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Bonjour! Je m'appelle Tyler Enge. There was a fashion week here that started in 1973

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Bonjour je m'appelle Bailey Williams and whats happening in Chad is at least 35 people dieing in herder farmer clashes. They were attacked when the farmers hit a roadblock. It also took place in the city of Salamat.
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Hi my name is Aiden Stich. NASA releases panoramic view of Mars from Perseverance rover’s

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The US space agency NASA released a spectacular panoramic view on Wednesday of the landing site of the Perseverance rover on Mars.

The panorama shows the rim of the Jezero Crater where the rover touched down last week and the cliff face of an ancient river delta in the distance.

It was taken by rotating the rover's mast 360 degrees. The mast is equipped with dual, zoomable cameras which can take high-definition video and images.

The panorama is composed of 142 individual images stitched together on Earth, NASA said.

"We're nestled right in a sweet spot, where you can see different features similar in many ways to features found by Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity at their landing sites," said Jim Bell of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration.

Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity were previous missions to Mars.

NASA said the rover's cameras will help scientists assess the geologic history and atmospheric conditions of Jezero Crater and identify rocks and sediment worthy of a closer examination and collection for eventual return to Earth.

On Monday, the US space agency released the first audio from Mars, a faint crackling recording of a gust of wind captured by the rover's microphone.

NASA also released video of the landing of the rover, which is on a mission to search for signs of past life on the Red Planet.

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NASA releases panoramic view of Mars from Perseverance rover's 'sweet spot'

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The US space agency NASA released a spectacular panoramic view on Wednesday of the landing site of the Perseverance rover on Mars. The panorama shows the rim of the Jezero Crater where the rover touched down last week and the cliff face of an ancient river delta in the distance.

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Hi my name is Aiden Stich fda says single shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine more effective against severe covid-19.

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Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine offers strong protection against severe COVID-19, according to an analysis released Wednesday by U.S. regulators that sets the stage for a final decision on a new and easier-to-use shot to help tame the pandemic.

The long-anticipated shot could offer the nation a third vaccine option and help speed vaccinations by requiring just one dose instead of two. Food and Drug Administration scientists confirmed that overall the vaccine is about 66% effective at preventing moderate to severe COVID-19, and about 85% effective against the most serious illness. The agency also said J&J's shot is safe.

The analysis is just one step in the FDA's evaluation. On Friday, the agency's independent advisers will debate if the evidence is strong enough to recommend the shot. With that advice, the FDA is expected to make a final decision within days.

The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. topped 500,000 this week, and the vaccination drive has been slower than hoped, hampered by logistical and weather delays. So far, about 44.5 million Americans have received at least one dose of vaccine made by Pfizer or Moderna, and nearly 20 million of them have received the second dose required for full protection.

Tests showed the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were 95% effective at protection against symptomatic COVID-19.

Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, is part of the FDA advisory panel that will scrutinize the J&J data on Friday and cautions that none of the vaccines have been directly compared. Still, he was encouraged that one dose of the J&J vaccine appears as good at preventing serious illness as its two-dose competitors.

"This is a vaccine to prevent you from going to the hospital and dying at a level that's certainly comparable" to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, he said.

J&J tested its single-dose option in 44,000 adults in the U.S., Latin America and South Africa. Different mutated versions of the virus are circulating in different countries, and the FDA analysis cautioned that it's not clear how well the vaccine works against each variant. But J&J previously announced that the vaccine worked better in the U.S. - 72% effective against moderate to severe COVID-19, compared with 66% in Latin America and 57% in South Africa.

South Africa recently began giving the J&J vaccine to front-line health workers on a test basis after deciding that a vaccine from rival AstraZeneca had not shown strong enough study results against the particularly concerning variant spreading there.

"I was reassured" that despite different variants, the J&J shot still protected against serious illness, said Dr. Jesse Goodman of Georgetown University, a former FDA vaccine chief. "That's pretty robust data."

In case the vaccines eventually need to be updated, manufacturers are working on adjustments to their recipes. Moderna announced Wednesday that it is ready to begin testing experimental doses that better match the South African version of the virus.

Across all countries, the analysis of the J&J vaccine showed protection began to emerge about 14 days after vaccination. But by 28 days after vaccination, there were no hospitalizations or deaths in the vaccinated group compared with 16 hospitalizations and seven deaths in study recipients who received a dummy shot.

The FDA said effectiveness and safety were consistent across racial groups, including Black and Latino participants.

All of the world's COVID-19 vaccines have been tested differently, making comparisons nearly impossible. It would not be surprising if one dose turned out to be a little weaker than two doses, and policymakers will decide if that's an acceptable trade-off to get more people vaccinated faster.

J&J has another large study underway to see if a second dose of its vaccine works better, raising the prospect that countries could eventually add a booster if one turned out to be warranted.

Like other COVID-19 vaccines, the main side effects of the J&J shot are pain at the injection site and flu-like fever, fatigue and headache. No study participant experienced the severe allergic reaction, called anaphylaxis, that is a rare risk of some other COVID-19 shots, although one experienced a less serious reaction.

The FDA said there were no serious side effects linked to the vaccine so far, although it recommended further monitoring for blood clots. In the study, those were reported in about 15 vaccine recipients and 10 placebo recipients, not enough of a difference to tell if the vaccine played any role.

J&J was on track to become the world's first one-dose option until earlier this month. Mexico announced it would use a one-dose version from China's CanSino, which is made with similar technology as J&J's shot but initially was developed as a two-dose option until beginning a one-dose test in the fall.

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines now being used in the U.S. and numerous other countries must be kept frozen, while the J&J shot can last three months in a refrigerator, making it easier to handle. AstraZeneca's vaccine - widely used in Europe and Britain - is made similarly and also requires refrigeration but takes two doses.

If the FDA clears the J&J shot for U.S. use, it will not boost vaccine supplies significantly right away. Only a few million doses are expected to be ready for shipping in the first week. But J&J told Congress this week that it expected to provide 20 million doses by the end of March and 100 million by summer.

European regulators and the World Health Organization also are considering J&J's vaccine. Worldwide, the company aims to produce around a billion doses by the end of the year.

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A major Paris work by Vincent van Gogh that has been part of the same French family's private collection for more than a century is to go on public display for the first time since it was painted in the spring of 1887.

Scène de rue à Montmartre is part of a very rare series depicting the celebrated Moulin de la Galette, on the hilltop overlooking the capital, painted during the two years the Dutch artist spent sharing an apartment with his brother Theo on rue Lepic.

Acquired by a French collector in 1920, it has remained in the same family ever since and never been shown in public, despite being listed in seven catalogues. It will be exhibited in London, Amsterdam and Paris before being sold by Sotheby's in March when it is expected to fetch between €5m (£4.3m) and €8m.

"Very few paintings from Van Gogh's Montmartre period remain in private hands - most are in the collections of prestigious museums around the world," said Aurélie Vandevoorde of the auctioneer's impressionist and modern art department in France. "The appearance on the market of a painting of this calibre, from such an iconic series, undoubtedly marks a major event."

Claudia Mercier of the auction house Mirabaud Mercier, which is associated with the sale, said the work was "captivating".

The painting shows the Moulin Dubray or Moulin à Poivre, a Montmartre windmill destroyed in 1911, along with the entrance of the Moulin de la Galette enclosure topped with decorative lanterns, and a carousel behind the wooden fence.

Montmartre, also known as La Butte, was being rapidly transformed at the time from rural village to brash amusement district, popular with Parisians for its cafes and with a generation of artists, intellectuals and writers for its bohemian atmosphere.

Van Gogh's two years in Paris from 1886 to February 1888, when he left for Arles, are widely seen as laying the foundation for his later unique style, exposing him to the influence of impressionists such as Monet and Pissarro but also a younger generation of artists including Paul Signac, Émile Bernard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

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The president of Chad was aressted for a facebook post about President Idriss Déby

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Hi, I am Greyson and I am going to tell you about the attacks on the Republic of Congo,

At least 13 people have been killed in two attacks in the violence-hit eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to local officials and a monitor. The militiary called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) was blamed for the attacks in the Beni area, near the Ugandan border.

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Bonjour, je m'appelle Joel. I found that as of March 1st, all zoos and museums can open while restaurants wait until the 22nd.

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Bonjour My name is Kaden. In the capital of Morocoo there is news of around 700,000 jobs being lost. There are a few reasons why with one being because of corona virus.

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  As of February 24, 2021 Vietnam has received its first shipment of Covid vaccines. Consisting of 117,600 doses, it is just the first of many planed shipments and will pave the way for more in the future. Source

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Bonjour, Je m'appelle Nathan. There is a looming humanitarian crisis in Madagascar. There have been three consecutive years of droughts causing a food shortage and the coronavirus pandemic has caused a recession. Because of this 1.3 million people are at risk of food shortage.

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Bonjour! Je mapelle Milo! The world health organizations european branch said thursday that patients experiencing post covid or long covid symptons needed to be listened to and understanding long term consequences should be a priority for health authorities. - france 24

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Bonjour, my name is Brett and this article talked about a recent turf war that occurred in Chad. They found that 35 people died and the dispute was between semi-nomadic herders and farmers. This occurred in the Salamat Providence. The farmers were attacked first and then lead a counterattack on later in the week. (This occurred around February 17th).

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At least 35 killed in Chad herder-farmer clashes

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Clashes took place in Salamat province where farmers were attacked when they encountered a roadblock.

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Bounjour, Je m'appelles Amber. In Niger there are protests because they believe that the election they just had has voter fraud.

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Bonjour, Je m'appelle Emma-Rose. This article is about a conference  being held today to discuses the borders and control with french authorities.

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Bonjour. I am Tres Lorenz and I found out the the theaters will open soon in Quebec starting around March break.

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There will indeed be movies in Quebec theatres as of the beginning of March break.
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There will indeed be movies in Quebec theatres as of the beginning of March break.

The Association des propriétaires de cinémas du Québec (APCQ) said it was happy Friday to announce that the vast majority of theatres will reopen on Feb. 26.

On Thursday, the Legault government had given in to arguments and complaints from theatre owners by agreeing to compensate them for forbidding popcorn sales in their establishments.

"Like last summer, we will continue to be rigorous in order to offer safe venues for cinephiles," the APCQ said in a statement.

The organization welcomed a modification brought to the Aide aux entreprises en régions en alerte maximale (AERAM) program, "which will allow us to continue to receive support even if we are open."

The Comité de relance du cinéma au Québec, bringing together theatre owners, producers and distributors, has been working for several weeks to plan programming for the big screen, the APCQ noted.

The APCQ claims to represent close to 80 per cent of screens and 85 per cent of the box office in the province.

"The coming months won't be easy for our industry, as well as for many others, but we are happy with the communication channel we have established with the government," said Éric Bouchard, co-president of the APCQ.

In a press conference Thursday morning, Premier François Legault announced that theatre owners would be compensated for any losses.

"If you make a lot of profit with popcorn and I prevent you from selling popcorn, I'm offering you compensation," he said.

Tuesday, Legault announced that in anticipation of March break, cinemas would be able to reopen beginning Feb. 26, everywhere in Quebec, but would not be allowed to sell food, in order to respect public health guidelines. The reasoning was that audience members must wear a mask throughout the entire screening.

The APCQ asked the government to review its decision and to authorize cinemas to sell food products, or to compensate them for the loss of those revenues.

Some theatre owners, including Guzzo Cinemas president Vincent Guzzo, had threatened the government that they wouldn't open their doors during March break if Quebec didn't concede.

In red zones, cinemas will also have to respect the 8 p.m. curfew.

1. 'No way theatres are going to want to open' without popcorn sales, Guzzo says

2. 'Popcorngate': Quebec will compensate movie theatres for loss of food sales, Legault says

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Quebec cinemas will reopen Feb. 26, theatre owners confirm

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Hello! I am Grace and the article that I found was about Justin Trudeau confirming how many vaccines are going to be given by March. This month they have had more then 400,000 vaccines distributed and hope to reach that 1.3 million mark in March. They also estimate that at least 14.5 million Canadians will be by June. My source is a Newspaper called "La Presse" and is based in Montreal as well.

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(Ottawa) Ottawa promet depuis des mois que les Canadiens auront six millions de doses de vaccins au premier trimestre, mais ce n'est qu'à la fin février que ceux-ci en auront obtenu la confirmation.

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La Presse Canadienne

Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a indiqué, à la période de questions de mercredi, que Moderna enverra bel et bien 1,3 million de doses au Canada d'ici la fin du mois de mars, atteignant ainsi ses objectifs de livraison pour le premier trimestre.

M. Trudeau dit que 460 000 doses sont attendues la semaine du 8 mars et 840 000 autres viendront deux semaines plus tard, pendant la semaine du 22 mars.

Pfizer avait déjà confirmé ses chiffres pour le premier trimestre ; elle a livré 475 000 doses cette semaine et enverra par la suite 444 600 doses sur une base hebdomadaire jusqu'à la fin mars pour un total de quatre millions de doses.

La campagne de vaccination doit ensuite prendre de la vitesse au deuxième trimestre.

Il est prévu que le Canada reçoive 23 millions de doses des vaccins Pfizer et de Moderna en avril, mai et juin, soit cinq millions de plus que ce qui était prévu au départ. Cette hausse s'explique par le fait que le Canada compte maintenant six doses par fiole de Pfizer.

Le gouvernement fédéral soutient qu'au moins 14,5 millions de Canadiens devraient être vaccinés d'ici la fin juin.

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Vaccins de Moderna | Justin Trudeau confirme 1,3 million de doses en mars

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Hi my name is Jasie Espinoza and what I found was this article talking about how Luxembourg just made all public transportation free pass midnight.

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Rail, bus and tram travellers in Luxembourg will never have to buy a ticket again from midnight.

The government in the Grand Duchy has unexpectedly brought forward the introduction of free public transport by 24 hours. It will be the first country in the world to abolish fares nationwide.

François Bausch, the minister of mobility and public works, describes the move as: "The social icing on the cake of the global strategy for a multimodal revolution". He has announced that free travel will commence on 29 February, not 1 March as previously reported.

The last opportunity to pay the current €2 (£1.70) flat fare will be on bus number 6 from the Pletzer stop in the suburb of Helfenterbruck, at 11.59pm.

Passengers can dodge the fare by walking 200 metres to the next stop, City Concorde - where they would become the first beneficiaries of the unprecedented policy, with a departure at midnight precisely.

A spokesperson for the Luxembourg government told The Independent: "As 2020 is a leap year and as the concerts and celebrations are happening tomorrow, it has been decided to make public transport free as from tomorrow, in order to allow everybody to join the public events free of charge."

Nationwide free transport is a key policy of Luxembourg's ruling coalition, comprising the centrist Democratic Party, the left-wing Socialist Workers' Party and the Greens.

The strategy aims to reduce the gap between rich and poor, and to reduce congestion. The Grand Duchy is thriving economically, but has severe problems with traffic.

Luxembourg has more cars per capita than any other country in the European Union, and only one in five commuters use public transport.

The Grand Duchy already offers free trains, buses and trams to everyone under 20, and to students aged up to 30.

At present, the nationwide flat fare of €2 is valid for up to two hours of travel, which in a nation the size of Oxfordshire covers almost any journey. First class rail costs €3.

There have been concerns about possible abuse of the system. The mobility ministry says: "Every passenger must be able to produce a valid personal ID card or passport and may be banned from public transport at any time."

It will still be possible to buy tickets from 29 February: first-class carriages on the Luxembourg rail network are being kept in service.

Mr Bausch said keeping first class as a premium service would "continue to allow people who want to work on the train to do it serenely".

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One resident, Mary Jones said: "Free public transport in Luxembourg is a smart and eye-catching move by the government.

"But where the government deserves more credit is in its efforts to finally force through infrastructure reform."

The mobility ministry is in the middle of a five-year investment programme, in which €2.57 (£2.2bn) is being spent on rail and trams, and plans to have an all-electric fleet of buses by 2030.

The transport writer Nicky Gardner, who is on her way to the small nation for the event, said: "To give an entire country free transport is revolutionary.

"Apart from encouraging commuters to shift from their cars, it will slowly transform the attitudes of an entire population towards public transport."

The number of workers who cross from Belgium, France and Germany to Luxembourg each day is approaching 200,000 - in a country with fewer than 600,000 people.

While cross-border trains from nearby towns and cities will continue to levy fares, they will be reduced in line with the proportion of the journey in Luxembourg territory.

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Boujour, my name is Sophie. I learned that right now in Mali a county with many laws oppressing women preventing them to be indapentdant or equal. There is a movement of women empowerment. women having access to many radio stations is giving them opportuniities to educate them selves on whats happening in the world and give them some control over their lives.

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The Malian politician, writer and women's activist Aoua Kéita once argued that, "The evolution of a country depends on the place that women occupy in the public space of that country." Today, Malian women face multiple and intersecting barriers that prevent them from realising this vision.

In a country with discriminatory laws, extensive polygamy and gender-based violence, and where husbands are often the sole decision-makers, Malian women live in an oppressive culture amid widespread poverty. To ease financial burdens, many Malian girls are forced to marry as children so their families can benefit from their bride price.

Empowerment can mean different things for different women. It can mean staying in school, negotiating more equitable relationships, or learning how to start a small business, in order to become financially independent and provide for one's family. Finding out how to do this is key.

Access to information is the route to empowerment and, in Mali, radio remains the main source of information. The country has 170 private radio stations, 121 of which are volunteer-run community stations. Radio is widely trusted, meeting a range of interests - religious, community and confessional. It shares news from international sources such as RFI, BBC Africa, Deutsche Welle, UN radio and media development organisations.

Factual and awareness-raising broadcasts can raise women's critical and collective consciousness and help them gain greater control over their own lives. But this has to be done carefully. Women have to be accurately considered, both as radio presenters and as radio listeners.

Our research has shown that, when discussing a particular issue, women listeners in Mali consistently situate themselves in relation to many other people.

We conducted a content analysis of a series of women-related radio programmes produced and broadcast in 2018-2020 by Fondation Hirondelle's Studio Tamani. We then ran focus groups among the studio's listeners, before and after they listened to the series, to determine the programmes' impact.

The focus group respondents said that women's activities tend to be conducted for, with, or dependent on others. Information targeted at empowering women should reflect this and consider women within their "web of relations". This means how women live in relation to other people, and to collective cultures and norms that influence and shape their lives.

Empowered within a collective

Among all the people we interviewed, men and women alike, empowerment for women meant "independence", but never from children. Such independence would empower women to make decisions about their family life and support their wider communities.

For younger women respondents, empowerment could mean being able to make their own decisions and not being restrained by a future husband. But none of them considered a future without a husband. Independence did not necessarily mean being on their own.

It became clear that women's empowerment in Mali cannot be reduced to a matter of individual choice or agency. It refers to collective agency and decision making. This is in stark contrast with the emphasis often found in development campaigns.

Development programmes tend to regard women's empowerment as an individual issue. They can artificially isolate women from the socio-cultural traditions that surround them. They do not fully consider the many "webs of relations" that can be affected by potential changes in empowerment. Nor do they consider the webs that can influence women's lives and their freedom to make decisions.

Diversity and debate

Our study showed that radio can effectively represent the complexities of women's lives. It can help women navigate the many obstacles they face by broadcasting diverse and varied information about women's rights. If the information uses examples and role models which are free from negative stereotypes or stereotypical representations, it can have a positive impact on raising awareness.

The radio programmes portrayed women in relation to others (in-laws, siblings, widows, husbands, men, family and children) and to other groups or roles, cultural and structural values or webs which shape women's status. The contents rarely portrayed women as individuals; they were always associated with others. However, they were often in secondary positions, for example, in relation to in-laws and husbands, upholding social norms.

Studio Tamani, as a radio studio, is normalising debate on women's issues by broadcasting women-related programmes. This is a first step to taking advantage of radio as an ideal medium for creating an empowering environment. But for this to be effective for collective empowerment, women must not be extracted from the web of relations that surround them.

Malian women do not speak with one voice, so their diverse perspectives, experience and expertise must also be considered in radio broadcasting. This will go some way to offsetting the individualistic perspectives portrayed in development contexts, particularly with regard to their empowerment.

Emma Heywood, Lecturer and Researcher, University of Sheffield

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bonjour, im sophie ashworth i choose egypt. The news i found were 5 people were killed in a boating accident on monday.

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A boat capsized on Monday in a lake near Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria, leaving at least five people dead including three children, an official and state media said.

Alexandria's governor, Mohammed el-Sharif, said in comments at the shore of the Lake of Mariut that three other people were rescued and taken to a hospital.

"What reached the hospitals (Government hospitals) were three (bodies) and another two (bodies) arrived at private hospitals. The number of those missing has not been specified. We are here and prepared with four rescue teams which are already working now and another four ambulances," said el-Sharif.

Rescue workers were still searching for others missing on the lake, located west of the city of Alexandria, he said.

It was not immediately clear what caused the capsizing, but the governor said the boat was small and overcrowded.

He said most of the boats on the lake work without licenses.

The state-run al-Ahram daily reported the boat was carrying at least 19 people, all from the same family.

Among the dead were three children - aged aged 1, 1 1/2, and 4 years - as well as two women, the report said.

In July, eleven people drowned at an Alexandria beach known for its rocky jetty and fast-moving waters.

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Bonjour je m'appelle Kat, in Quebec a little while ago they set a curfew in hopes that it'll help with covid cases

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The decision of the Quebec government to impose a curfew became real for most of the population at about 6:30 on Saturday, Jan. 9. At that time, security alerts on cell phones began sounding the warning that the curfew would take effect at 8 p.m that night.

The curfew, from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., is to be in place until Feb. 8 and is intended to limit social contact in the hopes of stopping the spread of COVID-19, after the province set records for new cases in early January.

Premier François Legault posted a message on Facebook Saturday morning explaining the drastic measure, the first time a provincewide curfew has been imposed. "It is a difficult decision that I took to put a stop to the propagation of the virus. The principal reason for a curfew is to prevent gatherings, even the smallest ones. It is the addition of small infringements that feeds the virus," he wrote.

The premier said a major motivation for the curfew is to ease the stress on the hospital network. "We are reaching the tipping point where we won't be able to treat the most urgent cases. It could affect everyone, our loved ones as well as ourselves."

The curfew is sweeping, but there are many important exceptions. People can walk their dogs after 8 p.m. as long as they stay within a kilometre of their homes. Essential workers will be allowed to go to and from their workplaces outside curfew hours. Restaurants will be allowed to deliver orders after 8 p.m.

Other exemptions can be made for humanitarian reasons, such as visiting a sick parent or seeking medical treatment. Pharmacies will remain open past the curfew, as will dépanneurs that sell gasoline. However, tobacco and alcohol products won't be sold after 8.

The government is making a form available for employers to give employees to prove they need to break curfew to go to work.

Besides the curfew, the government has taken several other measures aimed at containing the spread of the virus. The forced closure of non-essential businesses is an extension of the measures the government imposed on Dec. 26.

The measures go even further in some circumstances, such as the banning of all indoor sports activities such as skating or swimming in city facilities.

Some measures have been relaxed; students are now allowed to access municipal libraries to take advantage of high-speed internet service they might not have at home.

Construction and manufacturing industries will be allowed to continue with "activities reduced to a minimum." Teleworking is mandatory "except for workers whose employers deem their presence necessary to pursue the organization's activities."

There are also new measures for schools in the province. Although in-person classes for preschool and elementary students were to resume on Jan. 11, students in Grades 5 and 6 must now wear masks at all times, including in class. Secondary students resume in-person classes on Jan. 18, and all students and staff must wear masks unless a two-metre distance can be maintained.

Full details on the new COVID-19 measures can be found (in English) on the Quebec government website.

www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-issues/a-z/2019-coronavirus/confinement-in-quebec/
Under the Quebec Bridge on Boulevard Champlain, this message from the Ministry of Transport warns drivers that only essential travel is allowed during the provincewide curfew. Photo by Cassandra Kerwin
This photo of the completely empty Henri-IV highway, looking north from the Chemin Saint-Louis overpass, shows how serious the current pandemic has become and how well residents are obeying the curfew. QCT photojournalist Cassandra Kerwin said, "It was spooky and mysterious. I felt as if I was in an apocalypse movie." Photo by Cassandra Kerwin

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The decision of the Quebec government to impose a curfew became real for most of the population at about 6:30 on Saturday, Jan. 9. At that time, security alerts on cell phones began sounding the warning that the curfew would take effect at 8 p.m that night. The curfew, from 8 p.m.

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Bonjour, je m'appelle Braden. The article that I chose to share is covering the killing of the Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Earlier this week, an attack on a humanitarian convoy left Luca Attanasio, the Italian Ambassador, and two others dead while traveling to a World Food Program initiative at a school in the city of Goma. Park rangers near by to the attack responded quickly and brought Attanasio to a UN Hospital in Goma where I died shortly after.

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The attack, on a World Food Program convoy headed to a school in North Kivu Province, left the ambassador, Luca Attanasio, an Italian embassy official and a driver dead.

United Nations peacekeepers and ambulances could be seen at the location where Ambassador Luca Attanasio of Italy was fatally attacked in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Credit... Guerchom Ndebo/Getty Images

For Luca Attanasio, Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, humanitarian work was at the core of his mission. The 43-year-old had moved with his wife to the capital, Kinshasa, in 2017, where their family grew to include three young daughters. He rose to the rank of ambassador in 2019, the pinnacle of his diplomatic career.

On Monday, Mr. Attanasio was among three people killed in an attack on a humanitarian convoy near the city of Goma, the World Food Program and Italy's Foreign Ministry said, the latest in a wave of violence in that part of the central African nation.

The area where the attack took place, North Kivu Province in the east of the country nestled against the border with Rwanda, is known as a hotbed of violent activity, and is home to a tangled web of dozens of armed groups.

The deaths of Mr. Attanasio; an Italian Embassy official, named by the Foreign Ministry as Vittorio Iacovacci; and Mustapha Milambo, a driver for the World Food Program, have rattled the international diplomatic community and drawn condemnation from across the globe.

All three men were in a car that was part of a convoy of vehicles headed north from the city of Goma to a World Food Program initiative at a school, when their convoy was stopped by armed men. The group killed Mr. Milambo, and led the rest of the convoy into the forest, attempting to kidnap them, according to Carly Nzanzu Kasivita, the governor of the North Kivu Province where the attack occurred.

But park rangers and a Congolese Army unit nearby responded. During an exchange of gunfire, the attackers shot the two Italian men, the governor said. Images posted by local journalists on social media show the visibly injured ambassador being cradled in the back of a military truck, as a man clasped the ambassador's hand in his, holding it over Mr. Attanasio's chest.

Mr. Attanasio was rushed for emergency treatment at a United Nations hospital in Goma where he died.

The World Food Program said the attack "occurred on a road that had previously been cleared for travel without security escorts" and said it would be working with the local authorities to determine the details of the attack.

Luigi Di Maio, Italy's foreign minister, learned the news during a meeting in Brussels and left early to return to Rome. Mr. Di Maio expressed "immense sorrow for what happened," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"Two civil servants were violently taken away from us while carrying out their duties," the ministry said. "The circumstances of this brutal attack are yet to be known, but no effort will be spared to shed light on what happened."

Italy's new prime minister, Mario Draghi, sent out a note expressing his "deep condolences and that of the government for the tragic death."

Marie Tumba Nzeza, Congo's minister of foreign affairs, offered her condolences on behalf of the government and said in a video posted on social media that the country would do everything in its power to "find out who is behind this despicable murder."

Mr. Kasivita, the governor of North Kivu, said that the attack had taken place in an area where the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda had been operating for a long time, but that investigations were continuing. The group is one of the largest foreign armed groups in the country, a rebel group with links to 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

"According to initial investigations, they were killed by a group of six people who spoke Kinyarwanda," the governor said in a telephone interview, referencing the language spoken in Rwanda.

The Congolese government said in a statement that the security services and authorities were not informed of the presence of the diplomat in the region which is "deemed unstable."

The convoy was headed from Goma to Rutshuru, a town about 45 miles north, on a route that would took the vehicles through Virunga National Park. The World Food Program said that a number of other people were injured in the attack.

A wave of violence has engulfed the area in recent weeks, with a deadly attack by a different militia in Virunga National Park leaving six people dead last month.

Virunga, Africa's first national park and a Unesco World Heritage site, is known as the home of the region's famed, and endangered, mountain gorillas. But the North Kivu region has also been the scene of regular violence, as spillover from the conflict between the government and militia groups, as well as the fallout of neighboring conflicts, have played out there. Last year, 17 people were killed in another attack in Virunga,which was also believed to have been carried out by the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.

In the years since it gained independence in 1960, after a brutal colonial period, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been wracked by civil wars and for decades by the rule of a succession of corrupt dictators.

The country experienced its first peaceful democratic transfer of power after independence in January 2019, when President Felix Tshisekedi was elected, but the process was widely criticized as fraudulent.

The United Nations mission has been active in the country since 2010, after taking over from an earlier peace mission that had been in place since 1999.

Tributes poured in for Mr. Attanasio from across the diplomatic community. He was a well-respected diplomat who began his career in 2003 and quickly rose through the ranks. His work abroad began in Switzerland and continued in Morocco as a consul general, and later he moved on to Nigeria.

"He was a serious, young diplomat who believed that humanitarian work was part of his mission," said Mario Giro, who was Italy's deputy Foreign Minister in 2017, when Mr. Attanasio was appointed to the role in Kinshasa.

Mr. Giro, who is now a senior adviser to the president, became friends with Mr. Attanasio over the years and said that he was a very proactive ambassador who visited all of the Italian humanitarian missions in Congo.

Mr. Giro said the ambassador was not a risk taker, and Monday's trip was a routine convoy as part of his duties.

Bart Ouvry, the European Union ambassador to Mali, wrote in a post on Twitter, "I've lost a colleague and generous friend."

Last year, Mr. Attanasio was awarded an international peace prize in Italy. In his acceptance speech, he said that the ambassador's role was to be close to Italians living in Congo, and that it was important to his family to live there.

"Some are shocked by this choice, especially for the risks that it entails," he said. "But it is our duty to set an example."

Matina Stevis-Gridneff contributed reporting from Brussels and Steve Wembi from Kinshasa.

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The attack, on a World Food Program convoy headed to a school in North Kivu Province, left the ambassador, Luca Attanasio, an Italian embassy official and a driver dead. For Luca Attanasio, Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, humanitarian work was at the core of his mission.

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hi my name is Amethyst right now whats happening in belgium is they are only giving AZ vaccines to pepole under 55. i got this from independent news source.

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Hey, my names Tia, the article I found is about a finding of the worlds smallest reptile written on Feb, 11. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55945948

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The Brookesia has a body just 13.5mm long

Scientists believe they may have discovered the smallest reptile on earth - a chameleon subspecies that is the size of a seed.

Two of the tiny lizards were discovered by a German-Madagascan expedition team in Madagascar.

The male Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon, has a body of just 13.5mm.

This makes it the smallest of about 11,500 known species of reptiles, according to the Bavarian State collection of Zoology in Munich.

Its length from top to tail is 22mm (0.86in).

The female is far bigger at around 29mm, the institute said, adding that other specimens were yet to be located, despite "great effort".

"The new chameleon is only known from a degraded montane rainforest in northern Madagascar and might be threatened by extinction," said the Scientific Reports journal.

Oliver Hawlitschek, a scientist at the Center of Natural History in Hamburg, said: "The nano-chameleon's habitat has unfortunately been subject to deforestation, but the area was placed under protection recently, so the species will survive."

Researchers found that it hunts for mites on the rainforest floor and hides from predators at night in blades of grass.

In a blog post, Dr Mark Scherz, one of the researchers involved in the discovery, called it "a spectacular case of extreme miniaturisation".

The forests where the Brookesia were located are still well connected with others across the north of the island, he said.

"So this tiny new chameleon violates the pattern of the smallest species being found on small islands. That suggests that something else is allowing/causing these chameleons to miniaturise," he added.

In their report, scientists recommended that the chameleon be listed as critically endangered in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species to help protect it and its habitat.

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The attack, on a World Food Program convoy headed to a school in North Kivu Province, left the ambassador, Luca Attanasio, an Italian embassy official and a driver dead.

United Nations peacekeepers and ambulances could be seen at the location where Ambassador Luca Attanasio of Italy was fatally attacked in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Credit... Guerchom Ndebo/Getty Images

For Luca Attanasio, Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, humanitarian work was at the core of his mission. The 43-year-old had moved with his wife to the capital, Kinshasa, in 2017, where their family grew to include three young daughters. He rose to the rank of ambassador in 2019, the pinnacle of his diplomatic career.

On Monday, Mr. Attanasio was among three people killed in an attack on a humanitarian convoy near the city of Goma, the World Food Program and Italy's Foreign Ministry said, the latest in a wave of violence in that part of the central African nation.

The area where the attack took place, North Kivu Province in the east of the country nestled against the border with Rwanda, is known as a hotbed of violent activity, and is home to a tangled web of dozens of armed groups.

The deaths of Mr. Attanasio; an Italian Embassy official, named by the Foreign Ministry as Vittorio Iacovacci; and Mustapha Milambo, a driver for the World Food Program, have rattled the international diplomatic community and drawn condemnation from across the globe.

All three men were in a car that was part of a convoy of vehicles headed north from the city of Goma to a World Food Program initiative at a school, when their convoy was stopped by armed men. The group killed Mr. Milambo, and led the rest of the convoy into the forest, attempting to kidnap them, according to Carly Nzanzu Kasivita, the governor of the North Kivu Province where the attack occurred.

But park rangers and a Congolese Army unit nearby responded. During an exchange of gunfire, the attackers shot the two Italian men, the governor said. Images posted by local journalists on social media show the visibly injured ambassador being cradled in the back of a military truck, as a man clasped the ambassador's hand in his, holding it over Mr. Attanasio's chest.

Mr. Attanasio was rushed for emergency treatment at a United Nations hospital in Goma where he died.

The World Food Program said the attack "occurred on a road that had previously been cleared for travel without security escorts" and said it would be working with the local authorities to determine the details of the attack.

Luigi Di Maio, Italy's foreign minister, learned the news during a meeting in Brussels and left early to return to Rome. Mr. Di Maio expressed "immense sorrow for what happened," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"Two civil servants were violently taken away from us while carrying out their duties," the ministry said. "The circumstances of this brutal attack are yet to be known, but no effort will be spared to shed light on what happened."

Italy's new prime minister, Mario Draghi, sent out a note expressing his "deep condolences and that of the government for the tragic death."

Marie Tumba Nzeza, Congo's minister of foreign affairs, offered her condolences on behalf of the government and said in a video posted on social media that the country would do everything in its power to "find out who is behind this despicable murder."

Mr. Kasivita, the governor of North Kivu, said that the attack had taken place in an area where the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda had been operating for a long time, but that investigations were continuing. The group is one of the largest foreign armed groups in the country, a rebel group with links to 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

"According to initial investigations, they were killed by a group of six people who spoke Kinyarwanda," the governor said in a telephone interview, referencing the language spoken in Rwanda.

The Congolese government said in a statement that the security services and authorities were not informed of the presence of the diplomat in the region which is "deemed unstable."

The convoy was headed from Goma to Rutshuru, a town about 45 miles north, on a route that would took the vehicles through Virunga National Park. The World Food Program said that a number of other people were injured in the attack.

A wave of violence has engulfed the area in recent weeks, with a deadly attack by a different militia in Virunga National Park leaving six people dead last month.

Virunga, Africa's first national park and a Unesco World Heritage site, is known as the home of the region's famed, and endangered, mountain gorillas. But the North Kivu region has also been the scene of regular violence, as spillover from the conflict between the government and militia groups, as well as the fallout of neighboring conflicts, have played out there. Last year, 17 people were killed in another attack in Virunga,which was also believed to have been carried out by the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.

In the years since it gained independence in 1960, after a brutal colonial period, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been wracked by civil wars and for decades by the rule of a succession of corrupt dictators.

The country experienced its first peaceful democratic transfer of power after independence in January 2019, when President Felix Tshisekedi was elected, but the process was widely criticized as fraudulent.

The United Nations mission has been active in the country since 2010, after taking over from an earlier peace mission that had been in place since 1999.

Tributes poured in for Mr. Attanasio from across the diplomatic community. He was a well-respected diplomat who began his career in 2003 and quickly rose through the ranks. His work abroad began in Switzerland and continued in Morocco as a consul general, and later he moved on to Nigeria.

"He was a serious, young diplomat who believed that humanitarian work was part of his mission," said Mario Giro, who was Italy's deputy Foreign Minister in 2017, when Mr. Attanasio was appointed to the role in Kinshasa.

Mr. Giro, who is now a senior adviser to the president, became friends with Mr. Attanasio over the years and said that he was a very proactive ambassador who visited all of the Italian humanitarian missions in Congo.

Mr. Giro said the ambassador was not a risk taker, and Monday's trip was a routine convoy as part of his duties.

Bart Ouvry, the European Union ambassador to Mali, wrote in a post on Twitter, "I've lost a colleague and generous friend."

Last year, Mr. Attanasio was awarded an international peace prize in Italy. In his acceptance speech, he said that the ambassador's role was to be close to Italians living in Congo, and that it was important to his family to live there.

"Some are shocked by this choice, especially for the risks that it entails," he said. "But it is our duty to set an example."

Matina Stevis-Gridneff contributed reporting from Brussels and Steve Wembi from Kinshasa.

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Italian Ambassador Among Three Killed in Attack on U.N. Convoy in Congo

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The attack, on a World Food Program convoy headed to a school in North Kivu Province, left the ambassador, Luca Attanasio, an Italian embassy official and a driver dead. For Luca Attanasio, Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, humanitarian work was at the core of his mission.

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The attack, on a World Food Program convoy headed to a school in North Kivu Province, left the ambassador, Luca Attanasio, an Italian embassy official and a driver dead.

United Nations peacekeepers and ambulances could be seen at the location where Ambassador Luca Attanasio of Italy was fatally attacked in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Credit... Guerchom Ndebo/Getty Images

For Luca Attanasio, Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, humanitarian work was at the core of his mission. The 43-year-old had moved with his wife to the capital, Kinshasa, in 2017, where their family grew to include three young daughters. He rose to the rank of ambassador in 2019, the pinnacle of his diplomatic career.

On Monday, Mr. Attanasio was among three people killed in an attack on a humanitarian convoy near the city of Goma, the World Food Program and Italy's Foreign Ministry said, the latest in a wave of violence in that part of the central African nation.

The area where the attack took place, North Kivu Province in the east of the country nestled against the border with Rwanda, is known as a hotbed of violent activity, and is home to a tangled web of dozens of armed groups.

The deaths of Mr. Attanasio; an Italian Embassy official, named by the Foreign Ministry as Vittorio Iacovacci; and Mustapha Milambo, a driver for the World Food Program, have rattled the international diplomatic community and drawn condemnation from across the globe.

All three men were in a car that was part of a convoy of vehicles headed north from the city of Goma to a World Food Program initiative at a school, when their convoy was stopped by armed men. The group killed Mr. Milambo, and led the rest of the convoy into the forest, attempting to kidnap them, according to Carly Nzanzu Kasivita, the governor of the North Kivu Province where the attack occurred.

But park rangers and a Congolese Army unit nearby responded. During an exchange of gunfire, the attackers shot the two Italian men, the governor said. Images posted by local journalists on social media show the visibly injured ambassador being cradled in the back of a military truck, as a man clasped the ambassador's hand in his, holding it over Mr. Attanasio's chest.

Mr. Attanasio was rushed for emergency treatment at a United Nations hospital in Goma where he died.

The World Food Program said the attack "occurred on a road that had previously been cleared for travel without security escorts" and said it would be working with the local authorities to determine the details of the attack.

Luigi Di Maio, Italy's foreign minister, learned the news during a meeting in Brussels and left early to return to Rome. Mr. Di Maio expressed "immense sorrow for what happened," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"Two civil servants were violently taken away from us while carrying out their duties," the ministry said. "The circumstances of this brutal attack are yet to be known, but no effort will be spared to shed light on what happened."

Italy's new prime minister, Mario Draghi, sent out a note expressing his "deep condolences and that of the government for the tragic death."

Marie Tumba Nzeza, Congo's minister of foreign affairs, offered her condolences on behalf of the government and said in a video posted on social media that the country would do everything in its power to "find out who is behind this despicable murder."

Mr. Kasivita, the governor of North Kivu, said that the attack had taken place in an area where the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda had been operating for a long time, but that investigations were continuing. The group is one of the largest foreign armed groups in the country, a rebel group with links to 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

"According to initial investigations, they were killed by a group of six people who spoke Kinyarwanda," the governor said in a telephone interview, referencing the language spoken in Rwanda.

The Congolese government said in a statement that the security services and authorities were not informed of the presence of the diplomat in the region which is "deemed unstable."

The convoy was headed from Goma to Rutshuru, a town about 45 miles north, on a route that would took the vehicles through Virunga National Park. The World Food Program said that a number of other people were injured in the attack.

A wave of violence has engulfed the area in recent weeks, with a deadly attack by a different militia in Virunga National Park leaving six people dead last month.

Virunga, Africa's first national park and a Unesco World Heritage site, is known as the home of the region's famed, and endangered, mountain gorillas. But the North Kivu region has also been the scene of regular violence, as spillover from the conflict between the government and militia groups, as well as the fallout of neighboring conflicts, have played out there. Last year, 17 people were killed in another attack in Virunga,which was also believed to have been carried out by the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.

In the years since it gained independence in 1960, after a brutal colonial period, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been wracked by civil wars and for decades by the rule of a succession of corrupt dictators.

The country experienced its first peaceful democratic transfer of power after independence in January 2019, when President Felix Tshisekedi was elected, but the process was widely criticized as fraudulent.

The United Nations mission has been active in the country since 2010, after taking over from an earlier peace mission that had been in place since 1999.

Tributes poured in for Mr. Attanasio from across the diplomatic community. He was a well-respected diplomat who began his career in 2003 and quickly rose through the ranks. His work abroad began in Switzerland and continued in Morocco as a consul general, and later he moved on to Nigeria.

"He was a serious, young diplomat who believed that humanitarian work was part of his mission," said Mario Giro, who was Italy's deputy Foreign Minister in 2017, when Mr. Attanasio was appointed to the role in Kinshasa.

Mr. Giro, who is now a senior adviser to the president, became friends with Mr. Attanasio over the years and said that he was a very proactive ambassador who visited all of the Italian humanitarian missions in Congo.

Mr. Giro said the ambassador was not a risk taker, and Monday's trip was a routine convoy as part of his duties.

Bart Ouvry, the European Union ambassador to Mali, wrote in a post on Twitter, "I've lost a colleague and generous friend."

Last year, Mr. Attanasio was awarded an international peace prize in Italy. In his acceptance speech, he said that the ambassador's role was to be close to Italians living in Congo, and that it was important to his family to live there.

"Some are shocked by this choice, especially for the risks that it entails," he said. "But it is our duty to set an example."

Matina Stevis-Gridneff contributed reporting from Brussels and Steve Wembi from Kinshasa.

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Bonjour je m'appelle megan. My news event is that the one of figures in Mali who was assumed to win the 2022 election has died from covid. He was recently kidnapped but another country but he was freed and shortly after died in Paris from corona.

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Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cissé, who was held hostage for six months by jihadists earlier this year and was considered a leading contender for 2022 elections, has died in Paris

Mali's opposition leader Soumaila Cisse, who was held hostage for six months earlier this year by jihadists and was considered a leading contender in 2022 elections, has died in Paris his family said Friday.

Cissé, 71, died after contracting COVID-19, his eldest son Bocar told The Associated Press.

"The doctors did everything to keep him alive, but that's the way of God's will," he said.

The news throws Malian politics into new uncertainty. Cissé was the runner-up in the past three presidential elections and many thought he had the best chances of finally winning in 2022.

He was taken hostage by jihadists in March while campaigning for legislative elections in his hometown of Niafunke in northern Mali. He was abducted by a group affiliated with al-Qaida. Amid public pressure, the Malian government obtained his liberation in October, along with that of French and Italian hostages in exchange for the release of some 200 jihadists from Malian prisons.

Mali's interim leader Sem Ba N'Daw expressed his condolences to Cisse's family and supporters on Friday, saying millions of Malians "are in shock" at the news. Describing a meeting with Cisse after he was freed, he said Cisse's "optimism had remained intact," and said "the country still needed his experience and wisdom to face today's challenges."

No immediate funeral plans were announced.

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Bonjour, My name is Melissa Olguin and I'm going to talk about some recent news in Monte Carlo. Recently in Monte Carlo, Monaco tells French TV channel to stop spreading fake news over Covid-19. The French TV channel accused them of mishandling the health crisis that's going on in Monaco. The National Council of Monaco publicly denounced a French TV channel for spreading fake news about their country.

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The Princely Government and the National Council of Monaco publicly denounced a French TV channel that accused Monaco of mishandling the health crisis. As

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Bonjour, My name is Hailey today I am going to tell you about some news in Quebec, Canada. About 850 schools in Quebec have been reporting lots of covid-19 cases. the Covid-19 situation has been improving recently but the number of new outbreaks has been causing a concern. lots of schools are acting quickly to this and shutting down to prevent covid-19 cases.

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The COVID-19 situation in Quebec has improved in recent weeks, but the number of outbreaks in schools and whether they're linked to the new variants circulating in the province is causing concern.

As of Monday, there were nearly 850 schools across the province reporting active COVID-19 cases and more than a dozen dealing with suspected variant cases.

Though most schools are acting quickly and shutting down in response to any suspected variants, it's an approach experts warn may not be sustainable as the strains spread into workplaces and neighbourhoods.

"With the variants, we need to respond with force and speed once there's an outbreak to limit the spread," said Benoît Mâsse, a professor of public health at Université de Montréal.

"But it will be hard to be as proactive as public health authorities have been, despite it working, because at one point there will be too many outbreaks to keep up."

Last week , the Institut national de santé publique du Québec warned that the new strains could initially spread through schools since they are where most contacts are still taking place.

On Monday, Olivier Drouin, who has kept a crowdsourced list of schools with reported cases since last summer, said by his count there are now more schools closed in Quebec than at any other point during the pandemic.

"Parents are extremely worried and also confused," Drouin said, noting there doesn't yet seem to be a uniform approach to handling variants in schools across the province.

In an interview on Radio-Canada on Monday , Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé said he doesn't believe variant cases are growing exponentially in Quebec yet, but called on schools to close classrooms as soon as there's any suspicion one might be in play.

"What's important for parents to know is that right now, that's why we're much more aggressive in closing classes," Dubé said.

As of Feb. 16, the latest data available, there were 98 schools in Montreal dealing with outbreaks , including two with more than 20 cases each.

On Monday, the city's public health department confirmed there are now seven schools in Montreal that have been forced to close for two weeks. The department could not confirm, however, whether the closures were caused by variants or the size of the outbreaks.

Since last week, at least three Montreal schools  -  Collège Stanislas in Outremont, Yechiva Yavne in Côte-St-Luc and École des Grands-Êtres in St-Laurent  -  have confirmed they're dealing with suspected variant cases.

In Laval, the local health authority announced Monday four schools are now either partially or entirely closed because of concerns over the variant strains: Père-Vimont, Saint-Maxime, Eurêka and Équinoxe.

In Quebec City, Marguerite d'Youville elementary school was closed on Friday for the same reason .

The local health authority was still awaiting screening results on Monday to know if any of the new strains were detected. If there are, it would be the first time any of the variants are confirmed in the Quebec City area.

Overall, there are now 23 confirmed cases of the more transmissible variants across Quebec, including 18 in Montreal. Another 415 cases are considered presumptive.

The main variant confirmed so far, the B.1.1.7 strain from the United Kingdom, has been detected in Montreal, Laval and the Eastern Townships.

For Mâsse, it's only a matter of time before one of the variants becomes the dominant strain in Quebec.

What the province does between now and then  -  including a potential tightening or loosening of public health measures  -  will determine how severe the next wave will be. But either way, he believes the next few weeks will be crucial.

Factoring into all of this, Mâsse added, is next week's March break . He urged families to respect the measures in effect to avoid a spike similar to what was seen after the holiday break.

"We're now facing a situation where the same thing could happen, but with the variants it could be even worse," he said. "Even a small letting up and they will take off much before we can benefit from the vaccine campaign."

Quebec reported 805 new COVID-19 cases on Monday , the highest number of cases in five days, and 11 more deaths. Montreal added 416 new cases and five deaths.

The province also reported that 7,396 additional vaccine doses were administered, bringing the total to 353,894.
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Nearly 850 Quebec schools reporting COVID-19 cases | The Journal Pioneer

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The COVID-19 situation in Quebec has improved in recent weeks, but the number of outbreaks in schools and whether they're linked to the new variants circulating in the province is causing concern. As of Monday, there were nearly 850 schools across the province reporting active COVID-19 cases and more than a dozen dealing with suspected variant cases.

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Gnassingbe has won a fourth term, probably unfairly. The incumbent claimed to have 57-61% of the vote, but the official results say Gnassingbe won 70% of the vote, his highest yet. The vote counting was not allowed to be observed and ballot stuffing and fake poll stations are suspected to have increased Gnassingbe's total. This means he will rule for another 5 years, extending his family's 45-year reign in Togo. There were many incumbents this year, and it was hoped that this would be the year he would step down.

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Incumbent leader wins 72 percent of the vote share in first round of presidential election, says electoral commission.

Gnassingbe has led the country of eight million people since taking over in 2005 following the death of his father [Luc Gnago/Reuters]

Togo 's President Faure Gnassingbe has been re-elected for a fourth term, the national electoral commission has declared, extending his 15-year rule and a family dynasty that began when his father took power in a 1967 coup.

The incumbent leader took 72 percent of the vote share in the first round of the presidential election, according to preliminary results from the commission on Monday, ahead of his closest rival and former prime minister Agbeyome Kodjo with 18 percent.

The final results are expected to be announced by the Supreme Court in coming days.

If confirmed, the result gives Gnassingbe five more years in power, a blow for opposition protesters who have taken to the streets in recent years, calling for him to step down.

Gnassingbe has led the country of eight million people since taking over in 2005 following the death of his father Gnassingbe Eyadema, who ruled the country for 38 years.

In May, he oversaw an overhaul of the constitution that allowed him to run this year - and potentially remain in office until 2030.

Gilbert Barawa, minister of public functions and a strong supporter of the president, described the result as "an unprecedented score" for the president, who was elected with 58 percent of the vote five years ago.

Hours before the official results were announced, Kodjo, who was prime minister under Gnassingbe's father, had declared his own victory as "democratically elected president" with between 57 and 61 percent of the vote.

He promised to form his own "inclusive government in the coming days", accusing authorities of using ballot stuffing and fake polling stations to skew the results in the incumbent's favour.

Challenges ahead

The authorities banned hundreds of local observers from monitoring Saturday's election and cancelled the system of electronic security at the last moment.

Some 300 international observers were deployed, mainly from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union, with many African states supporting the incumbent.

Six opposition challengers had suggested they would unite against Gnassingbe if he failed to win an outright majority and the election had proceeded to a second round.

In 2017 and 2018, Togolese authorities faced major protests demanding an end to the family's five-decade rule.

Some political observers have expressed concern that a Gnassingbe win could spark fresh protests, though the streets of the oceanside capital Lome were calm in the early hours of Monday morning immediately after the vote.

Togo is the tenth-poorest country in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Gnassingbe has long promised to boost economic development and the country has seen annual economic growth of around 5 percent in recent years, driven by investment in energy and transport.

But grinding poverty and labour strikes are constant reminders of the challenges ahead.

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Togo President Faure Gnassingbe wins fourth term

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Incumbent leader wins 72 percent of the vote share in first round of presidential election, says electoral commission. Togo 's President Faure Gnassingbe has been re-elected for a fourth term, the national electoral commission has declared, extending his 15-year rule and a family dynasty that began when his father took power in a 1967 coup.

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Bonjour Hannah Bryant
I found an artical talking about how the nighttime curfew could be reinstated due to the corona virus.

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Bonjour, je m'appelle Jalah! I found that the mayor in Lyon has removed meat from all the school lunches. The government is supposedly enraged by this. https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/french-government-outraged-lyon-mayor-meat-school-lunches