Chad–Israel relations Chad and Israel restore diplomatic relations with each other after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Chadian President Idriss Déby in N'Djamena. Chad severed ties with Israel in 1972.
Courchevel Two people died and 25 more were injured, four seriously, in a fire at the ski resort of Courchevel in the French Alps.
Northern Mali conflict At least ten United Nations peacekeepers are killed and several others injured in an Islamist militant attack on their base in Mali's northern Kidal Region.