France boosts military spending amid war in Ukraine

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FILE - A French serviceman stands on a Leclerc main battle tank during a joint French US exercise involving HIMARS and MLRP rocket launchers and at a firing range in Capu Midia, on the Black Sea shore, Romania, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. U.S. and French troops that are part of a NATO battlegroup in Romania held a military exercise. The French government approved on Tuesday April 4, 2023 in Cabinet meeting a key budget bill presented as the biggest military spending effort for France since the 1960s and meant to take into account the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)