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France's President Emmanuel Macron leads a special cabinet meeting from the Fort de Bregancon presidential holidays residence, in Bormes-les-Mimosas, southern France, Monday, Dec. 21, 2021. Macron held a special virus meeting on Monday with some key ministers via video call from his holiday residence at Fort de Bregancon, on the French Riviera, after the country recorded more than 100,000 virus infections in a single day for the first time in the pandemic. (Nicolas Tucat, Pool Photo via AP)

France imposes new virus measures amid spike in infections

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French Prime Minister Jean Castex gives a statement after a Belgian-French security consultation meeting at Egmont Palace in Brussels, Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. The prime minister of France, who tested positive for COVID Monday, is being singled out on social media and beyond as the prime example of what not to do in the pandemic. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

French PM singled out for ire after testing COVID-positive

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Police officers pay homage to a slain colleague at a police station in Avignon, southern France, Sunday, May 9, 2021. Police officers and civilians gathered to commemorate the death of a police officer who was killed Wednesday at a known drug-dealing site in the southern France city of Avignon. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

France wants tougher punishment for those who attack police

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

Medical staff meets in a room of a patient affected by COVID-19 virus in the ICU unit at the Ambroise Pare clinic in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, Friday, March 19, 2021. French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced new coronavirus restrictions as the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units spikes. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Medical workers conflicted by France’s partial lockdown

By JOHN LEICESTER and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

France to close its borders to arrivals from outside EU

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Passengers wait in line to check in for their Air-France flight to Paris at Johannesburg's OR Tambo airport Monday Dec. 21 2020. More and more countries around the world are restricting travel from Britain and elsewhere, including South Africa, amid concerns about new strains of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Travel restrictions set, tweaked amid new virus variants

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A medical crew works at a patient affected with COVID-19 in a Marseille hospital, southern France, Thursday, Sept.10, 2020. As the Marseille region has become France's latest virus hotspot, hospitals are re-activating emergency measures in place when the pandemic first hit to ensure they're able to handle growing new cases. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

COVID beds fill up as virus pressure builds in Marseille

By DANIEL COLE - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, center, chairs a weekly cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Jean Castex, left, and Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian, Wednesday, Aug.26, 2020 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, Pool)

Don’t panic, French prime minister says, as infections mount

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

France pays homage to six French aid workers killed in Niger

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France's Prime Minister Jean Castex leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Jobs, ecology key to France’s $110 billion virus rescue plan

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