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Intense fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces near a pipeline Russia uses to supply European countries with gas has not disrupted supplies, network operators and gas companies said on Tuesday (13 August).

« Aucun acompte des frais scolaires ne doit être exigé avant la rentrée scolaire 2023-2024 », a décidé la ministre d’Etat en l’Education, Raïssa Malu. 

Cette décision est l’une des cinq mesures contenues dans sa note publiée le 13 août courant.

Ce document est adressé aux directeurs des provinces éducationnelles avec copie à tous les responsables de l’éducation à travers le pays. 

Raïssa Malu vise à corriger plusieurs pratiques érigées en système dans beaucoup d’écoles.

Revue de presse kinoise du mercredi 14 août 2024.

Les mesures du Gouvernement pour combattre la cherté de la vie à travers le pays fait la Une de la plupart des journaux parus ce mercredi 14 aout dans la capitale.

More than two weeks after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed reelection victory, the US and other Western countries are showing little sign of swift tough action over what many of them have condemned as voting fraud.

La navigation de plaisance est en plein boum sur la côte croate. Sauf que les infrastructures, comme la législation, ne suivent pas et ce sont les fonds marins qui en pâtissent. Cet été, l'association Sunce tente donc de sensibiliser les nombreux marins d'eau douce aux bonnes pratiques du mouillage.

- Le fil de l'Info / Courrier des Balkans, Tourisme balkans, Croatie, Adriatique, Environnement

La navigation de plaisance est en plein boum sur la côte croate. Sauf que les infrastructures, comme la législation, ne suivent pas et ce sont les fonds marins qui en pâtissent. Cet été, l'association Sunce tente donc de sensibiliser les nombreux marins d'eau douce aux bonnes pratiques du mouillage.

- Le fil de l'Info / Courrier des Balkans, Tourisme balkans, Croatie, Adriatique, Environnement

Contrairement à celles qui participent au débarquement de Normandie le 6 juin, les troupes qui prennent d’assaut les côtes de Provence le 15 août 1944 et libèrent rapidement Toulon, Marseille ou Lyon sont majoritairement françaises. Regroupées au sein de “l’Armée B”, ces forces sont à 80 % africaines. Leur rôle et leur présence dans la mémoire collective restent largement occultés par le D-Day.

A far-right Israeli minister drew international condemnation Tuesday (13 August) by praying with thousands of Jews at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in annexed east Jerusalem, defying a ban on Jewish prayer at the flashpoint site.

Greece's worst wildfire of the year eased on the outskirts of the capital Athens on Tuesday (13 August) thanks to weaker winds, pausing progress of a destructive blaze that killed one person and torched cars, buildings, fields and forests.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he will step down in September, ending a three-year term marred by political scandals and paving the way for a new premier to address the impact of rising prices.

Ukraine kept pounding the Russian border region of Kursk with missiles and drones on Wednesday (14 August), as Kyiv said it had made further territorial gains in an incursion that US President Joe Biden called a "real dilemma" for the Kremlin's leader.

Bluetongue virus cases have shot up in several European countries, data gathered by AFP on Tuesday (13 August) showed, as farmers are worrying about consequences for sheep and cattle.

Americas Boeing won a $264 million deal, which provides inspections, modifications, and repairs to the F/A-18 E/F and EA-18G aircrafts to include inner wing panel repairs in support of remanufacturing efforts to restore the inner wing panel service life projections to the new design specifications. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. The Canadian Department of Defense started construction of a Quick Reaction Alert facility at the Bagotville base in Quebec. The site will house Ottawa’s future F-35A combat aircraft fleet and support North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) operations in partnership with the US military. The 7,400-square-meter (24,278 square feet) center will incorporate hangar bays, administrative spaces, and staff quarters. Surrounding the hub is a 17,000-square-meter (55,774 square feet) protected field for additional capabilities. Middle East & Africa Two ships reported coming under attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday, although neither reported damage, British maritime agencies said. One ship’s captain said his vessel was targeted by an uncrewed surface vessel (USV), which was successfully disabled about 63 nautical miles (116 km) southwest of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said. Europe Finland […]

Why the world needs rules for solar geoengineering.

Predicting the collapse of his regime is wishful thinking.

EA-18G at Pax The USA’s electronic attack fighters are a unique, overworked, and nearly obsolete capability. With the retirement of the US Air Force’s long-range EF-111 Raven “Spark ‘Vark,” the aging 4-seat EA-6B Prowlers became the USA’s only remaining fighter for radar jamming, communications jamming and information operations like signals interception [1]. Despite their age and performance limits, they’ve been predictably busy on the front lines, used for everything from escorting strike aircraft against heavily defended targets, to disrupting enemy IED land mine attacks by jamming all radio signals in an area. EA-6B Prowler (click to view full) All airframes have lifespan limits, however, and the EA-6B is no exception. The USA’s new electronic warfare aircraft will be based on Boeing’s 2-seat F/A-18F Super Hornet multi-role fighter, and has 90% commonality with its counterpart. That will give it decent self-defense capabilities, as well as electronic attack potential. At present, however, the EA-18G is slated to be the only dedicated electronic warfare aircraft in the USA’s future force. DID’s FOCUS articles offer in-depth, updated looks at significant military programs of record. This article describes the EA-18G aircraft and its key systems, outlining the program, and keeping track of ongoing developments, contracts, […]

« En Afrique, des hôtels de légende » (3/5). Fort de 850 chambres, d’événements géants et de nombreux commerces, l’Eko Hotels & Suites, à Lagos, est une ville dans la ville, avec à ses pieds une nouvelle île entièrement sortie des eaux.