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Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Hiroshima, Japan, ahead of the G7 Summit where the heads of seven wealthy democracies are gathered to discuss tightening the screws on Russia's ailing economy as well as how to respond to China's growing military and economic power. IMAGES
Images of French flags in front of the White House ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron's arrival in Washington, DC. Macron and his US counterpart Joe Biden will discuss a slew of issues, ranging from aligning policy on Russia's invasion of Ukraine to easing trade spats. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa meet in Brussels, prior to an EU summit where leaders are set for tough talks on how to handle Europe's energy shock. IMAGES
On the last day of official campaigning for the first round of France's parliamentary elections, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne campaigns at a market in Vire, a town in the Normandy region, in the constituency of Calvados where Borne is running. IMAGES
A motorcade transporting French President Macron arrives at the Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv. Emmanuel Macron meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a day after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, in a diplomatic effort to ease tensions in the region over Russia's military build-up on its border with Ukraine. IMAGES