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The first SMS in history, transmitted by the operator Vodafone on December 3, 1992, was auctioned Tuesday in the form of NFT for 107,000 euros, during a sale organized by the house Aguttes in France. The buyer, whose identity was not immediately known, is now the exclusive owner of a unique digital replica of the original communication protocol that transmitted this SMS. Received at the time by Richard Jarvis, collaborator of Vodafone, the SMS consists of 15 characters to say "Merry Christmas" (Merry Christmas).
A maniac, who had been holding two women since Monday afternoon in Paris at the threat of a knife in a hardware store in the 12th arrondissement, surrendered to the police on Tuesday morning after a 17-hour operation during which no one had been injured. Known to suffer from psychiatric disorders, the madman, 56, had been holding two women since 3:30 p.m. Monday: a mother, manager of the business, and her daughter.
The candidate of the progressive left, Gabriel Boric, has been officially proclaimed president-elect of Chile, the electoral authority announced on Sunday. Mr. Boric won 56% of the vote, against 44% for his far-right competitor, José Antonio Kast, after more than 99% of the polling stations were counted. He will take office on March 11, succeeding current President Sebastian Pinera. Student leader, deputy at 27, president at 35, Gabriel Boric is blowing a youthful wind on Chilean politics. From the benches of the law university in Santiago, this millennial with the thick beard aspires to radically transform his country.
The death toll from Typhoon Rai, the most powerful to strike the Philippines this year, rose further to at least 375 dead and 56 missing on Monday, national police said, who also number 500 injured. Entire regions where survivors urgently need clean water and food were ravaged, as more than 380,000 people were forced to flee their homes and coastal areas in the typhoon on Thursday.
The possible left-wing presidential candidate Christiane Taubira supported the Popular Primary on Saturday, seeing it as the “last space to build the union” of the left in which she intends to participate. After announcing the day before "considering" being a presidential candidate in 2022, the former Minister of Justice under the socialist presidency of François Hollande declared that he wanted to give himself "the time necessary to ensure that we (the left, editor's note) may seize this last chance of union ”.
The PS presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo offered Friday to other left-wing candidates a televised debate "before January 15", to bring out in front of the French "convergences" and "differences". We must "show that the left brings justice solutions expected by our fellow citizens," she pleaded to the press, listing the subjects on which the seven candidates declared to the left can agree.
Valérie Pécresse gained seven points to 17% of voting intentions, behind Emmanuel Macron who lost 1.5 to 24%, in the Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll carried out for
Le Monde
, the Jean Jaurès Foundation and Cevipof with a substantial sample of 10,928 people.
Carried out from December 7 to 13, at the end of the right-wing primary, this poll confirms the momentum of Pécresse which passes in front of Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, both at 14.5%.
Traveling in the Haut-Rhin, whose route was made public at the last minute, Eric Zemmour was greeted by supporters of his Reconquest party, in Husseren-les-châteaux, on December 18, 2021.
Two first Alpine A110 in the colors of the gendarmerie, sports cars manufactured in France by the Renault group, were handed over to the national gendarmerie on Friday and were presented to the Ministry of the Interior. In all, the National Gendarmerie ordered 26 of these Alpine to ensure rapid interventions, the ministry announced in October.
Emilien Jacquelin had a real festival on Sunday during the mass start of Grand-Bornand, which he largely dominated to dislodge Quentin Fillon Maillet from the head of the general classification of the Biathlon World Cup. The weekend was particularly auspicious for the Blues in front of an audience fully committed to their cause. The day after Quentin Fillon Maillet's recital in pursuit, it was Emilien Jacquelin who provided the show, offering himself the third success of his career on the circuit after his two world championship titles in pursuit (2020, 2021) .
After dominating for nearly half an hour, the French handball players collapsed in the 2021 World Cup final 29 to 22 on Sunday against Norway, but returned to France with a new medal around their neck, the seventh in the last eight competitions. The French had the opportunity to achieve a very rare international double in the space of just over four months, after winning Olympic gold in Tokyo by beating Russia in the final.
Algeria, the reigning African champion, won the Arab Football Cup for the first time by winning (2-0) against Tunisia on Saturday in Qatar in extra time. At the Al-Bayt stadium in Al-Khor, in northeastern Qatar, the Greens of Algeria were delivered by the substitute Amir Sayoud (99th) and by Yacine Brahimi (120th + 5), in front of crowded stands of more than 60,000 spectators, including the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
Three weeks after the final end of the Ligue 1 Lyon-Marseille match, it was the 32nd round of the Coupe de France meeting between Paris FC and OL at the Charléty stadium which was definitively stopped on Friday, after umpteenth incidents in the stands.
Like a new provocation, this episode comes the day after an inter-ministerial meeting on violence in stadiums, in which professional football leaders took part.
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