Large land operation in Gaza, election day in Europe, Retailleau President of LR … News from the weekend of May 17 and 18-Liberation

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The Israeli army announced this Sunday afternoon launching a large land operation on Sunday afternoon – called « Gédéon carts– In several areas of the Gaza Strip. The Hebrew State, which already controls 70 % of the enclave and has imposed a medieval seat for two months, blocking any food entrance necessary for the survival of 2.3 million Palestinians, still wants to extend its network. In the wake of the announcement, Israeli military vehicles began to move forward in Gaza while indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas for a cease-fire continued in Doha in Qatar. Hostage families have denounced an operation that could cost life to the last captives still alive. Follow our direct.

Election day in Europe. This Sunday, the Romanian elect their president, five months after the Spectacular cancellation a ballot tainted with suspicion of Russian interference. The extreme right is there, once again, at the doors of power. In Polandvoters are called to the polls in the first round of the presidential election. As of Portuguesethey today elect their deputies. The results of the three elections are expected in the evening.

At the end of a campaign where one and the other outrageously dredged the extreme right, Bruno Retailleau was released widely winner this Sunday from the election to the presidency of the Republicans in the face of Laurent Wauquiez. The Minister of the Interior collected 74.3 % of the voices of the members and therefore became the president of the movement, succeeding Eric Ciotti.

A new exchange under the aegis of the Church. US vice-president JD Vance had Sunday in Rome An interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyduring which they mentioned, according to Kyiv, The call scheduled for Monday Between American presidents Donald Trump and Russian Vladimir Putin. The meeting between the two men, who had already exchanged a handful of hands on Sunday morning Place Saint-Pierre during the inaugural mass of Léon XIV, lasted « About half an hour ».

Thanks to a dark painting, the Austrian singer JJ Embarked viewers and juries until victory. With Wasted lovethe country won its third victory during The final of Eurovision 2025 This Saturday in Basel, eleven years after the coronation of the Drag-Queen Conchita Wurst. The French Louane For his part failed in seventh place. The last French victory dates back to 1977.

High security district in a prison in Guyana: « Gérald Darmanin rehabilitates the imagination of the prison »

Lawyer Matthieu Quinquis, president of the International Prisons Observatory, believes that the Minister of Justice makes his com with this announcement, « Without consideration on the effect of such a long -term measure ». Read our interview.

Nestlé mineral waters affair: did the state have the scandal?

Slow, false road, lack of transparency … while the report of the Senate commission of inquiry will be rendered on Monday, Liberty Tells behind the scenes of government management of the mineral waters fraud file. Read our investigation.

« Now, we want to politicize all of this »: angry at their « invisibilization », from the victims of the pedocrimonel Le Scouarnec are calling for government

Ten days before the verdict, civil parties demand the creation of an inter -ministerial committee in a letter that they entrust to Release. They deplore the forgetting of this extraordinary case by the public authorities and are alarmed by a « competition » Victims in the wake of Betharram. Read our article.