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Hundreds of flights are cancelled at French airports despite the country's main air traffic controllers' union dropping a call for a one-day strike after making a deal for higher pay. IMAGES
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine has an "urgent, critical need for more air defence", at a G7 foreign ministers meeting on Capri. Ukraine has struggled on the battlefield for months, outgunned and outnumbered by Russian forces amid a shortage of Western military aid. SOUNDBITE
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine "simply cannot wait" for more air defences as Kyiv pleads with Western allies to step up deliveries to stave off Russia's attacks. Speaking in Brussels, during a press conference alongside Finland's President Alexander Stubb, Stoltenberg says "delays in funding are having direct consequences on the ground every day." SOUNDBITE
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal pays his first visit to the armed forces at Lyon Mont-Verdun air base 942. IMAGES
Residents of Toulouse cool off in a lake in the Reynerie district, as the south of France experiences a heatwave, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees in some areas. IMAGES
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