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National Rally presidential candidate Marine Le Pen takes selfies with activists as she arrives outside the polling station where she is voting in Hénin-Beaumont, Pas-de-Calais. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden mixes up the current President of France Emmanuel Macron with former French leader Francois Mitterrand who died in 1996. Speaking at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, Biden recalled a discussion with other heads of state at the G7 summit held in Cornwall in June 2021, a few months after his inauguration: "I said, 'America is back'". 81 years old Biden then remembers how it elicited a reply from "Mitterrand from Germany" before correcting himself : " I mean, from France". Francois Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995, serving a record two seven-years terms. SOUNDBITE
France's President Emmanuel Macron and his Indian counterpart President Droupadi Murmu attend a reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential palace in New Delhi as India marks its 75th Republic Day and France eyes lucrative deals with the world's fifth-largest economy. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron is announcing the creation of a Presidential Science Council, which will provide an opportunity "at least once every three months, to exchange views in complete freedom" so as to be able to say "what's not going well". SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron takes part in the second edition of Paralympic Day in Place de la Republique, where he plays wheelchair basketball and table tennis before meeting some of the thousands of spectators at the event. IMAGES
Leftist former Brazilian president and current candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva casts his ballot in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo state, in a presidential election runoff against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. IMAGES