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On the front page of the British press, yesterday's announcement of the cancer of King Charles, who has started "a program of regular treatments", according to Buckingham Palace.
Nine months to the day after his coronation, the announcement of the sovereign's illness made the front page of all the daily newspapers across the Channel.
The Sun
reports the "shock" caused by the news, which King Charles would have announced in person to his two sons, William and Harry. According to
The Times
, William, the future king, will resume some of his father's official commitments tomorrow and Harry, who lives in the United States, will cross the Atlantic to visit him in the coming days.
The conservative daily says it regrets seeing Buckingham return to his old habits, by refusing to divulge the exact nature of the cancer from which the king is suffering, which is not said to be prostate cancer. All the British know, for the moment, is that the sovereign has already started treatment, according to
The Daily Express
, and that the king feels "grateful" that his illness was diagnosed in time.
The Daily Mail
also reports that King Charles says he is "extremely optimistic" about the "battle" that awaits him.
The cancer of King Charles, also on the front page of the
Guardian
, the only republican daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, without a photo, however, of King Charles - dethroned on the front page by Taylor Swift, big winner of the Grammy Awards.
The Guardian
is already tackling the angry subject: the question of a possible abdication of the sovereign in favor of his son William. The newspaper recalls that King Charles, 75 years old, began his "job" at the age when most men have already retired for ten years, his destiny being today confronted with "a new challenge", after such a long wait.
Very long wait, also, for Ukraine, faced with procrastination from the American Congress. While the senators announced on Sunday that they had reached an agreement between Democrats and Republicans to unlock new funding for Ukraine, requested by the Democrats, in exchange for a tightening of migration policy, demanded by the Republicans, the Republican President of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, a loyalist of Donald Trump, declares that this agreement is “dead”.
The Washington Post
reports that former President Trump directly attacked Senator James Lankford, the main Republican negotiator, leading, in the process, to "the rapid collapse of Republican support in the Senate". This tactic is vilified by
The Financial Times
, the British daily, which denounces "Trump's betrayal of Ukraine", the Republicans' refusal to provide him with weapons "sabotaging Kiev's war effort".
Thousands of kilometers from Washington, on the front line, in the east of Ukraine
,
in the forest of Kreminna where "the bare trunks of the trees no longer offer any camouflage"
,
where "the slightest movement is visible from above"
,
the special correspondent for Le
Temps
recounts the hell experienced by the Ukrainian infantry
.
For the moment, these men are resisting
,
“but for how long?”, asks the Swiss newspaper
.
In France, many comments on the acquittal, yesterday, of François Bayrou in the affair of the European parliamentary assistants of the MoDem. According to
Le Figaro
, this release finally clears the "political horizon" of the leader of the centrists, who will once again be able to try to exert influence within a majority leaning more and more to the right, and who knows?, integrate the new government, the full list of members of which is still awaited.
While waiting for his possible return to the forefront of the French political scene, I suggest you take a look at
Libération
, which reveals the results of a survey on the sexuality of the French. According to this survey, their sexual activity has never been so low since the 1970s, particularly among young people - hence the headline: "Danger plan".
Libération
, very inspired by its subject, evokes the “big screw-up of the French regime”, at a time when Emmanuel Macron is calling for “demographic rearmament”. According to the newspaper, this drop in French activity, however, would "not necessarily be bad news", particularly because it means that French women "finally dare to say no (thank you #MeToo), particularly to their spouse". Libé recalls that "for decades, even centuries, (women) often gritted their teeth when their husbands or partners showed the slightest desire", and welcomes the fact that today, "they no longer hesitate to refuse themselves when they don't want to", "the opposite (can also) be true". For
Libération
, this development would ultimately be "a step forward": "Better is a society where we make love less often but better, with complete acceptance of ourselves and others."
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