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Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky on Monday gives an upbeat assessment of talks with US counterpart Donald Trump and said they discussed security guarantees. "We had a very good conversation with President Trump, and it really was the best one -- or, sorry, maybe the best one will be in the future," Zelensky said at an expanded meeting with European leaders. SOUNDBITE
Around one hundred people gather outside the Pantheon in Paris to protest against the escalating military conflict between Iran and Israel, on the seventh day of the war between the longtime enemies. IMAGES
Serge Atlaoui, former death row inmate in Indonesia for drug trafficking, transferred and incarcerated in February in France, is released from Meaux prison (Seine-et-Marne) after twenty years of detention. Atlaoui was arrested in 2005 near Jakarta, accused of being a drug lab "chemist", a claim he always denied, stating he only installed machinery. Initially sentenced to life, he was later condemned to death in 2007. A 2015 execution was halted at the last minute after diplomatic appeals from France. IMAGES
France continues to swelter, with 14 departments in the southwest and centre-east under a red heatwave alert on Tuesday. The exceptional heatwave, even for August, has prompted authorities to step up precautionary measures. In Lyon, temperatures exceeded 30°C as early as 10 a.m. on Tuesday. IMAGES
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