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Added on the 19/04/2022 13:21:00 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Voters cast their ballots in the first round of the presidential election in the polling station set up in Lille City Hall in the middle of the afternoon. IMAGES
Voters crowd into a polling station in Lyon's 2nd arrondissement at midday during the first round of the French presidential election. IMAGES
Eric Zemmour, far-right French presidential candidate, is seen leaving the Armenian Catholic centre in Yerevan after meeting with Patriarch Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden mixes up the current President of France Emmanuel Macron with former French leader Francois Mitterrand who died in 1996. Speaking at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, Biden recalled a discussion with other heads of state at the G7 summit held in Cornwall in June 2021, a few months after his inauguration: "I said, 'America is back'". 81 years old Biden then remembers how it elicited a reply from "Mitterrand from Germany" before correcting himself : " I mean, from France". Francois Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995, serving a record two seven-years terms. SOUNDBITE
France's President Emmanuel Macron and his Indian counterpart President Droupadi Murmu attend a reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential palace in New Delhi as India marks its 75th Republic Day and France eyes lucrative deals with the world's fifth-largest economy. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron is announcing the creation of a Presidential Science Council, which will provide an opportunity "at least once every three months, to exchange views in complete freedom" so as to be able to say "what's not going well". SOUNDBITE