Israel indeed responsible for the death of the Spanish Blue Helmet

A senior Israeli army, it is an Israeli mortar attack that killed the Spanish peacekeeper Wednesday. "We regret this incident, we have no intention to harm the United Nations forces," reportedly said the official on condition of anonymity.

The Spanish Defence Minister Pedro Morenes, canceled an official trip to India and requested an investigation by the United Nations on the death of its national Francisco Javier Soria Toledo.

After the ambush Hezbollah and the Israeli bombing of several villages in the farms area Chebaah the UN Security Council was to meet tonight at the request of France.

Hostages: Jordan calls for proof of life before exchanging the kamikaze

The hostages of the Islamic state will they be released soon? The Japanese journalist Kenji Goto and the Jordanian al-Maaz driver Kassasbeh, could be exchanged against the Iraqi jihadist Sajida al-Rishawi. The Islamic State demanded the release of this woman sentenced to death in Jordan for the attacks in Amman in 2005 that killed 60 people.

At the Japanese Embassy in Jordan, negotiations are accelerating. The other Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa, was executed this weekend, the kidnappers did not obtain the ransom of $ 200 million claimed.

Jordan demands life evidence before releasing the jihadist in exchange for the captured pilot December 24, after the crash of his F-16 in Syria. According to military sources Jordanian offer the kidnappers exchanged against the Japanese journalist, but do not mention the release of the driver. On the other hand they threaten to kill them both.

Kobané of the Kurds would go home but ruined city awaits

In Syria, the inhabitants of the Kurdish town Kobané are smiling: the fighters of the Islamic State group were driven out, the city is freed, but at what price. According to the first journalists arrived in the eastern part of Kobané, this one is completely destroyed.

After four months of fierce fighting, whole blocks of buildings were razed, neighborhoods whose population has massively fled during the fighting, and now finds itself not very far, but on the other side of the border with Turkey, in overcrowded refugee camps. The border is closed, and impossible for the Kurds of northern Syria to return home.

200,000 people live for months in the Turkish camp Mursitpinar refugees. All want to go home, but many know that this is a battlefield ahead.

"Let us go, says this man. There must be security forces there to protect us and prevent cruelty. We must protect and prevent these vicious people come back. "

"We want other countries to help us, help our people, adds another. We want to go Kobané and live there in peace. We want to be sure they are on track. "

The Kurdistan authorities requested the Kurdish refugees from Turkey not to attempt to return before spring, the area is not yet completely free of jihadists.

Reintegration of housekeepers, symbolic measure of Athens

They radiate joy. It's the end of the ordeal for the cleaners who lost their jobs in 2013 and set up camp in front of the Finance Ministry in Athens in protest. The new Greek government announced Wednesday reintegration, a symbolic measure.

"We fought for 19 months. It was an exhausting struggle, frustrating, with many problems. And what we feel today is a bonus for everything we've been through all this time, "said Lili Giannakaki, one of them.

The new government has promised the adoption of social measures. Yanis Varoufakis, the finance minister, has also called on Wednesday for a New Deal panaeuropéen to help with the recovery in Europe and end the austerity policy.

"Today we turn the page of this error, this denial (that saving does not) that cost lives, or other weakened, which has a cost for our European partners, said in essence the Minister. The problem is not that Germany, Italy, and Slovakia, poorer than us, did not pay enough money to Greece. They gave more than they should. And that money went into a black hole, added Varoufakis while Greek banks were falling stock market, yielding more than a quarter of their value.

The resignations are linked to the head of the ant-Islam movement Pegida

Cascade resignation within Pegida. Kathrin Oertel, spokesman and head of the anti-Islam movement is one of five leaders Pegida who throw in the towel, a week after the departure of leader Lutz Bachmann, according to German media. Bachmann resigned after publishing a photo of him imitating Hitler and after the revelation of insults towards refugees.

According to the Facebook page Pegida Kathrin Oertel was the victim felt threatened and harassed by photographers. Another resigned leader René Jahn, explained his departure by "maintaining Lutz Bachmann in the organizing team" and "insufficient demarcation with Legida in Leipzig", a move considered more radical.

The anti-Islam movement, born in Dresden, has spread in several German cities.

On Monday, thousands of people have said no to the anti-Islam movement.

Hezbollah had promised to avenge the attack on 18 January

On January 18, a raid, attributed to Israel, was launched Qouneïtra, the Syrian part of the Golan Heights. A strike conducted by helicopter against "terrorists" accused of planning attacks against Israel. With killed six members of Hezbollah, this is one of the hardest blows to the Shiite party since the beginning of the war in Syria, where he fought alongside al-Assad.

Among the victims Jihad, the son of Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah's former military commander himself assassinated in 2008.

Jihad during funerals

Hezbollah had called for revenge.

The leader of the Lebanese Shiite party, Hassan Nasrallah must speak Friday for the first time on the Israeli raid that Israel never claimed nor officially denied.

Kramatorsk and Donetsk: the two faces of Ukraine

The statue of Lenin Kramatorsk, a Ukrainian city of Donetsk region of 180,000 inhabitants, is now in the colors of Kiev. Seized by pro-Russian rebels in April, the city has finally fallen into the hands of the Ukrainian army in July.

A separatist episode Lyudmila, manager of a coffee, do not regret it for the world:

"During the occupation, we were bombed and there were armed men in the city, peaceful citizens leaving the city, business no longer walked, there was nothing more to do here, we had to close and go because we were winning more than anything. "

Her ex-husband, Denis, for his part adhered to the ideas of the self-proclaimed Republic of Donetsk, before coming back:

"We were told that the People's Republic of Donetsk would bring good things, that the Kiev government was not legitimate, we gave too much money to the state budget and the money was going with them stay here. "

Our correspondent in Kiev says that "the majority of the population is now for the government of Kiev. Although there are groups that are still criticism towards the current authorities in Kiev. "

Even in Donetsk, where the support of a large majority of the population to separatists Undoubtedly, the humanitarian situation worries in some neighborhoods.

"This is a disaster at the humanitarian level, says an inhabitant of Donetsk. First Ukraine leaves nothing, neither food nor drugs, and we will say that only Russia is helping us. "

Last week, a large rebel offensive has pushed the Ukrainian military outside the suburbs of the city. But the fighting continues and the sound of bombs still sounded in the city.