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Brazilian football legend Pele says he hopes Kylian Mbappe scores more than 1,000 goals in his career, perhaps even going on to break his goal-scoring record, in an interview with AFP after meeting the French wonderkid for the first time. SOUNDBITE
Statues of PSG striker Kylian Mbappé, Italian fencer Béatrice "Bebe" Vio and NBA legend LeBron James are erected for an event in front of the Palais Brongniart in Paris. IMAGES
A smiling Kylian Mbappe is greeted by French President Emmanuel Macron and the Emir of Qatar, Tamim ben Hamad Al-Thani, at the Elysée Palace on Tuesday evening. "You're going to get us into trouble again," joked Emmanuel Macron to the Paris Saint-Germain striker, as the French star will leave the club at the end of the current season. IMAGES . TO COMPLETE VIDEO 34KB8J8
French football team captain and PSG star striker Kylian Mbappe and Parisian club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi arrive at the Elysée Palace for a state dinner with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and French President Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen urges the bloc's 27 leaders to back massive financial aid for Ukraine and Kyiv's ambitions for membership talks, ahead of a crunch summit. "We must give Ukraine what it needs to be strong today, so it can be stronger tomorrow at the table when it is negotiating a long-lasting and just peace," the European Commission president tells MEPs. SOUNDBITE
The family of Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki "have come without "no hope whatsoever of any disclosure nor admission" to the appeal trial in eastern France of Chilean Nicolas Zepeda, sentenced to 28 years in prison for the murder of the student in the first trial. SOUNDBITE