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Far-right leader and candidate for next spring presidential elections Marine le Pen, delivers her New Year's address to the media in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is cheering Ford Motor Co.'s decision to shift investment from Mexico to the U.S., calling it a victory for the protectionist policies she champions. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France’s Le Pen lauds Ford decision as win for protectionism

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World No. 1 Murray wins his opening match of 2017 in Doha

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FILE - In this photo dated Thursday, March 24, 2016, a German flag flies at the German combat supply ship 'Frankfurt am Main' in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya. National emblems still hold meaning, but Europe’s open borders seem to symbolize liberty and forward thinking for the region, although they increasingly look like the continent’s Achilles’ heel, with its inability to implement cross border security. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, FILE)

After Berlin attack, Europe weighs freedom against security

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti, second from left, is flanked by Rome's prefect Franco Gabrielli, second from right, Carabinieri commander General Tullio del Sette, left, and Financial Police commander general Giorgio Toschi, right, during a news conference in Rome, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. Italy's interior minister Marco Minniti says the man killed in an early-hours shootout in Milan is &quot;without a shadow of doubt&quot; the Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The Latest: Mother of Berlin attacker: Who was behind him?

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Ritach Halif, 2, is carried by her mother, after the family which came from Idlib, Syria, crossed into Turkey at the Cilvegozu border gate with Syria, near Hatay, southeastern Turkey, Sunday, Dec, 18, 2016. Several people were able to cross into Turkey after they managed to leave the embattled Syrian city during the ceasefire, and arrived in Turkey by their own means. The Aleppo evacuation was suspended Friday after a report of shooting at a crossing point into the enclave by both sides of the conflict. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Aleppo: Syria buses resume taking remaining civilians, rebels from city

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Spanish snowboarders win World Cup cross team event

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Radu Ioanid, director of the International Archival Programs Division at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, left, speaks while French Secretary of State for Veterans and Remembrance Jean-Marc Todeschini, center, and Jacques Fredj, Executive Director of France's Shoah Memorial stay next to him during a signing ceremony in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. France's Defense Ministry signs a deal to hand over digitized versions of its archives around World War II persecution of Jews to Holocaust museums in Washington and Paris so that the public can access them. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France allows Holocaust museums to digitize WWII archives

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Davis Cup captain Yannick Noah to skipper Fed Cup side

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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls blows a kiss to the audience after announcing his candidacy for the Socialist primary next month, in Evry, outside Paris, Monday Dec. 5, 2016. Valls hopes to unite the Socialists under his banner and give the left a chance to stay at the Elysee, in the most ambitious challenge of his political life after president Francois Hollande decided not to run for re-election next year. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Manuel Valls, French prime minister, steps down to focus on presidential election

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Yannick Noah to remain France Davis Cup captain for 2017

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URI professor wins French academic honor

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French supporters wave their national flags prior to the World Cup Group A qualifying match between France and Sweden at the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, on Friday Nov. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Pogba continues his scoring touch as France beats Sweden 2-1

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

Evra called up to France squad for injured Kurzawa

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Moenchengladbach's Raffael, right, in action with Young Boys' Yoric Ravet, left, during their Champions League playoff first leg soccer match between Switzerland's BSC Young Boys and Germany's Borussia Moenchengladbach at the Stade de Suisse stadium in Bern, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (Manuel Lopez/Keystone via AP)

France’s Deschamps selects Rabiot, drops Martial, Gignac

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A woman walks past a display at the China International Chemical Industry Fair in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. Despite periodic crackdowns, people willing to skirt the law are easy to find in China’s vast, freewheeling chemicals industry, made up of an estimated 160,000 companies operating legally and illegally. Vendors said they lie on customs forms, guarantee delivery to countries where carfentanil is banned and volunteered strategic advice on sneaking packages past law enforcement. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Ordering deadly drugs from China is easy

By ERIKA KINETZ and RAPHAEL SATTER - Associated Press

With help for Griezmann, Atletico eyes title with new attack

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

A worker hangs a billboard showing Christian leader Michel Aoun with Arabic that reads &quot;For all Lebanon,&quot; in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Aoun, an 81-year-old veteran Christian politician, is set to be elected by Parliament on Monday as part of a political deal that's expected to be another boost for President Bashar Assad in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Michel Aoun: Lebanon’s popular yet divisive new president

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

The Venus de Milo at the Louvre in Paris. (Eric Althoff/The Washington Times)

TRAVEL: Paris luxury day trip package from London offers grand taste of French capital

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

Migrants carrying their belongings leave a makeshift camp known as "the jungle" near Calais, northern France, to register at a processing centre, Monday Oct. 24, 2016. Oct. 24, 2016. French authorities say the closure of the slum-like camp in Calais will start on Monday and will last approximatively a week in what they describe as a "humanitarian" operation. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France moving more than 6,000 migrants, destroying huge camp

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

Real Madrid's Karim Benzema, right, celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal against Getafe during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Getafe at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Leicester duo competing with Messi, Ronaldo for Ballon d’Or

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