Israelitanks enter residential areas of
Rafah as they attempt to capture the city.
Hamas' armed wing
al-Qassam Brigades says that it destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with a
Al-Yassin 105anti-tank missile, killing several troops and injuring several others, while the Israel Defense Forces claim to have "eliminated" several terrorists in the city.
(Reuters)
Riots erupt in
New Caledonia as
France plans to change the constitution, allowing more recent white French settlers to vote in the island's provincial elections, which protesters claim would marginalise the Indigenous
Kanak people.
(Al Jazeera)(The Guardian)
Three Kanak residents are killed and many more injured during a
drive-by shooting by a group of French settlers.
(Reuters)
At least 54 officers are injured and more than 130 people are arrested. Shops and cars are
looted, while a
prison breakout has been prevented.
(AP)(Al Jazeera)
Two prison guards are killed and three others are critically injured in an
ambush of a prison van near
Rouen,
Normandy,
France, to free an inmate with ties to a drug dealing gang.
(BBC News)
Riot police clash with protesters on the streets of
Tbilisi,
Georgia, after the
parliament approves a controversial "foreign agent" law that requires media organizations to declare foreign funding.
(BBC News)
The
United States warns Georgia that
$390 million in planned economic support will be "under review" if the
Georgian government considers the U.S. as an "adversary", and not as a strategic partner.
(The Guardian)