#agence-france

#agence-france

Organizers of the Tour de Suisse cycling race said they would resume the multistage competition on Saturday, one day after a rider died from the injuries that he sustained in a crash during a high-speed mountain descent.The rider, Gino Mader, was a member of the Bahrain-Victorious team, which announced on Saturday morning that it was withdrawing from the race.

This week, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog, Rafael Mariano Grossi, was so concerned about a new risk at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant that he flew to Ukraine and crossed the front line in the country's war with Russia to see the situation for himself.Mr. Grossi had been to the plant before and had also expressed grave concerns about the potential for nuclear catastrophe, but this threat was different: the recent destruction of a dam on the Dnipro River deprived the plant of the main source of water used for the critical task of cooling its six reactors and spent fuel rods.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia wrapped up what was for him an extraordinary and sometimes rambling week of upbeat commentary on the Ukraine war by asserting on Friday that Russia was so assured of prevailing against the Ukrainian counteroffensive that he had ruled out using nuclear weapons.Dropping what had been a strict avoidance of discussing the war in any detail, Mr. Putin told an audience of Russia's business elite, gathered for the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, that Ukraine had no chance against Russian forces and indicated that its Western backers would tire of the conflict and stop supplying weapons, ending Kyiv's war effort.

Two bipartisan bills were introduced in Congress this week seeking to change a nearly 100-year-old trade law that allows imported packages that fall under a certain price threshold to receive less oversight while moving through the United States customs process.The trade rule is called de minimis and critics say it gives an unfair advantage to e-commerce companies from other countries, including some where forced labor is an issue.