Britain mourns its dead in Gaza, press muzzled in Georgia

Britain mourns three aid workers killed in Gaza. These three former British soldiers had come to support the mission of the NGO World Central Kitchen to distribute food. They were part of the Israeli raid. Their families are devastated. All three worked for the company Solace Global, which works in war zones. David Cameron, the British Foreign Secretary, has called for a full investigation by NATO.

Georgian press deprived of foreign funding

A suspected spy is imprisoned in Austria. A former member of the Austrian secret service, he is said to have placed cookies in the phones of three senior officials in his country for the benefit of Russia. Until now, the man had always denied it. “I have never transmitted official data to anyone and I have never received money in exchange”, declared Egisto Ott. This time, he is in pre-trial detention and the facts are serious enough to push the Austrian chancellor to strengthen the country’s security.

In Georgia, return of a bill to muzzle the media. The leader of Georgia’s parliamentary majority wants to ban all foreign funding for the press. “In our new bill, the term ‘organization pursuing the interests of a foreign power’ replaces ‘agent of foreign influence'”, underlined Mamuka Mdinaradze. Salomé Zourabichvili, the pro-European president, protests: “We received a pledge from Europe and today the majority party is compromising our future.”