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An explosion of joy as Marine Le Pen supporters celebrate the inital projection that the far-right leader has qualified for the runoff in France's presidential election. IMAGES at Le Pen campaign headquarters
Incumbent president and re-election candidate Emmanuel Macron and Rassemblement National (National Rally) candidate Marine Le Pen arrive at a studio on the outskirts of Paris, before taking part in a televised debate ahead of the second round of the presidential election. IMAGES
"You have given gifts to those who are the richest and you have crushed those who were the poorest," says French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, as she is quizzed by an activist from Emmanuel Macron's En Marche party in the Calvados region, on the financing of her social reform projects. IMAGES
French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron meets with representatives of workers from a Whirlpool domestic appliance factory in Amiens, northwest of Paris, that is threatened with outsourcing to Poland. Amiens is a stronghold for for his rival, Marine Le Pen. IMAGES of Emmanuel Macron visiting factory
Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).