RUSSIA
the Moskva sunk, a blow to Moscow
He was the pride of the Russian fleet, an emblem of the power of the army. The flagship Moskva sank April 14 in the Black Sea. What happened to this 12,490 ton steel colossus? kyiv claims that it was hit by two of its missiles, while Moscow evokes an explosion due to a fire.
One thing is certain, the image is devastating for the Kremlin, and this symbolic shipwreck on the 50th day of the war in Ukraine. This building, the second lost since the beginning of the conflict, is “the largest warship sunk in combat since the Second World War”, note it BBC.
UK
Migrants sent to Kigali
The announcement provoked an outcry from NGOs and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Boris Johnson welcomed, on April 13, an agreement of 144 million euros with Rwanda to take care of migrants who arrived illegally in the United Kingdom. They would be sent back there by plane. The Prime Minister hopes that this policy will prove “over time to be very dissuasive”. “Last year, 28,526 people crossed the English Channel in small boats compared to 8,404 in 2020”, remind him Guardian. Several dozen died there.
FINLAND
Entry into NATO is looming
A historic turning point is beginning. The war in Ukraine is prompting Finland, which has always refused to join a military alliance, to change course. The entry into NATO of this Nordic country sharing a border of 1340 kilometers with Russia could even take place within “a few weeks”, declared Prime Minister Sanna Marin on April 13, during a trip to Sweden. , where a similar debate is ongoing.
The Finns “turned to membership before their policies”, notice the daily Helsingin Sanomatadding that the bid would have “the support of a two-thirds majority in parliament”.
ISRAEL
Easter under tension
The specter of a new conflict between Israel and Gaza looms after a violent holy weekend. Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police on the esplanade of the Mosques in Jerusalem left nearly 200 injured. In an electric context after a series of attacks on its soil, the Israeli army carried out its first strikes against Gaza on April 19 in months, in retaliation for a rocket attack. If Israeli intelligence does not envisage war in the immediate future, according to the newspaper Ha’aretz“the IDF Southern Command nevertheless prepared for the possibility of an escalation”.
CHINA
In the hell of Shanghai, city hungry
Hundreds of people screaming in despair at their windows: the 26 million inhabitants of the megalopolis of Shanghai, strictly confined for almost three weeks, are living in hell.
Many families are now running out of supplies. As for the patients affected by the Covid, they are parked in exhibition halls transformed into makeshift hospitals lit 24 hours a day by neon lights. According to the British television channel sky newswhich collected several testimonies alarming, the distress is such that the city is close to falling into “civil unrest”.
UNITED STATES
Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter
The whimsical billionaire Elon Musk dreams of a new toy called Twitter. The boss of Tesla proposed on April 14 to buy the social network for the trifle of 43.4 billion dollars. His goal: “unleash the potential” of the company, in which he already owns 9.2% of the capital. If his takeover bid is successful, it “could have a significant impact on political discourse around the world”, underlines the New York Times. A supporter of unfettered freedom of expression, Donald Trump sympathizer Elon Musk has repeatedly criticized the deletion of posts or the exclusion of users on the platform.
BRAZIL
The state buys Viagra en masse for the army
The controversy triggered sometimes the anger, sometimes the hilarity of Internet users, quick to mock Bolsonaro’s “dicta-tough” after the revelation, on April 11, of a strange order for the army. The government bought 35,000 Viagra pills and 60 penile prostheses – at almost 12,000 euros each, all the same. According to the Ministry of Defense, the blue tablets, known to cure erectile problems, were acquired to “treat military personnel suffering from pulmonary hypertension”. A justification that struggles to convince, because this disease “is not common and mainly affects women”, raise the chain Globe 1. Unconvinced, the justice opened an investigation into possible overbilling.