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Welcome to Tuesday, where Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal is attacked by Israeli Settlers and arrested in the West Bank, Ukrainian and U.S. officials are meeting again in Riyadh to discuss a broader peace plan, and today’s quiz question comes from the Eternal City. Meanwhile, for economic daily Les Echos, Juliette Roussel reports on French offices’ deep disdain for an American import: le team-building.
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Argentine daily El Día de la Plata dedicates its front page to the rights march organized across Argentina on Monday to commemorate the 49th anniversary of the country’s 1976 military coup that ushered in a brutal dictatorship. The march also served as a protest against President Javier Milei’s government, which has contested the number of victims estimated to have died or disappeared in the 1976-83 junta’s “dirty war” on suspected political dissidents, and which has defunded human rights bodies trying to keep the process known as “memory, truth, and justice” alive.
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• UN pulls staff out of Gaza, as 23 killed overnight and Oscar winner detained. Israeli airstrikes killed 23 Palestinians in Gaza, targeting areas near a hospital and residential buildings early Tuesday. The UN announced it will reduce its international staff presence in Gaza due to increasing danger. On the same day, Israeli forces detained Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, a recent Oscar winner, who had also been attacked by Israeli settlers. Read more about No Other Land, the movie he co-directed, here.
• Ukraine, U.S. meet in Riyadh amid deadly Donetsk strike. Ukrainian and U.S. officials are meeting again in Riyadh later today to discuss a broader peace plan, following U.S.-Russia talks focused on a Black Sea ceasefire. The meetings aim to de-escalate the tension around key trade routes. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian rocket strike in occupied Donetsk reportedly killed six people, including two Russian journalists from daily Izvestia, heightening tensions ahead of diplomacy.
• More protests in Istanbul after İmamoğlu's arrest. Large crowds gathered again in Istanbul to protest the detention of opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu, who has been arrested on corruption charges widely seen as politically driven. Demonstrators accuse President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of silencing rivals ahead of elections. İmamoğlu, mayor of Istanbul, had recently been tapped as a presidential candidate for the CHP opposition party. Read more in this Die Zeit analysis: Erdogan's Attempt To Squash Democracy May Be His Ultimate Political Miscalculation.
• Trump threatens tariffs over Venezuelan oil, India eyes U.S. deal. On Monday, U.S President Donald Trump said that he will impose tariffs of 25% on any nation that buys oil from Venezuela. The comment comes amid a potential shift in trade, as India is reportedly considering tariff cuts on $23 billion in U.S. imports to secure a broader deal and protect $66 billion of Indian exports.
• Brazil's Supreme Court to deliberate on Bolsonaro's potential trial. A five-judge panel of Brazil's Supreme Court has begun deliberations on whether former President Jair Bolsonaro and close aides should stand trial for allegedly attempting a coup following his 2022 electoral defeat. The court is expected to decide by Wednesday whether to proceed with charges accusing Bolsonaro of conspiring to overthrow the government. For more, check this piece translated from Portuguese by Worldcrunch: The Bolsonaro Coup Trial Is Next — Riding Trump's Wave Of Lies And Disinformation.
• Chinese EV manufacturer BYD surpasses Tesla with $107 billion revenue in 2024. Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD reported a revenue of 777 billion yuan (approximately $107 billion) for 2024, marking a 29% increase from the previous year and surpassing Tesla's earnings of $97.7 billion. Read more about Elon Musk-owned Tesla’s woes here.
• News Quiz! Pope Francis has left Gemelli hospital after a month-long battle with pneumonia. Romans were able to celebrate the good news with the coincidental release of “Hallelujah.” What is it?
A. A new fragrance at the Fiumicino airport
B. Giorgio Armani’s Vatican-themed collection
C. A new flavor of gelato
D. The theme song for the 2025 Jubilee
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$1.45 million
An 89-year-old Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder will be compensated 217 million yen ($1.45 million) — a record payout in a criminal case in Japan according to his lawyers. Iwao Hakamata, who had been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was found guilty in 1968 of killing his boss, his boss’s wife and their two children and sentenced to death. He was exonerated last year after a retrial and after a tireless campaign led by his sister. The Shizuoka District Court had ruled in September 2024 that police had tampered with evidence.
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🇮🇱🇹🇷 In both Israel and Turkey, the rulers’ shift toward “illiberal” policies has sparked a backlash from parts of society. In both cases, leaders are targeting checks and balances, feeling emboldened by a similar trend unfolding in the United States under Donald Trump.
— FRANCE INTER
🇪🇬 Egypt has perfected the art of passive resistance in navigating international pressures. From blocking the Arab NATO project to managing the fate of two Red Sea islands, Cairo deploys its bureaucratic “Madame Afaf” tactic to stall without confrontation.
— AL-MANASSA
🙅 Since the 1980s, the American tradition of team building has found its way into French companies. Consider it a bonafide clash of cultures and attitudes.
— LES ECHOS
📣 VERBATIM
“This is one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time.”
— U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with several U.S. officials, reacted with outrage to the news of a serious security breach that involved key figures in the Trump administration accidentally broadcasting highly sensitive military plans through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along. Schumer urged Republicans to seek a “full investigation into how this happened, the damage it created and how we can avoid it in the future.” According to reporting in The Atlantic, its editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally invited into a Signal chat group — a commercial chat app that is not approved by the U.S. government for sharing sensitive information — with more than a dozen senior Trump administration officials including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Quiz Answer: C. To celebrate Pope Francis’s release from hospital, Roman gelato makers debuted a new flavor called "Hallelujah" near the Vatican. Featuring gianduia, a blend of milk chocolate and hazelnut, the new flavor aims at honoring the Pope’s recovery while raising funds for homeless support ahead of Gelato Day.