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This photo taken on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019 show a Ranult car parking outside the French carmaker headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, France. French carmaker Renault looks set to give its approval to Fiat Chrysler's merger offer. The company's board is meeting Tuesday afternoon at its headquarters to decide on a deal that could reshape the global auto industry. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Fiat Chrysler says French politics ended Renault merger

By ANGELA CHARLTON and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

Queen Elizabeth II, President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, from left, applaud as they watch a fly past at the end of an event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day in Portsmouth, England Wednesday, June 5, 2019. World leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump are gathering Wednesday on the south coast of England to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

French beaches at dawn set scene for solemn D-Day observance

By JOHN LEICESTER and RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Soldiers from the U.S. 75th Ranger Regiment, in period dress stand on the overlook after climbing the cliffs of Pointe-du-Hoc in Cricqueville-en-Bessin, Normandy, France, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. During the American assault of Omaha and Utah beaches on June 6, 1944, U.S. Army Rangers scaled the 100-foot cliffs to seize German artillery pieces that could have fired on the American landing troops. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

The Latest: Plane fly-over wraps up D-Day ceremony

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Italian national soccer team coach, Roberto Mancini, leads a training session ahead of Saturday's European Championship, Group J qualifying match against Greece, at Coverciano Sport Center, near Florence, Italy, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (Claudio Giovannini/ANSA via AP)

Euro 2020 qualifying resumes with France, Spain in action

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US player Megan Rapinoe, center, stretches with Crystal Dunn, right, and Alex Morgan, left, during a US womens soccer team training session at the Tottenham Hotspur training centre in London, Thursday, June 6, 2019. The Women's World Cup starts in France on June 7. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Crystal Dunn readies for WCup after getting cut in 2015

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

In this file photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a U.S. Coast Guard landing barge, tightly packed with helmeted soldiers, approaches the shore at Normandy, France, during initial Allied landing operations, June 6, 1944. These barges ride back and forth across the English Channel, bringing wave after wave of reinforcement troops to the Allied beachheads. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)

Soaring Valor races to save World War II veterans stories

By James Varney - The Washington Times

Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom, arrives at a polling station to cast his vote in the European elections in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, May 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis) ** FILE **

Thierry Baudet upstages Geert Wilders in Europe elections

By Gordon Darroch — Special to The Washington Times

Former Royal Marine Les Budding, right, stands with Philip Collins, 62, who is the son of the late F.E. Collins of 45 Commando, who fought alongside Budding on D-Day, as they pose for a photo aboard the MV Boudicca ship as veterans return to the scene of the D-Day landings 75-years after the Allied invasion of northern France, Tuesday June 4, 2019. Many veterans are returning to the scene where as young men they stormed the beaches of Normandy in northern France during World War II, with the fate of the free world resting on their shoulders. (AP Photo/Ben Jary)

Suddenly it’s D-Day again; aging veterans recall invasion

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

France’s conservative party chief quits after poor election

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FILE - In this July 13, 2018, file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and President Donald Trump inspect the Guard of Honour, at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England. Like a bull who keeps going back to the china shop, Trump is returning to Europe. (Ben Stansall/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump heads to Europe at a time of remembrance, turmoil

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, May 1, 2019 photo, the headstone of World War II U.S. Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr is photographed at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France. President Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will next week honor the dwindling number of veterans of the D-Day landing that turned World War II amid plenty of signs the bonds of friendship are under strain. The United States has had a special bond with France throughout its history and especially during two world wars over the past century when even future presidents and sons of presidents risked their lives for the freedom of a friendly nation. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

D-Day symbol of American-French friendship under strain

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 6, 2018, file photo, headstones at the Colleville American military cemetery, in Colleville sur Mer, western France. The world will turn its eyes to the beaches of France to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day. The United States’ representative at the solemn ceremony in Normandy will be President Donald Trump, whose complicated relationship with the armed forces includes allegations of draft dodging, feuds with Gold Star families and considerations of pardoning soldiers accused of war crimes. (AP Photo/David Vincent, File)

D-Day ceremony spotlights Trump’s complicated military ties

By JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

A police officer lets an elderly woman leaving the area while soldiers secure the access near the site of a suspected bomb attack in central Lyon, Friday May, 24, 2019. An explosion Friday on a busy pedestrian street in the French city of Lyon injured seven people, local officials said. (AP Photo/Sebastien Erome)

Lyon bomb suspect had pledged allegiance to IS

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Soldiers of French anti terrorist plan &quot;Vigipirate Mission&quot;, secure the area near the site of a suspected bomb attack in central Lyon, Friday May, 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastien Erome)

Suspect in Lyon explosion claims ties to Islamic State group

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Iraq hands over 188 Turkish children of suspected IS members

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, waits for the arrival of Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, France, Monday, May 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Climate activists on trial for taking down Macron portraits

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 11, 1944, file photo, American paratroops patrol in the streets of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France, before pushing on toward Cherbourg. About 15,000 paratroopers landed in and around the village not long after midnight on June 6, 1944, and seized it from the Germans by 4:30 a.m. (AP Photo/File)

Normandy tries to keep alive ‘infinite gratitude’ for D-Day

By CATHERINE GASCHKA and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

FILE - in this Thursday, April 26, 2018 file photo, relatives wait outside Nineveh Criminal Court, one of two counterterrorism courts in Iraq where suspected Islamic State militants and their associates are tried, in Tel Keif, Iraq. A Baghdad court sentenced to death three French citizens Sunday for being members of the Islamic State group, an Iraqi judicial official said. The official said the three were among 12 French citizens handed over to Iraq in January by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. Then SDF has handed over to Iraq hundreds of suspected IS members in recent months. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Iraq sentences 2 more French IS members to death, 6 so far

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

The Fiat Chrysler Automobiles world headquarters is shown in Auburn Hills, Mich., Monday, May 27, 2019. Fiat Chrysler proposed on Monday to merge with France's Renault to create the world's third-biggest automaker, worth $40 billion, and combine forces in the race to make electric and autonomous vehicles. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

France: No jobs must be lost in Renault-Fiat Chrysler tie-up

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A woman exits a voting cabin with curtains depicting the European Union in Baleni, Romania, Sunday, May 26, 2019. The ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) suffered a major blow in the European Parliament elections according to the country's only exit poll. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

The Latest: Merkel wants quick deal on head of EU Commission

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