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In the midst of the war between Hamas and Israel, the risk of an embrace of the Middle East is more than ever on everyone’s minds. Threats of reprisals from Iran against the Jewish state are in fact increasing tension, sparking calls for restraint at a time when progress towards a truce in the Gaza Strip is awaited. Tehran “threatens to launch a significant attack against Israel,” Joe Biden said earlier this week. As a “precaution”, the United States announced Thursday that it would restrict the movements of its diplomatic staff and members of their families in Israel. And a US general in charge of the Middle East is in Israel to discuss “security threats in the region” with the country’s military leaders.
The government wants to take a closer look at the assets of people living in public housing. It intends to encourage the exit from social housing of tenants who have “well exceeded the income ceilings”, announced Thursday Guillaume Kasbarian, the Minister for Housing, in an interview with the newspaper The echoes. “When we have 5.2 million social housing units in France and 1.8 million households legitimately applying to enter it, is it normal that they are prevented from doing so when there are people within the social housing whose situation has changed significantly since they were allocated their housing? », asks the minister. Guillaume Kasbarian thus states that more than 8% of HLM tenants would no longer be eligible for social housing if they requested one today.
The motive still remains a mystery concerning the death of a 15-year-old teenager found Tuesday in the toilets of his high school in Reims. The first elements of the investigation do not demonstrate any harassment, “contrary to what can be said very extensively on social networks and which is spreading among all students”, indicated Thursday the public prosecutor of Reims, François Schneider. “There is currently no objective element to suggest that he wanted to make an attempt on his life, also contrary to what is being spread on social networks,” he added. But “the hypothesis is of course not excluded”. The autopsy Thursday morning therefore did not make it possible to determine the causes of death, but ruled out external intervention.