donald Trump, this expert war crimes prosecutor has already been questioned by the former President of the United States.

    United States: an independent prosecutor appointed to investigate Donald Trump

    The American billionaire reacted on Friday, denouncing a “political” and “unfair” appointment.

    Donald Trump, in Palm Beach (Florida), November 15, 2022. (AFP)

    US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday, November 18 in a televised address the appointment of an independent prosecutor, Jack Smith, to investigate Donald Trump.

    Hurricanes: have the coasts of Florida become unlivable?

    Florida is frequently hit by successive hurricanes. Do the thousands of inhabitants still want to rebuild and live again with this risk?

    Trip Valigorsky’s house, located on the coast of Daytona Beach (Florida, United States) was devastated by a hurricane a week ago, associated with a high tide phenomenon.

    Florida: despite the hurricanes, the inhabitants want to stay on the coast

    Florida is frequently hit by successive hurricanes. Do the thousands of inhabitants still want to rebuild and live again with this risk?

    Trip Valigorsky’s house, located on the coast of Daytona Beach (Florida, United States) was devastated by a hurricane a week ago, associated with a high tide phenomenon.

    Climate: Lula wants to organize the COP in 2025 in the Amazon, France supports the idea

    “Brazil should not be isolated” on the international scene, said the Brazilian president-elect on Wednesday, while Jair Bolsonaro’s mandate was marked by a massive increase in deforestation.

    Brazilian President-elect Lula, November 16, 2022 at COP 27 in Egypt. (AFP)

    A COP at the heart of the planet’s lungs? Brazilian President-elect Lula announced Wednesday, November 16, in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt)

    Ukraine: Emmanuel Macron wants a “greater role of mediation” from China

    This was declared by the French president on Wednesday during a speech at the G20 in Bali.

    Ukrainian President Emmanuel Macron greets Chinese President Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the G20 in Bali, November 15, 2022. (AFP)

    Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, November 16, that he wanted China to play “a greater role of mediation” in the war in Ukraine. “There is a space for convergence, including with major emerging countries like China and India, to push Russia to de-escalate,” the French president told reporters after the G20 summit in Indonesia. . He said he had discussed with Chinese President Xi Jinping a “principle” of a visit to China in early 2023.

    the investigation into the fatal shipwreck of migrants in the Channel overwhelms the French rescuers

    In November 2021, 27 migrants died when their makeshift boat sank in the English Channel. The investigation is progressing and according to elements of the legal file, the emergency services did not measure the urgency of the situation.

    A migrant boat trying to reach the British coast from France, October 12, 2022. ( AFP)

    These are exchanges that send shivers down your spine. The investigation into the sinking of a migrant boat on November 24, 2021 is overwhelming for French relief.

    Germany Approves Release of Eurofighters to Saudi Arabia

    The German government has indicated its willingness to no longer obstruct the delivery of additional Eurofighter jets to Saudi Arabia, according to Foreign Minister...