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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 meets the Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara, for a working lunch at the Élysée Palace. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron, on a solidarity visit to Israel, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Macron said that saving hostages held by Hamas in Gaza must be the "first objective" of the military campaign but stressed the need to stop the conflict spreading. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron meets his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem during a visit to express France's "full solidarity" with Israel after the deadly October 7 attacks by Palestinian islamist group Hamas, in which at least 1,400 people were killed, mostly civilians. IMAGES
After his arrival at Tel aviv airport, French President Emmanuel Macron meets with the families of French and French-Israeli nationals killed in the Hamas attack or being held hostage in Gaza. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape during a visit to the region. IMAGES