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French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announces that the country's healthcare workers who are managing the Covid-19 crisis will receive a tax-free bonus of €1,500. (COMPLETE VID1QM0X6_EN) SOUNDBITE
French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu is on board the Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier anchored in the Egyptian port of Al-Arich, where wounded civilians from Gaza are being treated. The minister is spending New Year's Eve aboard the French ship, anchored some 50 kilometers from the Rafah crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, where aid is trickling in. IMAGES
French-Israeli hostage Mia Shem, 21, who was held by Hamas since October 7, arrives by helicopter at the Sheba hospital in Ramat Gan. Shem was released along with another hostage, 40-year-old Amit Soussana, according to Israeli authorities. IMAGES
The coffin of Carène Mezino, a 37-year-old nurse stabbed to death at the end of May in Reims hospital by a mentally disturbed man, is carried in the hearse in front of the Basilica of Saint-Remi in Reims, in the presence of several hundred people, including the Minister of Health, François Braun. IMAGES
French MPs and members of the government observe a minute's silence in the National Assembly in tribute to the three police officers killed in the North of France, as well as to the nurse who died after a knife attack at the University Hospital in Reims. IMAGES