French authorities have arrested six suspects, including a child, after a magistrate and her mother were held captive last week for about 30 hours in a cryptocurrency ransom plot. Four men and one woman were detained, three overnight and two on Sunday morning, the Lyon prosecutor Thierry Dran told Agence France-Presse. The captors threatened to mutilate their victims if the transfer was not made quickly, Dran told reporters, declining to specify the amount demanded. French authorities have been dealing with a string of kidnappings and extortion attempts targeting the families of wealthy individuals dealing in cryptocurrencies. In January 2025, kidnappers seized the French crypto boss David Balland and his partner.

Cuba: absence de kérosène à partir de lundi minuitLes autorités cubaines ont informé les compagnies aériennes desservant le pays que l'avitaillement en kérosène serait suspendu pour un mois à partir de lundi minuit en raison de la crise énergétique, a annoncé dimanche un responsable d'une compagnie européenne.

Jimmy Lai, a once mighty media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national security offences. The movement was crushed in June 2020 by the imposition of a harsh national security law which criminalised most forms of dissent. Hong Kong authorities say Lai has received appropriate medical care and that he requested to be kept separate from other prisoners. Lai’s trial was presided over by three judges handpicked by the government to hear national security cases. Lai said he never called for sanctions after the national security law had taken effect, as “it would be suicidal to do so”.

Dans son recours devant la cour d'appel de Wellington, Brenton Tarrant, 35 ans, qui avait plaidé coupable, soutient que ses conditions "inhumaines" de détention pendant son procès l'avaient rendu incapable de prendre des décisions rationnelles au moment de plaider coupable ou non coupable. Cet appel ayant été interjeté hors délai, la cour devra d'abord se prononcer sur sa recevabilité.

A group of about 100 protesters shot flares, firecrackers and smoke bombs at police after breaking away from the main body of a demonstration in the host city of Milan. Police in riot gear responded with water cannon to try to disperse the group, some of whom wore hoods and scarves to cover their faces. More than 5,000 people had taken to the streets to protest about housing costs and environmental concerns on the first full day of the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics

Pay BroyeAux petits soins de la comtesse et de son comteAvec leurs princes, Laeticia Pythoud et Ronny Mathys étaient les ambassadeurs du carnaval broyard. Reportage auprès des petites mains qui les entourent.

Quand l’exécutif n’intéresse pas. Ces communes en mal de candidatsUne bonne dizaine de communes fribourgeoises et de la Broye vaudoise manquent de candidats en vue des élections communales du 8 mars. Tour d’horizon.

CantonQui règle l’addition au restaurant à la Saint-Valentin? Envie de partager avec nous qui dans votre couple va régler la note samedi? N’hésitez pas à répondre à notre sondage.

gallery BroyeDécouvrez en images le carnaval d’Estavayer, qui promet de vous transporter dans l’espaceEstavayer vibre au rythme du carnaval jusqu’à ce dimanche. Vendredi soir, les festivités ont commencé par la cérémonie de la comtesse et du comte ainsi qu’un bal. Notre photographe Pauline Humbert était présente. Voici ses images!

The aircraft’s medical kit had a urinary catheter and lignocaine, a local anaesthetic, but “there the routine equipment ended”, Wallace later wrote. “Within five minutes the patient had almost fully recovered,” Wallace wrote in the British Medical Journal. Matt recalls being provided with something that looked like a “toy stethoscope” when he asked the crew what medical equipment was on board. Another two medical professionals came to help, one a junior doctor. If you were to have an in-flight medical mishap, you could not hope for better luck than Dorothy Fletcher.

Simon Tisdall is absolutely right (China is leading the charge to nuclear Armageddon – and Starmer barely noticed, 1 February). From our prime minister to the person in the street, no one is talking about nuclear weapons, yet nuclear weapons states are busy modernising their arsenals and, in China’s case, increasing the numbers. Treaties supposed to limit nuclear proliferation have failed or are failing. In recent decades, the incidence of false alarms has brought the world to the brink of nuclear war more than once. The goal of a world without nuclear weapons is vanishingly far away.

Worried residents in the Spanish mountain town of Ubrique in Andalucía watched as torrents of rainwater tore through their streets. Storm Marta has brought heavy rain and rising floodwaters to the region, and emergency crews worked hard to clear the village's drainage system. The Iberian peninsula has already experienced a succession of storms in recent weeks, bringing heavy rain, thunderstorms and snow. More than 11,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Andalucía, while across Spain nearly 170 roads have been closed

Pay SuisseLes hautes écoles suisses veulent renforcer la surveillance des étudiants et chercheurs étrangers face à la menace toujours plus grande d’espionnage technologique. Plus d’une centaine d’étudiants ont été refusés dans les deux EPF.

Moderate socialist António José Seguro secured a landslide victory and a five-year term as Portugal’s president in a runoff vote on Sunday, beating his far-right, anti-establishment rival André Ventura, exit polls and partial results showed. “The entire political system, across both right and left, united against me,” Ventura told reporters as he left a Catholic mass in central Lisbon. Portugal’s presidency is a largely ceremonial role but holds some important powers, including the ability to dissolve parliament under certain circumstances. View image in fullscreen António José Seguro surrounded by flag-waving supporters at a campaign event in Porto. Photograph: Rita Franca/ReutersSeguro has positioned himself as a moderate candidate who will cooperate with Portugal’s centre-right minority government, repudiating Ventura’s anti-establishment and anti-immigrant tirades.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has hinted that a new June deadline from the US for peace between Ukraine and Russia could be linked to Trump’s midterm elections campaign. The Ukrainian president on Saturday told reporters that both sides had been invited to further talks next week. Zelenskyy said the Trump administration “will probably put pressure” on Ukraine and Russia to end the war by the beginning of the summer. Ukraine had suggested a sequencing plan, Zelenskyy said, but he provided no specific details. Many are linked to the export of Russian oil, largely by water to China, India and Turkey.