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French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin welcomes British Home Secretary James Cleverly at the French Interior Ministry at the Hotel de Beauvau, in Paris. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal arrives at a cattle farm in Montastruc-de-Salies, in the Haute-Garonne region of south-west France, to announce the government's response to the demands of farmers who have been demonstrating in France for over a week. IMAGES
The leader of French conservative LR party at the National Assembly accused the newly-appointed Culture Minister Rachida Dati to have " made a deal with (French President) Macron". Dati on Wednesday said she plans to run for Paris mayor in 2026, only days after joining President Emmanuel Macron's reshuffled government. Dati's arrival was the biggest surprise in last week's cabinet shake-up that saw 34-year-old Gabriel Attal take over as prime minister. Up until her appointment, Dati was a long-standing member of the opposition conservative LR party, and is mayor of the French capital's chic 7th district that is home to most French ministries, the country's parliament and many foreign embassies. SOUNDBITE
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his new Education Minister, Amelie Oudea-Castera, visit a secondary school in Andresy, Yvelines, near Paris, as part of the 'knowledge shock', a wide-ranging package of reforms aimed at raising students' academic standards. (COMPLETES VIDI34ER4ZY_EN) IMAGES
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE