France: Bayrou consults and hopes to form a government “this week”

In order to compose his government, ideally “this week”, and to find a way on the budget, François Bayrou conducted a first series of consultations with political forces on Monday. The new Prime Minister described as an “error” the ban on the accumulation of mandates for parliamentarians, a rule established in 2014 under the Hollande presidency.

Syria: Abu Mohammad al-Jolani wants to dissolve the fighting factions

Coalition leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has pledged to dissolve into the army the factions that contributed to the fall of Bashar al-Assad and called for the lifting of international sanctions in order to face the challenge of unifying a country ravaged by 13 years of war. According to Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the fighting groups “will be dissolved and their fighters prepared to join the ranks of the Ministry of Defense, and all will be under the law.”

Justice: Trump loses a round in his battle

Donald Trump lost a round on Monday in his battle to have his only criminal conviction overturned, for hidden payments to X-movie actress Stormy Daniels. The New York judge dismissed his appeal on the basis of presidential immunity. Donald Trump's lawyers invoked the presumption of criminal immunity recognized on July 1 to the President of the United States by the Supreme Court to request the annulment of the judgment rendered against him on May 30.

World Health Organization: inauguration of an Academy

The World Health Organization (WHO) is inaugurating its Academy on Tuesday in Lyon, an ultramodern campus coupled with a digital platform, dedicated to the continuing education of caregivers from around the world. This training center is financed to the tune of 120 million euros by France.

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During their last speech, to apologize to the main victim, Gisèle, before the verdict expected on Thursday, only a dozen defendants, including Dominique Pelicot, out of the 51 men prosecuted in the Mazan rape trial, seized the opportunity on Monday.

For having had a relationship with a teenager with whom he allegedly had a daughter in 2016, the Bolivian justice announced on Monday that it had issued an arrest warrant for “trafficking in human beings with respect to a minor” against former Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006-2019).

American authorities announced that a teenager opened fire on Monday at his school in Madison, in the North of the United States, killing two people and injuring six others before being found dead, an umpteenth tragedy in this country regularly bereaved by school shootings

Venezuelan opponent Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia received the Sakharov Prize on Tuesday. He had been in exile since the presidential election in July, of which he claims victory, who hopes for the “beginning of a new era” when he returns to the country on January 10.

Du 2 au 27 juillet, in the group phase of Euro-2025 which will take place in Switzerland, the French women's soccer team will face England,