Riot police deployed to Belfast on April 8, 2021. -

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Northern Ireland: New clashes despite calls for calm from London and Dublin

It has been years since the province has seen such clashes.

Despite calls for calm from London, Dublin and Washington, new violence broke out Thursday evening in Northern Ireland, agitated for a week by clashes.

On the night of Wednesday through Thursday, a crowd of up to 600 gathered in Belfast, police said.

Vehicles were set on fire, including a bus in service, and Molotov cocktails were thrown on either side of metal barriers that separate the Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods.

These new clashes erupted despite calls for calm earlier in the day from the British and Irish Prime Ministers, joining their voices to those of the leaders of Northern Ireland, Unionists and Republicans, to condemn this "unacceptable" violence, in a context tensions and bitterness in the wake of Brexit.

Freeze: The government will activate the agricultural calamity regime

The government will deploy the agricultural calamity regime following the frost episode that has affected many regions and crops in recent days.

"Our mobilization is total so that the accompanying measures are put in place as quickly as possible", declared Julien Denormandie, Minister of Agriculture, on France Info, evoking an event "particularly difficult".

"We will also study the usual tax measures that we can make available to these farmers who are facing these difficulties", he added, while specifying that it is still too early to determine the exact cost of the damage. , in particular because other episodes of frost are to be feared in the coming days.

And the Minister to warn that the "losses are important".

Death of George Floyd: Death due to "low oxygen"

George Floyd's breath was short.

The blood rushing to his brain became depleted of oxygen.

George Floyd passed out.

His heart stopped.

He is dead.

With thoroughness, a pulmonologist delivered a damning analysis Derek Chauvin and his colleagues, Thursday, on the 9th day of the trial of the former police officer.

And he strongly questioned the thesis of the defense of a death in part caused by an overdose of fentanyl.

Martin Tobin, a renowned pulmonologist, was one of the experts called to the stand by the prosecution.

According to him, the death of George Floyd is due to "a low level of oxygen" caused by difficulty in breathing, which "damaged his brain and caused an arrhythmia which caused a stop of the heart".

In question: "the position face down against the roadway", with the stomach which compresses the lungs, the "handcuffed hands" with the arms behind him, and "one knee on his neck, one on his back and one on his side ”.

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