"In Jerusalem, the world does not want to forget". Le Figaro looks back at the commemorations to Yad Vashem of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camp in Auschwitz, Poland. A meeting in the presence of forty leaders and against the backdrop of a "memorial battlefield", writes Le Temps. The Swiss newspaper puts a spotlight on the "unprecedented diplomatic confrontation between Russia and Poland" - the Polish president having boycotted Thursday's ceremony in Israel, annoyed by competition with the one who will have him Monday in Auschwitz. Andrzej Duda fears that Vladimir Putin, invited to deliver a speech, will indulge in a kind of revisionism, in which the liberating red army triumphs over Polish collaborators. To make his voice heard, the Polish president signs a column in Le Figaro entitled "A memory that must not die". According to him, "it is forbidden to use it for any reason whatsoever", and to return "to the Polish spirit of freedom, tolerance and solidarity", adding that the Nazi death camps " have been and remain for us an unbearable humiliation. "
In China, the city of Wuhan is now under quarantine to try to stop the coronavirus. On the front page of the Global Times, we are pleased that "the virus is bringing global efforts" with this emergency WHO meeting which is continuing. The China Daily considers these global synergies "vital" to fight the coronavirus. Measures that do not contain the concern that has gripped certain countries. The British newspaper I headline on "the United Kingdom on high alert as scientists fear a global pandemic". In support of this scenario, these experts who question the official contamination figures and rather count on thousands of cases. The Washington Post also questions the transparency of the Chinese health authorities and a possible underestimation of the contamination, cases of death from pneumonia not being listed among the deaths from coronavirus. For its part, Liberation headlines "on a flare-up", the WHO having given itself 24 hours to classify its dangerousness.
Finally, the Guardian is interested in a study by Harvard researchers. Gray hair is not only a symptom of the passage of time ... but also of the stress which influences the hormone of hair pigmentation. A word to the wise ...
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