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The US, Qatar and Egypt will meet in Cairo to continue negotiations to prevent further escalation in the Middle East. The plan envisages a ceasefire with an exchange of hostages and prisoners, followed by a withdrawal of the Israeli army from the Gaza Strip. Commentators voice hope and scepticism.

Two-and-a-half months ahead of the US presidential election, the Democrats are holding their National Convention in Chicago, culminating in a speech by presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Thursday. Harris and her running mate Tim Walz had already been nominated in an online vote. But for Europe's press, a number of critical questions remain open.

One and a half months after the left-wing alliance Nouveau Front populaire (NFP) won the most seats in the French parliamentary elections, the government building process is still in limbo. On Friday President Macron – whose camp is seeking a centrist "republican front" to prevent the left-wing populist LFI from joining the government – will receive the NFP's prime ministerial candidate Lucie Castets. Commentators have varying degrees of patience.

A young boy was stabbed to death apparently at random on Sunday morning on a football pitch in the small Spanish town of Mocejón. The suspect, reportedly a mentally unstable 20-year-old local man, was immediately taken into custody. Spanish commentators are shocked both by the killing and by the violent racist reactions on social media.