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#PRESIDENTIELLE Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen? The first voters, overseas and abroad, vote today, time difference requires, before the opening of the polls tomorrow morning in France. In order not to influence voters, we have now entered into electoral reserve period.
• The Ukrainian authorities are again trying this midday to evacuate civilians from the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, largely controlled by the Russian army, to the city of Zaporizhia, 200 km to the north-west. Follow our live.
Israel wants to ban Palestinians in Gaza from work in their territory starting tomorrow. This is a retaliatory measure decided after the firing of new rockets from the enclave controlled by the Islamists of Hamas towards Israeli territory. We explain the reasons for this renewed violence.
On the front line between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian brigades, resentment towards the “traitors” is tenacious as the fighting continues to escalate. Franceinfo exchanged with Ukrainian soldiers.
Svetlana managed, together with her daughter Olga, to leave the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, besieged and bombarded since the start of the Russian invasion. They described to franceinfo their very precarious living conditions amid shells fired by both sides.
#PRESIDENTIELLE Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen? The first voters from overseas and abroad are voting today, due to the time difference, before the opening of the polling stations tomorrow morning in mainland France.
• “One of the objectives of the Russian army is to establish full control over Donbass and southern Ukraine”, a Russian military official said yesterday. A declaration which contradicts the speeches of the Kremlin, and which astonishes: this general is not a great figure of the Russian army, and this one does not seem to have the means of this ambition.
• French justice issued an international arrest warrant against Carlos Ghosnformer boss of the Renault Nissan alliance who lives in Lebanon, as part of an investigation, in particular for misuse of corporate assets and money laundering.