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People watch the first truck, from Estonia, entering the Eurotunnel terminal Friday, Jan.1, 2021 in Coquelles, northern France. Eleven months after Britain's formal departure from the EU, Brexit becomes a fact of daily life on Friday, once a transition period ends and the U.K. fully leaves the world's most powerful trading bloc. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, Pool)

Quiet New Year gives breathing room after UK-EU Brexit split

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

A man holds light balloons as he checks his phone on a sidewalk next to a department store in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Under fire, France pledges speedier vaccination rollout

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United States' Breezy Johnson holds the trophy after finishing third in a alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill, in Val d'Isere, France, Saturday, Dec.19, 2020. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

US skiers step out of Shiffrin’s shadow with strong results

By ERIC WILLEMSEN - Associated Press

A health worker carries doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in a box at the Rene-Muret hospital in Servan near Paris, Sunday Dec. 27, 2020. France is starting its first vaccinations Sunday against the coronavirus at a nursing home northeast of Paris, in one of France's poorest regions. (Thomas Samson/Pool Photo via AP)

France takes careful vaccine approach to counter skepticism

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

General view of the queue of trucks in the area outside the Port of Dover waiting for a ferry as police block the entrance to the Port of Dover, in Dover, England, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Freight from Britain and passengers with a negative coronavirus test have begun arriving on French shores, after France relaxed a two-day blockade over a new virus variant. The blockade had isolated Britain, stranded thousands of drivers and raised fears of shortages. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Truckers finally leave UK after days of virus gridlock

By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron is seen on a screen from his presidential residence in Versailles as he attends by video conference the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron held a cabinet meeting Monday via video, in which he indicated the French could enforce &quot;systematic tests&quot; as a condition for French nationals returning from Britain to France for the holidays. (Julien de Rosa/Pool Photo via AP)

France’s Macron leaving isolation after week with the virus

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Marguerite Mouille, left, is greeted by her grandson Thierry Mouille at a nursing home in Kaysesberg, eastern France, Monday Dec. 21, 2020. Thierry Mouille is torturing himself over the government's Christmas offer of a three-week window of relaxed rules. He's changed his mind again and again about whether to bring his 94-year-old grandmother Marguerite out to share a holiday meal. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

In France, a pandemic dilemma over holiday rights for elders

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

In this photo issued by 10 Downing Street, Britain's Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick speaks during a coronavirus media briefing in Downing Street, London, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street via AP) ** FILE **

5 to midnight on Brexit talks? No pressure!

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Gunman kills 3 French police in domestic abuse standoff

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Trucks are parked in a holding area, in this aerial photo taken from video, lined up at former airfield in Manston, England, close to the M20 highway that runs to the port of Dover, Britain's main ferry connection with mainland Europe in northern France, Tuesday Dec. 22, 2020. The goods trucks are waiting to get out of Britain as France barred travel from the UK for 48 hours because of a new and seemingly more contagious strain of the coronavirus in England. (Sky via AP)

Virus-linked isolation of UK eases but backlog persists

By JO KEARNEY and SYLVIA HUI and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

British butcher and owner of Wesley's Butcher Shop, Julia Craig-McQuaide, takes a British goose from a refrigerated trailer outside her shop in Brussels, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Craig-McQuaide's shipment of British turkeys, geese and Irish lambs, meant to fulfill her shops 500 Christmas, orders, managed to cross the English Channel on Sunday, just before the borders were closed. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Brits in Brussels get lucky with their Christmas turkeys

By MARK CARLSON - Associated Press

An emotional ‘au revoir’ from France’s most famous presenter

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron is seen on a screen as he attends by video conference a round table for the National Humanitarian Conference (NHC), taken at the Foreign Ministry in Paris,Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday following a week in which he met with numerous European leaders. (Charles Platiau/Pool via AP)

Virus-stricken Macron at presidential retreat with fever

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FILE - In this Jan.4, 2018 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, left, greets Apostolic Nuncio to France Luigi Ventura, at the Elysee Palace in Paris.A Paris court is expected to hand out its verdict Wednesday on a former Vatican ambassador on trial in France for sexually assaulting five men in 2018 and 2019. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP, File)

Paris court convicts former Vatican envoy of sexual assault

By MASHA MACPHERSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2015, file photo, an injured person is transported to an ambulance after a shooting at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris, France. The terrorism trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 Paris attacks on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket ends Wednesday after three months punctuated by new attacks, a wave of coronavirus infections among the defendants, and devastating testimony bearing witness to three days of bloodshed that shook France.(AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

IS widow convicted in Charlie Hebdo, kosher market attacks

By LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

2 Russians convicted of attack on man at Euro 2016 in France

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FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2020 file photo, the Webb Ellis Cup is displayed during a presentation in Paris. The 2023 Rugby World Cup will take place in France from sept.8 2023 to oct. 21 2023. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

All Blacks, France to renew rivalry at the Rugby World Cup

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 file photo, Aston Villa Gerard Houllier looks on before his team's English Premier League soccer against Birmingham City at Villa Park stadium, Birmingham, England. Gerard Houllier, a Frenchman who won three titles in one season as coach of English club Liverpool, has died. He was 73. Liverpool announced the death on Twitter on Monday Dec. 14, 2020. French sports daily L’Equipe said Houllier died following heart surgery in France. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson, File)

Gerard Houllier, former Liverpool coach, dies at 73

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World court rules that Paris mansion was not diplomatic post

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French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti leaves the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, Des. 9, 2020. A draft law aimed at arming France against Islamist radicalism was unveiled at Wednesday's weekly Cabinet meeting, a measure promoted by President Emmanuel Macron to rout out what he calls &quot;separatists&quot; undermining the nation. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France unveils draft law to fight Islamist radicalism

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press