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Sotheby's personnel display « Scene de rue à Montmartre » (Street scene in Montmartre), a painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh at Sotheby's auction house in Paris, Thursday, Feb. 25, 202. The artwork painted in 1887 is to be on public display for the first time ahead of an auction next month. It has remained in the same family collection for over 100 years, according to the auction house which did not reveal the identity of the owner. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Rarely seen Van Gogh painting exhibited ahead of auction

By SYLVIE CORBET and OLEG CETINIC - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual event with the Munich Security Conference in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden reenters Paris climate agreement, reversing Trump without Senate ratification

By Valerie Richardson and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 18, 2007 photo, lawyer Harry Durimel, right, stands next to an activist with a sign that reads in French &quot;No to Chlordecone poison,&quot; as they protest during the arrival of the French government’s Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot in Raizet Abymes, Guadeloupe. Durimel is among the attorneys representing agricultural workers in Guadeloupe and Martinique who have long been fighting for compensation for the use of a banned pesticide, chlordecone. (AP Photo/Dominique Chomereau-Lamotte)

French Caribbean fights to keep pesticide case alive

By DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press

Students line up for free food aid organized by Linkee, a Paris-based company collecting food waste, in Paris, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. The pandemic has devastated economies the world over. In France, the economic fallout has weighed particularly heavily on young people — and their woes have only been compounded by disruptions to their studies and social interactions. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

As the virus crisis drags on, hard-hit French youth struggle

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

PSG's Kylian Mbappe celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the Champions League round of 16, first leg soccer match between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

Mbappé’s hat trick gives PSG 4-1 win over Barcelona in CL

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FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2021, file photo a wind turbine is silhouetted against the rising sun Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, near Spearville, Kan. Recent detailed scientific studies show that because of dropping wind, solar and battery prices, President Joe Biden's net-zero carbon goal can be accomplished far cheaper than feared in the past and with health benefits “many, many times'' outweighing the costs, said Princeton University ecologist Stephen Pacala, who was part of one study at Princeton. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Fighting climate change in America means changes to America

By SETH BORENSTEIN - 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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President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual swearing in ceremony of political appointees from the State Dining Room of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington.&#160;(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Joe Biden signs climate orders rejoining Paris accord, canceling Keystone XL

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Paris opens inquiry into disappearance of Senegalese student

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, speaks during fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee in Beijing on Oct 29, 2020. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP)

Xi Jinping, Chinese president, wins 2020 ‘climate hypocrite’ award for green talk, coal action

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 22, 2016 file photo, police and rescue teams are pictured outside the metro station Maelbeek in Brussels. On Tuesday Jan 5, 2021, ten people have been ordered to stand trial in connection with the suicide bombings which killed 32 people and injured hundreds in the Brussels subway and airport more than four years ago. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

10 people to stand trial over deadly 2016 Brussels attacks

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 27, 2019, file photo, the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles world headquarters is shown in Auburn Hills, Mich. Shareholders of Fiat Chrysler and France's PSA Group are meeting Monday, Jan. 4, 2021 to vote on a merger that will create the world's fourth-largest automaker. The new company called Stellantis will be run by PSA CEO Carlos Tavares, who is known for cutting vehicles or ventures that don't make money. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Fiat Chrysler, Peugeot shareholders approve merger

By COLLEEN BARRY and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

In this Nov. 30, 2016, file photo, French fashion designer Pierre Cardin acknowledges applause after a show to mark 70 years of his creations, in Paris. France's Academy of Fine Arts says famed fashion designer Cardin has died at 98. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Pierre Cardin, famed French designer, dies at 98

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Paris climate agreement illustration by The Washington Times

When Obama made the Paris climate agreement end run

By Chris Horner

In this Nov. 30, 2016, file photo, French fashion designer Pierre Cardin acknowledges applause after a show to mark 70 years of his creations, in Paris. France's Academy of Fine Arts says famed fashion designer Cardin has died at 98. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

French designer Pierre Cardin, licensing pioneer, dies at 98

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

A health worker carries doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in a box at the Rene-Muret hospital in Servan near Paris, Sunday Dec. 27, 2020. France is starting its first vaccinations Sunday against the coronavirus at a nursing home northeast of Paris, in one of France's poorest regions. (Thomas Samson/Pool Photo via AP)

France takes careful vaccine approach to counter skepticism

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2018 file photo released by the Union for the Republic and Democracy party shows then opposition Presidential candidate Soumaila Cisse casting his ballot during the presidential second round election in Niafunke, Mali. Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cissé, who was held hostage for six months by jihadists and considered a leading contender for 2022 elections, has died in Paris, his family said Friday. (Boubacar Sada Sissoko/Union for the Republic and Democracy via AP, File)

Mali opposition leader Cissé dies after contracting COVID-19

By BABA AHMED - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Maitrise Notre-Dame de Paris soprani singer Julie Fuchs and the Notre Dame Cathedral choir recording a Christmas concert on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The concert will be broadcasted on French television on Christmas. (MSNDP/Musique Sacree à Notre-Dame de Paris via AP)

Christmas Eve concert held in Paris’ fire-wrecked Notre Dame

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In this photo provided by Maitrise Notre-Dame de Paris soprani singer Julie Fuchs and the Notre Dame Cathedral choir recording a Christmas concert on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The concert will be broadcasted on French television on Christmas. (MSNDP/Musique Sacree &#224; Notre-Dame de Paris via AP)

Notre Dame Cathedral choir sing inside church for Christmas Eve concert

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Passengers wait to board 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)

AP PHOTOS: Flying from Johannesburg to Paris, two hotspots

By JEROME DELAY - Associated Press