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Supporters of France's left-wing Nupes bloc celebrated on Sunday as initial projections showed President Emmanuel Macron on course to lose his absolute majority in the National Assembly.

France's Socialist party and the hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party have reached an agreement in principle to ally the June parliament vote, LFI politician Adrien Quatennens said on Franceinfo radio on Wednesday (May 4).

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen denied being a 'climate sceptic' on Sunday (April 17) in response to an attack by President Emmanuel Macron.

French President Emmanuel Macron defended on March 14 sanctions imposed on Russia by EU countries, during a special programme for which French channel TF1 invited all the major presidential election candidates.

"The most important thing is that the Ukrainian side should take a serious approach to reaching agreements, the implementation of which is important for the cessation of hostilities," said the Kremlin.

They also agreed on the need to favor a diplomatic solution to the current crisis and "to do everything to achieve it."

Russia's core concerns on security were ignored by the United States and NATO, Putin said.

The controls of health pass will be strengthened in France in concerned establishments, including airports, ports and train stations. People over 65 years old and the most vulnerable ones will have to get a booster dose in order to validate their health pass from Dec. 15.

The White House said Vice President Kamala Harris will visit France next month. Her trip is seen as the Biden administrations continuing efforts to repair U.S.-France relations, which suffered setbacks due to a controversial nuclear submarine deal.

France was infuriated when Australia, the U.S. and Britain announced a security partnership known as AUKUS on Sept. 15, whose first initiative is the delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine fleet to Australia by the latter two countries despite the Australian governments multibillion-dollar 2016 contract to buy diesel-electric submarines from France.

French President Emmanuel Macron must soon make the biggest decision for years to come on the makeup of the European Central Banks policymakers: whether to reappoint the Bank of France governor.

Macron and Biden "have decided to open a process of in-depth consultations aimed at creating the conditions for ensuring confidence and proposing concrete measures toward common objectives," said a joint statement.