Security in Ukraine: a European meeting is being held in Paris

Several European heads of government are meeting in Paris on Monday to face the “acceleration” of the American administration on the Ukrainian issue and define a common response to strengthen the security of the Old Continent.

This meeting comes a few days after American President Donald Trump called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and their decision to negotiate directly on Ukraine at an upcoming summit in Saudi Arabia. He said on Sunday that a meeting with Vladimir Putin could take place “very soon.”

We are ready and willing to contribute to security guarantees for Ukraine by sending our own troops to the ground if necessary,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in the Daily Telegraph daily Telegraph, the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, as a prelude to the meeting.

ISIS group in Syria: Mehdi Nemouche and four other jihadists tried in Paris

More than a decade later, former hostages face their alleged jailers: the trial of Mehdi Nemouche, the killer of the Jewish Museum in Brussels, and four other jihadists, and four other jihadists, accused of having detained French journalists within the Islamic State group in Syria in 2013, opens on Monday in Paris.

French journalists Didier François and Edouard Elias, then Nicolas Hénin and Pierre Torres, were abducted 10 days apart in June 2013, in June 2013, in the Aleppo region for the former, in the region of Aleppo for the former, and that of Raqqa for the latter.

They were only released almost a year later, on 18 April 2014, after months of torment, between physical and psychological violence, food deprivation and mock executions.

The “Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant”, born on 9 April 2013 from a split with the jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra (and later became “Islamic State”), has sequestered numerous Western humanitarians and journalists, often detained together.

Legislative: The United States puts pressure on the German election campaign

Germany is entering the final stretch of its election campaign for Sunday's parliamentary elections in a climate that is as polarized as ever on immigration and further inflamed by the Trump administration's declared support for the extreme right.

This electric atmosphere - unusual in a country long accustomed to polite exchanges between parties and steeped in a culture of compromise - was illustrated by an unprecedented debate on television organized on Monday evening on the RTL-Germany channel.

A sign of the political fragmentation at work in Germany, it did not boil down to a duel, as in previous elections, but brought together for the first time in the history of German television the four main contenders for the chancellery.

IN A NUTSHELL

The emblematic former president of Olympique Lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas, very critical of the current environmentalist municipality, is “considering” a possible candidacy for Lyon in the municipal elections in March 2026, he said Sunday in Le Figaro.

A 19-year-old woman, a student at the University of Corte, was shot and killed on Saturday evening while driving a vehicle in Haute-Corse, after having apparently been targeted by mistake. A drama that has revived calls to intensify the fight against organized crime on the island

A man carrying two swords described as “unbalanced”, who “directly threatened police officers” on Sunday in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), south of Paris, was seriously injured by gunfire by one of the officials, AFP learned from a police source and from the prosecutor's office.

The papal thriller “Conclave” and the monumental “The Brutalist” were on a par on Sunday evening at the Bafta, British film awards, by winning four trophies each, while “Emilia Perez”, in full controversy, collected two to 15 days before the Oscars.

Latin music icon Shakira was hospitalized in Lima due to abdominal pain, forcing her to cancel her concert scheduled for Sunday night in the Peruvian capital, she announced on her social networks.