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France's Kevin Staut on horse Beau de Laubry Z gestures, during the 37th International Show Jumping Grand Prix of Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. Former equestrian Olympic gold medallist Kevin Staut was cleared Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, by a French court of assaulting his former partner during a brawl in a hotel room, his lawyer told The Associated Press. (Bernd Wei'brod/dpa via AP, File)

Olympic equestrian champ cleared of violence in domestic dispute case

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Tran To Nga, a 78-year-old former journalist, attends a gathering in support of people exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, in Paris, Saturday Jan. 30, 2021. Activists gathered Saturday in Paris in support of people exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, after a French court examined a case opposing a French-Vietnamese woman to 14 companies that produced and sold the toxic chemical. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Activists back French-Vietnamese woman’s Agent Orange case

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French court awards total $8.9 million to former coal miners

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug.21, 2015 file photo, a police officer videos the crime scene inside a Thalys train at Arras train station, northern France, after a gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon. No one died, but few if any passengers on car 12 of a train to Paris would have reached their destination alive if the attack plot five years ago had gone off as planned, prosecutors contended at the month-long trial of an Islamic State operative. The proceedings end Thursday with the verdict. (AP Photo, File)

French court convicts IS operative over foiled train attack

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 20, 2020 file photo, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe arrives for a meeting in Paris. A new French prime minister will be appointed on Friday to replace Edouard Philippe, who has resigned amid an expected government reshuffle, the French presidency announced. (Thomas Coex, Pool via AP)

French government ministers investigated over virus crisis

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French court approves transfer of Rwandan genocide suspect

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FILE - In this April 9, 2020 file photo, employees observe social distancing due to coronavirus, at the entrance of Amazon, in Douai, northern France.A French court has ordered Amazon to stop buying, storing or delivering non-essential goods for the next month to protect its employees from the virus. The emergency ruling Tuesday requires Amazon to evaluate health risks at all its facilities nationwide and negotiate new safety measures with worker representatives, according to lawyers for unions that launched the legal proceedings. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

Amazon suspends all activity in France amid virus crisis

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FILE - In this April 9, 2020 file photo, employees observe social distancing due to coronavirus, at the entrance of Amazon, in Douai, northern France.A French court has ordered Amazon to stop buying, storing or delivering non-essential goods for the next month to protect its employees from the virus. The emergency ruling Tuesday requires Amazon to evaluate health risks at all its facilities nationwide and negotiate new safety measures with worker representatives, according to lawyers for unions that launched the legal proceedings. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

French court orders Amazon to suspend non-essential sales

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

In this image made from video provided by BFMTV, a rooster is seen in a cage, with a sign reading in French &quot;The countryside lives, makes noise, the rooster as well&quot;, during court proceedings in Saint-Pierre-d'Oleron, France, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. A French court has ruled that a rooster called Maurice can keep crowing, rejecting a complaint from neighbors who were suing over noise nuisance. Maurice's owner, Corinne Fesseau, will be able to keep the rooster on the small island of Oleron, off France's Atlantic coast. (AP Photo)

Cock-a-doodle-doo! French rooster crows over court win

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan.7, 2019 file photo, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin listens to his lawyers, Jean-Felix Luciani, 2nd right, and Andre Soulier, back to camera, as he attends the start his trial, in Lyon, central France. A French court on Thursday MARCH 7, 2019 is expected to acquit a cardinal and five other defendants accused of protecting a pedophile priest, but alleged victims say France's most important church sex abuse trial has at least allowed them to bring the affair into the open. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

The Latest: Cardinal offers resignation after conviction

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French court issues mixed ruling in Facebook nudity case

By PHILIPPE SOTTO - Associated Press

Frederic Durand-Baissas, a 59-year-old Parisian teacher and art lover, poses during an interview in Paris, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. Durand-Baissas, whose Facebook account was suspended in 2011 after he posted a photo of Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting &quot;The Origin of the World,&quot; which depicts female genitalia, is suing the California-based social network Facebook for alleged &quot;censorship&quot;. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)

Facebook denies censorship in closing of Paris user’s page

By PHILIPPE SOTTO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017 file photo Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge smile as they walk through the memorial garden in Kensington Palace, London. Kensington Palace says Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their third child. The announcement released in a statement Monday Sept. 4, 2017 says the queen is delighted by the news. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

The Latest: British royal couple pleased with privacy ruling

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017 file photo Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge smile as they walk through the memorial garden in Kensington Palace, London. Kensington Palace says Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their third child. The announcement released in a statement Monday Sept. 4, 2017 says the queen is delighted by the news. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

France: Court finds topless photos violated royal’s privacy

By PHILIPPE SOTTO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017 file photo, Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, talks to runners as she prepares to take part in a relay race, during a training event to promote the charity Heads Together, at the Queen Elizabeth II Park in London. Three photographers have appeared in a French court on Tuesday May 2, 2017, over topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge, an invasion of privacy case that has outraged Britain's royal family. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)

Paparazzi on trial over topless photos of British royal Kate

By ALEX TURNBULL - Associated Press

French court orders hospital to continue baby’s treatment

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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 1988 file photo, Michael Jackson performs during his 13-city U.S. tour in Kansas City, Mo. The estate of Michael Jackson has landed the late King of Pop the biggest recording deal in history: a $200 million guaranteed contract with Sony Music Entertainment for 10 projects over seven years, according to a person familiar with the deal. (AP Photo/Cliff Schiappa, File)

Fans win ‘emotional damage’ award against Jackson doctor

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Air France Flight 4590 takes off from Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris on July 25, 2000, with fire trailing from an engine on the supersonic Concorde's left wing. (AP Photo/Toshihiko Sato)

French court overturns Concorde crash conviction against Continental Airlines

By Greg Keller - Associated Press

Attorney Maud Sobel reads a statement by a French court in Nanterre which orders a magazine publisher to hand over all digital copies of topless photos of Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge and blocks further publication. Under Tuesday’s ruling, the French magazine Closer faces a daily fine of $13,100 if it fails to hand over the photos taken of the royals in southern France. (Associated Press)

Royals win first battle in privacy brouhaha

By Gregory Katz and Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

Topless photos ruling: 1st battle in privacy war

By GREGORY KATZ and THOMAS ADAMSON - Associated Press