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Kurdish groups in France protest in Paris against the Turkish operation in Syria. Ankara stepped up its assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria on Saturday, defying mounting threats of international sanctions, even from Washington. IMAGES
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said building six new nuclear reactors is the "biggest industrial challenge of our time for France". Le Maire spoke outside nuclear power plant of Gravelines in northern France. French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to have six EPRs or third generation pressurised water nuclear reactors, by 2035. SOUNDBITE
French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu is on board the Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier anchored in the Egyptian port of Al-Arich, where wounded civilians from Gaza are being treated. The minister is spending New Year's Eve aboard the French ship, anchored some 50 kilometers from the Rafah crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, where aid is trickling in. IMAGES
Brigitte Macron receives Ukrainian First Lady, Olena Zelenska, who is on an official visit to Paris, at the Elysee Palace. IMAGES
Images of Turkish fighter jets taking off from a military base in Diyarbakir to carry out strikes against positions and targets of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence, "Turkey carried out air strikes this evening at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) in the regions of Tel Rifat, Cizire and Derik in northern Syria and destroyed 30 targets". Since Sunday evening, Ankara has been carrying out a campaign of drone bombings, which left at least nine people dead on Thursday, against PKK and YPG targets in Syria, in retaliation for the attack that wounded two policemen in Ankara on Sunday. IMAGES
French and Turkish rescuers, searching through the rubble in the town of Osmaniye, southern Turkey, discover a body, before bringing it to an ambulance as a crowd waits anxiously near the ruins of a building in which seven people have been found dead, according to an official report given to AFP at 22:25 local time. Search operations like this are ongoing across southern Turkey and northern parts of neighbouring Syria after Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake, of which the death toll has reached over 12,000. IMAGES
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