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The two Porsche 963 fielded by the Porsche Penske Motorsport factory team are holding their ground among the frontrunners in the early stages of the 24 Hours of Daytona. In the first four hours of the endurance classic in Florida, Brazilian Felipe Nasr advanced to second place at the start in the #7 car and defended his position over many laps. In the first hours, his British brand colleague Nick Tandy worked his way up the order to fourth place in the #6 sister car. The Porsche 963 customer teams were also looking strong as the sun set. The partner teams in the two GT classes brought their Porsche 911 GT3 Rs through the first four hours of the race unscathed.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said building six new nuclear reactors is the "biggest industrial challenge of our time for France". Le Maire spoke outside nuclear power plant of Gravelines in northern France. French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to have six EPRs or third generation pressurised water nuclear reactors, by 2035. SOUNDBITE
United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s brand new Vulcan rocket, carrying NASA’s first Peregrine Lunar Lander by private firm Astrobotic Technology, blasts off successfully for the first time from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. IMAGES
The morning after rioters torched vehicles and looted shops following a knife attack outside a school in Dublin, shopkeepers and handymen get to work cleaning up the burnt cars and broken glass left on O'Connell Street, one of the Irish capital's most famous thoroughfares. Thursday night's unrest came after three children were injured in a stabbing near the centre of the Irish capital, resulting in the worst violence in decades which authorities blamed on right-wing groups. IMAGES
The canopy of the famous brasserie La Rotonde, on Boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris, is set on fire by demonstrators on the sidelines of the eleventh day of protest against pension reform as unions sought to keep up pressure ahead of a key court ruling. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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