🇫🇷💥🇷🇺 French journalists in Donbass get a close call with Russian shelling

👉🏻 The scene happened in Kramatorsk last evening: a Russian missile exploded a few dozen meters away from a team of journalist working for the TV newscast Quotidien.

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🇫🇷⚡️ French government to issue 'electricity buffer' to help small businesses cope with rising energy costs

👉🏻 French businesses are currently faced with the crushing reality of the electricity prices, which for them translates into immediate death sentences when their contract get renewed. The goverment has thus decided to 'help', with a new financial aid for small businesses.

🔎 The buffer should reduce the cost of the annual energy share to an annual price of €180 per Megawatt for half of the electricity consumed – excluding the extra infrastructure and tax fees.

💸 Long story short, it's a band-aid on an open wound: for example, some 80 percent of bakeries in France reported being at risk of bankruptcy due to dramatic increases in energy costs.

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🇫🇷🗣 Government spokesperson: "the threat of power outages this winter appears to be receding."

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🇫🇷💊 France bans online sale of paracetamol over shortage fears

👉🏻 For months, authorities has called on pharmacies to monitor the sale of painkiller and limit amounts individuals could purchase. Last December, the Ministry of Health warned that, despite rationing, the situation was “complex” and would not be resolved for “several weeks”.

🔎 Government notes that an export ban in China due to Covid-19 cases had hit the global supply chain. These supply difficulties are also part of a wider shortages of multiple drugs in France and other countries, including antibiotics such as amoxicillin.

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🇫🇷🎨 Climate activist douse Matignon Palace -home of the prime minister- with orange paint

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🎬 A Taxi for Tobruk — 1961