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People wearing yellow vests demonstrate in Peyrorade, southwestern France, Friday, Dec.14, 2018. French President Emmanuel Macron is calling for &quot;calm&quot; and &quot;order&quot; ahead of promised new protests by the broad yellow-vest movement after rioting in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

The Latest: French official reports 8th protest death

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Jewish tombstones are seen desecrated with swastikas in the Herrlisheim Jewish cemetery, north of Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. Dozens of tombs were defaced were discovered Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

French Jewish cemetery desecrated with swastikas

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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. European Union leaders have offered Theresa May sympathy but no promises, as the British prime minister seeks a lifeline that could help her sell her Brexit divorce deal to a hostile U.K. Parliament. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)

The Latest: Macron calls for calm and order before protests

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In this Nov. 24, 2018, file photo, demonstrators march on the famed Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, France, as they protest the rising of the fuel prices. “Yellow vest” protests have gripped France for four weeks, blocking highways from Provence to Normandy and erupting in rioting in Paris. They’ve shaken the country to its core and left President Emmanuel Macron struggling to retain control. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File)

Emmanuel Macron urges calm; Paris police brace for more violence

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2018 file photo, a demonstrator waves the French flag on a burning barricade on the Champs-Elysees avenue with the Arc de Triomphe in background, during a demonstration against the rise of fuel taxes. Across the world, people are questioning truths they had long held to be self-evident, and they are dismissing some of them as fake news. They are replacing traditions they had long seen as immutable with haphazard reinvention. In France, people who feel left behind by a globalizing world have spent the last few weeks marching and rioting to protest a government they call elitist and out of touch. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Analysis: In democracies’ political chaos, new model emerges

By NIKO PRICE - Associated Press

Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, right, and Indian Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman address a press conference on India's Supreme Court ruling on government purchase of Rafale fighter jets in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. India's top court has rejected petitions seeking a probe into the government purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi says there is no reason to doubt the government's decision-making process in the multi-billion dollar deal. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Indian court rejects probe into Rafale fighter jet deal

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

A French soldiers patrols as the Christmas market reopens in Strasbourg, eastern France, Friday, Dec.14, 2018. The man authorities believe killed three people during a rampage near a Christmas market in Strasbourg died Thursday in a shootout with police at the end of a two-day manhunt, French authorities said. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

The Latest: Italian journalist among the dead in Strasbourg

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French police officers gather near the dead body of a man lying in the doorway of a building after a shootout with police in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. The dead man was suspected of being the gunman who killed three people near a Christmas market in Strasbourg. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said the dead man's identity hasn't been confirmed yet. But Castaner said the &quot;individual corresponds to the description of the person sought since Tuesday night,&quot; 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt. (AP Photo)

French hunt for possible accomplices of Strasbourg attacker

By ELAINE GANLEY and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV - Associated Press

French police forces take position in the Neudorf district of Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. French security forces were trying to catch the suspected Strasbourg gunman dead or alive as the city of Strasbourg was still in mourning with candles lit and flowers left at the site of Tuesday's attack near the Christmas market.(AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

The Latest: Man killed in Strasbourg was market shooter

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A tourist walks on the terrace of the Arc de Triomphe during its reopening day, in Paris, Wednesday, Dec.12, 2018. Storeowners are replacing shattered windows while city workers have been towing away the hulks of burned-out cars and cleaning anti-government and anti-capitalist graffiti off shops, buildings and world-famous sites like the Arc de Triomphe, which reopens on Wednesday, more than a week after it was vandalized. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France sees 6th yellow vest protester die in road accident

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

French gendarmes patrol in the streets of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France, following a shooting, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. Police union officials identified the suspected assailant as Frenchman Cherif Chekatt, a 29-year-old with a thick police record for crimes including armed robbery and monitored as a suspected religious radical by the French intelligence services. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Strasbourg market attack suspect killed in police shootout

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and ELENA BECATOROS and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV - Associated Press

Police vehicles move at the center of the city of Strasbourg following a shooting, eastern France, Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018. A man who had been flagged as a possible extremist sprayed gunfire near the city of Strasbourg's famous Christmas market Tuesday, killing three people, wounding 12 and sparking a massive manhunt. France immediately raised its terror alert level.(AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

The Latest: France issues wanted poster for shooting suspect

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Police vehicles move at the center of the city of Strasbourg following a shooting, eastern France, Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018. A man who had been flagged as a possible extremist sprayed gunfire near the city of Strasbourg's famous Christmas market Tuesday, killing three people, wounding 12 and sparking a massive manhunt. France immediately raised its terror alert level.(AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Cherif Chekatt, suspected gunman in France, had long police record

By Lori Hinnant, Sylvie Corbet and John Leicester - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron poses before a special address to the nation, his first public comments after four weeks of nationwide 'yellow vest' protests, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. Facing exceptional protests, French President Emmanuel Macron is promising to speed up tax relief for struggling workers and to scrap a tax hike for retirees. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP)

The cost of France’s protests running into billions

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

In this image made from video, emergency services arrive on the scene of a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. A French regional official says that a shooting in Strasbourg has left at least one dead and several wounded in the city center near a world-famous Christmas market. The prefect of France's Bas-Rhin region says the gunman, who is still at large, has been identified. Authorities haven't given a motive for the shooting. (AP Photo)

Attack at Christmas market in French city kills 3, wounds 12

By SYLVIE CORBET and JEAN-FRANCOIS BADIAS and ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Emergency services arrive at the center of the city of Strasbourg which is close following a shooting, eastern France, Tuesday Dec. 11, 2018. A shooting in the French city of Strasbourg killed at least two people and wounded more than others, officials said, sparking a broad lockdown and major security operation around a world-famous Christmas market. Authorities said the shooter remains at large. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

France shooting: Multiple casualties reported in Strasbourg

By Sylvie Corbet and Jean-Francois Badias and Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

In this image made from video, emergency services arrive on the scene of a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. A French regional official says that a shooting in Strasbourg has left at least one dead and several wounded in the city center near a world-famous Christmas market. The prefect of France's Bas-Rhin region says the gunman, who is still at large, has been identified. Authorities haven't given a motive for the shooting. (AP Photo)

The Latest: French minister says Strasbourg gunman killed 3

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French President Emmanuel Macron, center, French Prime Minister Edouard Philipppe, left, and Environment Minister Francois de Rugy meet with representatives of trade unions, employers' organizations and local elected officials at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, Dec.10 2018. Macron is preparing to speak to the nation Monday at last, after increasingly violent and radicalized protests against his leadership and a long silence that aggravated the anger. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP)

The Latest: Macron promises tax relief for workers, retirees

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French President Emmanuel Macron poses before a special address to the nation, his first public comments after four weeks of nationwide 'yellow vest' protests, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. Facing exceptional protests, French President Emmanuel Macron is promising to speed up tax relief for struggling workers and to scrap a tax hike for retirees. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP)

Emmanuel Macron surrenders to yellow vests’ demands in blow to climate change movement

By Rebecca Rosman - Special to The Washington Times

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposes to set a national price on carbon emissions of $7.5 a ton, rising to $37.50. (Associated Press/File)

Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax divides Canada voters

By Barry Brown - Special to The Washington Times