JO-2024: French volleyball players will play a second consecutive Olympic final

Thanks to their success over Italy (3-0) in Paris, where the French basketball team reached the semifinals, the French volleyball players are allowed to discuss a second consecutive Olympic final. The handball players leave the Games after their defeat in the quarterfinals against Germany (35-34, a.p.) on Wednesday, a setback that precipitates the

Palestinian movement: Israel promises to eliminate the new leader of Hamas
As the war in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian movement, entering its eleventh month, threatens to spread across the Middle East, Israel promised Wednesday to eliminate the new leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinouar. On Tuesday evening, Yahya Sinouar was appointed leader of the Islamist movement to replace Ismail Haniyeh, whose assassination on July 31 in Tehran was blamed on Israel by Iran, which promised reprisals. Israel accuses this radical militant hitherto leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip of being one of the masterminds of the unprecedented attack carried out on October 7 by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil, which triggered the war.

Bangladesh: Nobel Peace Prize Muhammad Yunus expected to lead an interim government

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is traveling to Bangladesh on Thursday where he will head an interim government, which should be sworn in shortly after with the mission of leading “a democratic process” towards rapid elections. This government, led by the 84-year-old economist, was created after violence that left more than 400 dead and the flight of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The Nobel Prize, who launched “a vibrant appeal for calm” to his compatriots, took off from Paris on Wednesday and is expected in Bangladesh later today after a stopover in Dubai.

Tunisia: Prime Minister Ahmed Hachani dismissed without official justification

On Wednesday evening, the services of President Kais Saied in Tunisia announced the dismissal of Prime Minister Ahmed Hachani, without giving any official explanations, and his replacement by the Minister of Social Affairs Kamel Madouri, who was recently appointed to this position, and his replacement by the Minister of Social Affairs Kamel Madouri. Saied, elected democratically in October 2019, granted himself full powers three years ago, dismissing his then Prime Minister and suspending Parliament, which was later dissolved.

Incursion of Ukrainian troops: State of emergency in a Russian region

A state of emergency has been established in the Kursk region, theater since the day before an incursion by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian forces entered the region on Tuesday with up to a thousand soldiers and dozens of tanks and tanks. Until now, Kiev has remained largely silent about this operation.

IN SHORT

The animator Patrice Laffont died, two weeks before he turned 85. He was a major figure on popular television in the 70s, 80s and 90s with the games “Numbers and Letters”, “Fort Boyard” and “Pyramide”.

Yesterday evening, thousands of people gathered in several British cities to oppose the far-right riots that have rocked the country for a week in response to the murder of three young girls.

After the Austrian police revealed plans for Islamist attacks, the organizers of the three concerts of American star Taylor Swift announced that these concerts scheduled in Vienna this week have been canceled.

The French Rugby Federation (FFR) announced on Wednesday that Medhi Narjissi, a player on the French under-18 team, is missing at sea in South Africa, on the sidelines of an international tournament.