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Summoned by the police for suspected justification of "terrorism", the leader of far-left (France Unbowed, LFI) MPs in the French parliament Mathilde Panot denounces "unprecedented authoritarian headlong rush" at a support rally in Paris. IMAGES
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Minister of Racial Equality Anielle Franco hold an event to announce her political affiliation with the Workers Party (PT) in the Lapa neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. IMAGES
Hundreds of people attend the first campaign meeting of Macron's Renaissance party for the European elections, with Valérie Hayer as head of list, backed by French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. IMAGES
French MPs and Senators meeting in the Congress of Versailles have overwhelmingly voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the Constitution, announced the Speaker of the House, Yael Braun-Pivet, making France the first country in the world to do so explicitly. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom after the Paris court of appeal lightened a one-year prison sentence for the former French president over illegal campaign financing, saying he needed to spend only half that time behind bars. But while lighter than the original sentence, Wednesday's ruling was still harsher than the one-year suspended sentence that prosecutors called for. IMAGES
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Paris courthouse to hear the verdict of the appeal trial in the 'Bygmalion' case. Sarkozy was previously sentenced to a year in prison for illegal financing of his 2012 presidential campaign. IMAGES