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In this Jan. 11, 2021, file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron stands during the One Planet Summit, at The Elysee Palace, in Paris, France. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP, File)

Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron vow to fight climate change, coronavirus pandemic

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In this Jan. 11, 2021, file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron stands during the One Planet Summit, at The Elysee Palace, in Paris, France. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP, File)

After failed Trump romance, France seeks reset under Biden

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Anne Hoguet, 74, fan maker and director of the hand fan-making museum poses with a wood roasted hand fan representing a falcon hunt, gouache painting g on paper from 1880 at the museum in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Just like the leaves of its gilded fans, France's storied hand fan-making museum could fold up and vanish. The splendid Musee de l'Eventail in Paris, a classed historical monument, is the culture world's latest coronavirus victim. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

U.N. calls on France to help as virus imperils Fan Museum

By THOMAS ADAMSON and MICHEL EULER - Associated Press

Students demonstrate with a banner reading &quot;We will not be the the sacrificed generation&quot; Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 in Paris. French university students protested Wednesday on Paris' Left Bank to demand to be allowed back to class, and to call attention to suicides and financial troubles among students cut off from friends, professors and job opportunities amid the pandemic. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Struggling French students protest university closures

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File---File picture taken Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and United States' Vice President Joe Biden at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber,file)

Survey: Major European allies optimistic about Biden admin

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Striking workers gather outside the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi headquarters in Marcy l'Etoile, central France, Tuesday, Jan.19, 2021. Employees of pharmaceutical company Sanofi stage a protest against planned redundancies that they say could slow the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic . Sanofi had been developing Covid vaccines but will not be ready to roll out until late 2021. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Unions strike over job cuts at French vaccine maker Sanofi

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Gwendal Poullennec, head of Le Guide Michelin, poses outside the Eiffel Tower with the 2021 edition Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 in Paris. Michelin will later announce the 2021 winners in a broadcast from the Eiffel Tower. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Michelin France stars awarded in virtual ceremony

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PSG's Kylian Mbappe reacts after missing a chance during the French League One soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Brest at the Parc des Princes in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

PSG’s Mbappe may feel old when facing new Angers prodigy Cho

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2020 file photo, a man pushes his bicycle along a row of closed restaurants in Montmartre, during the new imposed curfew in Paris. Trying to fend off the need for a third nationwide lockdown that would further dent Europe’s second-largest economy and put more jobs in danger, France is instead opting for creeping curfews. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

‘At 6 p.m., life stops’: Europe uses curfews to fight virus

By JOHN LEICESTER and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

France to expel delivery man refusing Kosher orders

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French soldiers stand in an honour guard on Thursday Jan.7, 2021 as the hearse convoy of late French forces soldiers rides on the Alexandre III bridge in central Paris. A ceremony was held to pay homage to two soldiers killed in Mali by an improvised explosive device that hit their armored vehicle on Saturday. Three other French soldiers died just five days earlier in similar circumstances . (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French minister insists troops didn’t bomb Mali wedding fete

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FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Dr. Cedric Waechter, left, administers the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a resident of the Bois Fleuris nursing home in Strasbourg in eastern France. As France examines why its vaccination campaign has started so slowly, the answer lies partly in the red tape and the government’s decision to start with perhaps the toughest group to reach: the elderly in nursing homes. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

French vaccine rollout slowed by red tape, focus on elderly

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

The hearse convoy of late French forces soldiers , who were killed in Mali when an improvised explosive device hit their armored vehicle last week, rides on his way to the Invalides for a national tribute, in Paris, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. The soldiers were participating in a military operation in the Hombori area of Mali's central Mopti province, part of a larger mission aiming at fighting Islamist extremists in Africa's Sahel region, as part of Operation Barkhane. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

France seeks strategy change to reduce troops in West Africa

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Real Madrid's Karim Benzema shoots the ball during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Celta Vigo at the Alfredo Di Stefano stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Karim Benzema to stand trial in ‘sex tape’ case

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France speeds up jabs for elderly, spaces doses by 6 weeks

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FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2020 file photo, former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn holds a press conference at the Maronite Christian Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, north of Beirut, Lebanon. In an opinion published Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, a panel of human rights experts working with the United Nations says former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was wrongly detained in Japan in late 2018 and has urged “compensation” and “other reparations” for him from the Japanese government. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, file)

Carlos Ghosn asks why Japanese don’t question him in Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 27, 2019, file photo, the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles world headquarters is shown in Auburn Hills, Mich. Shareholders of Fiat Chrysler and France's PSA Group are meeting Monday, Jan. 4, 2021 to vote on a merger that will create the world's fourth-largest automaker. The new company called Stellantis will be run by PSA CEO Carlos Tavares, who is known for cutting vehicles or ventures that don't make money. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Fiat Chrysler, Peugeot shareholders approve merger

By COLLEEN BARRY and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

In this photo providedby the French Gendarmerie, a man exists a vehicle after being checked by gendarmes, near Lieuron, Brittany, France, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. A French prosecutor said police detained seven people Saturday, including two alleged organizers, after a New Year's Eve rave party drew at least 2,500 people in western France despite a coronavirus curfew and other restrictions. (Gendarmerie Nationale via AP)

France charges an alleged organizer of giant New Year’s rave

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This photo provided Saturday Jan. 2, 2021 by Techno+ Association shows a tent during a rave party in Lieuron, France, as ravers from France and abroad converged on a hangar on Thursday night to party into the New Year. France's interior minister Gerald Darmanin said Saturday Jan. 2, 2021, a judicial investigation has been opened to identify and prosecute organizers of an underground party that drew at least 2,500 people in western France despite a curfew amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Techno+ via AP)

France’s giant curfew-busting party is over after two nights

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Curfew-busting New Year party-goers attack French police

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