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Top EU official: Belarus is 'weaponizing human suffering' to attack Europe. Devotees bathe in sacred river covered in toxic foam. In the minute call, Biden appeared to acknowledge missteps in how the United States approached the talks. A joint statement between the United States and France afterward said Macron and Biden "agreed that the situation would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters of strategic interest to France and our European partners.

The rare, if indirect, admission of error was a signal of how seriously both sides are taking the diplomatic dispute, which has led to the lowest point in relations between the United States and France since the "Freedom Fries" era at the start of the Iraq War. In their call, Biden and Macron agreed to meet in person at the end of next month in Europe.

Biden had already planned to attend a Group of 20 summit in Rome at the end of October and an official said the assumption is that the meeting between the two leaders will take place there. Read More. France will send its ambassador back to Washington next week after French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden agreed in a phone call to meet next month over a submarine dispute. The two heads of state "have decided to open a process of in-depth consultations, aimed at creating the conditions for ensuring confidence," the Elysee and the White House said in a joint statement.

In an unprecedented move, France recalled its ambassador after the US, Australia and Britain announced a new Indo-Pacific defence deal last week. As part of the pact, Australia will cancel a multi-billion-dollar contract to buy diesel-electric French submarines and acquire US nuclear-powered vessels instead. The French ambassador will "have intensive work with senior US officials" after his return to the United States, the statement said.

Mr Biden and Mr Macron agreed "that the situation would have benefited from open consultations among allies on matters of strategic interest to France and our European partners". Mr Biden "conveyed his ongoing commitment in that regard", and reaffirmed in the statement "the strategic importance of French and European engagement in the Indo-Pacific region". The European Union unveiled last week a new strategy for boosting economic, political and defence ties in the vast area stretching from India and China through Japan to South East Asia and eastward past New Zealand to the Pacific.

The United States also "recognises the importance of a stronger and more capable European defence, that contributes positively to transatlantic and global security and is complementary to NATO", the statement said. Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Macron's office said the French President was expecting "clarifications and clear commitments" from Mr Biden, who had requested the call. French officials described as a "crisis of trust" last week's announcement of the Indo-Pacific deal , with Mr Macron being formally informed only a few hours beforehand.

Paris is calling for "acts, not words only", Mr Macron's office said. France's EU partners agreed on Tuesday to put the dispute at the top of the bloc's political agenda, including at an EU summit next month. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson dismissed French anger over the submarine deal, saying French officials should "get a grip". Minutes after Hidalgo's announcement, Le Pen kickstarted her campaign in the southern city of Frejus.

For her third presidential bid the anti-immigration Le Pen, 53, has styled herself the guarantor of French "liberty". Le Pen vowed to crack down on "parts of France that have been Talibanised" -- a reference to the presence of radical Islamists in some high-rise housing estates. The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore.

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