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"You have given gifts to those who are the richest and you have crushed those who were the poorest," says French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, as she is quizzed by an activist from Emmanuel Macron's En Marche party in the Calvados region, on the financing of her social reform projects. IMAGES
Hundreds of people in the southern Nigerian city of Lagos protest the high cost of living in the country as part of a nationwide call to demonstrate by the Nigerian workers union. IMAGES
During a press conference on his two-day state visit to Sweden, French President Emmanuel Macron says that "the cost of a Russian victory is too high for all of us" and that Europe must support Ukraine "whatever it takes, whatever it costs." SOUNDBITE
Guatemala presidential candidate Sandra Torres closes her campaign with a rally in the capital, ahead of the country's election on August 20. Torres will face off against reformist outsider Bernardo Arevalo in the runoff, with a recent poll showing Arevalo with a strong lead. IMAGES
Hundreds of Nigerian workers across various sectors strike over the rising cost of living following the removal of the petrol subsidy. The nationwide walkout was called by the two main workers unions --the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) -- after talks with the government to extend the subsidy broke down. IMAGES
Several dozen demonstrators opposed to pension reform bang their pots and pans on a roundabout in Garons, southern France, near a civil security air base which President Emmanuel Macron is due to visit. He is planning to hold talks with the "people working on the ground" who prevent and fight forest fires. IMAGES