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Added on the 12/10/2023 10:16:36 - Copyright : Euronews EN
The US West Point military academy finds no apparent contents in a 200-year-old time capsule recently discovered inside the base of a monument at West Point, New York, and believed to have been left by cadets in the 1820s. "The box didn't quite meet expectations," says an expert during the unveiling ceremony, adding that his team will collect a layer of silt from the bottom of the box to see if they can find any remains in it. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives by helicopter to open the 54th Le Bourget International Paris Air Show, the world's largest. IMAGES
During the formal opening of a joint coordination centre for Ukrainian grain exports under a UN-backed deal aimed at resuming shipments, Russian and Ukrianian delegations meet inside the centre. IMAGES
At the National Federation of Farmers' Unions (FNSEA) congress, French Communist presidential candidate Fabien Roussel says he wants 500,000 farmers by 2030, i.e. 20,000 to 25,000 installations per year, "to meet the food challenge as well as the agro-ecological challenge". IMAGES
The Stade de France in Seine-Saint-Denis, to the north of Paris, is transformed into a 'vaccinodrome' as of Tuesday, with a target of 10,000 injections of the Covid-19 vaccine per week. IMAGES
In the Paris suburb of Bondy, a thousand people take part in a march in memory of Aymane, a 15-year-old boy who was shot dead on Friday afternoon inside a community centre. IMAGES