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FILE - In this March 16, 2019 file photo, protesters remove a protective wall from a luxury shop during a yellow vests demonstration in Paris. A summer of incidents, from insults to attacks, some deadly, has built into a crescendo of violence. But has France really grown more “savage” as Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says? Or is the problem a growing sense of insecurity fueled by the word “savage” itself, as Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti contends? The verbal jousting is causing divisions, and worrying critics who say the interior minister is exploiting the language of the far right to help President Emmanuel Macron’s party win upcoming elections. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Is France really growing more ‘savage’? Word stirs trouble

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House refutes report that Trump called U.S. war dead in France ‘losers’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

French Prime Minister Jean Castex speaks during a press conference to present the government's recovery plan for economy from the Covid-19 pandemic, Thursday, Sept.3, 2020 in Paris. Facing resurgent virus infections, France's government unveiled a 100 billion-euro ($118 billion) recovery plan aimed at creating jobs, saving struggling businesses and yanking the country out of its worst economic slump since World War II. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)

Slammed by virus, France unveils huge economic rescue plan

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Arnaud Tranchant, left, chief Navy officer for the French helicopter carrier Tonnerre, talks to French President Emmanuel Macron off the port of Beirut, Tuesday, Sept.1, 2020. The visit was Emmanuel Macron's second since the devastating Aug. 4 explosion — the most destructive single incident in Lebanon's history — that killed at least 190 people . (Stephane Lemouton, Pool via AP)

French leader warns Lebanese politicians of ‘last chance’

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Pupils sit in a classroom on the first day back to school at Charles Dickens Primary School in London, Tuesday Sept. 1, 2020. Hundreds of thousands of British schoolchildren are heading back to classrooms, with the country watching nervously to see if reopening schools brings a surge in coronavirus infections. Tuesday marks the start of term for about 40% of schools in England and Wales, with the rest reopening in the coming days. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

Virus or not, it’s time for class again across Europe

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Workers repair water tanks and damaged apartments overlooking the site of the Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Diplomat tapped to be PM vows reforms in crisis-hit Lebanon

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2010 file photo, Lebanon's diva Fairouz, one of the Arab world's most popular singers, performs during a concert for her new album &quot;Eh Fi Amal&quot; (Yes there is hope), in Beirut, Lebanon. French President Emmanuel Macron returned to Lebanon on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020 a country in the midst of an unprecedented crisis, for a two-day visit and a schedule packed with political events and talks aimed at charting a way out for the country. For his first meeting, Macron chose to see Lebanon's No. 1 diva Fairouz, a national symbol and one of the rare figures in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Macron starts Lebanon trip by meeting iconic Lebanese diva

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 1938 file photo, General Henri Gouraud, leader of the French Fourth Army at the end of World War One, buying a cornflower in aid of ex-service organizations in Paris, France. It was a century ago on Sept. 1, 1920, that a French general, Henri Gouraud, stood on the porch of the French residence in Beirut surrounded by local politicians and religious leaders and declared the State of Greater Lebanon - the precursor to the modern state of Lebanon. (AP Photo, File)

Turning 100: Lebanon, a nation branded by upheaval, crises

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2019 file photo, supporters of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah hold his picture, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon. Nasrallah has thrown his support behind the Lebanese government seeking financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund but said it should negotiate the conditions cautiously. Nasrallah’s comments on Monday, May 4, 2020, came four days after the country’s prime minister said Lebanon will seek a rescue deal from the IMF to help the nation find a way out of a crippling financial crisis. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Lebanon leaders name favorite for PM before Macron’s visit

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

People wearing face masks stroll at Trocadero plaza near the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. France registered more than 7,000 new virus infections in a single day Friday, up from several hundred a day in May and June, in part thanks to ramped-up testing. Masks are now required everywhere in public in Paris as authorities warn that infections are growing exponentially. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

French virus surge threatens nationwide back-to-school plan

By ANGELA CHARLTON and SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

Top French military officer arrested; reported Russia ties

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

In this photo taken on March 28, 2018, Danielle Obono arrives at a ceremony at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. A French magazine has apologized after portraying a Black lawmaker as a slave, as France's government and officials across the political spectrum decried the publication. The legislator, Danielle Obono from the far-left party Defiant France, said the publication flies in the face of those who complain that free speech is threatened by the fight against racism and sexism. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

Anger after French magazine depicts Black lawmaker as slave

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Tour de France hostess wear face masks prior to the start of the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 156 kilometers (97 miles) with start and finish in Nice, southern France, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Late but alive, Tour de France races into COVID epidemic

By John Leicester and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

A horse neighs as he stands in a box at a equestrian club in Les Yvelines, French department west of Paris, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Armed with knives, some knowledge of their prey and a large dose of cruelty, attackers are going after horses and ponies in pastures across France in what may be ritual mutilations. Police are stymied by the macabre attacks that include slashings and worse. Most often, an ear, usually the right one, has been cut off, recalling the matador’s trophy in a bullring. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France’s horses killed in mysterious ritual-like mutilations

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Caregiver Maude Leneveu, left, and union representative Corinne Bryand, pose outside the Pasteur hospital where they work in Nice, southern France, and where the Tour de France is racing this week-end, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Both say the race should go ahead, despite increasing infections in France's battle against the coronavirus. (AP Photo/John Leicester)

For health workers, the pandemic Tour de France is a big ask

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Team Jumbo - Visma riders pedal during a training session along the beach of the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, southern France, ahead of upcoming Saturday's start of the race, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. The Tour de France sets off shrouded in uncertainty and riding in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and mounting infections in France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

‘Exponential’ virus spread in France as schools set to open

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

French Prime Minister Jean Castex attends a press conference on the situation on the COVID-19 in France, Thursday Aug. 27, 2020 in Paris. The virus is now actively circulating in about a fifth of France's regions, the government said, urging new local restrictions to avoid another national lockdown. Despite the resurgence, the government is pushing ahead with plans to reopen all French schools next week, and to welcome workers back to their jobs after summer vacations blamed for spreading the virus. (Christophe Archambault, Pool via AP)

Masks imposed on Paris; 20% of France in virus red zone

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, April 5, 2019 file photo, family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial centre in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. Rwanda's government has written to France requesting the extradition of the former head of Rwanda's military intelligence service Maj. Gen. Aloys Ntiwiragabo, a key suspect in the East African nation's genocide a quarter-century ago, officials said Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwanda seeks genocide suspect’s extradition from France

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Colombia's Egan Bernal, center, rides with teammate Britain's Luke Rowe, left, during a training session outside Nice, southern France, ahead of upcoming Saturday's start of the race, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. The Tour de France sets off shrouded in uncertainty and riding in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and mounting infections in France. (AP Photo/Christophe End)

Uncertainty shrouds Tour de France racing against COVID-19

By John Leicester - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, center, chairs a weekly cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Jean Castex, left, and Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian, Wednesday, Aug.26, 2020 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, Pool)

Don’t panic, French prime minister says, as infections mount

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press