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The french foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, meets in Paris his british counterpart, Jeremy Hunt. IMAGES
Civil servants in Paris turn out in low numners to march in an attempt to wrest pay rises from the French government despite a tight budgetary situation. IMAGES
French Ecology Minister Christophe Bechu and Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau are booed and hissed at at the Paris international Agricultural Show by around twenty people shouting "Fesneau resign" and holding up signs reading "Come back down to earth", as the two ministers are forced to leave the stand of Ademe, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency. IMAGES
French farmers block traffic around Paris's famed Arc de Triomphe monument with tractors and bales of hay. IMAGES
"This constitutional revision will make this tragedy irreversible for the weakest members of society," says Marie-Lys Pellissier, spokesperson for the "March for Life", at an anti-abortion rights demonstration of about fifty activists near Port-Royal as the Senate prepared to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, arrives at the Élysée Palace in Paris for a state dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron, as part of a two-day visit to France focused on the release of hostages in Gaza and the relaunch of the process to create a Palestinian state, as well as on strengthening bilateral relations. IMAGES