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Added on the 01/04/2021 15:44:47 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
French Defence Minister Florence Parly pays tribute to the 13 soldiers killed in Mali in a helicopter crash. The collision between two helicopters during an operation against insurgents in the country's restive north is the French military's heaviest single loss in nearly four decades. SOUNDBITE
French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani attend a ceremony in the courtyard of Les Invalides to mark the Qatari leader's state visit to France. IMAGES
French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu meets with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv during his second visit to Israel since the start of its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, following the October 7 attacks. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI34GA4G6_EN
French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu is on board the Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier anchored in the Egyptian port of Al-Arich, where wounded civilians from Gaza are being treated. The minister is spending New Year's Eve aboard the French ship, anchored some 50 kilometers from the Rafah crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, where aid is trickling in. IMAGES
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire condemns "inexcusable, unspeakable and intolerable acts" as at least a dozen shopping malls and a large number of stores have been looted, and sometimes set on fire, during an outbreak of violence following the police killing of a teenager. IMAGES