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France to play All Blacks in opener of 2023 Rugby World Cup

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

6N: France-Scotland to be postponed after 11th virus player

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FILE - In this Jan.18, 2019 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron meets pupils as he visits a school canteen in Saint-Sozy, southwestern France. By taking meat off the menu at school canteens, the Green Party mayor of Lyon has kicked up a storm of protest and debate in a country increasingly asking questions about the environmental costs of its meaty dietary habits. With a meatless four-course meal that Lyon City Hall says will be quicker and easier to serve to children who must be kept socially distanced while eating lunch to avoid coronavirus infections. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP, FILE)

Food fight: Meat-free school meals spark furor in France

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6N: Fate of France v Scotland to be decided on Wednesday

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Louisiana, France renew educational, professional agreement

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FILE - In this Jan.22, 2019 file photo, cables are plugged into a device by Cyber Test Systems at the Cybersecurity Conference in Lille, northern France. French President Emmanuel Macron is unveiling on Thursday a plan to better arm public facilities and private companies against cybercriminals as ransomware attacks struck two hospitals earlier this month, amid an upsurge of similar attacks in the country. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

France to boost cyberdefense after hospital malware attacks

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

In this Nov. 18, 2007 photo, lawyer Harry Durimel, right, stands next to an activist with a sign that reads in French &quot;No to Chlordecone poison,&quot; as they protest during the arrival of the French government’s Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot in Raizet Abymes, Guadeloupe. Durimel is among the attorneys representing agricultural workers in Guadeloupe and Martinique who have long been fighting for compensation for the use of a banned pesticide, chlordecone. (AP Photo/Dominique Chomereau-Lamotte)

French Caribbean fights to keep pesticide case alive

By DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press

Students line up for free food aid organized by Linkee, a Paris-based company collecting food waste, in Paris, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. The pandemic has devastated economies the world over. In France, the economic fallout has weighed particularly heavily on young people — and their woes have only been compounded by disruptions to their studies and social interactions. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

As the virus crisis drags on, hard-hit French youth struggle

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6N: France hold out Ireland to end 10-year drought in Dublin

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FILE - In this Thursday Jan. 21, 2021 file photo, Nurse Coralie Ferron prepares doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Le Cannet, southern France. France’s highest health authority, the High Authority of Health, or HAS, recommended Friday Feb. 12, 2021, that people who have had COVID-19 receive only one dose of a vaccine against the coronavirus. Since recovered individuals had developed an immunity response akin to a vaccine, a single shot is probably sufficient. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

As new variants spread in France, some want a 3rd lockdown

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Young women carry buckets of water on their heads in the Bandrajou district of Mamoudzou, Mayotte island, Saturday Feb.6, 2021. In the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, virus cases are suddenly spiking to their highest levels since the pandemic began, and demand for ICU beds is more than double supply. A third of the population has no running water. (AP Photo/ Sony Ibrahim Chamsidine)

Surging virus in French African outpost reveals inequalities

By SONY CHAMSIDINE and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan.19, 2021 file photo, signs on the wall reads &quot;Duhamel, and the others, you will never be in peace&quot; referring to Olivier Duhamel, head of the National Foundation of Political Sciences, which oversees the prestigious Sciences Po university, and at left &quot;Mion Resignation&quot; refers to Frederic Mion, head of Sciences Po university, in Paris. France's government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse, amid growing public pressure and a wave of online testimonies about rape and other sexual violence by parents and authority figures. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

French government seeks to set age for sexual consent at 15

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

France's Teddy Thomas breaks clear to set-up another try during the Six Nations rugby union international between Italy and France at Rome's Olympic stadium, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Dupont shines as France beats Italy 50-10 in 6N opener

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An intubated patient suffering from COVID-19 communicates with nurses by pointing to an alphabet in the ICU at the La Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. COVID patients occupy 88% of the Marseille region's intensive care beds, and virus pressure on French hospitals is steadily rising in recent weeks despite curfews and other restrictions. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

ICU faces constant pressure as France waffles over lockdown

By DANIEL COLE - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron takes off his face mask as he welcomes Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic for a working lunch at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is in Paris for bilateral talks with French President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France says no AstraZeneca virus vaccine for people over 65

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FILE - In this Oct.17, 2020 file photo, a poster reading &quot;I am Samuel&quot; and flowers lay outside the school where slain history teacher Samuel Paty was working, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris. French lawmakers tackle a bill on Monday to dig up radical Islam by its roots in the country, beliefs that authorities maintain are creeping into public services, associations, some schools and online with the goal of undermining national values. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Lawmakers debate bill to rout out radical Islam in France

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2021, file photo, a woman is guided to a vaccination booth prior to receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination against COVID-19 at a vaccination center in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. Many people lining up for vaccines in the Paris suburb are particularly grateful for the injections. The surrounding region is the poorest in mainland France, with 130 languages spoken and the country's highest rise in mortality last spring. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Vaccine rollout faces challenges in France’s poorest region

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France to close its borders to arrivals from outside EU

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Omer Mas Capitolin poses in Paris, Tuesday Jan.26, 2021. In a first for France, six nongovernmental organizations launched a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the French government for alleged systemic discrimination by police officers carrying out identity checks. Omer Mas Capitolin, the head of Community House for Supportive Development, a grassroots NGO taking part in the legal action, called it a &quot;mechanical reflex&quot; for French police to stop non-whites, a practice he said is damaging to the person being checked and ultimately to relations between officers and the members of the public they are expected to protect. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Racial profiling by French police challenged in class action

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Students chant slogans during a demonstration in Marseille, southern France, Tuesday Jan. 26, 2021. Teachers and university students marched together in protests or went on strike Tuesday around France to demand more government support amid the pandemic. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Teachers, students march in France for more virus support

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