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Renault says it has reached a deal with Japanese partner Nissan and the French government to end an eight-month dispute over increased state influence on the carmaking alliance. Ivor Bennett reports.
Renault-Nissan was on Friday close to sealing a deal with France aimed at balancing the government's increased influence over the carmaking alliance and ending an eight-month power struggle, according to sources close to the matter. Ivor Bennett reports.
Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron says Russian President Vladimir Putin made a terrible mistake in pulling out of the deal to protect Black Sea grain exports. "He decided to weaponize food, and I think this is a huge mistake," Macron says. SOUNDBITE
A mechanical digger clears rubble from the site of the building that collapsed on Sunday in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille, in the presence of firefighters and investigators, who are trying to understand the causes of the explosion. IMAGES
In the rubble of a building that collapsed in the southern French city of Marseille, following a major explosion, rescue workers and sniffer dogs scramble to find at least six people still unaccounted for. IMAGES