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On the front page of the press, the second anniversary of Hirak, the peaceful protest movement calling for democratic change in Algeria.

Two years after the start of the demonstrations demanding the departure of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, his successor Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced a cabinet reshuffle, early legislative elections and the release of prisoners of conscience.

A declared desire to respond to the street: "February 22: the demands made concrete", trumpets

El Moudjahid

, stressing the way in which the Algerian army would have "guaranteed" the security of the Hirak, by "ensuring that no drop of blood is shed ".

The official journal, which denounces, in passing, the "enemies of all kinds" of Algeria, who seek according to him to "drag it into the depths of anarchy".

Hirak supporters believe that nothing has changed for two years. 

Liberté Algeria

recalls that "the citizen protest has never given rise to the slightest breaking of glass or throwing stones" and considers that repression, on the other hand, constitutes "the safe bet" of a regime, which, "by freeing the prisoners of conscience, therefore recognizes them this status "," which means that they should never have been imprisoned ".

The movement, repressed, slowed down by the health crisis, unable to organize itself, is it today in a "dead end" or can it "bounce back"?

According to

Jeune Afrique

, the Hirak is "not dead" but "simply dormant".

The magazine notes that the protest, which "sees itself as an extension of the struggle for independence", continues to demand "justice, freedom and rights" and wonders if the Algerian state "is ready to listen ( really) the claims of those who will want to discuss with him ".

For cartoonist Hic, published by

El Watan

, power has no intention of responding to Hirak.

"Need help?", Pretends to ask a policeman, ready to open his water cannon on a protester, who is struggling to blow out the Hirak's two birthday candles because of his mask.

The United States is preparing to cross a dramatic milestone, that of 500,000 deaths, linked to the Covid-19 epidemic.

Half a million dead, "a number almost too huge to apprehend," according to

The Washington Post

, which recalls that just a year ago, the country had only a "handful of deaths."

The newspaper tries to imagine what could represent, in concrete terms, such a "monstrous" number and calculates that if these 500,000 dead had been placed in buses, each carrying an average of 50 passengers, that would represent a caravan stretching over more. 150 km.

A disaster for which cartoonist AnnTaelnes deems Donald Trump largely responsible, while the former president is now seeking to return to politics.

According to his entourage, he will participate next Sunday in a big meeting of the conservatives.

"Trump is the face of the Republican Party", assures an activist hanging on the banner of the 500,000 dead of the coronavirus in the United States, in a cartoon published by

The Washington Post

, alluding, too, to Trump's passion for golf .

In France, the government says it is considering a partial and local reconfinement, to fight against the spread of Covid-19 variants.

According to

20 minutes

, the "critical" situation in the Alpes-Maritimes, in the south-east of the country, makes the executive think about this option - a solution that would be a first, in France, but that some experts nevertheless consider "too partial".

Does the announced tightening of health measures in the Alpes-Maritimes bode the future situation throughout France ?:

Liberation

evokes "the risky bet" of Emmanuel Macron, who made the choice three weeks ago , not to reconfine the whole country.

The president, estimates the newspaper, "now clearly walks on a wire": "if he looks up, it is a black cloud that he sees approaching, and (with him), his threat of a cold shower".

The French government, which sparked an uproar by announcing an investigation into "Islamo-leftism" in universities.

Entangled in this controversy, the Minister of Higher Education provokes the anger of

L'Humanité

- which accuses Frédérique Vidal of having engaged in "an incredible amalgamation, a scandalous manipulation, (and) a challenge to logic", taking up a "concept" dear to the extreme right, rather than bringing to the aid of students, the great victims of the epidemic.

Le Figaro

, he applauds the initiative and invites the government "to go to the end of a logic consisting (according to him) to face reality. Not to let his opponents fix unilaterally what is or is not the responsibility of "scientific concept" and to go to the end of a clarification of its political line ".

We do not leave each other on this.

Because dialogue is certainly better than all controversies, I suggest you take a look at the

Guardian

, which reports on the laying of the first stone, on May 27, of a new place of worship in Berlin, Germany. .

A place where Muslims, Christians and Jews can pray together, the first "churmosquagogue", in English, in other words, the first "eglismosquagogue".

The Guardian

, which also reports on a study by Cambridge University on the intellectual performance of individuals with extremist attitudes.

Carried out from 330 people with 16 different ideological orientations, this study shows that those who espouse ideas deemed extremist are also those who have the most difficulty in solving complex mental tasks ...

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