Macron is interrupted by a weeping heckler while apologising to Algeria s Harkis dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Aimed at attracting foreign investments to France, the Choose France Summit held in Versailles, June 28, was of a different hue this time. It saw the inauguration of the French Nigeria Business Council to facilitate business cooperation between both countries as President Emmanuel Macron appointed BUA Group Chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu, the inaugural president of the council. But that is not the story. There were other scenes at the summit generating talking points in the African business circuit. Chiefly, the attendance of Globacom chairman, Mike Adenuga Jnr, his obvious great stature and healthier look, and the reunion of otherwise sworn enemies, billionaires Aliko Dangote and Abdul Samad Rabiu, attracted people’s interests. Lanre Alfred writes
Whyte s announces highlights included in its annual Eclectic Collector auction
1000-800BC. Irish Bronze Age sword. Estimate 4,500-5,500 (approx £3,910-£4,780).
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.-Whytes annual Eclectic Collector auction is eagerly awaited by collectors worldwide, containing as it does a most intriguing mix of historical artefacts, manuscripts, books, maps, militaria, coins, banknotes, tribal objects, rare whiskies and more.
The oldest object in the sale is a Bronze Age sword, made about three thousand years ago [lot 1], found about 70 years ago in Co. Fermanagh, and valued at 4,500 to 5,500, while the youngest is a 1998 Good Friday Agreement signed by many of the negotiators [lot 265] and expected to bring 5,000 to 7,000.
RAMBOUILLET, France (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Jean Castex paid tribute in a nationally televised ceremony on Friday to an administrative police worker stabbed to death last week at a police station, saying she was victim of "Islamist terrorism".
French PM pays tribute to slain police worker msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.