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Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron says Russian President Vladimir Putin made a terrible mistake in pulling out of the deal to protect Black Sea grain exports. "He decided to weaponize food, and I think this is a huge mistake," Macron says. SOUNDBITE
The secretary general of the CGT Philippe Martinez denounces Emmanuel Macron's "dupe deal" on pensions at a protest in Paris. Martinez says that setting the age at 64 instead of 65 "by increasing the duration of contributions, it's all the same". SOUNDBITE
The outgoing head of French diplomacy Jean-Yves Le Drian receives his successor Catherine Colonna at the Quai d'Orsay, the French foreign ministry's headquarters in Paris, for the transfer of power. IMAGES
Plaintiffs, including Bahia Bakari, the only survivor of a plane crash that killed 152 people off the Comoros in 2009, enter the courtroom of the Yemenia trial that opens in Paris. Bahia Bakari, who was just a 12-year-old girl at the time of the crash survived by clinging to debris for 11 hours until she was found by a fishing boat the following day. IMAGES
The French ambassador to Poland Frédéric Billet arrives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw after being summoned following French President Emmanuel Macron's remarks over the Polish PM. Macron called the Polish premier "a far-right anti-Semite who bans LGBT people". The accusations came after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki criticised him for his repeated talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. IMAGES