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Starmer and Macron demonstrate Franco-British unity at WWI anniversary in Paris

French President Emmanuel Macron (centre, R) and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Place de l'Etoile, in Paris, to commemorate the 1918 armistice that ended WWI, 11 November 2024. © Ludovic Marin/Pool via Reuters

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined French President Emmanuel Macron Monday at the ceremony in Paris commemorating the 106th anniversary of the end of World War I in a symbolic show of unity between the two countries.

Before the traditional ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe, the two leaders placed wreaths by statues of Churchill and of Georges Clemenceau, the French prime minister at the time of the Armistice

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