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In Paris, in the presence of Greta Thunberg, environmental activists unveil giant dollars to put pressure on leaders meeting at the summit for a new financial pact to "put an end" to fossil fuel financing. IMAGES
US President Donald Trump announces the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, in the Rose Garden at the White House. SOUNDBITE
Police are deployed around the rue Scribe in Paris, behind the Opéra Garnier, where Joe Biden is staying. The American President arrived in France on Wednesday morning to attend the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of D-Day. IMAGES
Two environmental activists throw soup at the armoured glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre museum in Paris, justifying their action by their desire to promote "the right to healthy and sustainable food." IMAGES
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE