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Spain's Carlos Alcaraz plays a shot against Italy's Flavio Cobolli during their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Monday, May 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic ‘not otherworldly’ in French Open wins over foes making Slam debuts

By Howard Fendrich - Associated Press

Brigitte Henriques, French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) president delivers her speech during a press conference in Paris, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. The president of France's Olympic committee resigned unexpectedly Thursday, May 25, 2023, the latest shake-up for French sports and the country's preparations to host the Summer Olympics in Paris next year. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

France’s first female Olympic president resigns

Associated Press

Lenny Kravitz performs at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday, March 27, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Music superstars Lenny Kravitz, Billie Eilish and H.E.R. will team with advocacy nonprofit Global Citizen for a concert in front of the Eiffel Tower designed to convince world leaders to take further action against climate change. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Lenny Kravitz, Billie Eilish set for Global Citizen’s ‘Power Our Planet’ show for climate financing

By Glenn Gamboa - Associated Press

The Olympic rings are seen in front of the Paris City Hall, in Paris, Sunday, April 30, 2023. French security experts have expressed misgivings about size and complexity of the security operation that will be needed to safeguard Paris' ambitions for the unprecedented opening gala along the River Seine (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)

Fans will need to pre-register for free tickets to Paris’ gargantuan 2024 Olympic opening ceremony

By John Leicester - Associated Press

Riad Salameh, Lebanon's Central Bank governor, smiles during a press conference in Beirut, on Nov. 11, 2019. Salameh did not appear before French prosecutors for questioning in Paris, Tuesday May 16, 2023 in an ongoing European probe into alleged money-laundering and illicit enrichment. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon receives Interpol notice for its central bank governor who was no-show at Paris questioning

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Paris Organising Committee of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games President Tony Estanguet gives a press conference, in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, France, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. "The French capital detailed plans for a Pride House that will celebrate LGBTQ people during the Olympics and Paralympics next year and the chief Paris Games organizer pledged that Olympians and campaigners will be given "plenty of opportunities" to speak for LGBTQ rights at the sports showcase. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Paris Olympics vows to carry the torch for LGBTQ rights after watershed of Tokyo

By John Leicester - Associated Press

Boulogne-Levallois' Victor Wembanyama follows the ball during the Elite basketball match Boulogne-Levallois against JDA Dijon at the Palais de Sports Jean-Michel Geoffroy in Dijon, central France, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. On Sunday, May 7, 2023, he played before a crowd of about 15,000 fans in Paris as part of his farewell tour before coming to the NBA. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani) **FILE**

NBA draft lottery to determine phenom Wembanyama’s destination

By Tim Reynolds - Associated Press

Police officers guard the Stade de France prior the Champions League final soccer match between Liverpool and Real Madrid, in Saint Denis near Paris, on May 28, 2022. After UEFA was widely blamed for security failures at the chaotic and life-threatening Champions League final last year, it published action plans on Friday May 5, 2023 for future cup finals. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

UEFA details new cup final security plans after Paris chaos

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Tajani speaks to reporters prior to the plenary session of a bilateral meeting between Italy and Ukraine on the reconstruction of Ukraine in Rome Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Thursday, May 4, 2023, canceled a trip to Paris over remarks by the French interior minister criticizing the Italian premier’s migration policy, a foreign ministry official said. Italy had demanded clarification of the remarks by French minister Gerald Darmanin to the broadcaster RMC saying that Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni had lied to voters when she said she could solve the migration crisis. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Italian minister scraps trip over French official’s remarks

By Colleen Barry and Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

A disable man is helped climbing the stair to access the platform Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at the Melun train station, outside Paris. An influential disabled rights group in France is boycotting a conference on disability Wednesday with French President Emmanuel Macron, amid frustration at dismal accessibility for people in wheelchairs and with other mobility challenges -- and years of unmet promises to make things better ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Disabled rights protests before Paris Olympics draw pledges

By John Leicester - Associated Press

Paris officials unveil a display of the Olympic rings on Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, after the vote awarding the 2024 Games to the French capital, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. French President Emmanuel Macron's government is under pressure over the rights of people with disabilities as he hosts the country's first national conference on the issue since the COVID-19 pandemic. The looming deadlines in 2024 of the Olympic Games and Paralympics in Paris are also fuelling campaigners' calls for rapid action on accessibility and other rights for people with disabilities (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

France under pressure over disabled rights as Olympics loom

By John Leicester - Associated Press

People bang pots and pans while French President Emmanuel Macron speaks in a televised address to the nation, Monday, April 17, 2023, in Paris. A country renowned for its cuisine is turning to pots and pans to express discontent with French President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms. French demonstrations against raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 have morphed from lobbing paving stones, dodging tear gas and brandishing banners to something nearer the soul of the gastronomic nation: Making noise by banging kitchen saucepans. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) **FILE**

Steely will: French bang pots, pans in fresh pension protest

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee, rides a boat down the Seine River on the route that will be used for the opening ceremony of the Games, in Paris, Friday, April 14, 2023. Officials say more than 100 boats will be used to transport thousands of athletes in the opening ceremony on July 26, 2024, which is expected to draw as many as 600,000 spectators along the banks of the river. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

4 million apply for tickets for Paris Olympics in lottery

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

Workers unloading debris, belonging to crashed Air France flight AF447, from the Brazilian Navy's Constitution Frigate in the port of Recife, northeast of Brazil, Sunday, June 14, 2009. A French court is ruling Monday, April 17, 2023, on whether Airbus and Air France are guilty of manslaughter over the 2009 crash of Flight 447 en route from Rio to Paris, which killed 228 people and led to lasting changes in aircraft safety measures. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) **FILE**

Airbus, Air France acquitted over 2009 Rio-Paris crash

By Nicolas Vaux-Montagny - Associated Press

A worker cleans the street leading to the Constitutional Council, background, after demonstrators blocked the street with garbage cans, Thursday, April 13, 2023 in Paris. French unions are staging new nationwide protests Thursday, on the eve of an expected ruling by a top constitutional body that they hope will derail President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular pension reform plan. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

New protests in France over Macron plan to raise pension age

By Elaine Ganley and Jeffrey Schaeffer - Associated Press

Senior technician Omar Bach-Rais takes water samples from the River Seine for analysis as Aurelie Lemaire, a microbiology research intern looks on, in Paris, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. A costly and complex clean-up is resuscitating the River Seine just in time for it to play a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympics. The city and its region are rushing to make the Seine's murky waters swimmable, so it can genuinely live up to its billing as the world’s most romantic river. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Paris’ toxic river gets major rebirth ahead of 2024 Olympics

By John Leicester - Associated Press

A woman holds a sign reading "France says no" during a demonstration in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, March 16, 2023. With President Emmanuel Macron thousands of miles away in China, French protesters and unions returning to the streets continue to reveal cracks in his domestic political authority. Hundreds of thousands are expected again for the 11th day of nationwide resistance to raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 Thursday, April 6 as the controversial law is being considered by the Constitutional Council. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

Why are the French so angry over retiring 2 years later?

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

Youths run though tear gas during a protest in Nantes, western France, on Thursday, April 6, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill the streets of France Thursday for the 11th day of nationwide resistance to a government proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. The furious public reaction to the plan has cornered and weakened French President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

Protests again grip France, but Macron not backing down

By John Leicester and Oleg Cetinic - Associated Press

A woman holds a placard depicting French President Emmanuel Macron sitting on garbage cans that reads, "king of trash" during a protest in Paris, Friday, March 17, 2023. Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote disrupted traffic, garbage collection and university campuses in Paris as opponents of the change maintained their resolve to get the government to back down. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly) **FILE**

Paris trash strike ends after three weeks, workers removing tons of garbage

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Travelers enter the Gare du Nord train station, Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in Paris. A new round of strikes and demonstrations is planned against the unpopular pension reforms that, most notably, push the legal retirement age from 62 to 64. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

France braces for violence in new wave of pension protests

By Nicolas Garriga and John Leicester - Associated Press