negotiations between Hamas and Israel, Ukrainian counterattack in the Kursk oblast, death of Claude Allègre…

Indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel resume in Doha

Israel confirmed, on Saturday January 4, the resumption of indirect negotiations with Hamas in Qatar with a view to the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip. The new head of Syrian diplomacy, Assaad Al-Chibani, also began an official visit to Qatar on Sunday, his first to the Gulf country since the ouster of President Bashar Al-Assad almost a month ago.

The armed wing of Hamas, as it had already done on several occasions, published a video of one of the people kidnapped during the October 7 attack: Liri Albag, a 19-year-old Israeli woman. In the United States, Joe Biden's administration announced on Saturday an arms sale to Israel estimated at $8 billion.

Russia says Ukraine launched counterattack in Kursk Oblast

“Around 9 a.m. [7 heures à Paris]in order to stop the advance of Russian troops in the Kursk sector, the enemy launched a counterattack with an assault group consisting of two tanks, a demolition vehicle and twelve armored combat vehicles accompanied by 'a landing force heading towards Berdine's farm'wrote the Russian Defense Ministry in a press release released on Sunday, ensuring that the offensive had been repelled. “In Kursk Oblast, the Russians are very worried, because they were attacked in several areas, which surprised them”welcomed Andri Kovalenko, head of the Ukrainian service for combating disinformation, on Telegram.

Claude Allègre, geologist and former minister of national education, has died

Claude Allègre died on Saturday January 4, at the age of 87, his son announced to Agence France-Presse. Surprising and explosive character. Bushy and inventive, peremptory and funny, as annoying as endearing, reformer as blunderer, voluntary as volcanic. Asserting his truths to the point of bad faith, iconoclastic by principle, brutal by conviction. Rebel, but with a strong appetite for power, always rushing, lashing out and scrambling, always cramped, in conventions as in his costume. “I don’t believe in reforms that are done through consensus” was his credo. For better, sometimes for worse, he constantly demonstrated this, in his life as a scientist as in that of a minister.

In Mayotte, Marine Le Pen criticizes the government's reconstruction plan

The “Mayotte standing” reconstruction plan prepared by the government “does not go far enough because I think that an important component is missing which is a diplomatic component, without which many of the things that are promised will not be kept”lamented the leader of the National Rally deputies upon her arrival in the archipelago on Sunday for a two-day visit. Marine Le Pen said she was “first came to listen” the Mahorais and their ” suffering “three weeks after the passage of Cyclone Chido which ravaged this poorest department in France.

In South Korea, demonstrations on the eve of the expiration of the arrest warrant against President Yoon Suk Yeol

Thousands of supporters and detractors of suspended South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol gathered despite the snow on Sunday in Seoul in front of his residence. His opponents are demanding his arrest, after a first unsuccessful attempt by investigators, defeated on Friday by the presidential guard. They have until the last second, Monday (4 p.m. in Paris), to execute the arrest warrant issued against him to force him to answer questions about his failed attempt to impose martial law earlier this month. of December.

And also:

Mobilization of farmers. Rural Coordination calls for demonstrations and to “mount on Paris” from Sunday

Justice. An Algerian influencer, placed in pre-trial detention, for “public apology of an act of terrorism”, another tried on Monday

UNITED STATES. New York launches its urban toll to enter Manhattan, despite “strong opposition” from Donald Trump

Inde. Journalist's body discovered buried in septic tank

On the sports side:

Champions Trophy. PSG met Monaco in Doha, against a backdrop of discontent from their supporters

Ligue 1. Draw for Lille against Nantes, Lyon wins ingloriously against Montpellier

Tennis. Alexandre Muller king of the comeback in Hong Kong