Gaza: Netanyahu promises to bring back all hostages

Last Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to bring back all the hostages, “the living and the dead”, held by Hamas in Gaza, at a time when his army is intensively bombing Palestinian territory, killing at least 52 people according to emergency services. On 17 May, Israel intensified its offensive with the declared aim of freeing the last hostages, taking control of all of Gaza and annihilating Hamas, which took power in the Palestinian territory in 2007.

Right to assisted dying: MPs pass legislation

The creation of a right to assisted dying could take a crucial step on Tuesday, by being adopted at first reading in the National Assembly. MEPs will vote on two texts at the end of the afternoon. While the first should be approved unanimously, the vote for the second is more uncertain, even if Health Minister Catherine Voutrin “expects it to be adopted”, according to those around her.

Canadian-American tensions: Charles III in Ottawa for a historic speech

King Charles III delivers the Speech from the Throne on Tuesday in Canada for the reopening of Parliament, at a time when the country of which he is head of state is experiencing an unprecedented crisis due to threats from Donald Trump. The new Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to make this visit, seen as a “historic honor, commensurate with the challenges of our time”, a demonstration of sovereignty in the face of the neighbor to the south. While King Charles III will deliver the speech as if it were his own words, it was, in fact, written by the Prime Minister's Office as it aims to detail the program of the new center-left government.

Alleged indiscretion by a judge: the Maradona trial in peril
The trial on Maradona's death is on a razor's edge, after the indictment of one of the judges, suspected of having collaborated without everyone's knowledge on a documentary, and who could have all the debates cancelled to date. After seven days of suspension resumed on Tuesday in San Isidro (north of Buenos Aires) the trial of seven health professionals - doctors, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurses - accused of negligence that potentially led to the death of the soccer star, in November 2020, in November 2020 on a convalescent bed at home, post-neurosurgery.

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After a car rammed into the crowd celebrating the Premier League victory of Liverpool FC on Monday evening in Liverpool, an “isolated” incident that is not being treated as terrorist according to the police, twenty-seven people were hospitalized, two of them in serious condition.

After two spectacular explosions that occurred one after the other during its latest test flights, the SpaceX company of multi-billionaire Elon Musk intends to conduct a new test launch on Tuesday of its Starship megafouse, which it is developing to conquer Mars.

This Tuesday, the socialists voted for the first time to choose their new first secretary, between the outgoing Olivier Faure and his competitors the mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, and the head of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud, and the head of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud, with the main challenge being the strategy for the 2027 presidential election.

Accused by several associations of having produced and distributed pornographic drawings of minors in two of his albums, the comic book author Bastien Vivès is being tried as of Tuesday by the Nanterre court.

Caroline Garcia was eliminated on Monday in the first round of her last Roland-Garros, where Richard Gasquet extended the adventure by winning in four sets, a few days after announcing his imminent retirement.