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Welcome to Wednesday, where Brazil and India both hit grim COVID records, Sudan clashes kill dozens and a French judge fake-marries her ex to prevent him from getting hitched. Egyptian online newspaper
Mada Masr also looks at the problems behind the country s overcrowded vaccination centers.
• Dozens dead in Sudan clashes: Four days of violence between rival communities in Sudan s western Darfur region has killed at least 56 people.
Judge Stages Fake Wedding With Ex To Block Him From Marrying Again -
A French judge used a stand-in for the role of the groom, registering her ex-boyfriend s name as her husband because she feared he would marry another woman.
Souad Meslem, a 59-year-old French judge, faces up to 10 years in prison for allegedly using her legal authority to orchestrate a sham wedding, to prevent her ex-partner from getting married.
The romanesque folly, as a fellow magistrate called the whole affair, had started off so well back in 2017,
Le Monde reports. Meslem and her partner were about to move together to La Réunion a heavenly island and French overseas department in the Indian Ocean after she had been nominated assistant public prosecutor of the Court of Appeal of Saint-Denis de La Réunion. Meslam would move first, and her partner and father of their four children would join her there a few weeks later.