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Olympic chiefs announce that Russian and Belarusian athletes competing in this summer's Paris Games under a neutral flag will not be able to take part in the opening ceremony. SOUNDBITE
Dozens of protesters holding signs critical of the Kremlin demonstrate outside the Russian embassy in Paris, heeding opposition calls to demonstrate against President Vladimir Putin on the last day of the country's presidential vote. Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who lives in exile in France after protesting the offensive in Ukraine on Russian state TV, is in attendance, telling AFP they want to "to show all the world we are against Putin." IMAGES
During a press conference on his two-day state visit to Sweden, French President Emmanuel Macron says that "the cost of a Russian victory is too high for all of us" and that Europe must support Ukraine "whatever it takes, whatever it costs." SOUNDBITE
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne says her government "stands by the people of Mayotte", at the start of a visit to Mayotte, France's poorest department, which is facing severe drought, migratory pressure from neighbouring Comoros and growing insecurity. SOUNDBITE
French police officers stand guard on Bir-Hakeim Bridge in Paris near the site where an attacker stabbed a German tourist to death and injured two other people before being arrested. IMAGES ++ COMPLETES VIDI346U3K9_EN and VIDI346T9RW_EN ++