At least 90 people died in a gas explosion that occurred on Friday at the Liushenyu mine, in Shanxi province (central China), Chinese state media reported.

The delegations of Israel and Lebanon gathered in Washington agreed this Wednesday to implement a ceasefire conditioned on the Shiite militia Hizbullah stopping its attacks against Israeli territory and ceasing its operations in the south of the Arab country.

The U.S. administration is having great difficulties advancing the Peace Plan for Gaza. After two days of on-the-ground talks, the special envoy of the U.S. president, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, only secured a vague commitment from the Israeli prime minister to “move forward.” Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Israel will not withdraw its army from the Gaza Strip until Hamas has been completely disarmed, a position he has not changed for weeks. In his meeting with Kushner, which was described as “extensive, deep, and very productive” in a statement from the Peace Board, Netanyahu requested that a U.S. general oversee the delivery of weapons by the Palestinian group.

Surrender or die. Last Saturday, the fewer than 400 Russian soldiers defending the military base in Kidal, the symbolic city of the Tuareg in northern Mali, had to choose between life or a retreat smelling of failure. They chose to live.