By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on L’essentiel and Daily Post
A Boeing operated by Copa Airlines, carrying 166 passengers and six crew members, struck a UPS cargo aircraft at Miami airport on Saturday evening. Two people were slightly injured, but the material damage is considerable, according to L’Essentiel.
About fifteen masked individuals attacked far-right activists from the National Rally and La Cocarde, a far-right student union, in a Marseille bar on Saturday evening, according to police sources. Two La Cocarde members were slightly injured, and a regular at the bar with no link to the union was seriously hit in the face, according to Le Parisien.
🇫🇷 France · Source: BFMTV ·
A tanker struck a cruise boat moored on the Mississippi near New Orleans, according to France 24. The impact prompted a river rescue amid confusion, and all passengers survived; part of the river remains closed to navigation.
🇺🇸 United States · Source: France 24 ·
In France, 219 arrests were recorded nationwide during Saturday’s protests, and ten police officers were slightly injured, according to BFMTV. Organisers claim 200,000 protesters, double the Ministry of the Interior’s count; unions are calling for a strike and protests on Tuesday.
🇫🇷 France · Source: BFMTV ·
Portugal is the European Union country where housing prices have risen the most relative to household incomes between 2015 and 2025, with an increase of 60.8%, according to Le Monde. Thousands of people protested on Saturday in more than 30 cities to demand more affordable rents and greater protection amid the housing crisis.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Source: Le Monde ·
Ukrainian drones injure three people in Nizhnekamsk, RussiaRussian authorities have confirmed that Nizhnekamsk, an industrial city in central Russia, came under prolonged Ukrainian strikes overnight, injuring three people and causing a fire at a petrochemical complex. Shortly afterwards, strikes on Taganrog, a city in southern Russia, killed an engineer at an electrical substation, according to the regional governor, reports France 24.The week in Africa
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