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Ecologist MPs pose on the steps of the Palais Bourbon as they arrive at the National Assembly, following the Left's success in the legislative elections. They will be followed by the Insoumis members and then the Socialists. IMAGES
Gerald Darmanin is voting in Tourcoing, in northern France, for someone who has given him a proxy, for the second round of the legislative elections. The French Interior Minister himself voted earlier in the day. IMAGES
Marie Toussaint, head of the Green list for the European elections, votes in Bordeaux. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hails the United States' decision to allow Kyiv to use American-supplied weapons to strike in Russia, with some restrictions. The move is "some step forward" toward the defence of people in border villages, Zelensky tells reporters at a Ukrainian-Northern Europe security summit in Stockholm. SOUNDBITE
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin arrives at the synagogue in Rouen, where he is greeted by the city's mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, after a knife-wielding man set fire to the building before being shot dead by police officers. IMAGES
Fatoumatta Sandeng Darboe, the daughter of Solo Sandeng who was tortured and killed during the Yaya Jammeh regime in Gambia, reacts to the sentencing of Gambian ex-interior minister Ousman Sonko to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity: "We are actually happy that the responsibility of Ousmane Sonko in all of what has happened in the Gambia and the time that he served and even in the 22 years rule of Yaya Jammeh is put out there and it's made clear to everyone that people are held responsible for what they have done." SOUNDBITES