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Tourists stroll the Montmartre district Monday, Aug. 10, 2020 in Paris. People are required to wear a mask outdoors starting on Monday in the most frequented areas of the French capital. The move comes as the country sees an uptick in virus infections. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Face masks now required outdoors at crowded Paris locations

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

List 4/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Emergency services doctor Christophe Prodhomme answers the Associated Press at the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny, north of Paris, Wednesday Aug.5, 2020. With virus cases rising anew, France is struggling to administer enough tests to keep up with demand. One reason: Many testing labs are closed so that their staff can take summer vacation, just as signs of a second wave build. (AP Photo/Nadine Achoui-Lesage)

Closed for vacation: France faces new virus testing troubles

By ANGELA CHARLTON and NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGE - Associated Press

Members of the Securite Civile rescue organisation arrive at Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, Wednesday, Aug.5, 2020. France is sending two planes to Lebanon on Wednesday with dozens of emergency workers, a mobile medical unit and 15 tons of aid. The aid is expected to arrive Wednesday afternoon and should allow for the treatment of some 500 blast victims, according to French President Emmanuel Macron's office. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

World responds to Lebanon’s plight, France’s Macron to visit

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

French intelligence agents charged in alleged murder plot

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Airport officers wearing face masks line up as they hold flowers to welcome passengers at Bali airport, Indonesia on Friday, July 31, 2020. Indonesia's resort island of Bali reopened for domestic tourists after months of lockdown due to a new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Sleepy lions, empty bars, lost jobs: A world without tourism

By JOHN LEICESTER and ROD McGUIRK and ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

List 4/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this file photo dated Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2004, Actress Olivia de Havilland, who played the doomed Southern belle Melanie in &quot;Gone With the Wind,&quot; poses for a photograph, in Los Angeles, USA. Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress has died, aged 104 in Paris, publicist says Sunday, July 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, FILE)

Olivia de Havilland embodied old Hollywood, and shook it up

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

FILE - This 1900 file photo shows the eastern part of a busy boulevard in Paris, France in the year 1900. No opening ceremony. No closing ceremony. And many of the athletes at the 1900 Paris Games had no idea they even competed at the Olympics. But the second edition of the Olympics had female athletes competing for the first time. (AP Photo/File)

Paris hosts 1900 Olympics, even though many didn’t know it

By CHRIS LEHOURITES - Associated Press

List 4/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A woman sells vegetables in the slum district of Mont Baduel, in Cayenne, French Guiana, Friday, July 10, 2020. France's most worrisome virus hotspot is in fact on the border with Brazil - in French Guiana, a former colony where health care is scarce and poverty is rampant. The pandemic is exposing deep economic and racial inequality in French Guiana that residents say the mainland has long chosen to ignore. (AP Photo/Pierre Olivier Jay)

In French Guiana, virus exposes inequality, colonial legacy

By ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

Assa Traore, wearing a shirt that reads: “Justice for Adama, without Justice you will never be in Peace,” attends an interview in Ivry-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Traore started by fighting for justice for her brother Adama, who died in police custody on his 24th birthday four years ago. She’s now at the forefront of a new movement for Black rights in France that aims to wipe out systemic racism in policing and challenge the country’s official vision of itself as a colorblind society. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

French protesters mark death of Black man in police custody

By ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

Fireworks illuminate the Eiffel Tower in Paris during Bastille Day celebrations late Tuesday, July 14, 2020. Bastille Day marks the July 14, 1789, storming of the Bastille prison by angry Paris crowds that helped spark the French Revolution. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

France tourism: Disneyland, Eiffel Tower top floor reopen

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A firefighter wears a face mask with the colors of the French flag, prior to the Bastille Day parade Tuesday, July 14, 2020 on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris. France are honoring nurses, ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers and others on its biggest national holiday Tuesday. Bastille Day's usual grandiose military parade in Paris is being redesigned this year to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

France says ‘merci’ to virus heroes on poignant Bastille Day

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

A visitor walks past &quot;Le Penseur&quot; (The Thinker) by French sculptor Auguste Rodin in Paris Tuesday, July 7, 2020. The Musee Rodin is reopening this Tuesday morning albeit with a worrying loss of visitors and income caused by the four-months closure. Museum director, Catherine Chevillot, estimates the loss incurred by the crisis to be around 4.4 million euros (4.9 US dollars). and alleviated by the 1.4 million euro sales of bronze editions of Rodin statues. The museum doesn't sell Rodin statue originals but can sell 12 bronze replica editions of each of them, as it has been for 100 years. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

France’s Rodin Museum sells bronzes to weather virus crisis

By ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, April 2, 2020, a man takes a rest in the &quot;Aurore&quot; center for homeless and migrant people in Paris, amid the coronavirus lockdown. A breakthrough study released Tuesday July 7, 2020, from the French government's statistics agency INSEE, shows that death rates doubled among immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, even tripling in the Paris region, at the height of France's coronavirus outbreak, exposing the pandemic's punishing impact on Black, migrant and other systematically overlooked minorities. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, FILE)

In France, study shows virus hit African immigrants hardest

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Newly appointed Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, center, talks to police officers during a visit of a police headquarters in Les Mureaux, outside Paris, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Former budget minister Darmanin was named to replace Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, who had come under fire amid widespread French protests against racial injustice and police brutality spurred by the death of George Floyd in the United States. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)

Women’s rights groups protest French ministers’ appointments

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

Visitors watch pantings at the Louvre Museum, in Paris, Monday, July 6, 2020. The home of the world's most famous portrait, the Louvre Museum in Paris, reopened Monday after a four-month coronavirus lockdown. (AP Photo/ Thibault Camus)

“Mona Lisa” back at work, visitors limited as Louvre reopens

By JOHN LEICESTER and CATHERINE GASCHKA - Associated Press

Anti-racism groups in Paris call out colonizer street names

By BOUBKAR BENZEBAT and CHRISTOPHE SCHPOLIANSKY - Associated Press