In the press - Covid-19 pandemic: "One million dead"

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On the front page of the press, the crossing of a symbolic milestone: since its appearance, nine months ago, the Covid-19 has killed nearly a million people across the planet.

On the front page of the French daily

, the grief of a bereaved family from Manaus, Brazil.

The country officially deplores the second highest number of deaths in the world, nearly 140,000 people, behind the United States, which passed the milestone of 200,000 victims last week.

Among them, many caregivers, nurses, and doctors - 14% on average of Covid cases, according to the World Health Organization.

Health personnel to whom

chose to pay tribute, in particular to Li Wenliang, this doctor and whistleblower from Wuhan, China, arrested on January 1, for having disseminated "false rumors", and guilty, in fact, of having been too right early.

His death, due to Covid-19, at the age of 33, was announced on February 7, without anyone being informed of the location of his ashes, as if the Chinese authorities were trying to erase his memory.

Also on the front page, these revelations from the

, which affirms that Donald Trump paid only $ 750 in federal taxes in 2016, the year of his election to the presidency of the United States, and as much in 2017. Still according to the American daily, the President of the United States would have "not paid income tax at all for ten of the previous fifteen years, largely because he (would have) declared more losses of money that of gains ”- a situation which would explain that Donald Trump, one of the richest presidents in the history of the United States, candidate for his re-election next November, always refused to make public his tax returns, contrary to the practice established since the mid-1970s. The aim of this tradition is precisely to enable voters to ensure that a "government official with the power to guide the financial and monetary markets will not seek to benefit financially for its actions ”.

There is also a lot of talk this morning about the deadly fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno Karabkh,

a predominantly Armenian region, which wants to secede from Azerbaijan.

"Armenia, supported by states such as Russia and France, is playing with fire again", accuses

.

The official Turkish daily, which supports Azerbaijan, presents yesterday's clashes as the result of Armenian aggression.

"It's war again", announces for its part the Russian daily

, which recalls that the tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Nagorno Karabkh began in 1988, before degenerating into open conflict after the collapse of the Soviet Union - a conflict that was not resolved after the 1994 armistice, and which gave rise to new clashes in 2016, the peace process initiated under the responsibility of the Minsk Group, in which the France, Russia and the United States, never having produced any results.

France condemned yesterday, through the voice of Emmanuel Macron, the “betrayal” of the Lebanese political class, after the failure of an attempt to form a government.

The French president expressed his “shame” for the leaders of Lebanon, still without any prospect of an end to the crisis, after the renunciation of Prime Minister Moustapha Adib to form a government.

"Distribution of slaps ... and truths":

welcomes the intervention of Emmanuel Macron and in particular his calls "crying out for the truth for the Shiite tandem, and more specifically for Hezbollah, to whom he spoke. reproached his "policy

the worst ””.

"The description that Mr. Macron has made of the current state of governance in Lebanon gives shivers down the spine with its surgical precision," writes the newspaper - which considers that the president has "skillfully summed up the result of years of consensualism which reduced Lebanon to a league of clan chiefs, the key to which lies in their ability to make agreements among themselves - including of a mafia nature - rather than in a system of written laws or even customary law ”.

We do not leave each other on this.

Impossible to tell you later without mentioning the victory, yesterday, at the World Cycling Championships, of Julian Alaphilippe, who put an end to 23 years of French famine by seizing the rainbow jersey in Imola, Italy.

“For heaven's sake”: this victory restores faith to the Team, which reports the “eternal thrills” offered by the French cyclist.

Julian Alaphilippe, and the journalists of

, who will be able to take off their cycling shoes for a few moments and comfortably recover from their emotions in slip-on socks - because, yes, it seems, what was previously perceived as THE worst faux pas in terms of clothing, would have become furiously trendy.

reports that there are no more stars now showing themselves in public in this outfit long reserved only for tourists on a spree.

The times are changing…   

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