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Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the shooting at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, is due to be killed by firing squad on 3 December. A Pentagon official said on Thursday night that the execution would be broadcast live, while Defence Minister Pete Hegseth assured earlier that it would be public.
The protests of high school students and the blockades of schools in France in recent days have led to clashes between students and law enforcement: a context of violence conducive to conveying the idea that the army could come to suppress the protest movement.
In a statement released on the official channels of the Government of Mali, the authorities report that the FAMA and their partners in the Africa Corps have conducted "major counter-terrorism operations in the Kidal region. »
The Malian army announced on Tuesday that it had entered the city of Kidal, shortly after the Tuareg independenceist rebels of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) – who had taken control of the Malian strategic locality at the end of April – said that they had carried out a "strategic withdrawal" of their forces against the army's operations to take over this northern city.
Internet users accuse the French army of having deployed armoured vehicles to crack down in recent days on the protests of high school students calling for the improvement of their school conditions. But the videos supposed to provide evidence of their deployment are misleading.
The Ethiopian Federal Army and an allied Tiger militia control on Sunday Mekele, capital of the Tigray Regional State. This situation now raises fears of an extension of the conflict outside Ethiopia, particularly among their rivals gathered in El-Alamein, Egypt.
Ethiopian federal troops entered Mekele on Saturday, told AFP a humanitarian source. The capital of the Ethiopian regional state of Tigray was largely abandoned earlier by the forces of the rebel regional authorities.
Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, more than 200 people have reportedly been arrested by the Israeli army in southern Syria during operations beyond the buffer zone between the two countries. Israel suspects them of "terrorism", witnesses report arbitrary arrests. The arrested persons are then detained under conditions also denounced by those who have been released and their relatives.
The "nature of Russian aggression and threats in Europe are changing", President Emmanuel Macron warned on 18 September. We talk about this with our guest Jacques Faure, former French Ambassador to Ukraine (2008-2011).
The destruction in early September of an obelisk dedicated to Red Army soldiers in Bytom, Poland, provoked the anger of the Russian embassy in Warsaw. The large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered a wave of dismantling of the monuments of the Soviet period, varying in scale according to the countries.
