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Emmanuel Macron in Japan for a G7 he wants to be "demanding" in the face of Beijing

Emmanuel Macron arrived Friday in Japan for a G7 summit that must agree on new sanctions against Russia and define the position of Western powers against China, which the France wants "both engaging and demanding". The French president landed in Hiroshima in the early morning, joining the Japanese, American, British, German, Canadian and Italian leaders who had already arrived in the city symbol of peace, hit by the American atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 at the end of World War II. "This summit comes in a context of superposition of crises," with the war led by Moscow in Ukraine but also the "rise of tensions between China and the United States" or climate change, said the Elysee.



A magnitude 7.7 earthquake shakes the south-east of New Caledonia

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 occurred Friday in the Pacific Ocean southeast of New Caledonia, triggering a tsunami warning, the American Geophysical Institute (USGS), announced on Twitter. The tremor was detected at a depth of 37 km and more than 300 kilometers from the Caledonian coast, according to the same source. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) believes that a tidal wave is "possible" within a radius of 1,000 kilometers around the epicenter. A tsunami warning was issued before being lifted by the authorities. The coastline was evacuated.

Half of the world's lakes and reservoirs lose water

Water is shrinking in more than half of the world's lakes and reservoirs, threatening a vital source of freshwater, according to a new study that largely attributes the trend to global warming and their excessive use by humans. About a quarter of the world's population lives in an area with a lake or reservoir (a body of water regulated by a dam) that is drying up, warns Thursday this study published in the prestigious journal Science. "Lakes are in danger globally, and this has broad implications," Balaji Rajagopalan, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-author of the study, told AFP. "They allow societies and humanity to live, and yet they don't get the respect they deserve."

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