The 70th Cannes film festival, presided by Pedro Almodovar, drew to a close on Sunday, with top prize going to Swedish director Ruben Ostlund's The Square, while the Grand Prix went to Robin Campillo's 120 Beats per Minute, and Sofia Coppola was awarded best director prize for her film The Beguiled.
The 2017 edition of the French Open at Roland Garros tennis complex in western Paris opened in stifling heat on Sunday, with Angelique Kerber from Germany being the first-ever top seed to fall at round one of the tournament, which will last until June 11th.
French President Emmanuel Macron interviewed in French weekly JDD said the widely commented handshake duel with his US counterpart Donald Trump, when the two met for the first time last week in Brussels, was 'a moment of truth' with a man he said was, along with Russian President Vladidmir Putin and Turkish leader Recep Erdoğan, 'in a logic of relations of power'.
A cross above the tomb of General Charles de Gaulle, the figurehead of French resistance to German occupation in WW2 and founder of France's Fifth Republic constitution who died in 1970, was pushed over and broken in two by a man described by the mayor of Colombey-les-deux-Églises, the north-east village where de Gaulle is buried, as being probably "a little deranged".
World leaders meeting at the G7 summit in Sicily have been unable to reach unanimous agreement on commitment to the UN climate change deal mapped out in Paris in 2015 after US President Donald Trump, who has previously described global warming as 'a hoax', said he would decide on the issue next week.
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