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Hospital doctors in Reims University Hospital begin Monday morning to switch off the life support machines for Vincent Lambert, a quadriplegic who has been in a vegetative state for more than 10 years, AFP learned from the patient's lawyer and family. The hugely controversial case has divided France. IMAGES of the Reims University Hospital
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
Doctors form a picket line outside the University College Hospital in Londonas England's hospital doctors begin their longest strike action yet in a move that health bosses fear will pile pressure on services at the busiest time of year. Six more days of industrial action are planned from January 3. 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
Visiting Liglet, in south-east France, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne meets shopkeepers and local councillors to present her "France Ruralites" plan, which aims to combat the feeling of relegation and decline in public services that prevails in some rural areas. 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