VENEZUELA GUYANA UN: ICJ orders Venezuela to “refrain” from any action that threatens the status quo with Guyana

— PALESTINIAN CONFLICT IN ISRAEL

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories:

Israel resumes bombing of Gaza and confirms the death of five hostages

Israel resumed its bombings on the Gaza Strip on Friday after the expiration of a week-long truce with Hamas, with a provisional death toll of nearly 180 dead, according to the Islamist movement in power in this Palestinian territory.

By Adel ZAANOUN, with Delphine MATTHIEUSSENT in Jerusalem

(Israel-Palestinian Gaza Hamas Conflict, Central Note, Update, 900 words – Already broadcast)

PHOTOS, VIDEO, INFOGRAPHS

KHAN YUNIS, Palestinian Territories:

Desperate Gazans flee their homes after Israeli bombing resumes

Amidst the rubble, a man shouts: “Help! Where are my children?” Israeli bombings resumed Friday morning in the Gaza Strip, “more ferocious than before”, according to Ana Abu Dagga, 22, whose house is in ruins.

By Mai YAGHI and Yahya HASSOUNA

(Gaza Hamas Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Hospital, report, 600 words – Already broadcast)

PICTURES

JERUSALEM:

The end of the truce once again plunges families of Gaza hostages into distress

Relatives of more than 130 Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza saw their hopes of quickly finding their loved ones dissipate on Friday, due to the end of the truce between Israel and the Islamist movement.

By Delphine MATTHIEUSSENT

(Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza missing, Focus, 500 words – Already broadcast)

VIDEO

RAFAH, Palestinian Territories:

Displaced teacher returns to class at Gaza school turned into shelter

He set up the chairs, handed out the charts and started the class by asking how to say “I love Palestine” in English. In the courtyard of a school transformed into a camp for displaced people in the Gaza Strip, Tareq al Ennabi wants to restore a feeling of normality to his students.

By Adel ZAANOUN

(Israel Palestinians conflict Gaza education refugees children Hamas, Report, 600 words – Already broadcast)

PHOTOS, VIDEO

TEL AVIV:

Freed hostage asked Hamas leader if he wasn’t ‘ashamed’ of his actions, grandson says

Israeli Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, kidnapped by Hamas in Gaza for more than two weeks, said that during her captivity she came face to face with the Islamist militia leader, whom she berated in asking him if he wasn’t “ashamed” of his actions, his grandson said.

(Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, interview, 550 words – already broadcast)

VIDEO

— COP28 EMIRATES CLIMATE

DUBAI:

Lula and Carlos III ask Dubai for urgent change in the climate fight

The fight against global warming requires urgent change, King Charles III and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Friday as they opened the COP28 summit with their speeches, in front of some 140 leaders.

By Jordi ZAMORA

(Emirate Diplomacy UN COP28 Climate, Central Note, Update, 700 words – Already broadcast)

PHOTOS, VIDEO

— VENEZUELA GUYANA UN

CARACAS:

ICJ orders Venezuela to “refrain” from any action that threatens status quo with Guyana

The UN’s highest judicial body ordered Venezuela on Friday to avoid any initiative compromising the status quo with Guyana, two days before a referendum called by Caracas to reaffirm its century-old claim to Essequibo, an oil-rich region and natural resources. administered by the former British colony.

(Venezuela Guyana ICJ diplomacy gas oil energy, Central note, update, 650 words – Already broadcast)

PHOTOS, INFOGRAPHICS, VIDEO

OTHER NEWS BY REGION

— AMERICA

SANTIAGO:

Chilean soldier accused of murdering Víctor Jara arrives in Chile and was deported from the United States

The retired soldier of the Chilean army, Pedro Barrientos, arrived in Chile on Friday expelled from the United States to face justice for the murder of the singer-songwriter Víctor Jara, at the beginning of the Augusto dictatorship Pinochet in 1973.

(Process of musical culture of Chilean rights, Note, 500 words – Already transmitted)

PHOTOS, VIDEO

NEW YORK:

X’s survival on hold after Musk’s insult to advertisers

Elon Musk’s verbal assault on advertisers who shun X (formerly Twitter) threatens to further sink the social network, as Musk himself warns of the platform’s demise just a year after taking control.

By Thomas URBAIN

(USA internet advertising address, Focus, 450 words – Already broadcast)

CARACAS:

Venezuela to review political exclusions after government-opposition deal

Venezuela’s Supreme Court will examine the political disqualifications of opposition leaders after an agreement reached between the government and the opposition, the parties announced Thursday.

(Venezuela USA Norway Government Elections, Central Note, 600 words – Already broadcast)

SAN SALVADOR:

Bukele leaves the presidency to run for elections and is replaced by a trusted collaborator

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele received authorization from Congress on Thursday to launch the re-election campaign in the February elections and will be replaced by Presidential Secretary Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara.

By Oscar BATRES

(Electoral diplomacy of the Government of El Salvador in China, central note, update – already distributed)

VIDEO, PHOTOS

SAN SALVADOR:

Bukele collaborator unknown to Salvadorans takes interim presidency

Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara, an official unknown to Salvadorans, takes office this Friday as interim president, replacing Nayib Bukele, who will focus on seeking re-election after obtaining a license from Congress.

By Oscar BATRES

(Political elections in El Salvador, Central note, 700 words, already broadcast)

PHOTOS, VIDEO

— EUROPE

Barcelona Spain:

Opacity around negotiations with Puigdemont sparks controversy in Spain

A meeting abroad and in front of a still unknown international verifier: the secrecy surrounding the start of the negotiations to be undertaken by the left in power in Spain and the independence movement Carles Puigdemont on the separatist crisis in Catalonia has sparked numerous controversies in the country.

By Rosa SULLEIRO and Mathieu GORSE

(Spanish Government Policy, Focus, 700 words – Already broadcast)

— AFRICA

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa:

Ten years after Mandela’s death, South Africa debates and seeks to overcome his legacy

Ten years after the death of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president and hero of the fight against apartheid, many of his fellow citizens wonder what he would think, what he would do and to what extent reality politics would be different for him.

By Gersende RAMBOURG

(History of South Africa, Mandela’s policies, Focus, 550 words – Already broadcast)

VIDEO, PHOTO ARCHIVES

— COMPANY

TEIXEIRO, Spain:

Spain commits to mixing men and women in prisons

“Why would prison be the only place without mixed spaces?” asks Ambra, an inmate at the Spanish Teixeiro penitentiary center, who is about to play football with men.

By Thomas PERROTEAU

(Spain prisoners sexism prison gender, Report, 600 words – Already broadcast)

PHOTOS, VIDEO

EL PICO DE ORIZABA, Mexico:

From the Alps to Mexico, cancer survivors conquer the ‘Peaks of Hope’

Ximena Gutiérrez, 22, prepares to climb the summit of the Pico de Orizaba volcano (east) on crutches with a group of Mexican and French cancer survivors. “The mountain, more than a sport, is a therapy,” he says.

By Samir TOUNSI

(Cancer Health of the Mountains of Mexico, Report, 750 words – Already broadcast)

PHOTOS, VIDEO

–ECONOMY

BUENOS AIRES:

Milei: a turn towards pragmatism to preside over Argentina?

On December 10, the ultraliberal Javier Milei will assume the presidency of an Argentina in economic crisis and waiting to know the extent of the policy he will implement after a campaign with ambitious promises, but conditioned by the alliances he has needed to govern. .

By Sonia AVALOS

(Argentina politics government economy inflation taxes diplomacy, Focus, 790 words – Already broadcast)

PHOTOS, VIDEO

PANAMA CITY:

Canadian company begins arbitration process against Panama over mine closure

The Canadian company First Quantum Minerals announced on Friday that it had initiated international arbitration proceedings to “protect its rights”, after the concession contract for the largest copper mine in Central America was declared “unconstitutional” by the Court supreme panamanian.

(Panama Canada mining policy employment justice, Central note, 700 words – Already broadcast)

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