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French President Emmanuel Macron and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva meet with Indigenous leader of the Kayapo people, Raoni Metuktire, on the island of Combu off the coast of Belem, in the Brazilian Amazon. Macron has promised to discuss closer cooperation in the fight against illegal gold mining with Brazil, where he begins an emblematic state visit lasting almost three days following his trip to French Guiana. IMAGES
President of the centre-right Social-Democratic Party Partido Social Democrata (PSD) since May 2022, Luis Montenegro holds his final rally ahead of the March 10 general election. The 51-year-old led its parliamentary group when it was in power from 2011 to 2015 and imposed severe austerity measures. Despite the far right's potential for depriving the PSD of a parliamentary majority, Luis Montenegro has insisted he will not accept entering into a coalition with Chega. IMAGES
French farmers are using their tractors to block off motorway A16 by Amblainville toll booth in the region of Oise, an hour north of Paris. Farmers union FDSEA Ile-de-France is announcing five blockades around Paris from 2pm to increase the pressure on Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who is due to announce a first set of measures to try to calm their anger. IMAGES
A tractor convoy makes its way along the A709 motorway towards a toll booth by Saint-Jean-de-Vedas, close to Montpellier in the south of France. French farmers are increasing blockades and slow-down operations as they await to hear what measures Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he will announce later today. IMAGES
Vote counting begins at a polling station in Bangkok as polls close in Thailand's general election, with pro-democracy opposition parties predicted to defeat the conservative army-backed government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha. IMAGES
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga calls off demonstrations planned for Monday and said his party would sit down for dialogue with the government after two weeks of protests. "We stand down our demonstrations for Monday, that is tomorrow, April 3, 2023. But in doing so, we want to emphasise that the right to assemble, to demonstrate, petition, and speak are iron-clad as provided for in our constitution," the veteran opposition leader tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
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