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On the front page of the press, the death yesterday, at the age of 41, of the American basketball player Kobe Bryant, in a helicopter accident, in the United States.

Her disappearance makes the headlines of many daily newspapers around the world, including the British newspaper The Independent , which reports that one of Kobe Bryant's daughters, Gianna, 13, also died in the crash, as well as 7 other people. Retired from the floors since 2015, the five-time NBA champion and double Olympic gold medalist, had become a basketball legend. "The star Bryant": the French sports daily L'Equipe salutes the memory of the former number 24 of the Los Angeles Lakers, a "child of the ball, raised in Italy and in France", a "rear (who) was the technical equal (of the mythical) Michael Jordan, of which he (had) married the prize list, the elegance ball in hands and the expressions "," one of the most brilliant attackers in the history "of basketball. On social networks, tens of thousands of messages have been paying homage since yesterday to the man who called himself "Black Mamba" - because "Black Mamba can strike, repeatedly, very quickly, with 99% of success. We have selected this drawing for you, published on Twitter , it takes up and diverts the logo of the NBA, the North American basketball league. A basketball player is crying. "Rest in peace," says the legend.

Also on the front page, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in southern Poland by troops of the Red Army. "75 years ago, Auschwitz, never forget", the local newspaper Ouest-France announces that more than 200 survivors are expected today on the spot, to honor the victims of Auschwitz, but also to issue a warning. "We want the next generation to know what we have been through, and it will never happen again," said David Marks, 93, yesterday. Knowing what happened is a mission that the survivors have set for themselves. It was also the concern of those who knew their near death, recalls L'Humanité , which delivers these words from beyond the grave, written by a prisoner who had buried this testimony, exhumed forty years later: “Dear discoverer of this story ! I have a prayer to say to you, it is in truth my essential reason to write. Let my life condemned to death at least make sense. May my hellish days, may my hopeless tomorrow reach their goal in the future ”.

The press also widely reports this morning on the continued spread of the coronavirus, which left China, where more than 2,700 people were infected, and 80 people died. While the Chinese city of Wuhan and its region, where the first cases appeared, were placed in quarantine, the virus could have already infected nearly 100,000 people in the world, according to an expert quoted by The Guardian, who evokes the difficulties encountered by the United Kingdom in evacuating the 200 or so British citizens present in confined areas - evacuation to which France and the United States will also proceed this week, for their own nationals. "Faced with the coronavirus, the world is getting organized": according to the French daily La Croix , the experts are worried about a possible "mutation of the coronavirus", but refuse "any alarmism", the virus being according to them "more contagious than dangerous at this stage ". The coronavirus, which inspires a drawing by Ben Jennings, published by The Guardian . The British will leave the European Union next Friday: "Apparently, the United Kingdom is imposing its own quarantine this week," comments a Chinese reader.

Finally, a word about the meeting today in the United States between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Jerusalem Post recalls that this meeting comes on the eve of the presentation of a "peace plan" by the Trump administration, presented as "historic" by the Israeli Prime Minister. Document "written in such a way that Palestinians reject it - which may have been the goal," already pings the left-wing Israeli daily Haaretz , which cites sources that have learned of the project drafted by Donald Trump's son-in-law , Jared Kushner. The London-based pan-Arab daily Al Araby Al Jadeed even mentions a plan that will provoke new confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians. "The century's deal that President Trump could announce is already dead," Palestinian Authority spokesman Mahmoud Abbas said last week.

No question of leaving without mentioning this good news - at least for the women of the island of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands, off the French coast. The local authorities have decided to put an end to a law prohibiting married women from applying to the administration which administers taxes, without the consent of their husband. From now on, married women will be able to speak about taxes without having to first refer to their husbands. Sacred progress! Read in The Guardian .

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