Strike on Beirut: Israel eliminates Hachem Safieddine, the expected successor of Nasrallah

Yesterday evening, the Israeli army confirmed having “eliminated” Hachem Safieddine, the expected successor to Hassan Nasrallah at the head of Hezbollah, in an attack on Beirut in early October. The army said in a statement that “it can now be confirmed that in a strike about three weeks ago, Hashem Safieddine, head of the Executive Council of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, was killed” in the southern suburbs of Beirut. In the strike, the army said it also killed Ali Hussein Hazima, a senior Hezbollah official.

2025 budget: opposition to a flagship measure of the Social Security budget in committee

The temporary surtax on high-income earners in the 2025 draft budget was perpetuated by MPs against the government's advice. On Tuesday, the government saw its own supporters oppose a flagship measure in the Social Security budget in committee. A large majority of deputies adopted the article providing for the surtax on high incomes proposed by the government, which is supposed to bring in two billion euros in 2025

BRICS Group Summit: Putin shows his understanding with BRICS countries

On the occasion of the summit of the group to which China and India belong in particular, Vladimir Putin showed his understanding with the BRICS countries. The Russian president held numerous meetings throughout the day in Kazan, Russia, speaking in turn with Indian and South African leaders and even with his major Asian partner, Chinese President Xi Jinping. Vladimir Putin considered that “Russian-Chinese cooperation on the international scene is one of the factors of global stability

New tensions in Martinique: security forces liberate a road that was hampered by barricades during the night

The prefecture indicated that new tensions broke out on Tuesday in Martinique the day after the extension of the night-time curfew, and security forces intervened to free a road that was hampered by barricades during the night. According to information, the security forces intervened in Case-Pilote, northwest of Fort-de-France, where on the night of Monday to Tuesday “hooded individuals had set up two barricades at the two entrances to the town”, on an “important communication axis of the island”

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The sensitive Caledonian dossier returns to Parliament on Wednesday, with the examination of the delay of the archipelago's provincial elections until November 2025 by the Senate.

Un avocat américain a indiqué que le procès au civil du réalisateur Franco-Polish Roman Polanski for raping a minor in 1973 in California, scheduled for August 2025, was canceled after a agreement between the parties.

Paris Games Week now dreams of being a large-scale ambassador for pop culture in France.

For the 3rd day of the Champions League, Paris SG failed to beat PSV Eindhoven at the Parc des Princes (1-1) and remains in the soft belly of the standings, before two perilous matches.