The IDF released further video footage of strikes against Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip. Several rockets fired in response struck residential homes in Rehovot, Israel. One person was killed in the explosion and ten others were injured. Over a period of thirty-six hours, more than eight hundred rockets were fired at Israel. Tel Aviv refused to negotiate a ceasefire with the Palestinian militant groups.

Protests culminate: French policemen and firemen fight for the right to early retirement. In the other semi-final, garbage collectors and baguette makers.

Someone fell out of Biden's plane in Poland. Who it was, is not yet known. But there is speculation that the swooner decided to land again ?

Raimund Andrzejczak, head of the Polish General Staff, on the "wild eastern neighbors: I'll tell you this from a Polish perspective. We have lived in the same space with them for a thousand years, so we know the Russians. That's the way they fight. It's not surprising for us. The standards of the Russian army, of Russian society are completely different from the Western matrix. You don't have to measure the Russians by the Western yardstick. What you see - their behavior, their actions - how much they suffer and are still willing to go forward - this is completely different from Western society. So please don't compare Russian and Western standards--they have nothing in common.