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The French National School of Administration, an academic institution that has become a symbol of the country’s power establishment, will make way for a more egalitarian version under plans announced Thursday by President Emmanuel Macron. (Associated Press)

Emmanuel Macron seeks to close Ecole Nationale d’Administration

By Elena Berton and Jabeen Bhatti - Special to The Washington Times

French President Emmanuel Macron reacts after visiting the Delpharm plant in Saint-Remy-sur-Avre, west of Paris, Friday, April 9, 2021 in Paris. The Delpharm plant started bottling Pfizer vaccines this week as France tries to make its mark on global vaccine production, and speed up vaccinations of French people amid a new virus surge. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

France advises vaccine mixing for some, amid clotting fears

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FILE- In this Friday, April 5, 2019 file photo, flowers are laid on top of a glass case containing the skulls of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge in the church, kept as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide, inside the church in Ntarama, Rwanda. A commission that spent nearly two years uncovering France's role in 1994's Rwandan genocide concluded Friday, March 26, 2021 that the country reacted too slowly in appreciating the extent of the horror that left over 800,000 dead and bears &quot;heavy and overwhelming responsibilities&quot; in the drift that led to the killings, but cleared the country of any complicity in the slaughter that mainly targeted Rwanda's Tutsi ethnic minority. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwanda’s Kagame welcomes French ‘truth’ about the genocide

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA and RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

People arrive at the Stade de France stadium to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. While France remains far behind Britain and the United States in terms of vaccinating its population, the pace is starting to pick up. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)

France opens giant stadium for vaccinations amid virus surge

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Patients receive an injection of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine on the opening day of a mass vaccination centre set up in the Olympique Lyonnais soccer Stadium, in Decines-Charpieu, Saturday, April 3, 2021. (Jean-Philippe Ksiazek, Pool via AP)

Europe ramps up vaccinations as virus haunts Easter holidays

By ANGELA CHARLTON and OLEG CETINIC - Associated Press

Travelers wait to board a train at the Montparnasse railway station, in Paris, Friday, April 2, 2021. With France now Europe's latest virus danger zone, Macron on Wednesday ordered temporary school closures nationwide and new travel restrictions. But he resisted calls for a strict lockdown, instead sticking to his &quot;third way&quot; strategy that seeks a route between freedom and confinement to keep both infections and a restless populace under control until mass vaccinations take over. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French hospitals boost Easter staff to battle virus resurge

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Medical workers tend to a patient affected with the COVID-19 in the Amiens Picardie hospital Tuesday, March 30, 2021 in Amiens, 160 km (100 miles) north of Paris. France is now facing a deadly new surge of the virus that is overwhelming many hospitals, as critics accuse the government of ignoring warning signs and favoring political concerns over public health. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Hospital workers despair as France’s virus strategy flails

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

North Macedonia's Eljif Elmas, not seen in the frame, celebrates with his teammates after scoring his side's second goal during the World Cup 2022 group J qualifying soccer match between Germany and North Macedonia in Duisburg, Germany, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (Thilo Schmuelgen/Pool via AP)

More woe for Germany as long unbeaten WC qualifying run ends

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron gives a TV address to the nation on French TV channel TF1 in Paris, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Macron has announced a three-week nationwide school closure and a month-long domestic travel ban in an effort to fight the rapid spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

France to close schools, ban domestic travel as coronavirus surges

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Benzema to stand trial in October for alleged blackmail

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Medical workers tend to a patient affected with the COVID-19 in the Amiens Picardie hospital, Tuesday, March 30, 2021 in Amiens, 160 km (100 miles) north of Paris. The number of patients in intensive care in France on Monday surpassed the worst point of the country's last coronavirus surge in the autumn of 2020, another indicator of how a renewed crush of infections is bearing down on French hospitals. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

French virus surge raises harrowing specter of ICU overloads

By JOHN LEICESTER and SYLVIE CORBET and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

France heightens pressure on Lebanon to form government

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FILE- In this March, 19, 2021, file photo, medical staff meets in a room of a patient affected by COVID-19 virus in the ICU unit at the Ambroise Pare clinic in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. France's president say he has nothing to be sorry about for refusing to impose a third virus lockdown earlier this year, even though his country is now facing surging infections that are straining hospitals and more than 1,000 people with the virus are dying every week. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

ICU cases hit new peak in French virus surge

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FILE- In this March 19, 2021, file photo, a nurse tends to a patient affected by COVID-19 virus in the ICU unit at the Ambroise Pare clinic in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. France's president say he has nothing to be sorry about for refusing to impose a third virus lockdown earlier this year, even though his country is now facing surging infections that are straining hospitals and more than 1,000 people with the virus are dying every week. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Paris doctors warn of catastrophic overload of virus cases

By JOHN LEICESTER and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER - Associated Press

French Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu leaves the Elysee Palace after the weekly cabinet meeting, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. France’s sports minister Maracineanu, says French society is at a “turning point” for women’s rights within the male-dominated sports world amid a wave of protests from female journalists denouncing discrimination. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Calls for change for women’s rights in French sports

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi meets the press, in Rome, Friday, March 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, pool)

EU vaccine politics reach fever pitch; Britain a target

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Scotland's Stuart Hogg, second right, celebrates after Scotland's Duhan Van der Merwe scored the winning try during the Six Nations rugby union international match between France and Scotland at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris, Friday, March 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

6N: France gifts Scotland historic win and Wales the title

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020 file photo, Montreal Impact head coach Thierry Henry speaks during a press conference, in San Jose, Costa Rica. Henry announced Friday, March 26, 2021 he is quitting social media to protest online racial abuse and bullying that he says goes unregulated. The former France great says that social media companies haven’t done enough to stop the abusive behavior, which regularly targets Black athletes. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez, file)

Thierry Henry to quit social media, says racism unchecked

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German foreign Minister Heiko Maas speaks in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The foreign ministers of France, Italy and Germany arrived in Tripoli Thursday, to show their support to Libya’s newly elected transitional authorities, who are expected to lead the war-stricken country through general elections end of 2021. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed)

EU top diplomats in Libya to support interim authorities

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

France draws, Dutch lose at start of WC qualifying in Europe

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press