The weekend has gone by too quickly, you are on vacation, far from any screen and you have not had time to follow the news.

Still, you want to shine at the coffee machine (or in front of the barbecue).

For that, nothing beats our five retro infos.

The first French gold medal

He was the one that nobody expected, who was originally to play the substitutes: the swordsman Romain Cannone offered his first gold medal to France this Sunday after a dream day of competition.

To read his extraordinary career, discover this article from our special correspondent in Tokyo: "The Americans didn't want me", the story behind Romain Cannone's gold medal

Bonus info

 : Sword, saber, foil… For you, is it more or less the same thing?

Be careful, you risk upsetting the purists.

"You put a swordsman with a saber, that's the cataclysm", but by the way, how do you choose your weapon?

Large-scale espionage

For a week, the revelations concerning the spy software Pegasus, able to infiltrate cell phones and access all data, including those contained in encrypted messaging, have been increasing.

Me Etienne Drouard, lawyer specializing in personal data, and former member of the CNIL, deciphers the issues raised by the discovery of this scandal: "With the Pegasus project, we are witnessing a democratization of espionage"

Health pass, family clash

This summer, the atmosphere will be electric around the barbecue.

Because the health pass, which entered into force since Wednesday, risks being invited into friendly and family discussions.

And as much to say that the debate causes in some of the skin reactions ... sometimes going as far as the breakup of love.

Discover our article: "I was called crazy"… They are in conflict with their relatives because of the health pass

Info Bonus

 : After nearly three hours of meeting, the parliamentarians agreed to a compromise on the controversial bill which extends the health pass and imposes the vaccination obligation on caregivers.

An agreement in principle found between deputies and senators

New measures to slow down the epidemic recovery in the Alpes-Martimes

In this department, the incidence rate now exceeds 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, where the alert threshold is set at 50. To slow down the epidemic resumption, the prefect of Alpes-Martimes has taken various measures: return of mask, alcohol consumption in public spaces, music… Discover the new measures.

Emmanuel Macron in Polynesia

Emmanuel Macron's first trip to French Polynesia should have taken place in 2020. But the health crisis had at the time forced the Head of State to modify his plans.

It is therefore finally Saturday afternoon (Sunday morning in Paris) that the President of the Republic arrived in Papeete, on the island of Tahiti.

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