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  • Four days before the New Year, the government could make several announcements at the end of the Health Defense Council devoted to Covid-19 followed by the Council of Ministers on Monday. And the question of new restrictions, already adopted by several neighboring countries, arises, as the number of contaminations explodes, with more than 100,000 new cases recorded on Saturday, a record since the start of the pandemic.

  • More than 11,000 people were forced to leave their homes and 4,200 had to be taken care of by the authorities due to flooding in 19 municipalities in the Brazilian state of Bahia (northeast), local authorities said.

    Heavy rains that have hit the region since the beginning of November have already killed 18 people.

    In Salvador, the state capital, the rains on Friday reached some 250 mm since the beginning of the month, five times more than the average for the whole of December.

  • Former South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu died on Sunday at the age of 90, after a life of combat, first against apartheid, then for the reconciliation of his country and the defense of human rights.

    He was Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

  • Winner of Leicester (6-3), Sunday for the 19th day, Manchester City continues to dominate a Premier League where the Covid-19 dictated the pace for this truncated but very spectacular Boxing Day.

    Amputated from three out of nine matches - Burnley-Everton, Liverpool-Leeds and Wolverhampton-Watford - this great tradition of English football has lost a little magic under the effect of the new coronavirus, even if the stadiums were well filled.

  • The James Webb Space Telescope's launch into space went perfectly, but it still has a series of critical maneuvers to accomplish before it can operate in a few months.

    It has 1.5 million km to cover in a month, before reaching the point of Lagrange 2, four times the distance between Earth and the Moon.

  • Pope Francis on Friday invited the faithful to "love smallness" in a new plea for humility during the traditional Christmas night mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

    Some 2,000 people, according to the Vatican press room, attended the celebration, masked and seated at a distance from each other.

  • Her "mischievous" look, her "familiar laughter", her "pioneering" commitment to the environment ... Elisabeth II confided on Saturday that her late husband Philip "misses" her, in a touching tribute paid during her traditional speech of Christmas.

  • In Spain, wearing a mask outdoors has become compulsory again since Friday.

    And the authorities of Catalonia have been able since Thursday evening to introduce a curfew from 1 to 6 a.m. in most of the region.

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