Minute's silence for teaching assistant fatally stabbed in France
A minute's silence is held at a secondary school in Nogent, eastern France, where 31-year-old teaching assistant Melanie was fatally stabbed by a 14-year-old boy on Tuesday. IMAGES
French Defence Minister and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth pay tribute to the "heroes of today" who landed in Normandy on 6 June 1944 during a ceremony at Utah Beach to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings. "The world needs this peace and our unity," said Sebastien Lecornu in a speech. IMAGES
A minute's silence is held at a secondary school in Nogent, eastern France, where 31-year-old teaching assistant Melanie was fatally stabbed by a 14-year-old boy on Tuesday. IMAGES
Demonstrators, including a number of ecologist and rebel MPs, gather outside France's National Assembly in Paris to protest against the Duplomb-Menonville farm bill, which is on the verge of being ratified by Parliament. The law would allow farmers, via a special derogation, to use a controversial neonicotinoid pesticide - which experts say damages the environment and in particular bees. IMAGES
US President Donald Trump says he plans to impose a 100 percent tariff on imported semiconductors, although he does not offer a timetable for the new levy being enacted. "We're going to be putting a very large tariff on chips and semiconductors," he tells reporters at the White House, adding that level would be "100 percent." SOUNDBITE
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