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Photo: A parrot holds a placard during a student demonstration at Dhaka University in Bangladesh against the Israeli attack on Gaza.

Bilingual: France's President Francois Hollande is preparing to marry his mistress on his 60th birthday next month, according to media reports in France. The country's bachelor president has been plagued by rumors about his personal life since splitting up with his live-in girlfriend in January. Valerie Trierweiler, 49, left the Elysee Palace when Hollande's affair with Julie Gayet, a 42-year-old actress, was made public.