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Four months ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera inaugurates the Yves-du-Manoir stadium, in the northwestern Paris suburb of Colombes. The stadium, which was the main site for the 1924 Paris Olympics is ready, a century later, to welcome hundreds of participants and tens of thousands of spectators. IMAGES
Various organizations organize a march "against racism, Islamophobia, and the protection of all children," mixed with slogans in support of Palestinians, with thousands taking part in Paris. The courts have decided to suspend the prefectoral ban on this demonstration. IMAGES
Police set up a cordon around the Iranian consulate in Paris, where they are carrying out an operation after reports of a person entering the building with an explosive device. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron receives Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the Elysee Palace as fears have increased in recent days of a regional escalation in the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. IMAGES
France's largest squat - which has housed up to 450 migrants, most of them legal migrants according to associations - is being evacuated in the southern suburbs of Paris, 100 days ahead of the Olympic Games. IMAGES
On the quays of the Seine in Paris, the clock showing the countdown to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games hits the symbolic 100 day mark. IMAGES