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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives on the island of Combu off the coast of Belem, in the Brazilian Amazon, with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Macron has promised to discuss closer cooperation in the fight against illegal gold mining with Brazil, where he begins an emblematic state visit lasting almost three days following his trip to French Guiana. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden mixes up the current President of France Emmanuel Macron with former French leader Francois Mitterrand who died in 1996. Speaking at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, Biden recalled a discussion with other heads of state at the G7 summit held in Cornwall in June 2021, a few months after his inauguration: "I said, 'America is back'". 81 years old Biden then remembers how it elicited a reply from "Mitterrand from Germany" before correcting himself : " I mean, from France". Francois Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995, serving a record two seven-years terms. SOUNDBITE
American First Lady Jill Biden arrives at the Elysée Palace accompanied by her daughter Ashley Biden. They were welcomed by French First Lady Brigitte Macron, ahead of Jill Biden's scheduled visit to UNESCO to mark the return of the United States to the institution. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the Louvre Museum in Paris ahead of a grand dinner in honour of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Bastille Day. Despite differences over the war in Ukraine and concerns over human rights in India, Western democracies are courting New Delhi as a military and economic counterweight to China. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes heads of state, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and European Council President Charles Michel for a working dinner at the Elysée Palace, on the sidelines of an international summit for "a new global financial pact". IMAGES