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Lawmakers in the Mississippi House and Senate vote to remove the Confederate battle standard from the state flag. The bill calls for a nine-member commission to design a new flag that does not use the Confederate standard and does include the phrase "In God, We Trust." IMAGES
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrive at the Damascus Gate to join thousands of Israeli nationalists participating in the so-called Jerusalem Day flag march, which commemorates the Israeli army's capture of eastern Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. IMAGES
Policemen guard the gates leading to the Jerusalem's Old City and barriers are set up along the route, as the city prepares for the annual "flag march" commemorating the capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day war. IMAGES
Hard-left LFI MP Rachel Keke stands up in the French parliament with a Palestinian flag, repeating the gesture made by her colleague Sebastien Delogu last week, which led to the suspension of the session. Ecologists, communists and France Unbowed MPs wore black, red, white and green, the colours of the Palestinian flag, in a show of support for this people. IMAGES
French parliament suspended lef-wing MP Sebastien Delogu after he held up a Palestinian flag during a heated debate over whether France should recognise Palestinian statehood, in violation of the House's rules. A member of parliament for the radical left France Unbowed (LFI) party from the southern city of Marseille, he has been suspended from the Assembly for two weeks and will lose half of his parliamentary allowance for two months. The sanction recommended by the Assembly's executive committee was approved by the majority, the right and the far right, with the left largely voting against in a "show of hands" in the Chamber. (COMPLETES VIDI34U796F_EN) IMAGES
France Unbowed MP Sebastien Delogu waved a Palestinian flag in the French National Assembly during government question time, prompting the session to be suspended by President Yael Braun-Pivet, who condemned the 'unacceptable' behaviour. IMAGES
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