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Colombia celebrates 213 years of national independence with Armed Forces parading in Bogota. IMAGES
Police and military line the Champs Elysees in Paris ahead of France's Bastille Day celebrations, which are set to take place under tight security two weeks after the country was swept by riots. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is president Emmanuel Macron's guest of honour. IMAGES
Madrid, Oct 12 (EFE).- (Camera: Leo Redondo) Spain held a military parade in the capital Madrid on Tuesday to mark its National Day, after the celebration was canceled last year due to Covid-19.FOOTAGE OF THE PARADE IN MADRID, SPAIN
Soldiers parade in the streets of Conakry, following a meeting between the leader of the military coup, Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, and the ministers of the government of president Alpha Conde, ousted the day before. Public discontent had been brewing for months over a flatlining Covid-hit economy and the leadership of Conde, who became Guinea's first democratically elected president in 2010. IMAGES
A subdued Bastille Day ceremony sees the Champs-Elysées empty. This year, French President Emmanuel Macron presides a scaled-down gathering of just 2,000 soldiers -- half the usual number -- at the Place de la Concorde. While jets perform their traditional flyovers over the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, authorities call off the annual military parade that marks the July 14, 1789, storming of the Bastille prison that launched the French Revolution. IMAGES