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Benko -- White to play and mate in three.

Chess for Christmas, confounding and consoling

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Head of Paris 2024 Olympics Tony Estanguet, attends a press conference ahead of the Paris Olympics 2024 to present the opening ceremonies, in Paris, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Paris to stage 2024 Olympics opening ceremony on River Seine

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff, tour Suresnes American Cemetery in Suresnes, France on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Emhoff defends his wife, VP Harris, amid her low polls and French gaffe

By Tom Howell Jr. and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Actor Dean Stockwell poses with his award for best supporting actor for his role in "Quantum Leap" at the 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 20, 1990. Stockwell, a top Hollywood child actor who gained new success in middle age, garnering an Oscar nomination for “Married to the Mob” and Emmy nominations for “Quantum Leap,” died of natural causes at his home on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. He was 85. (AP Photo/Douglas Pizac, File) **FILE**

Dean Stockwell of ‘Quantum Leap,’ ‘Blue Velvet’ dies at 85

By Jake Coyle - Associated Press

The British trawler kept by French authorities docks at the port in Le Havre, western France, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. French authorities fined two British fishing vessels and kept one in port overnight Thursday, Oct.28, 2021, amid a worsening dispute over fishing licenses that has stoked tensions following the U.K.'s departure from the European Union. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

‘We will not roll over:’ U.K. stands firm over French threats

By Pan Pylas and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

Tugboats get into position on the Russian pipe-laying vessel &quot;Fortuna&quot; in the port of Wismar, Germany, Thursday, Jan 14, 2021. The special vessel is being used for construction work on the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. (Jens Buettner/dpa via AP) ** FILE **

Xi, Putin snub high-stakes U.N. climate summit, momentum lags among world’s major polluters

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2018 file photo a visitor looks at wooden royal statues of the Dahomey kingdom, dated 19th century, at Quai Branly museum in Paris, France. In a decision with potential ramifications across European museums, France is displaying 26 looted colonial-era artifacts for one last time before returning them home to Benin. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

129-year journey nears end as France returns Benin treasures

By Sylvie Corbet and Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021 file photo, emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets, near Emmett, Kansas, United States. The world needs to more than halve production of coal, oil and gas in the coming decade to maintain a chance of keeping global warming from reaching dangerous levels, according to a U.N.-backed study released Wednesday. The report published by the U.N. Environment Program found that while governments have made ambitious pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions, they are still planning to extract double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030than what would be consistent withthe 2015 Paris climate accords goal of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

U.N. scolds nations over fossil-fuel production as world wrestles with energy crisis

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct.17, 1967 file photo, Algerians come out of Paris subway station with their hands on their heads after being arrested in Paris for failure to obey curfew imposed on Algerians. A tribute march is organized in Paris Sunday Oct.17, 2021 for the 60th anniversary of the bloody police crackdown on a protest by Algerians in the French capital, during the final year of their country's independence war with the colonial power. About 12,000 Algerians were arrested and &quot;several dozens&quot; were killed, &quot;their bodies thrown into the Seine River.&quot; Historians say at least 120 protesters have been killed, some shot and some drowned in the Seine River. (AP Photo, File)

France commemorates the 1961 massacre of Algerians in Paris

By Arno Pedram and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Author and actor Laurent Martinez gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated-Press at &quot;Theo Theater&quot; in Paris, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. French author and actor Laurent Martinez has been sexually abused by a priest. Over forty years later, he has chosen to make his story a theater play to show the devastating consequences and how speaking out can help overcoming the trauma. The play called &quot;Pardon?&quot; is deeply inspired from the Martinez's own life, describing how he felt devoured from the inside and the difficulties of daily life after being abused. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French actor breaks silence on child sex abuse within church

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French ambassador to Australia Jean-Pierre Thebault gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated-Press in Paris, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison welcomed France's decision to return its ambassador to Australia and said Thursday the bilateral relationship was bigger than the canceled submarine contract. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French envoy to Australia: Deceitful sub deal raises risks

By Masha MacPherson - Associated Press

FILE — In this photo taken on Jan. 29 2019, former Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Versailles, west of Paris, France. Banisadr, Iran's first president after the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy, died Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. He was 88. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Banisadr, Iran’s first president after 1979 revolution, dies

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Commission President Jean-Marc Sauve, left, hands copies of the report to Catholic Bishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of the Bishops' Conference of France (CEF), during the publishing of a report by an independent commission into sexual abuse by church officials (Ciase), Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Paris. A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in France's first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon. (Thomas Coex, Pool via AP)

French report: 330,000 children victims of church sex abuse

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

A model wears a creation for the Hermes Spring-Summer 2022 ready-to-wear fashion show presented Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Paris Fashion Week channels humor, animated film for spring

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives opening remarks as he meets with local labor leaders the IBEW Local #5 for a roundtable, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke, Pool) **FILE**

Blinken and Kerry headed to France in wake of Aussie sub deal friction

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The Climate Path to Communits Power Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The left’s climate path to remaking our society into a communist utopia

By Steve Milloy

FILE - I this May 31, 2020 file photo, people walk on the forecourt of Notre Dame's Cathedral, in Paris. France's Notre Dame Cathedral is finally stable and secure enough for artisans to start rebuilding it, more than two years after the shocking fire that tore through its roof, knocked down its spire and threatened to bring the rest of the medieval monument down, too. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

France’s Notre Dame cathedral stable enough to start rebuilding

Associated Press

This courtroom sketch shows key defendant Salah Abdeslam, in the special courtroom built for the 2015 attacks trial, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021 in Paris. The trial of 20 men accused in the Islamic State group's coordinated attacks on Paris in 2015 that transformed France opened Wednesday in a custom-built complex embedded within a 13th-century courthouse. (Noelle Herrenschmidt via AP)

2015 Paris attacks suspect: Deaths of 130 ‘nothing personal’

By Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

Parallels between Kabul 2021 and Paris 1940 illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

The eerie parallels between Kabul 2021 and Paris 1940

By Martin Dugard

In this Nov. 13, 2015, file photo, medics stand by victims in a Paris restaurant, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. On Nov. 13, 2015, a cell of nine Islamic State militants armed with automatic rifles and explosive vests left a trail of dead and injured at the national stadium, Paris bars and restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. Nearly all the attackers were from France or Belgium, as were the cell's 10th member — the only one still alive. He is the chief defendant among 20 people charged in a trial that is expected to last nine months. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Trial of 20 men accused in 2015 Paris attacks begins

By Lori Hinnant and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny - Associated Press