Paris: Bayrou goes to Mayotte on Sunday and Monday

Two weeks after the passage of cyclone Chido, to lay the foundations for the reconstruction of a devastated island, François Bayrou goes to Mayotte on Sunday and Monday, following the eventful visit of Emmanuel Macron. The Prime Minister, appointed the day before the cyclone hit the poorest department in France, will spend two days in Mayotte. He will be accompanied by two Ministers of State, Élisabeth Borne (National Education) and Manuel Valls (Outremer), as well as the Ministers of Housing Valérie Létard, of Health Yannick Neuder, and by the Deputy Minister and former Senator of Mayotte Thani Thani Mohamed Soilihi (Francophonie and International Partnerships).

Aggravated sexual violence and feminicides: Darmanin wants to extend the period of police custody to 72 hours

For cases of aggravated sexual violence and feminicides, Gérald Darmanin, Nouveau Garde des Sceaux announced Thursday that he wanted to extend the period of police custody to 72 hours. The Minister of Justice said that he expected to propose that the custody of suspects be extended from 48 hours to 72 hours “in cases of aggravated sexual violence and feminicides”. According to him, “it makes it possible to protect the woman who has been threatened, abused, assaulted. It allows technical and scientific police findings to be made and it allows the person to be questioned longer.”

Israeli strikes: sites controlled by Houthi rebels in Yemen targeted on Thursday

Israeli strikes on Thursday targeted sites controlled by Houthi rebels in Yemen, including Sanaa airport, where the head of the WHO was located. According to the insurgents, at least six people were killed. The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was at the capital's airport at the time of the bombing, told X that he was “safe and sound

Plane crash in Kazakhstan: The preferred missile track to explain the crash
An Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed to Russia on Wednesday in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. An American official has announced that the trail of a Russian anti-aircraft defense missile is preferred to explain the crash. None of the countries involved has publicly confirmed this version so far.

Political crisis: the South Korean Parliament votes on the impeachment of the interim president
This Friday, the South Korean Parliament voted on a motion to impeach interim president Han Duck-soo. Indeed, on December 14, South Korean MPs voted in favor of the dismissal of conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol for his failed attempt to impose martial law and muzzle Parliament by sending the army there at the beginning of the month. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo thus ensures the interim presidency.

IN SHORT

Finland received the support of the European Union and NATO on Thursday in its investigation for “sabotage” on the role of a tanker coming from a Russian port. This tanker is suspected of having caused the failure of a submarine electric cable connecting it to Estonia on Christmas Day

The Chadian army announced that France returned the first military base in Chad on Thursday, to Faya in the extreme desert north of the country, less than a month after the surprise announcement of the suspension by N'Djamena of the military agreement with Paris.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) reported that the new authorities in Syria arrested on Thursday a leader of the ousted power of Bashar al-Assad, considered responsible for numerous death sentences in the infamous Saydnaya prison near Damascus.

South Korean intelligence announced on Friday that Ukrainian forces have taken prisoner a North Korean soldier deployed in support of the Russian army.

Les organisateurs de la célèbre course à la voile Sydney-Hobart in Australia announced that during this race, which takes place under strong winds, two sailors were killed in two separate accidents.