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In this image taken from video, firemen and emergency workers set up operations on a side street near the site of a fire in an apartment building, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Paris, France. A fire in a Paris apartment building has killed a number of people and sent residents fleeing to the roof or climbing out windows to escape. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Paris fire suspect transferred for medical exams

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In this photo provided on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2012 by the Brigade de Sapeurs-Pompiers de Paris (Paris Fire Brigade), a fire rages through the top floors of an apartment building in Paris, France. The fire that authorities suspect was an arson attack sent residents fleeing to the roof or climbing out their windows to escape. (Benoit Moser/BSPP via AP)

Worst Paris fire in 14 years is suspected arson attack

By Thomas Adamson and Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

France launches airstrikes at armed Libyan group in Chad

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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2017 file photo, French secretary of state for women's rights Marlene Schiappa delivers a speech in Chassieu, near Lyon, central France. Twelve women, journalists and witnesses go on trial Monday Feb. 4, 2019, for alleged defamation of prominent French lawmaker Denis Baupin after their accusations of sexual misconduct forced his resignation, although Baupin denied any misconduct, and Marlene Schiappa has said she would not specifically comment on the case because it's up to justice to decide. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

French women put on defense in post-#MeToo defamation trial

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Gold medalist Francois Place, of France, celebrates on the podium after the men's ski cross event at the freestyle ski and snowboard world championships Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Solitude, Utah. (AP Photo/Alex Goodlett)

Place, Thompson earn gold medals at worlds in skicross event

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FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018 file photo, police officers clash with demonstrators wearing yellow vests in Paris. A European human rights official said on Wednesday Jan. 30, 2019, that she is &quot;seriously concerned&quot; about extensive injuries caused by rubber bullets and other French police methods to disperse yellow vest protesters. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

French yellow vest protesters condemn injuries, blame police

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

6N: Wales achieve incredible win over France from 16-0 down

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

Italian Deputy Premier and Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, visits the construction site of a high-speed railway project in Chiomonte, near Turin, Italy, Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. Matteo Salvini says he supports a review of a high-speed railway project that protests kept stalled for decades. But Salvini said during a visit to the construction site on Friday that he thinks the European Union project should be completed. (Alessandro Di Marco/ANSA via AP)

Italy’s Salvini backs EU train line opposed by govt partner

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019, a view of the entrance gate to Rue de Chevreuse, close to the cottage which served as Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's operational and media headquarters during his four month stay in October 1978, in Neauphle-Le-Chateau, west of Paris. Sheltered in a cottage in a sleepy village outside Paris, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini piped out messages daily to hundreds of followers clamoring to glimpse their glowering idol with black turban, and amplified his pronouncements with recorded messages to Iranians at home, turning his humble abode into an international megaphone for the Islamic revolution. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Khomeini launched a revolution from a sleepy French village

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

French jihadis will return home, and to prison, from Syria

By LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 file photo, Herve Ryssen, left, close to the ultra-right and convicted for antisemitic and racist comments, wearing a yellow jacket, clashes with riot police officers on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris. Intolerance and conspiracy theories have haunted the margins of France’s “yellow vest” movement since the first protests over fuel taxes roused the discontented middle of French society. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File)

French yellow vest movement dogged by intolerance, extremism

By LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, right, welcomes his French counterpart Emanuel Macron during the south EU summit in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Cyprus is hosting the leaders of France, Portugal, Malta, Greece, Spain and Italy for the fifth &quot;Med 7&quot; summit. The leaders will discuss issues including Brexit, migration _ which is of particular concern to these front-line states _ and the European Union's energy security. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

France backs Cyprus’ search for gas amid Turkey opposition

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Avalanche kills 2 in French Alps; Paris braces for snowstorm

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Alstom, Siemens seek to calm EU concerns over rail merger

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Code Name Lisle’ by Larry Loftis

By Joseph C. Goulden

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, file photo, France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks to military forces as part of his visit to the 11th Brigade of the Paratroopers of the Infantry at Toulouse-Francazal air base, near Toulouse, southern France. Macron aims to speak out stronger than in the past about human rights issues while in Egypt, where France seeks to reinforce strategic ties with a country he considers a key regional partner, he told reporters on Sunday, Jan. 27. (Guillaume Horcajuelo/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Macron raises human rights on visit to Egypt

By BRIAN ROHAN - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘A History of France’ by John Julius Norwich

By Tara Wilson Redd

A Yellow vest demonstrator wearing a red nose gathers near the Arc de Triomphe before marching in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. France's yellow vest protesters are hitting the streets again, keeping up pressure on President Emmanuel Macron even as internal divisions and frustration over protest violence cloud the movement's future. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Day and night, yellow vest protests keep pressure on Macron

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 file picture, a demonstrator waves the French flag onto a burning barricade on the Champs-Elysees avenue with the Arc de Triomphe in background, during a demonstration against the rising of the fuel taxes, in Paris, France. Thousands of demonstrators will again take to the streets across France this weekend in protest of French president Emmanuel Macron's policies, while anti-yellow vests groups have also planned to use street action to condemn violence.(AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Yellow vests, opponents gearing up for protests in France

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2016, file photo, Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim smiles during a training session ahead of the Champions League soccer match against Tottenham Hotspurs at Wembley stadium in London. Monaco fired Thierry Henry and re-hired title-winning coach Leonardo Jardim on Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, just three months after sacking him to make way for the France great. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

It was always questionable if Henry was right for Monaco

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press