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Added on the 28/04/2023 20:16:21 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
French Ministers Florence Parly (Defence) and Jean-Yves Le Drian (Foreign Affairs) arrive at Al-Dhafra Air Base 104 in the United Arab Emirates, where the French Air Force has set up an air bridge to Kabul. They are due to meet with military personnel, diplomats and all the staff who are organising evacuations from Afghanistan. IMAGES
Senegalese President Macky Sall receives French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe at the presidential palace in Dakar to discuss the fight against jihadism in the Sahel. IMAGES
British veterans arrive at a ceremony at the British cemetery in Bayeux, northern France, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944. IMAGES
The decorated funeral caskets of French soldiers Cédric de Pierrepont, 33, and Alain Bertoncello, 28, are carried by colleagues into the Cour d'Honneur at the Invalides national military complex in Paris. The soldiers, killed during a raid to free hostages in Burkina Faso, are honoured during a national ceremony presided over by Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES
Images of French gendarmes and members of civil defense boarding an air force plane bound for New Caledonia after France imposed a state of emergency, following three nights of clashes in its Pacific territory that have left five dead and hundreds wounded. Largely indigenous protests against a French plan to impose new voting rules on the archipelago have spiraled into the deadliest violence since the 1980s. IMAGES