The princesa Charlene of Monaco is fully recovered. That is, at least, what emerges from her following seeing her in her last public outing. Although in recent weeks she has been seen at various fashion and sporting events in the Principality (always with her husband and her children), this time she has attended a solo engagementI have referred to one of the issues on which she has always paid special attention: motherhood. Prince’s Palace. the wife of prince albert has visited the mother-child wing of the Princess Grace Hospital, on a tour organized by the Red Cross of Monaco. Charlène was fantastic in a black and white cocktail dress from the firm Akrisone of her favourites, along with sandals with thin straps, also two-tone. [lista_enlaces] [/lista_enlaces] The athletic complexion of the princess, added to the flattering pounds that she has gained during her convalescence following a very complicated year due to various health problems, now make the South African appear as glamorous as before. But the most important thing, without a doubt, is her smile. Prince’s Palace. If before she was often seen with a laconic gesture and a look flooded with sadness, in recent times Charlene show a much more positive mood. After receiving help at a clinic in Switzerland, where she has been hospitalized for four months, her improvement is evident. That and being able to return to her husband and her two children, for whose physical separation she has suffered so much. In fact, thanks to this, she has been able to return to her official agenda little by little, gradually, until she resumes her normal rhythm. During the visit to this hospital, Charlene of Monaco She was very affectionate and close. After greeting her staff, she congratulated and spoke to the new parents, who were there with her babies. Of course, her most delicate gestures were for the newborns, whom she observed with infinite tenderness while her eyes lit up. her twins, Jacques y Gabriella, they are already seven years old and perhaps beautiful memories came to her, because she also gave birth in that same place. Last weekend Princess Charlène was discharged during the Monte Carlo Jumping Championshipa horse riding event in which Prince Albert was accompanied by his sister the princess caroline and several of his nephews. After her even her sister-in-law traveled with her husband to Vienna to attend the opera. The monarch’s wife was once once more on everyone’s lips for it. On July 1 Charlène and Alberto celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary. Last year they might not celebrate their first decade together, because at that time the princess was still in South Africa suffering from a strong infection. Fortunately, all that is in the past. Read on for the exciting full tour of the princesa charlene.
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July 2022
The conflict Russia – Ukraine, minute by minute | After gaining control of Lugansk, Moscow focuses its attacks on Donetsk
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Russia denounces Ukrainian artillery attack on border towns
The governor of the Russian region of Kursk, bordering Ukraine, Román Starovoit, today denounced a Ukrainian attack with artillery fire once morest several towns, without causing any casualties among the population.
“The morning began with artillery fire attacks on several border towns in the Glushkovski district,” Starovoit wrote on his Telegram account.
He added that impacts were detected in the village of Markovo and that “shells exploded once more in the town of Tiótkino.”
“According to preliminary data, there were no victims. In the village of Popovo-Lezhachí, several houses suffered damage to their facades and glass breakage,” the governor said.
Zelensky denounces that Russia launches missiles from Belarus and warns that it might invade another country
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, affirmed on Tuesday that Russia might invade another state and denounced once more that it is using Belarusian soil to launch missiles once morest his country.
“No one can rule out a new Russian invasion of another neighboring country. Such an eventuality is possible,” Zelensky warned in an online speech at the start of The Economist’s annual conference near Athens.
The Ukrainian leader stressed that Russia is looking for “space” to apply new anti-democratic tactics and recalled that already in 2014 (with the invasion of Crimea) it avoided giving security guarantees through dialogue.
For this reason, he added, Europe needs more security and solidarity than ever.
Proof of his belligerent intentions is the fact that Russia is launching missiles “of various calibers” from Belarusian territory, something regarding which Zelensky left no room for doubt.
Russia says some of the weapons sent to kyiv end up in the Middle East
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said today that some of the Western weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine are reaching the Middle East and the black market.
“According to available information, some of the foreign weapons that the West supplies to Ukraine are reaching the Middle East region and also ending up on the black market,” he told a teleconference at his ministry.
According to Shoigu, the West has so far delivered more than 28,000 tons of military cargo to kyiv.
In his opinion, “the West wants to prolong the conflict in Ukraine”, which is why it continues to deliver weapons to that country.
Moscow assures that it will meet its objectives despite Western aid to Ukraine
The secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, affirmed today that the objectives of the “special military operation” in Ukraine will be fulfilled despite the increase in military aid to the kyiv government.
“Despite the military aid from the United States and the West to Ukraine, the increase in supplies of lethal weapons, the objectives (of the “operation”) will be fulfilled,” Patrushev was quoted as saying by the Interfax agency at a meeting on national security. in the city of Khabarovsk, in the far east of the country.
He insisted that Russia in Ukraine seeks to “defend the people from the genocide carried out by the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime, demilitarize and denazify the territory of Ukraine, and achieve its neutral status.”
In his speech, Patrushev attacked the US, which he accused of “betting on the weakening and oppression of Russia for the sake of its dominance and the preservation of the political-military superiority it obtained at the end of the last century.”
Russia investigates allegations of torture of prisoners of war made by Ukraine
Russia reported today that it is investigating allegations of torture of Russian soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces and released during a prisoner exchange with the neighboring country.
“The Russian investigative committee verifies the facts of inhuman treatment of Russian soldiers imprisoned in Ukraine,” the body in charge of criminal investigations in Russia said in a statement.
Russia and Ukraine have carried out several prisoner-of-war exchanges since the Russian offensive once morest their neighbor on February 24.
The most recent dates back to June 29 and affected 144 Ukrainians and as many on the Russian side, reported the AFP news agency.
Some of the Russians released on that occasion reported “numerous acts of violence they had suffered” during their detention, according to the statement, referring to beatings, torture with electricity or even being deprived of water or food.
NATO ratified the accession demands of Sweden and Finland
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) today formally launched the ratification process for the accession requests of Sweden and Finlandwhich continues to be rejected by Turkey, in addition to being one of the claims that Russia places among the main foundations of its invasion of Ukraine.
“It’s a good day for Sweden and Finland, and a good day for NATO,” Atlantic Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at the start of the ceremony. Today we will formally sign the accession protocols. This marks the beginning of the ratification process.”
According to Stoltenberg, “with 32 nations around the table, we will be even stronger, and our people even safer, as we face the biggest security crisis in decades.”
La Otanadded the Norwegian official, “remains open to European democracies that are ready and willing to contribute to our collective security”.
For his part, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto thanked the “alliance’s support for Finland’s membership, and we look forward to a fast ratification process.”
Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde said in turn that “the signing of the accession protocols is an important step towards our full membership. The next phase will be the ratification process in each of the allied countries.”
Russia tries to keep control of Kharkiv
In the Kharkov region, in northeastern Ukraine, Russian troops “are concentrating their main efforts on keeping the lines occupied and preventing the advance of Ukrainian troops”.
In that region, “the Russians bombarded the areas of the Kutuzivka, Nove, Ruski Tyshky, Mala Danylivka and Dementiivka settlements with artillery, multiple rocket launchers and tanks, and also launched an air attack on the city of Kharkov.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian air force, missile and artillery units continue to attack ammunition depots and groups of enemy manpower and equipment, particularly in the Kherson region, in the south of the country and partially occupied by the Russians.
However, according to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russian soldiers “are demoralized and look for any opportunity to suffer minor injuries. They resort to self-mutilation and simulations to guarantee themselves sick leave and return to Russia alive,” the General Staff added.
Another offensive attempt in Donetsk
Russian forces have made another offensive attempt in the Donetsk regionnear the towns of Spirne and Novoluhanske.
Lugansk and Donetsk make up Donbas, a pro-Russian enclave that has become the Moscow’s priority objective in trying to establish a corridor linking eastern Ukraine with the Crimean peninsulaoccupied by the Russians since 2014, and other southern areas that they have also conquered.
In Donetsk, the Russians maintain their strategy of controlling the city of Sloviansk and its surroundings, an enclave that had some 100,000 inhabitants before the invasion, of which no more than 25,000 currently remain, according to their authorities.
The area is attacked with missiles and artillery fire.
“The main efforts of the enemy are focused on establishing control over the territory of the Luhansk region within its (already conquered) administrative borders. The enemy is taking measures to restore the logistics infrastructure in its rear,” the General Staff added.
Morocco: 20 billion dirhams in tourist receipts at the end of May
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Tourism receipts in foreign currency reached, according to preliminary figures, 20 billion dirhams (MMDH) for the first five months of this year, up 173% compared to 2021, said Monday, the Minister of Tourism, Crafts and Social and Solidarity Economy, Fatim-Zahra Ammor.
Ms. Ammor, who was answering a central question on “encouraging domestic tourism and preparing for the tourist season” in the House of Representatives, noted that these revenues show a recovery rate of 71% compared to 2019.
During the same period, the number of tourist arrivals in Morocco was multiplied by 4.5 compared to 2021, to reach 2.3 million tourists, i.e. a recovery rate of 52% compared to 2019. minister.
At the regional level, the number of overnight stays in tourist accommodation establishments has tripled in Marrakech and Agadir and doubled in several other destinations such as Tangier, Errachidia, Dakhla, Rabat and Casablanca, said Ms. Ammor.
And to add that an overnight recovery rate of 100% was recorded in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, 86% in Dakhla-Oued Eddahab, 76% in Béni Mellal-Khénifra and l’Oriental and 66% at the level of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region.
This positive performance is due to “the wisdom with which Morocco managed the crisis, under the enlightened leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, which enabled the Kingdom to maintain its attractiveness and credibility, as well as the involvement of all players in the sector, including professionals,” said the minister.
Morocco is thus, once once more, among the main destinations in the programs of international tour operators, rejoiced Ms. Ammor, reporting an aircraft occupancy rate of 75% at the end of last May.
In this regard, she noted that the efforts of the Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) with the airlines have made it possible to currently have a capacity greater than that recorded in 2019, affirming that the work is continuing through in particular the strengthening of existing air links, the increase in weekly flights and the opening of new lines.
The Minister also highlighted the efforts made by her Department and the ONMT to highlight the tourist assets available to the regions of the Kingdom, stressing that the objective is to enable all regions to benefit benefit from the recovery of Tourism and not only known destinations.
With regard to supporting hotels in maintenance, upgrading and training operations, the Minister mentioned the granting of financial support to 737 tourist accommodation establishments, noting that requests received concerned all the regions, while the amounts of subsidies varied between 7 million dirhams and 2,500 dirhams.
The Pub du Boisé/Animalerie Roufi accumulates victories
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
SOFTBALL. Only two games were scheduled last week in the Sports Experts/Molson Softball League.
The Pub du Boisé/Animalerie Roufi never stops winning. The team indeed obtained a victory of 7 to 3 once morest La Face de Bœuf/Toiture Lajoie. For the winners, Carl Laverdière, François Paquet and Pierre Labonté had two RBIs, while Éric Lachance had one RBI. For the losers, Samuel Lessard has two RBIs and André Perron has the other RBI.
Then the Mafioso won 9-3 once morest the Red Sox due to a strong start to the game, earning seven runs in the first two innings. For the winners, Nathan Beaudoin, Nick Dupont and Sébastien Marcotte each had two RBIs while Donnie Luneau, Philippe Charbonneau and Maxim Boislard did their part with an RBI. For the losers, Kristopher Coulombe has two RBIs and Eric Laflamme has one RBI.