Electricity: why will prices increase further from February 1?. If you live in a 4-room house heated with electricity, your bill will increase by almost 18 euros per month. The end of the price shield is accompanied by a return of a tax: the domestic final consumption tax on electricity (TICFE) Currently at one euro per megawatt hour (MWh), it was 32 euros before the crisis. On February 1, it will increase to 21 euros per MWh. This new increase will bring six billion euros to the State in 2024.
Twenty-four hostages held by Hamas since October 24 were released on Friday in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and a four-day truce in the Gaza Strip. Among them, 7 Israeli hostages were released, four children and nine women. The first Israeli and foreign hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 were freed on Friday, under an agreement that also resulted in a truce between Israel and the Palestinian terror movement. So far, no men have been released from the group, which includes only women and children.
After the record exhibition " Tutankhamun" in 2019, the pharaohs return to the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris for a new exhibition that already promises to be the event of the year. " Ramesses II & the gold of the Pharaohs" opens its doors this Friday at 10 am.
More than 3,000 police forces mobilized on one side, 1,500 "violent activists" expected from the other: the new demonstration against the "basins", symbol of tensions around access to water, is placed under high security Saturday in the Deux-Sèvres.
Five days after its takeoff from Florida, the Artemis mission gets into the heart of the matter this Monday. The Orion capsule is preparing to carry out the first of four main thrusts with its engines and to approach the Moon. A mission that for the moment "exceeds expectations" from NASA.