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Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a tea ceremony at the Guandong province governor's residence. Macron flew to the southern city of Guangzhou on Friday on the final day of his three-day state visit to China. IMAGES
A memorial to almost 22,500 servicemen and women under British command killed during D-Day and subsequent battles was unveiled in northern France on Sunday, a tribute to their sacrifice seen as long overdue. The British Normandy Memorial, inscribed with the names of 22,442 men and women who lost their lives during the invasion of Nazi-occupied France in the summer of 1944, is situated on a hillside in the Normandy village of Ver-sur-Mer. Opened on the 77th anniversary of the landings, it overlooks Gold Beach, one of three beaches where British forces landed on the morning of June 6, 1944 to begin the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi occupation. IMAGES
Political figures, including UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labour leader Keir Starmer and former Prime Ministers Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and John Major, arrive for a Remembrance Day ceremony on London's Whitehall. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a ceremony at the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris marking the National Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery and its Abolition. IMAGES
A memorial to almost 22,500 servicemen and women under British command killed during D-Day and subsequent battles is unveiled in northern France, as a tribute to their sacrifice. 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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