Immigration: Macron vigorously defends the law

Despite the criticism and sharp divisions shaking his camp, Emmanuel Macron vigorously defended the controversial immigration law as “a shield that we lacked.” The French president also rejects accusations of compromising with the extreme right. According to him, “that it offends some parliamentarians, that it hurts ministers, that it upsets you, it's legitimate

Israel-Hamas war: 20,000 dead in Gaza

The leader of the Islamist movement paid a visit to Cairo. Last Wednesday, Hamas announced that the Israeli offensive in Gaza had killed 20,000 people. Backstage negotiations are reviving hopes for a new truce in the besieged Palestinian territory. According to the UN, deadly Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip continue, as do ground fighting, despite multiple calls to spare civilians, while half the civilian population suffers from extreme or severe hunger

Fight “against terrorism”: Emmanuel Macron in Jordan on Thursday and Friday to celebrate Christmas

The Elysée announced that French President Emmanuel Macron is going to an airbase in Jordan on Thursday and Friday to celebrate Christmas with French forces deployed abroad and “highlight the enduring commitment of the France in the fight against terrorism”. He will meet the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, this afternoon, with whom he had already met on 25 October during a tour of the Near and Middle East

Politics: General elections extended to Thursday in DRC

Due to logistical problems that prevented the opening of some polling stations and, according to the opposition, turned the vote into “total chaos”, Wednesday's general elections continue on Thursday in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Félix Tshisekedi is seeking a second term of five years at the head of the vast Central African country with an agitated and often violent political history, whose subsoil is immensely rich in minerals but whose population is mostly poor.

IN A NUTSHELL

Yesterday, French President Emmanuel Macron denounced on France 5 a “manhunt” against Gérard Depardieu after the broadcast of a shock television documentary. He disavowed his Minister of Culture who questioned the actor's Legion of Honor.

The European courts considered that the European Commission had committed a “mistake in defining beneficiaries”. For this, it cancelled the decisions approving massive French aid to Air France and Air France-KLM during the health crisis.

For an indictment of sexual assault during a nightclub party last May and for sexual harassment at a party in 2018 against another woman, director Nicolas Bedos will be tried in September 2024 in Paris.

The Nice Criminal Court will rule this afternoon on the charges against Christophe Galtier when he was coach of OGC Nice.