Back to school, heat in Brittany, Compagnie Créole: midday update

12 million students back on the benches

6.4 million schoolchildren, 3.4 million college students and 2.2 million high school students returned to the benches on Monday. It was in Brittany that Gabriel Attal made his first comeback as Minister of National Education. He was in Ille-et-Vilaine this morning with the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, and the Minister Delegate for People with Disabilities, Fadila Khattabi.

Weather: the hottest day of the year in Brittany

In Brittany, it has never been so hot since the beginning of the year as this Monday… Temperature records for the month of September will also fall. Indeed, the bar of 33° should be reached in Rennes and Vannes and that of 32° in Brest and Saint-Brieuc.

Afghan women evacuated to France

France welcomes, this Monday, five Afghan women (including one accompanied by three children), threatened by the Taliban and exiled in neighboring Pakistan. Former director of the University of Sciences, consultant for NGOs, television presenter or teacher in a “secret school in Kabul”, they have in common not to have been able to benefit from air bridges to Western countries during the fall power in the hands of the Taliban.

Ukraine: Russian drone attack in the Odessa region

Russia carried out a “massive” drone attack in the Ukrainian region of Odessa, according to Ukrainian authorities, damaging infrastructure a few hours from Russian-Turkish talks planned in Russia on a resumption of the grain agreement.

Separately, in Kyiv, authorities reported a new bomb threat received for all schools in the city, three days after the first, on the day of the start of the school year on September 1, which turned out to be false. .

The singer of the Compagnie Créole has died

José Sébéloué, who was simultaneously the singer, the guitarist and a founding member of the Compagnie Créole, died on Sunday. He was 74 years old. “José passed away peacefully this (Sunday) morning in France with his loved ones,” wrote the group and Productions Martin Leclerc in a press release.