Published on 02/05/2026 23:00 Reading time: 2min – video: 3min With the rise in the price of gasoline and the desire to travel in a more virtuous way for the planet, the French are banking on cycling, a mode of transport that combines sport, bucolic escape and savings. For some hotel professionals, cycle tourism […]
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“It’s a French team with five players in the thirty best in the world, it’s been a very long time since that happened,” says the former sportsman, Saturday on franceinfo, as the Blues enter the competition in London.
A victory “is not unattainable”, said Saturday May 2 on franceinfo, Jean-Philippe Gatien, world table tennis champion in 1993, as the French team entered the competition in London.
According to the Olympic vice-champion at the 1992 Olympic Games and 13-time French table tennis champion, “there are some great things to look for”. As a reminder, the Blues are the reigning European team champions and vice-world champions in 2024. “It’s a French team with five players in the thirty best in the world, it’s been a very long time since that happened,” underlines Jean-Philippe Gatien. The Blues can also count on the Lebrun brothers, Félix and Alexis, who are “in good shape”.
“Obviously the Chinese ogre is still the favorite, however we have seen in recent months that they have lost feathers in different battles,” analyzes Jean-Philippe Gatien. He recalls that the Chinese are losing ground: “The world number one seems to be above the rest but otherwise, at one time, there were four or five in the top ten in the world, today there are only two and the French are inexorably getting closer. »
The World Table Tennis Championships take place in London, England from April 28 to May 10.
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Some materials behave unexpectedly. They crack differently than expected, or react in ways that are hard to explain.
Now in the hands of the national center dedicated to the treatment of serial or unsolved crimes, known as the “cold cases” center, of the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, one of the most insoluble criminal enigmas of the last twenty years in the Lyon region is the subject of new investigations, after recent twists and turns.
In the fall of 2025, two young women, tenants of a residence located near Voiron (Isère), were the recipients of anonymous missives alluding to the murder of Christiane Commeau, 54, who suddenly disappeared from her home in Chassieu (Métropole de Lyon), on October 22, 2004. Her body was discovered on February 18, 2005, buried in a wood a few kilometers away, in Niévroz (Ain). According to forensic doctors, the fifty-year-old with a smooth and modest existence was killed by two 22LR caliber bullets, fired into the back of the head. Twenty years after this crime with incomprehensible motives, the victim’s relatives are hoping for a serious lead, with these curious messages, left by an unknown person in the mailboxes of young women, 70 kilometers from the scene of the tragedy.
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American diplomacy notably asked Congress to approve the sale of Patriot air defense systems to Qatar for an amount of more than $4 billion.
Washington has approved a sale of the Patriot air defense system to Qatar, targeted by Iranian strikes during the conflict that began at the end of February, for an amount of more than $4 billion, the State Department announced on Friday, May 1. The United States also approved arms sales to Israel and its allies in the Middle East, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, detailed American diplomacy by asking Congress for approval of these sales, for a total amount of more than 8.6 billion dollars.
These authorizations given by Secretary of State Marco Rubio support “the foreign policy and national security objectives” of the United States, said the ministry, while the countries concerned were all the subject of strikes by Iran during the conflict triggered by Israel and the United States on February 28.
In detail, the sale of Patriot systems to Qatar responds to “an emergency” intended to “improve the security of a friendly country” facing “current and future threats”. Kuwait, for its part, will receive integrated command systems worth $2.5 billion.
Israel, the Emirates and again Qatar will be able to purchase a high-precision guided weapons system (Advance Precision Kill Weapon System, APKWS), worth nearly a billion dollars respectively for Israel and Qatar, and 147 million for the Emirates.
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Political guest of “La Matinale” Saturday May 2, Edwige Diaz, RN deputy for Gironde, returned to the relations between her party and the unions, while many workers question too close exchanges between elected officials and employers.
This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full.
For May 1, the RN met its supporters yesterday in Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire). Your way to celebrate May 1st. Is this also your way of symbolically stealing May 1st from the left?
Oh dear, I don’t feel like we’re stealing anything from anyone. At the National Rally, there is a tradition, we celebrate every May 1st the day of those who work, of those who have worked, but also the Day of the Nation. These are the values of the National Gathering that we celebrated yesterday (Friday May 1) in front of more than 6,000 people, with a festive, friendly atmosphere and, above all, deep determination. The sense of responsibility and duty too. We are one year away from the presidential election. We ask the patriots of France to mobilize, to register on the electoral lists, to take their card at the National Rally, because we will need all the votes to straighten out France, while 75% of French people believe that Emmanuel Macron is a bad President of the Republic.
There was the air of presidential speeches, of presidential meetings. What is the economic line of the National Rally? It is difficult to know whether it is social-statist or national-liberal. We hear a bit of two bells if we have Marine Le Pen in the left ear and Jordan Bardella in the right ear.
I have been hearing this for several weeks on all television sets, but our economic program is very clear. Moreover, it is available on our website. We are for freedom of enterprise, support for business leaders, support for entrepreneurs in our country. We want a State that protects, that creates the conditions for favorable economic development, which is not currently the case. In my area, 17 businesses a day closed last year. 90% of French people believe that Emmanuel Macron’s economic record is a failure, with this disastrous economic policy, so on the one hand to stop with the Macronists who have failed on everything and, above all, to prevent the new popular front with Jean-Luc Mélenchon from winning the presidential election next year because otherwise it would be a disaster for our entrepreneurs.
You defend a lot and always have, in fact, the working classes, people who have purchasing power problems. And, on the other hand, you have a speech that is quite pro-employer. However, this is exactly what these people are criticizing. Are you asking Medef, for example, to increase salaries?
In any case, our proposal on salaries is very clear. We want to offer business leaders a win-win deal, that is to say allowing them to increase salaries by 10%, in return for exemption from employer contributions. We do not oppose the working classes, the workers, the employees, the employees and the business leaders, because the two must work together. That’s national unity. There cannot be thriving companies if there are no motivated employees. This is why the State must have a role of regulator, guide, support to promote the economic development of our companies which, ultimately, will serve the employees that we always defend. Moreover, we can see it clearly in the voting intentions: more and more employees are deciding to trust us because they have seen that the left had betrayed them, that Emmanuel Macron never took care of them and that we have measures which are favorable to increasing their purchasing power.
Jordan Bardella was interviewed by Medef and there was a dinner between Marine Le Pen and bosses of the CAC 40 including, in particular, the bosses of TotalEnergies and LVMH. Do you have the feeling that the employers are now on your side for 2027?
No, not at all and it’s not a goal either. I consider that, when you are the leading party in France in terms of number of members, number of voters, number of deputies in the National Assembly, it is normal that business leaders want to meet you and that we want to meet them. We are given potentially qualified for the second round of the presidential election, potentially declared victorious in the presidential election, and it is normal for the leading party in France to discuss with the employers’ organizations. What is not normal is that unions like the CGT refuse to discuss with us, but that is not very serious. Employees and workers know that we defend them. We are moving forward in a state of mind of appeasement, of determination, because we want to bring about this national reconciliation and we believe that we are the only ones who can do it.
There is this strong opposition from the unions who marched in the streets on May 1st. Does this mean that you will govern without the opinion of the social partners?
No, not at all, because we are very respectful of institutions. But I would still like to point out the hypocrisy of all the unions which claim to defend purchasing power. I would like to remind you that they all called to vote for Emmanuel Macron, whether in 2017, in 2022, and for all the candidates supported by Emmanuel Macron in the 2024 legislative elections. So the unions are discredited. I hope that they will come to their senses and that they will be very respectful of democracy if, however, we win the presidential election next year. Thanks to our 140 deputies, with our allies in the UDR, we are on the ground. In Gironde, in my department, I am always in close collaboration, in exchange with the employees who demonstrate their trust in us and for that we send them our sincere thanks.
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The UN Secretary-General took note of the move in a statement, reiterating his call for the swift and unconditional release of all those arbitrarily detained as a fundamental step towards essential political reform.
António Guterres believes that a viable political solution must be founded on an immediate end to the brutal civil conflict across Myanmar and a genuine commitment to inclusive dialogue.
Sustained engagement by the military junta and rebel leaders with the UN Special Envoy for Myanmar is crucial to supporting efforts toward a peaceful resolution.
This includes coordination with regional partners such as the ASEAN group of nations, in line with calls from the Security Council and General Assembly.
And staying in Southeast Asia, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has expressed deep concern over the top court’s decision in Cambodia to uphold the conviction of former opposition leader Kem Sokha, along with guilty verdicts against 33 other opposition figures, human rights defenders and social media users.
On Thursday, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed Sokha’s 27-year sentence on charges of treason, espionage and conspiracy, tied to a speech he delivered in Australia in 2013, four years before his 2017 arrest.
On Wednesday, in a separate case, the Court of First Instance imposed sentences ranging from 18 months suspended to two years in prison for 33 individuals.
They faced charges of “incitement to cause social chaos” over public comments they made in 2024 about the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area project.
These recent convictions and sentences are inconsistent with international human rights law and risk deepening the chilling effects of broad, vaguely worded criminal laws and their arbitrary enforcement on civil society, journalists and the broader population in Cambodia.
Kem Sokha and the other 33 individuals were all exercising their rights to freedom of expression. Their trials raise concerns about violations of due process and fair trial rights.
The High Commissioner urges Cambodia to ensure that legitimate criticism and expression are protected rather than criminalised, to safeguard civic space, to guarantee the independence of the judiciary and uphold fair trial guarantees.
The authorities should quash these convictions and unconditionally release Kem Sokha and all others arbitrarily detained for exercising their rights. They should halt any further such prosecutions, and review Cambodia’s criminal legislation to ensure it is consistent with international human rights law standards.
The newly adopted ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists Law’ in Israel perpetuates racial discrimination against Palestinians, according to a panel of independent human rights experts on Thursday.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – which is supported by the UN human rights office, OHCHR – said the new law amounts to a grave erosion of human rights, urging Israeli authorities to immediately repeal the legislation.
The Committee expressed alarm that the law mandates death by hanging as the default sentence for cases involving an ‘act of terrorism’ before Israeli military courts, which have exclusive jurisdiction over Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – while Israeli citizens and residents are excluded from them.
The Committee said the new law is a severe blow to human rights, rolling back Israel’s long-standing de facto moratorium on executions since 1962 and expanding the use of the death penalty in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The Committee highlighted its concern that in Israel, “the law applies only to those convicted of deliberate killing with the intent of ‘denying the existence of the State of Israel’” making it in effect “applicable to Palestinians only.”
It further noted that the law prohibits mitigation, commutation or pardon of the death penalty and sets a 90-day deadline for executions once a final judgment is rendered.
Meanwhile, the Committee said the law was adopted amid escalating settler violence and unlawful killings with impunity across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, as well as ongoing, systematic violations of Palestinians’ due process and fair trial rights.
As of January 2026, 9,243 Palestinians were in Israeli custody, including 3,385 administrative detainees held without trial, according to UN figures.
South American countries continue to experience significant healthcare inequalities when it comes to available workers in the sector reported in urban areas compared with rural and underserved communities, according to a new regional report by the UN-backed Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
The report on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay identified gaps that directly impact the availability of specialists and the ability of health systems to respond to the needs of the population.
These gaps included migration of health personnel, concentration in urban areas, misalignment between educational supply and the needs of health systems, and marked differences in working conditions between sectors and territories.
Among the findings, Brazil shows large inequalities, with lower availability in the north and northeast, and a high proportion of multiple contracts.
While Peru concentrates 85 per cent of personnel in urban areas and has an estimated shortage of more than 54,000 health workers.
“Countries need stronger information systems and comprehensive policies that simultaneously address the training, hiring, distribution, and retention of health personnel,” said James Fitzgerald, Director of Health Systems and Services at PAHO.
PAHO urges governments in the region to invest in training and policies to help retain workers, with special attention to primary care and areas with the greatest needs.
وقال مصدران مطلعان على خطط شركة “سبيريت”، إن الشركة ستوقف عملياتها هذا اليوم، لتصبح بذلك أول شركة طيران أمريكية كبرى توقف ملياتها منذ ما يقرب من 25 months.
ويأتي خطط الشركة للخروج من إفلاسها الثاني. وقد باءت بالفشل، الجمعة، الجهود المبذولة للتوصل إلى اتفاق مع إدارة ترامب بشأن حزمة إنقاذ في اللحظات الأخيرة، والتي كانت مقبولة أيضا لدى مجموعة رئيسية من الدائنين.
” سبيريت » في الأشهر المقبلة في حيرة من أمرهم بشأن ترتيبات سفر 17 hours of cooking time. ومن المرجح أيضا أن يؤدي إلغاء رحلات الشركة إلى رفع أسعار التذاكر في قطاع الطيران الأمريكي بأكمله.
وأدت أسعار الطائرات المرتفعة إلى عرقلة خطط شركة “سبيريت” للخروج من إفلاسها الثاني، ولم تسفر المفاوضات مع الحكومة 500 pcs. مقبولة للحكومة ودائني سبيريت.
وصرح الرئيس الأمريكي، دونالد ترامب، للصحفيين في البيت الأبيض، الجمعة، بأن الإدارة ستعلن على الأرجح قرارها بشأن إنقاذ شركة طيران سبيريت “اليوم أو غدا”.
المصدر: سي أن أن
ترامب: هذا لا يعجب ميلانيا
كشف الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب الجمعة، عن أحد أسرار زواجه، حيث تحدث عن تصرف يقوم به بشكل متكرر في تجمعاته الشعبية، لا يعجب زوجته ميلانيا أبدا.
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The three unions, CFDT, Unsa and CFTC, called on employees of SFR stores to strike this Saturday.
“We ask ourselves the question of what we will become,” laments Saturday May 2 on France Inter Olivier Pinto, CFDT delegate and SFR employee for 29 years. The three unions, CFDT, Unsa and CFTC have called on employees of SFR stores to strike this Saturday, at a time when Bouygues Telecom, Free and Orange are negotiating the takeover of the operator.
Olivier Pinto is concerned about the non-communication from Altice, the parent company of SFR, on the future of the 300 stores and around 2,000 employees in the SFR Distribution network, as well as the “250 independents”. “All the communications that have been made recently by our leaders speak of industrial projects, but in no case of social projects,” underlines the trade unionist. “What are we going to do with the employees? What are we going to do with the shops? » he worries.
Olivier Pinto assures that there is also no “message from management on psychosocial risks”, even though the group has been “weakened” for a year. Altice France saw its sales decline by 8.4% in 2025, falling below the symbolic bar of 10 billion euros in annual turnover. “When we entered into exclusive negotiations [depuis le 17 avril]there are some among us who reacted strongly,” adds the CFDT delegate. “There were people crying,” says Olivier Pinto.
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