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Nous dressons le portrait de l'ancien commandant militaire Gadi Eisenkot, le plus farouche rival du Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu, que le président israélien a choisi pour tenter de former un nouveau gouvernement à la suite d'élections indécises qui n'ont laissé à aucun des deux hommes une voie claire vers le pouvoir.

La traversée de l'Atlantique vers les îles Canaries espagnoles reste dangereuse pour les migrants en quête d'une vie meilleure.

Poland is in shock after an attack in the centre of Kraków. On Saturday afternoon a 24-year-old man opened fire on passers-by from inside his car, killing six people and injuring a further sixteen. The gunman was seriously wounded in a shootout with police and died in hospital on Monday morning. The public prosecutor's office has classified the incident as a terrorist attack.

Following the elections in Israel, President Yitzhak Herzog officially tasked Gadi Eisenkot with forming a government on 8 November. The former chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces is to form a coalition that could replace incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Cooperation with Arab parties is also under discussion. Europe's press takes stock of the options for alliances.

In Russia, Novaya Gazeta, the last remaining independent and oppositional media outlet, has been forced to end its operations. Founded in 1993, the renowned investigative newspaper was designated a 'foreign agent' in September and has now been deprived of any possibility to raise funds through donations and evicted from its editorial offices in Moscow.

The AI boom is driving the construction of huge data centres in the US, and this expansion was also an issue in the midterm elections. Critics have raised concerns about the facilities' high electricity and water consumption, as well as the political influence of big tech companies. Europe's press examines the consequences of this growing opposition for US politics.