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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
French President Emmanuel Macron meets family in New Caledonia impacted by climate change, after arriving in Touho earlier today. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin to the Elysee Palace for a working lunch, notably to discuss Iran and its ambitions in terms of nuclear arms. This meeting concludes a three-day tour of Europe by the Israeli president, which began Tuesday in Germany. IMAGES