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A resident of a nursing home is being tested with a PCR test in Ammerschwihr, eastern France, Monday, Nov.9, 2020. The antigen tests can give results in 15-30 minutes, and if they turn out positive, the patient is sent for a PCR test to confirm the result. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Europe hunkers down but also notes wins against virus surge

By BARRY HATTON and JUSTIN SPIKE and JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian speaks during a press conference after a meeting with Muslim Grand Imam, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, at the headquarters of Al Azhar, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. Le Drian visited Cairo on Sunday to meet with political and religious leaders in an effort to calm tensions and misunderstandings with the Arab and Muslim world following anti-French protests and three Islamic extremist attacks on France. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Top French diplomat visits Cairo amid tensions over cartoons

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Relatives attend a ceremony for victims Nadine Devillers, Vincent Loques and Brazil's Simone Barreto Silva, in Nice, southern France, Saturday Nov. 7, 2020 after the attack at Notre-Dame de Nice Basilica on October 29, 2020. Three people were killed in an Islamic extremist attack at Notre Dame Basilica in the city of Nice that pushed the country into high security alert. (Valery Hache; Pool via AP)

Police question children for supporting teacher’s beheading

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

This photo take on Oct. 29, 2020 shows a group of Muslim volunteers protecting the Saint-Fulcran cathedral In Lodeve, southern France. A group of French Muslims stood guard outside the Saint-Fulcran Cathedral in Lodeve for the All Saints' holiday, to protect it from eventual violence and show solidarity with Catholic churchgoers. Many welcomed the initiative, organized by local residents as a gesture of peace after a deadly Islamic extremist attack on a church in the French city of Nice. (Alain Mendez via AP)

Horrified by deadly attacks, French Muslims protect church

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron chairs a video conference with foreign compagnies executives, Friday Nov. 6, 2020 at the Elysee presidential Palace in Paris, as part of a &quot;mini choose France&quot; forum, designed to attract more foreign businesses. (Ludovic Marin/ POOL via AP)

Macron speaks with CEOs to promote investment in France

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Italy, France consider giving Tunisia migrant boat alerts

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

France bans Turkish ultranationalist group Grey Wolves

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Army soldiers wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus arrive to board a train at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

The Latest: Italy imposing night curfew, other restrictions

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A man sits alone on a chair outside a restaurant in the island of Astypalea, Greece on Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. Greece's government is imposing a localized lockdown on its second largest city of Thessaloniki after major increases in the number of coronavirus infections as over the weekend, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a nationwide curfew from midnight to 5 a.m. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Europe tightens restrictions as virus hospitalizations rise

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims protesting the French president’s support of secular laws allowing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad march to lay siege on the French Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Nov.2, 2020. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Tens of thousands in Bangladesh protest against France

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Protesters hold placards with a depiction of Eiffel Tower in Paris, right, marked with a shoe stamp a sign of disrespect, and one, left with a slogan reading in Turkish: "May my mother and father be sacrificed in your name, Prophet!", during a protest by members of Islamic groups against France in Istanbul, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. There had been tension between France and Turkey after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said France's President Emmanuel Macron needed mental health treatment and made other comments that the French government described as unacceptably rude. Erdogan questioned his French counterpart's mental condition while criticizing Macron's attitude toward Islam and Muslims. (AP Photo)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan interference worries Turkey friends, angers foes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct.30, 2020 file photo, supporters of religious group burn a representation of a French flag during a rally against French President Emmanuel Macron and republishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Lahore, Pakistan. A spotlight of suspicion encircled Muslims again even before the latest acts of extremist violence, including two beheadings. French President Emmanuel Macron has forged ahead with a plan to rid Islam in France of extremists, part a project he labels &quot;separatism,&quot; a term that makes some Muslims wince. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

French Muslims, stigmatized by attacks, feel under pressure

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Supporters of Sunni Tehreek, a religious group, burn a representation of a French flag with a defaced image of French President Emmanuel Macron during a protest against the French president and republishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Anti-France protests continue, as Macron seeks understanding

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ - Associated Press

Gamra, the mother of the Nice attacker Ibrahim Issaoui gestures as she adresses reporters in Sfax, Tunisia, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. The family of Ibrahim Issaoui expressed shock after he attacked a church in Nice and killed three people in what French and Tunisian authorities are investigating as a terrorist attack. Tunisian prosecutors say he had not been on their radar for radicalization before he fled with other migrants to the Italian island of Lampedusa in September, eventually making his way to Nice. (AP Photo/Mehdi El Arem)

France church attack: Assailant’s family seeks answers

By MEHDI EL-AREM and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Muslim activists from various organizations participate in a protest against France, near the French Consulate, in Kolkata, India, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. Muslims have been calling for both protests and a boycott of French goods in response to France's stance on caricatures of Islam's most revered prophet. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

AP Explains: Why France incites such anger in Muslim world

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Ireland's Hugo Keenan, left is tackled by France's Vincent Rattez during the Six Nations rugby union international match between France and Ireland in Paris, France, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France dazzles against Ireland but England wins 6 Nations

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

Police officers and rescue workers block the access to the scene after a Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday Oct.31, 2020 while he was closing his church in the city of Lyon, central France. The priest, a Greek citizen, is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit in the abdomen, a police official told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Orthodox priest shot at church in France; attacker at large

By Angela Charlton and Laurent Cipriani - Associated Press

Supporters of Islamist parties carry an effigy of French President Emmanuel Macron during a protest after Friday prayers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. Thousands of Muslims and activists marched through streets and rallied across Bangladesh’s capital on Friday against the French president’s support of secular laws that deem caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad as protected under freedom of speech. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Tens of thousands protest in Bangladesh over French cartoons

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

French police officers stand near Notre Dame church in Nice, southern France, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will more than double number of soldiers deployed to protect against attacks to 7,000 after three people were killed at a church Thursday. (Eric Gaillard/Pool via AP)

France mourns 3 killed in church attack, tightens security

By ANGELA CHARLTON and DANIEL COLE - Associated Press

Supporters of the Muslims Students Organization stand on a representation of a French national flag and defaced images of French President Emmanuel Macron during a protest against the president and against the publishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. Muslims have been calling for both protests and a boycott of French goods in response to France's stance on caricatures of Islam's most revered prophet. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

As anger rises, Muslims protest French cartoons

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press