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| The US president, Donald Trump, has accepted an invitation from his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, to attend Bastille Day ceremonies in Paris on 14 July, a senior White House official said on Wednesday. Macron extended the invitation when the two leaders spoke on Tuesday. The two men last met in Brussels in May, a session marked by an extended handshake between them. | |
| The French national holiday commemorates the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, an event that marked a turning point in the French Revolution. | |
| “As part of the commemoration marking the 100th anniversary of the entry of the United States into the first world war, the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has accepted an invitation from the president of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, to attend the Bastille Day parade on 14 July,” Macron’s office said in a statement. | |
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