All posts tagged "Diplomatie"

New Orleans (AFP) - President Emmanuel Macron arrived on Friday in New Orleans, a city emblematic of historic Franco-American ties, to promote the French language and conclude his three-day state visit to the United States. The day after a lavish reception at the White House that sealed the "friendship" of the French president with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, he landed in the Louisiana city for a brief stop. After a colorful welcome by a jazz band on the tarmac at the airport, Macron and his wife, Brigitte, walked through the streets of the city's lively French Quarter. Removing his jacket,......

Washington (AFP) - Britain's Prince Harry and US First Lady Jill Biden paid homage Monday to US veterans in a virtual ceremony for the Warrior Games, a sports competition for wounded US military veterans canceled this year over the coronavirus pandemic.  The Warrior Games "inspired me to create the Invictus Games," a similar multi-national sports event for wounded service members and veterans founded by Prince Harry and held for the first time in 2014 in London, said the Duke if Sussex. Prince Harry, a combat veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan, first attended the US Department of Defe......