The editorial staff of “Libération” compiles the main news from this Thursday, November 21 at the start of the day.
Every morning, the editorial staff of Libé selects the essential news in France, the rest of the world and those to follow during the day.
Storm Caetano brings snow to the plains
With the arrival of storm Caetano, winter is arriving this Thursday in France, where 54 departments are placed on orange alert for snow, ice and wind. This depression “will cross France from west to east and cause an early and sufficiently notable winter episode to make traffic conditions difficult in the regions concerned”warns Météo-France. Due to this bad weather, the authorities of various departments are taking numerous measures to reduce speeds, ban heavy goods vehicles and cancel school transport.
France has already seized twice as much cocaine as last year
Nearly 45 tonnes of cocaine have already been seized in 2024, double the seizures in 2023, the new Director General of the National Police (DGPN), Louis Laugier, said on Wednesday, noting a drop in the number of deaths linked to drug trafficking. . Heard by the Senate Law Committee, he added that as of September 10, 2024, “more than 16,100 operations” aimed at dismantling deal points had been carried out by the national police.
MEPs vote in favor of meal vouchers in supermarkets
The National Assembly unanimously adopted the extension until the end of 2026 of a derogation which allows the use of restaurant vouchers to purchase all food products, an aid to the purchasing power of workers regretted by restaurateurs . This exemption – permitted by law in 2022 following Covid – had already been extended for one year in December 2023 due to still high inflation. It was to end on December 31. The Senate has yet to decide.
Ukraine allegedly used British missiles in Russia
Kyiv used British long-range Storm Shadow missiles against Russian territory for the first time, after obtaining permission from London, British media reported. This firing came the day after that of similar missiles supplied by the United States, the ATACMS. Ukraine had long demanded authorization to use these weapons but the West feared the reaction from Moscow, which presented this as a red line.
The US government wants to force Google to sell its Chrome browser
The American Department of Justice is calling for the division of Google's activities, and in particular to sell its Chrome browser, a sanction which would be historic for the technological giant already under fire for its anti-competitive practices. If the intentions of the future Donald Trump government on this subject remain unknown, this request marks a profound change on the part of the American competition authorities who have essentially left the technology giants alone since their failure to dismantle Microsoft around twenty years ago. of years.
To be continued today
Minister of Agriculture Genevard on the ground, Rural Coordination still mobilized
The Minister of Agriculture is making her first field visit to Pas-de-Calais since the return of farmers to the streets, the mobilization now seeming to be mainly limited to the actions of the yellow hats of Rural Coordination. In the South-West, stronghold of this union competing with the FNSEA-Young Farmers tandem, blockages continue, notably of access to the commercial port of Bordeaux and major retail purchasing centers. Supermarkets were also targeted.
A moderately followed strike at the SNCF against the dismantling of its freight subsidiary
No major chaos but localized disruptions: Thursday's strike at the SNCF at the call of all the group's unions is not massively followed, the day after announcements of moderate salary increases for 2025. The TGV Inoui like Ouigo will run more or less normally but only seven out of ten TER trains and one out of two Intercités trains will run compared to usual. In the Paris region, the R lines of the Transilien and the RER D, traditional strongholds of the Sud-Rail union, will be the most affected with only one train in three.
The discovery
Notre-Dame rood screen: before the reopening of the cathedral, a discovery as exceptional as it is confidential
During archaeological excavations, prior to the construction site of the cathedral which burned in 2019, a thousand fragments of this sculpted wall which separated the choir and the nave were exhumed. A discovery almost passed over in silence, perhaps so as not to slow down the presidential pace of work. Read our article.
The report
In Kherson, a martyred city, Ukrainian civilians hunted down in a “human safari”
After occupying, bombing and flooding the city in the south of the country, Russian troops are launching killer drone assaults there. Sadly accustomed, the population is redoubled in ingenuity to thwart the explosives aimed at them. Read here.
The portrait
Johanna Rolland, bridges and ditches
Number 2 of the Socialist Party, the discreet mayor of Nantes occupies a central place in the union of the left. Our portrait.
