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French Prime Minister Jean Castex speaks during a news conference following the weekly cabinet meeting discussions at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Speaking after a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Castex said sanctions could be forthcoming over the letter and strongly condemned a “call to honor” open letter by 20 retired generals that raised the spectre of chaos in France and hinted the military could take action. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool photo via AP)

French PM condemns 20 retired generals who warned of ‘chaos’

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French President Emmanuel Macron talks with pupils during a visit with French Education, Youth and Sports Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer, right, in a school in Melun, south of Paris, Monday, April 26, 2021. Nursery and primary schools reopened on Monday across France after a three-week closure in the first step out of the country's partial lockdown. Meanwhile, high schools students are following online classes. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, pool)

France reopens schools as virus patients numbers peak

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, Israeli fashion designer Alber Elbaz acknowledges applause at the end of his Spring-Summer 2016 ready-to-wear fashion collection for Lanvin, presented during the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris. Elbaz, best known for being at the helm of Lanvin from 2001 to 2015, has died at the age of 59, luxury conglomerate Richemont said. Fashion French daily Women’s Wear Daily said Elbaz died on Saturday, April 24, 2021 at a Paris hospital. In a statement released on Sunday, Richemont’s chairman Johann Rupert said “it was with shock and enormous sadness that I heard of Alber’s sudden passing. Alber had a richly deserved reputation as one of the industry’s brightest and most beloved figures.” (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Israeli fashion designer Alber Elbaz dies at 59

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People stage a protest organized by Jewish associations, who say justice has not been done for the killing of French Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, at Trocadero Plaza near Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Thousands of people have gathered in Paris and other French cities to denounce a ruling by France's highest court that the killer of Jewish woman Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible and therefore could not go on trial. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French protesters demand trial for Jewish woman’s killer

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Police officers gather next to the Police station in Rambouillet, south west of Paris, Friday, April 23, 2021. A French police officer was stabbed to death inside her police station Friday near the famed historic Rambouillet chateau, and her attacker was shot and killed by officers at the scene, authorities said. The identity and the motive of the assailant were not immediately clear, a national police spokesperson told The Associated Press. The police officer was a 49-year-old administrative employee in the station, the spokesperson said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French probe of police station killing focused on motive

By ELAINE GANLEY and MICHEL EULER - Associated Press

Pakistan frees 669 men from radical group as it ends rallies

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a news conference at 10 Downing Street, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in London, Tuesday April 20, 2021. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)

Pandemic ‘exposed’ UK households’ finances, report finds

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a weekly meeting about the vaccination campaign, with Prime Minister Jean Castex, Secretary General of the Elysee Palace Alexis Kohler, Government's spokesman Gabriel Attal, Health Minister Olivier Veran, at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, France, Tuesday April, 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, pool)

France to impose entry restrictions on travelers from India

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An air force officer walks as a Greek fighter jet Mirage 2000-5 taxis during the international military exercise Iniochos at Andravida air base, about 279 kilometres (174 miles) southwest of Athens, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Greece vowed Tuesday to expand military cooperation with traditional NATO allies as well as Middle Eastern powers in a race to modernize its armed forces and face its militarily assertive neighbor Turkey. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

In race to rearm, Greece seeks partnerships, more hardware

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FILE - In this Sunday, April 11, 2021 file photo Tottenham's Harry Kane, left, is challenged by Manchester United's Harry Maguire during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin says players at the 12 clubs setting up their own Super League could be banned from this year's European Championship and next year's World Cup. (Clive Rose/Pool via AP)

Players who could be banned from Euro 2020

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FILE - In this July 9, 2012 file photo, Michel Kilo, a Syrian opposition leader and writer, speaks to the media after a meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister, in Moscow, Russia. Kilo, a prominent exiled Syrian opposition figure died Monday, April 19, 2021, of complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Paris where he lived. Kilo was 81. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Veteran Syria opposition figure Michel Kilo dies of COVID-19

By DALAL MAWAD - Associated Press

In this Monday, April 8, 2019, file photo, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame answers questions from the media at a press conference at a convention center in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. A report commissioned by the Rwandan government due to be made public on Monday, April 19, 2021, concludes that the French government bears "significant" responsibility for "enabling a foreseeable genocide" that left more than 800,000 dead in 1994 and that France "did nothing to stop" the massacres. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwanda report blames France for ‘enabling’ the 1994 genocide

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

People walk in the open air market of Belleville, in Paris, Friday, March 20, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron said that for 15 days starting at noon on Tuesday, people will be allowed to leave the place they live only for necessary activities such as shopping for food, going to work or taking a walk. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French president foresees some summer tourists in Paris

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Houston Astros starting pitcher Jose Urquidy throws to a Seattle Mariners batter during the second inning of a baseball game Friday, April 16, 2021, in Seattle (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)

France delivers game-winning hit, Mariners drop Astros 6-5

By CHRIS TALBOTT - Associated Press

China calls for closer cooperation on climate change

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2020 file photo, a woman walks by empty restaurants in the center of Lyon, central France. France is expected Thursday April 15, 2021, to pass the grim milestone of 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, after a year of hospital tensions, on-and-off lockdowns and personal loss that have left families nationwide grieving the pandemic’s unending, devastating toll. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

France hits unwanted milestone: Over 100,000 virus deaths

By SYLVIE CORBET and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

A car drives past the French Embassy, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, April 15, 2021. The French embassy in Pakistan on Thursday advised all of its nationals and companies to temporarily leave the country after anti-France violence erupted in the Islamic nation over the arrest of a radical leader. Saad Rizvi was arrested Monday for threatening the government with mass protests if it did not expel French envoy Marc Baréty over the publication depictions of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

France asks citizens to leave Pakistan amid violent protests

By BABAR DOGAR ABD MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, wearing a protective face mask, talks during a meeting with medical staff members during a visit in a child psychiatry department at Reims hospital, eastern France, to discuss the psychological impact of the COVID-19 crisis and the lockdown on children and teenagers in France, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Christian Hartmann/Pool via AP)

France fights kids’ mental health woes with free counseling

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People walk in the open air market of Belleville, in Paris, Friday, March 20, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron said that for 15 days starting at noon on Tuesday, people will be allowed to leave the place they live only for necessary activities such as shopping for food, going to work or taking a walk. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France suspends all Brazil flights due to virus variants

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United States' Megan Rapinoe (15) celebrates after scoring on a penalty kick during the first half of an international friendly women's soccer match between the United States and France in Le Havre, France, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan score, U.S. women beat France 2-0

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