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Le Monde's front page features a mix of international and domestic news. Top stories include Donald Trump's promise of $5,000 to Americans if he wins mid-term elections, an investigation into interferences by the army in a 2021 Channel shipwreck case, and Russia's recruitment of foreign fighters…
The US President has placed himself at the center of the upcoming November 3rd elections by delivering a self-congratulatory speech in Dallas, hoping to re-mobilize the conservative electorate.
While the trial of smugglers implicated in the deaths of 31 migrants opened on September 8th, seven soldiers are still under investigation for failure to assist a person in danger. Incidentally, the justice system examined the actions of the army, suspected of wanting to protect its personnel.
In a report published on September 10th, Amnesty International details Russia's two main recruitment channels: one approaching foreigners in their home countries, the other targeting migrants present in Russia. The NGO denounces a "human trafficking crime."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting Canada to secure further support for his country's defense efforts.
Ukraine is bracing for a harsh winter as it faces a significant shortfall in its anti-aircraft defense capabilities.
These dysfunctions are incompatible with the "fundamental rights" of patients, involving "prolonged waiting in undignified conditions," "arbitrary detentions," or "restraints without legal framework," warns the General Controller of Places of Deprivation of Liberty.
This Frenchman, dispatched by Al-Qaeda to the United States for complicity in the 9/11 attacks and convicted, has been serving a life sentence for twenty years without the possibility of parole in a penitentiary in Colorado.
