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A jet carrying around 200 French citizens flew out of the virus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan on Friday. The French military aircraft is bound for southern France, where the passengers will undergo a 14-day quarantine. IMAGES on board the flight
The plane carrying the two Frenchmen released by Iran, Benjamin Briere and Bernard Phelan, lands at Le Bourget airport near Paris. The pair were among some two dozen foreigners jailed in Iran who campaigners see as hostages held in a deliberate strategy by Tehran to extract concessions from the West. IMAGES
Members of France's emergency services are already stationed in front of the holiday resort of Carry-le-Rouet, near Marseille, ahead of the arrival of 200 French citizens repatriated from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic. They will be placed under two-week quarantine before being allowed back home. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants French nationals evacuated 'as quickly as possible' from the Gaza Strip, which is under heavy bombardment by Israel. SOUNDBITE
"No retirement at 64, not for us, nor for our children": behind the head banner, at least 6,000 people, according to the unions, and 3,100 according to the prefecture, calmly marched under the wind and rain in Vire in French Normandy, where the Prime minister Elisabeth Borne was elected in parliament, to protest against the pension reform. 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).
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