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French MPs hold a minute of silence at the National Assembly in tribute to Admiral Philippe de Gaulle, General de Gaulle's eldest son, who died in Paris at the age of 102. IMAGES
Farmers listen live to French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal giving his general policy statement at the National Assembly, from a motorway blockade near Villabe in Paris outskirts. (COMPLETE VIDI34H939T_EN, VIDI34H93A6_EN, VIDI34H82TM_EN) IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy is back at Paris Court House this Friday to answer questions in his appeal trial about illegal campaign financing during his 2012 failed re-election bid. The Former head of state was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in 2021 in what has been dubbed the "Bygmalion case". Conservative Sarkozy has faced a litany of legal problems since his one term in office from 2007 until 2012, and has been charged separately with corruption, bribery, influence-peddling, and breaking campaign financing laws. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne arrives at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where she is welcomed by President Roberta Metsola for the inauguration of a new building named Simone Veil, in honour of the former French President of the EU Parliament and the first woman to hold that office. IMAGES
The convoys of French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne arrive in the suburb of Saint-Denis, north of Paris, for second round of cross-party talks, with the aim of building consensus in a fractured parliament. But the event is marked by the notable absence of key members of the opposition who declined the invitation to attend. 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).