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France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin attends the Bastille Day military parade, Tuesday, July 14, 2020 in Paris. France are honoring nurses, ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers and others on its biggest national holiday Tuesday. Bastille Day's usual grandiose military parade in Paris is being redesigned this year to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

France’s Macron defends security chief accused of rape

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A firefighter wears a face mask with the colors of the French flag, prior to the Bastille Day parade Tuesday, July 14, 2020 on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris. France are honoring nurses, ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers and others on its biggest national holiday Tuesday. Bastille Day's usual grandiose military parade in Paris is being redesigned this year to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

France says ‘merci’ to virus heroes on poignant Bastille Day

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

Newly appointed Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, center, talks to police officers during a visit of a police headquarters in Les Mureaux, outside Paris, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Former budget minister Darmanin was named to replace Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, who had come under fire amid widespread French protests against racial injustice and police brutality spurred by the death of George Floyd in the United States. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)

Women’s rights groups protest French ministers’ appointments

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 19, 2020 file photo, French government coordinator for the end of lockdown Jean Castex leaves after a videoconference with the French President and French mayors at the Elysee Palace in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron has named Jean Castex, who coordinated France's virus reopening strategy, as new prime minister on Friday July 3, 2020. Emmanuel Macron is reshuffling the government to focus on reviving the economy after months of lockdown. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP, File)

France: Macron ousts security chief after police protests

By SYLVIE CORBET and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 19, 2020 file photo, French government coordinator for the end of lockdown Jean Castex leaves after a videoconference with the French President and French mayors at the Elysee Palace in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron has named Jean Castex, who coordinated France's virus reopening strategy, as new prime minister on Friday July 3, 2020. Emmanuel Macron is reshuffling the government to focus on reviving the economy after months of lockdown. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP, File)

Reopening strategist Castex named new French prime minister

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo gets a bouquet of flowers after her victorious second round of the municipal election, Sunday, June 28, 2020 in Paris. France on Sunday held the second round of municipal elections that has seen a record low turnout amid concerns over the coronavirus outbreak and anger at how President Emmanuel Macron's government handled it. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Macron pledges billions for climate after Greens make gains

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, left, talk during a bilateral meeting at the German government's guest house Meseberg Castle in Gransee near Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 29 2020. The meeting takes place ahead of Germany's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020. (Hayoung Jeon, Pool via AP)

France, Germany push for rapid EU recovery plan agreement

By DAVID RISING and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to French President Emmanuel Macron during a via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, June 26, 2020. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Macron discuss closer cooperation in video call

By ANGELA CHARLTON and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speech the industrial development laboratory at French drugmaker's vaccine unit Sanofi Pasteur plant in Marcy-l'Etoile, near Lyon, central France, Tuesday, June 16, 2020.The visit comes after rival pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca this weekend announced a deal to supply 400 million vaccine doses to EU countries, including France. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, Pool)

Macron marks appeal that gave birth to French Resistance

By DANICA KIRKA and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, May 4, 2020 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron listens during an international video conference call on vaccination, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Macron is giving an address to his nation Sunday, June 14, 2020 after an unusually long silence, as France faces both exceptional economic blowback from the virus pandemic and rekindled anger over deep-seated racism. In a televised evening address, Macron is expected to focus mainly on the virus that has plunged France into its worst crisis since World War II. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP, File)

French leader rejects racism but colonial statues to remain

By SYLVIE CORBET and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

FILE- In this Thursday, Jan 23, 2020 file photo, from left, French President Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Prince Charles attend the World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. Britain’s Prince Charles will host French President Emmanuel Macron for a special celebration marking the 80th anniversary of Gen. Charles De Gaulle’s defiant appeal to the French people to resist the Nazis during World War II. Charles and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, will receive Macron at his Clarence House home with a Guard of Honor formed by Number 7 Company of the Coldstream Guards and accompanied the Band of the Coldstream Guards on Thursday, June 18, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Prince Charles to host Macron to mark De Gaulle WWII appeal

By DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron wears a protective face mask as he speaks with schoolchildren at the Pierre Ronsard elementary school Tuesday, May 5 2020 in Poissy, outside Paris. Starting from May 11, all French businesses will be allowed to resume activity and schools will start gradually reopening. (Ian Langsdon, Pool via AP)

France’s Macron makes mask-wearing an act of national pride

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks after a video-conference summit on vaccination at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, May 4, 2020. World leaders began pledging Monday hundreds of millions of dollars to fund research into a vaccine against the new coronavirus, but warned that it is just the start of an effort that must be sustained over time to beat the disease. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP)

Emmanuel Macron confident U.S. will join vaccine pledge

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French President Emmanuel Macron takes part in a videoconference with World Health Organization (WHO) general-director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the Elysee Palace on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in Paris. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)

France extends coronavirus lockdown restrictions until May 11

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Medical staff embark a patient infected with the COVID-19 virus in a train at the Gare d'Austerlitz train station Wednesday April 1, 2020 in Paris. France is evacuating 36 patients infected with the coronavirus from the Paris region onboard two medicalized high-speed TGV trains. The patients, all treated in intensive care units (ICU), are being transferred to several hospitals in Britany, as western France is less impacted by the epidemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)

France turns to speedy trains to catch up in virus response

By SYLVIE CORBET and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Demonstrators march to protest against pension reform plans, in Paris, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron's government is trying to pass contested pension changes at the lower house of parliament without a vote amid protests from opposition lawmaker and labor unions. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French pensions: Government survives two confidence votes

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte, right, and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands after a press conference on the occasion of the first  French-Italian summit in more than two years, in Naples, southern Italy, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Virus outbreak spreads in France with 20 new cases

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French President Emmanuel Macron drinks wine during a visit to the International Agriculture Fair (Salon de l'Agriculture) at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. (Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool via AP)

At Paris farm fair, Macron vows to protect EU ag subsidies

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French President Emmanuel Macron, arrives for a meeting with associations, in Mulhouse, eastern France, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. Macron said Tuesday he was determined to fight against &quot;Islamist separatism&quot; but also &quot;discrimination ». (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, Pool)

France to end imam, teacher deals to counter extremism

By SYLVIE CORBET and JEAN-FRANCOIS BADIAS - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures on the second day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Skeptical Macron sees progress on EU enlargement talks

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