State visit: Xi to France for two days

Xi Jinping started a two-day state visit to France on Monday. He assures that he wants to “work” with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to “solve the crisis” in Ukraine and continue to invest in France. Welcomed Sunday by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, the Chinese president was received on Monday morning by Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace, as well as the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, to discuss trade disputes, before a more political one-on-one meeting in the afternoon.

Fight against antisemitism: the French government launches a meeting
This Monday, the government is launching “meetings to combat antisemitism”, whose outbreak alarms a Jewish community that will repeat its concerns in the evening at the annual Crif dinner. According to the Minister for the Fight against Discrimination Aurore Bergé, there will be a question of “launching work” to define “a common base of republican values” in order to “recognize antisemitism as it is and fight effectively against this scourge”. On the occasion, personalities will be appointed at the end of the morning to work on this “common base”.

Gaza Strip: discussions on the draft truce continue
After seven months of war in Palestinian territory, where three Israeli soldiers and then sixteen people were killed on Sunday evening, discussions on a draft truce associated with the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip should in principle continue on Monday. The Israeli army told AFP that three of its soldiers were killed and 12 injured on Sunday by rockets fired by the armed wing of Hamas around Kerem Shalom, the main crossing point for humanitarian aid from Israel to the Gaza Strip.

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The National Football Federation (AFA) announced on Sunday the death at the age of 85 of César Luis Menotti, coach of the Argentina team that won the world championship at home in 1978.

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