On Monday, Karl Bushby pushed open his mother’s door in Hull, 28 years and 50,000 kilometres after leaving the southern tip of Chile on foot. The same day, a French horror film broke a record, Auvergne was replanting vines and an HIV treatment fell to 40 dollars a year.
He was 29, his marriage had just broken, and he had an idea: walk home. Karl Bushby left the southern tip of Chile in 1998. On Monday, at 57, he found his mother again in Hull, his port city in the north of England, which welcomed him as a hero, “the world at his feet”, headlines Courrier international. Twenty-eight years, 50,000 kilometres. In between, a whole generation grew up.
Diesel has dropped 12 to 18 cents in 6,000 petrol stations out of 10,000, the state selling its stocks at cost: “historic”, says Roland Lescure. Tomorrow, EDF starts changing off-peak hours. And this Tuesday, the pupils’ march is no longer allowed in central Paris.
At the pump this Tuesday morning, the figure is finally up: 12 to 18 cents less on diesel in more than half of the stations, 6,000 out of 10,000, says the government, which is selling its strategic stocks at cost. “What we are doing is historic,” says Roland Lescure. One station, somewhere in France, still shows almost 3 euros a litre, the dearest in the country. Eighteen cents, fifty litres: nine euros a tank.
This Tuesday, Americans renew the House, a third of the Senate and 36 governors. More than 58 million have already voted, a record. The campaign cost close to 12 billion dollars; the issue is the price of beef.
In the queue at a polling place this Tuesday, an American thinks first of the shopping: inflation was at 3.6% in September, wages at 3%. That, more than Iran, is why 58 million voters had already cast a ballot before the polls opened, a record. The country renews the 435 seats of the House, 35 of the Senate’s 100 and 36 governors, two years after Donald Trump’s election.
On Monday, Bart De Wever handed his resignation to King Philippe, with no deal on the Belgian budget; the king has been consulting since this morning. In Paris, the formal vote on revenue planned for this Tuesday will not take place: the text is deemed void, article 49.3 or ordinances await.
Bart De Wever, the Belgian prime minister, walked into the Palace on Monday morning with his resignation: his government found no agreement on the budget, stuck in Parliament. King Philippe received it without accepting it, called for compromise and began consultations this Tuesday morning. In Brussels, the press runs through the scenarios; none fits in one sentence.
On Monday, France’s young rugby sevens players won the country’s first gold medal of the Youth Olympic Games, in Dakar. At the same moment, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola passed 5,300 deaths, and four cured patients, a schoolboy among them, walked out of the Beni centre.
On Monday evening in Dakar, boys of 15 to 17 in blue shirts ended in tears: France’s rugby sevens team won the country’s first gold medal of the Youth Olympic Games, the first Games held in Africa, “worthy heirs”, writes RFI. 2,700 athletes are there until 13 November.
At first, I printed this paper for myself alone, every morning. I wanted to know what mattered in France, in Paris and in the world without spending an hour scrolling through screens. So I sorted, then I wrote.
filou d’actu is that sorting, shared. A few topics chosen every day, told simply, with the names of the media the facts come from. You read it with your coffee, from start to finish, then get on with your day.
