Gaza Strip: continuation of the Israeli army operation in the main hospital in Gaza

The Israeli army continued its operation in the main hospital in Gaza on Thursday. The fate of skaters and thousands of trapped civilians is a source of serious international concern and criticism. The UN Security Council called for “humanitarian breaks and corridors” in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army accuses Palestinian Hamas of using al-Shifa hospital as a military base, the site representing a major objective in its war against the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip.

Politique: Biden and Xi restore a dialogue that has been pending for a year

Yesterday, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping restored a dialogue that had been pending for a year. The two heads of state also exposed their differences in the open, in particular on Taiwan. The American president said he still considered his Chinese counterpart to be a “dictator.” Biden said that “he is a dictator in the sense that here is a man who runs a country, a communist country, which is based on a form of government that is totally different from ours.” The two superpowers have indicated that the meeting will, however, lead to a resumption of high-level military communications, which have been suspended for more than a year.

Justice: One year suspended prison sentence requested against Eric Dupond-Moretti

Yesterday, the prosecution requested a “fair and significant” suspended sentence of one year in prison against Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti. He was found “clearly and decisively” guilty of taking an illegal interest. The prosecutor general of the Court of Cassation Rémy Heitz, who is bringing the charge at the trial, said that the conflict of interest accused of the minister was “plain to see”, despite the “persistent denial”. “I am not asking you to give an example, I am asking you to apply the law” declared the senior magistrate.

Floods: Borne visits disaster victims in Pas-de-Calais this morning

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is going to the Montreuil-sur-Mer area on Thursday morning to meet the disaster victims of Pas-de-Calais, who are on the alert as a new depression approaches, after more than ten days of exceptional weather. She is expected at 8:30am and plans to meet the security and rescue forces as well as residents of Montreuil-sur-Mer, a town crossed by the Canche, a watercourse that is always on orange alert for the risk of

Real estate crisis: Elisabeth Borne in Dunkerque this Thursday in search of solutions

After announcements in June that disappointed players in the real estate sector, Elisabeth Borne is going to Dunkerque on Thursday to try to respond once again to the real estate crisis, with “concrete measures” to “intensify” construction housing and “facilitate” student access to them. The number of households waiting for social housing (2.42 million) has never been higher and the number of homeless people has risen to

IN A NUTSHELL

The UN's highest court rules on Thursday on allegations of torture in Syria in the first international court case on regime abuses during the civil war.

In a German military cemetery, ten Jewish headstones were defaced on Wednesday during the First World War in Moulin-sous-Touvent (Oise). President Emmanuel Macron condemned these acts “with the greatest strength”.

On Wednesday, Parliament definitively adopted the law on the programming of public finances for the period 2023-2027, via the unsurprising rejection of a new motion of no confidence in the National Assembly in a sparse hemicycle.

This Thursday, Madagascar votes for the first round of its presidential election amid intense tensions between the camp of the incumbent president, Andry Rajoelina, and ten opposition candidates who called for a boycott.