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French President Emmanuel Macron meets Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the first day of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. Images show the two presidents shaking hands and posing for photos at the end of their meeting. NATO leaders grapple with Ukraine's membership ambitions, their determination to face down Russia boosted by a breakthrough in Sweden's bid to join the alliance. IMAGES
A large French flag flies above the first level of the Eiffel Tower as part of the annual 8 May commemorations. This year marks 75 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe but ceremonies have had to be scaled back and held without the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic. IMAGES
75 years after Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to push Nazi forces out of France, men gather in vintage military uniforms on Omaha Beach to pay tribute to the soldiers who took part in the operation. IMAGES
A national security cabinet meeting took place Friday morning at the Elysée palace the day after a terrorist attack killed one policeman in Paris. IMAGES.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz meets his British and French counterparts, David Lammy and Stéphane Séjourné in Jerusalem. Lammy and Séjourné are in Jerusalem to discuss the ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar. 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