Israel: The army announces “localized ground raids” in southern Lebanon

On the night of Monday to Tuesday, the Israeli army announced that it had begun “localized ground raids” in villages in southern Lebanon. It targets the Islamist Hezbollah movement, despite international calls for de-escalation. Syrian state media reported that strikes targeted the Damascus region overnight. After the devastating blow inflicted on Hezbollah with the assassination of its leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday in an Israeli strike near Beirut, Israeli leaders warned that the battle was not yet over against the pro-Iranian movement, an enemy of Israel.

Politics in Paris: Barnier presents his roadmap today

Michel Barnier takes the stage this Tuesday to present his road map. So far, he has delivered nothing as the balance is difficult to find for this Prime Minister without a majority, between the contradictory demands of his allies and an ultra-tight budget. The Prime Minister will deliver his General Policy Statement (DPG) at 15:00 in front of the National Assembly. The number two in the government, the Minister of Justice Didier Migaud, will read it to the senators at the same time. More than 180 demonstrations are planned for Tuesday in France at the call of the CGT, FSU and Solidaires to demand in particular the repeal of the pension reform and an increase in wages, at the time of Michel Barnier's speech.

Justice in Europe: Assange testifies for the first time since his release

For the first time since his release from prison, Julian Assange will speak in public on Tuesday, before a Council of Europe committee responsible for studying his prison conditions. The founder of WikiLeaks spent the last 14 years first cloistered in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and then detained in Belmarsh, a prison near the British capital, is expected at 8:30am local (6:30 GMT) at the institution based in Strasbourg, in eastern France. He must be heard by a commission

Provisional toll of Hurricane Helene: more than 110 dead in the United States

Hurricane Helene invited itself into an acrimonious presidential campaign on Monday, with Donald Trump attacking the Biden administration's management of the disaster. A provisional toll of more than 110 deaths and devastation in the south-east of the United States has been made. Helene hit Florida on Thursday evening as an “extremely dangerous hurricane” of category 4 on a scale of 5, then crossed other American states losing intensity. Four days after the hurricane made landfall in northeastern Florida, the extent of the damage remains difficult to determine, with several areas remaining inaccessible and lacking telephone and electricity networks

IN SHORT

As part of the renewal of the Dutch fleet, a multi-billion euro project, the French company formalized on Monday the sale of four last-generation submarines in the Netherlands.

Paris Match leaves the fold of conservative magnate Vincent Bolloré by changing owners on Tuesday and passes into the hands of billionaire Bernard Arnault.

The French Ministry of Justice published figures on Monday according to which the number of prisoners in France reached a new record on September 1, with 78,969 people incarcerated against 78,969 people incarcerated against 78,397 the previous ^month.

Floods and landslides on an unprecedented scale have killed at least 209 people in Nepal. The patient work of looking for possible survivors continues on Tuesday in the mud-covered neighborhoods of Kathmandu

The car manufacturer Renault wants to end nearly 50 years of history in the motorsport elite by stopping manufacturing Formula 1 engines as of 2026. This decision affects several hundred employees.