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Gerard Larcher, senator for the Yvelines, has been re-elected to a fifth three-year term in the Senate. A formality for this right-wing tenor, supported by the centre and appreciated beyond. IMAGES
France's new prime minister, Jean Castex, arrives in the courtyard of the Senate to meet its President Gérard Larcher. Castex was appointed last week by president Emmanuel Macron, following the resignation of Edouard Philippe amid a cabinet reshuffle. IMAGES
Seventy children were still missing following a blaze that destroyed a school dormitory in central Kenya and killed at least 17 young pupils, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua says in a statement in Endarasha where the tragedy took place overnight. SOUNDBITE
The President of the Senate, Gerard Larcher, conservative MP Laurent Wauquiez, and conservative Senator, Bruno Retailleau, arrive on foot at Matignon, where the newly appointed French Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, begins his consultations to form a government. IMAGES
Pope Francis meets Indonesia's President Joko Widodo in Jakarta in the first major set piece of his tour. The head of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics is on a three-day visit to the Muslim-majority nation before he travels to Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore on the longest trip of his papacy. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets his Mongolian counterpart Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh in Ulaanbaatar on his first visit to an International Criminal Court member since it issued a warrant for his arrest last year. IMAGES
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