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A woman sells vegetables in the slum district of Mont Baduel, in Cayenne, French Guiana, Friday, July 10, 2020. France's most worrisome virus hotspot is in fact on the border with Brazil - in French Guiana, a former colony where health care is scarce and poverty is rampant. The pandemic is exposing deep economic and racial inequality in French Guiana that residents say the mainland has long chosen to ignore. (AP Photo/Pierre Olivier Jay)

In French Guiana, virus exposes inequality, colonial legacy

By ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

Fire fighters brigade work to extinguish the blaze at the Gothic St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, in Nantes, western France, Saturday, July 18, 2020. The fire broke, shattering stained glass windows and sending black smoke spewing from between its two towers of the 15th century, which also suffered a serious fire in 1972. The fire is bringing back memories of the devastating blaze in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last year that destroyed its roof and collapsed its spire and threatened to topple the medieval monument. (AP Photo/Laetitia Notarianni)

Fire at French cathedral in Nantes destroys famed organ

By Laetitia Notarianni and Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

Assa Traore, wearing a shirt that reads: “Justice for Adama, without Justice you will never be in Peace,” attends an interview in Ivry-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Traore started by fighting for justice for her brother Adama, who died in police custody on his 24th birthday four years ago. She’s now at the forefront of a new movement for Black rights in France that aims to wipe out systemic racism in policing and challenge the country’s official vision of itself as a colorblind society. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

French protesters mark death of Black man in police custody

By ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

Serigne Mbaye prepares for his Dakar NOLA pop-up at New Orleans' Southern Food and Beverage Museum on Friday, June 12, 2020. (Todd A. Price/The Daily Advertiser via AP)

Chef plans to bring Senegalese cooking to Louisiana

By TODD A. PRICE and The American South by The USA Today Network - Associated Press

Assa Traore, wearing a shirt that reads: “Justice for Adama, without Justice you will never be in Peace,” attends an interview in Ivry-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Traore started by fighting for justice for her brother Adama, who died in police custody on his 24th birthday four years ago. She’s now at the forefront of a new movement for Black rights in France that aims to wipe out systemic racism in policing and challenge the country’s official vision of itself as a colorblind society. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

1 quest for justice helps fuel Black rights fight in France

By ARNO PEDRAM and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER - Associated Press

Turkey insists on apology from France over naval standoff

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian attends a news conference with Iraq counterpart Fouad Hussein following their meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Top French diplomat in first Iraq visit since virus outbreak

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France's Prime Minister Jean Castex leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French prime minister defends police amid brutality concerns

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France's Prime Minister Jean Castex leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Jobs, ecology key to France’s $110 billion virus rescue plan

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin attends the Bastille Day military parade, Tuesday, July 14, 2020 in Paris. France are honoring nurses, ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers and others on its biggest national holiday Tuesday. Bastille Day's usual grandiose military parade in Paris is being redesigned this year to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

France’s Macron defends security chief accused of rape

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A firefighter wears a face mask with the colors of the French flag, prior to the Bastille Day parade Tuesday, July 14, 2020 on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris. France are honoring nurses, ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers and others on its biggest national holiday Tuesday. Bastille Day's usual grandiose military parade in Paris is being redesigned this year to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

France says ‘merci’ to virus heroes on poignant Bastille Day

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

List 4/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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New French premier promises help for virus-hit French Guiana

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This July 8, 2020 file photo shows Veronique Monguillot, wife of Philippe Monguillot, a bus driver who was attacked in Bayonne on Sunday night, holding a photo of her with her husband, during a protest march in Bayonne, southwestern France. The wife of a French bus driver savagely beaten after he asked four of his passengers to wear face masks aboard his vehicle called Saturday for &quot;exemplary punishment&quot; after he died of his injuries. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Widow condemns “barbaric” death of driver beaten over masks

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France investigating millions in virus unemployment fraud

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FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, April 2, 2020, a man takes a rest in the &quot;Aurore&quot; center for homeless and migrant people in Paris, amid the coronavirus lockdown. A breakthrough study released Tuesday July 7, 2020, from the French government's statistics agency INSEE, shows that death rates doubled among immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, even tripling in the Paris region, at the height of France's coronavirus outbreak, exposing the pandemic's punishing impact on Black, migrant and other systematically overlooked minorities. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, FILE)

In France, study shows virus hit African immigrants hardest

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Newly appointed Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, center, talks to police officers during a visit of a police headquarters in Les Mureaux, outside Paris, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Former budget minister Darmanin was named to replace Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, who had come under fire amid widespread French protests against racial injustice and police brutality spurred by the death of George Floyd in the United States. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)

Women’s rights groups protest French ministers’ appointments

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, and Josep Borrell Fontelles, High Representative and Vice-President of the European Commission, greet each other by using their elbows before their talks, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, July 6, 2020. Cavusoglu and Borrell have discussed Turkey-EU relations, regional issues, Libya and Syria. (Cem Ozdel/Turkish Foreign Ministry via AP, Pool)

Turkey calls on EU to be ‘honest’ in dispute with members

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Visitors watch pantings at the Louvre Museum, in Paris, Monday, July 6, 2020. The home of the world's most famous portrait, the Louvre Museum in Paris, reopened Monday after a four-month coronavirus lockdown. (AP Photo/ Thibault Camus)

“Mona Lisa” back at work, visitors limited as Louvre reopens

By JOHN LEICESTER and CATHERINE GASCHKA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 19, 2020 file photo, French government coordinator for the end of lockdown Jean Castex leaves after a videoconference with the French President and French mayors at the Elysee Palace in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron has named Jean Castex, who coordinated France's virus reopening strategy, as new prime minister on Friday July 3, 2020. Emmanuel Macron is reshuffling the government to focus on reviving the economy after months of lockdown. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP, File)

France: Macron ousts security chief after police protests

By SYLVIE CORBET and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press