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Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a tea ceremony at the Guandong province governor's residence. Macron flew to the southern city of Guangzhou on Friday on the final day of his three-day state visit to China. IMAGES
A memorial to almost 22,500 servicemen and women under British command killed during D-Day and subsequent battles was unveiled in northern France on Sunday, a tribute to their sacrifice seen as long overdue. The British Normandy Memorial, inscribed with the names of 22,442 men and women who lost their lives during the invasion of Nazi-occupied France in the summer of 1944, is situated on a hillside in the Normandy village of Ver-sur-Mer. Opened on the 77th anniversary of the landings, it overlooks Gold Beach, one of three beaches where British forces landed on the morning of June 6, 1944 to begin the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi occupation. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron is transported along avenue Foch in the "command car" during the Bastille Day military parade in Paris before greeting members of his government and the army. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the ceremony in Cherbourg, the strategic D-Day harbour, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron arrive, accompanied by their respective wives, at the American ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy, at Colleville-sur-Mer in Calvados. IMAGES
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