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1- War in Ukraine: Macron calls for the de-escalation of words
Emmanuel Macron warned on Sunday against an "escalation of words and actions in Ukraine", after the remarks of American President Joe Biden, who called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "butcher".
"I will not use this kind of statement because I continue to discuss with President Putin", declared the head of state on France 3. He also indicated that he would speak to the Russian president "tomorrow or after -tomorrow” to organize an evacuation operation from the city of Mariupol (south-eastern Ukraine), besieged for weeks.
2- Skating Worlds: Papadakis and Cizeron ice dancing world champions for the 5th time
This is a first for French skating.
A month after Olympic gold, Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron put a golden finishing touch to their season by winning a fifth world title on Saturday in Montpellier.
Excluded like all Russians in response to the invasion of Ukraine, Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov, outgoing world champions and Olympic silver medalists in Beijing, were however absent.
She remained faithful to her sequined dress worn in Beijing, swapped her red top for a brown one, but once again Papadakis and Cizeron, beyond the technique, were able to release the emotional intensity which allows them to winning hearts far beyond skating insiders.
They were rewarded with a total of 229.82 points, a new world record.
3- Presidential 2022: a campaign Sunday for the main candidates
Marine Le Pen heckled in Guadeloupe, giant meetings for Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Eric Zemmour: the main presidential candidates were playing big on Sunday two weeks before the first round, for which Emmanuel Macron urged the French to go and vote.
"Go vote and look at the project closest to your aspirations, whatever it is", declared the candidate president, calling for "mobilization", while the risk of a strong abstention hovers in the first round of the 10 April.
4- Blinken in Israel to mitigate the dispute over Iran
The United States is “determined” to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, assured in Jerusalem the Secretary of State Antony Blinken who seeks to ease tensions with Israel and Arab countries on a possible agreement with Tehran .
Antony Blinken began a tour of the Middle East and the Maghreb on Saturday evening, culminating in a meeting in the Israeli desert of the Negev (south), with his counterparts from Arab countries having normalized their relations with Israel.
The United States and Iran are in the final stages of indirect talks in Vienna aimed at reviving the 2015 pact supposed to prevent Tehran from acquiring the atomic bomb, in exchange for the lifting of sanctions which are suffocating the Iranian economy.
5- Covid-19 in China: Shanghai imposes containment by sector in full wave Omicron
Shanghai will be subject from Monday to containment by sector, in the face of a rebound in the Covid-19 epidemic linked to the Omicron variant, the government of the largest Chinese city announced on Sunday.
The eastern part of the city will be confined for five days to allow the screening of its population, followed by the western part for the same duration from April 1.
Shanghai has a total population of 25 million.
The metropolis has become in recent days the epicenter of a new wave of contaminations throughout China, which began to accelerate in early March.
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