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Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo gets a bouquet of flowers after her victorious second round of the municipal election, Sunday, June 28, 2020 in Paris. France on Sunday held the second round of municipal elections that has seen a record low turnout amid concerns over the coronavirus outbreak and anger at how President Emmanuel Macron's government handled it. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Macron pledges billions for climate after Greens make gains

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This undated photo provided by HBO Documentary Films shows a scene from &quot;Welcome to Chechnya.&quot; In documentary film, the anonymous source has often been reduced to a shadowy, voice-distorted figure, or worse, a pixelated blur. But the new documentary premiering Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, at the Sundance Film Festival has with the aid of advanced digital technology gone to greater lengths to preserve the secrecy of its sources while still conveying their humanity. (HBO Documentary Films via AP)

Using ‘face doubles,’ new HBO doc captures LGBTQ purge

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press

People wearing face mask and visor to protect against coronavirus sit behind a glass shield during a rehearsal of the vote for the local elections scheduled for Sunday, June 28, in Paris, Friday, June 26, 2020. France is to hold its Covid-19 delayed second round of local elections on June 28. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Paris mayor reelected, green wave in France local elections

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

This photo dated March 15, 2020, shows Meyer Haiun in the Paris care home, la Residence Amaraggi, where the 85-year-old died 11 days later. Taken by his brother, Robert Haiun, this is the last photo the family has of Meyer. In France, a reckoning is beginning for 14,000 deaths in care homes, a cataclysm that scythed through the generation that endured World War II. Families whose elders died behind the closed doors of homes in lockdown are filing wrongful death lawsuits, triggering police investigations. (Courtesy of Robert Haiun via AP)

After waves of virus deaths, care homes face legal reckoning

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Climate activists disrupt reopening of Paris’ Orly Airport

By ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to French President Emmanuel Macron during a via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, June 26, 2020. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Macron discuss closer cooperation in video call

By ANGELA CHARLTON and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP)

Germany unveils record contribution to WHO following U.S. threats to withdraw

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

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Restrictions on African activist upheld after Paris protest

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Turkey accuses France of dragging Libya into ‘chaos’

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List 4/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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Statue at French parliament defaced amid anti-racism push

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Tunisian President Kais Saied, left, is welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron for bilateral talks at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, June 22, 2020. Tunisian President Kais Saied is for a two-day visit in France. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France’s Macron denounces Turkey’s attitude in Libya

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, shows the wreckage of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 at the scene of the crash in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. Iran has acknowledged that its armed forces &quot;unintentionally&quot; shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Iran to send black boxes from downed Ukrainian plane to France for review

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

French activists of Attac stage a flash protest outside the French Health Ministry in support of medical workers, in Paris, France, Saturday, June 20, 2020. French hospital workers and others are protesting to demand better pay and more investment in France's public hospital system, which is considered among the world's best but struggled to handle a flux of virus patients after years of cost cuts. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

French protesters decry racism, other systemic injustices

By THOMAS ADAMSON and BOUBKAR BENZABAT - Associated Press

In this photo released by the official website of the Office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani attends a Cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Presidency via AP) ** FILE **

Britain, France, Germany urge Iran to allow atomic site access, reject U.S. sanctions push

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 2, 2019 file photo Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi from Argentina addresses the media during a news conference during a general confernce of the IAEA, at the International Center in Vienna, Austria. The board of the United Nations' atomic watchdog agency on Friday adopted a resolution calling for Iran to provide inspectors access to sites where the country is thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, file)

Germany, France, UK press Iran to provide atomic site access

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speech the industrial development laboratory at French drugmaker's vaccine unit Sanofi Pasteur plant in Marcy-l'Etoile, near Lyon, central France, Tuesday, June 16, 2020.The visit comes after rival pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca this weekend announced a deal to supply 400 million vaccine doses to EU countries, including France. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, Pool)

Macron marks appeal that gave birth to French Resistance

By DANICA KIRKA and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

This frame grab provided by BFM TV shows youths, some holding sticks, walking by a burning car in Dijon, central France, Monday June 15, 2020. The French government sent police reinforcements and a top official to the Dijon region to quell four nights of unusually violent clashes between rival groups that have left at least 10 injured and cars burned and rattled the community. The reasons for the violence are under investigation, but local officials say it appears linked to the drug trade and tensions between members of France's Chechen community and other groups. (BFM TV via AP)

France sends police reinforcements to Dijon to quell unrest

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Medical workers march during a demonstration in Marseille, southern France, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. French hospital workers and others are protesting in cities around the country to demand better pay and more investment in France's public hospital system, which is considered among the world's best but struggled to handle a flux of virus patients after years of cost cuts. France has seen nearly 30,000 virus deaths. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Protesting French hospital workers demand better pay

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and NICOLAS GARRIGA - Associated Press