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France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announces that the "anti-terrorist perimetre" set up around the banks of the Seine in Paris for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will be "effective from tomorrow (July 18, Eds.) morning until 26 July." SOUNDBITE
French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu welcomes President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron to the Hôtel de Brienne. The President is due to talk to servicemen injured during the year, before giving a speech in honour of the troops called up for the 14 July parade. IMAGES
Malian strongman Colonel Assimi Goïta, who carried out two coups in nine months, has been officially sworn in as transitional president in Mali. This is an opportunity for the 37-year-old officer to try to reassure people of his intentions beyond his country's borders. IMAGES
"You were each moved by this magnificent desire to serve your country": France's Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, presides over a ceremony to pay tribute to three French soldiers who were killed a week ago in Mali. IMAGES
The funeral procession of three French soldiers killed in Mali passes over the Alexandre-III bridge, in front of Parisians who have come to pay tribute to them, before a ceremony at the Invalides. The three soldiers were killed on 28 December in an attack claimed by the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM), affiliated to al-Qaeda. Two other soldiers, including a woman, were killed shortly afterwards, on 2 January, in similar circumstances. IMAGES
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