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The US president-elect has announced plans to travel to Paris this weekend to attend the reopening ceremony of Notre-Dame Cathedral, in what would be his first foreign visit since winning the presidential election at the start of November.

The announcement to attend the special event on 7 December came on Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social:

“It is an honor to announce that I will be traveling to Paris, France, on Saturday to attend the reopening of the magnificent and historic Notre Dame Cathedral, which has been fully restored after a devastating fire five years ago," President-elect Donald Trump wrote.

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