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French Minister of Defence Sebastien Lecornu welcomes his British counterpart Ben Wallace for the 36th Franco-British Summit held in Paris. IMAGES
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian welcomes his Nigerien counterpart, Hassoumi Massoudou, to Paris after the postponement of a meeting between the EU and the G5 Sahel countries due to the coup in Burkina Faso. 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
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna welcomes her Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani for a joint press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin is welcomed by UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman for a meeting at Britain's National Crime Agency in London about the issue of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats from France to England. This has proved a major bone of contention in post-Brexit relations between Paris and London, though in comments at the start of the meeting the Home Secretary praises recent cooperation. IMAGES
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