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During a trip to the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, French President Emmanuel Macron meets sportsmen and women to discuss the 2024 Olympic Games, for which several facilities are to be built in the department. IMAGES
Police set up a cordon around the Iranian consulate in Paris, where they are carrying out an operation after reports of a person entering the building with an explosive device. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron receives Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the Elysee Palace as fears have increased in recent days of a regional escalation in the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. IMAGES
European foreign policy chief Josep Borrell gives a press conference in Capri, Italy, ahead of the Foreign Affairs Ministers' Meeting in which he says that the Western countries "have to take quicker decisions in order to support Ukraine more because we cannot afford Putin's victory in Ukraine." SOUNDBITE
European foreign policy chief Josep Borrell gives a press conference in Capri, Italy ahead of the Foreign Affairs Ministers' Meeting in which he warns that 'We are on the edge of a war with the Middle East which will be sending shock waves to the rest of the world and in particular to Europe." SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at Ecole Blanche primary school and the LAB9A, a teacher training centre for autistic children in Paris, for a discussion with the school's pupils and teaching staff, a few days after the national autism day. IMAGES