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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, left, and European Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan attend a media conference after their meeting in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. The talks are focused on U.S. tariffs on French wine and other goods. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France and EU ready to respond to US threat of new tariffs

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Notre Dame cathedral is pictured in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Notre Dame Cathedral is unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution, because the Paris landmark was too deeply damaged by this year's fire. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Renovation chief: Notre Dame Cathedral is not saved yet

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Police officers secure the area after a man attacked passerby Friday Jan.3, 2020 in Villejuif, south of Paris. A man armed with a knife attacked passers-by Friday in a southern Paris park, injuring some, before being shot by police, French officials said. (AP Photo/Oleg Cetinic

Police shoot man dead after deadly stabbings in Paris park

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Travelers waiting to to board a train at Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. Strikes, which began Dec. 5, have disrupted transport across France and beyond, hobbling Paris Metros and trains across the country and businesses. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French unions behind strikes get public funds

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Paris bakery blast caused by gas pipe break, probe shows

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A demonstrators set up a barricade and light fire during a protest against pension reform plans in Paris, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019. Thousands of protesters opposed to the French government's plan to revamp the retirement system marched through Paris on Saturday, the 14th day of crippling strikes. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Thousands march in Paris to protest pension reform plan

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Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral in Paris as firefighters tackle the blaze on April 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) ** FILE **

No Christmas at Notre Dame, as fire forces Mass into exile

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A man walks on a platform at the Gare de l'Est train station Monday, Dec. 23, 2019 in Paris. France's punishing transportation troubles may ease up slightly over Christmas, but unions plan renewed strikes and protests in January to resist government plans to raise the retirement age to 64. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Holiday blues: French strikes hit Christmas shopping season

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral in Paris as firefighters tackle the blaze on April 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) ** FILE **

Notre Dame fire wakes the world up to dangers of lead dust

By THOMAS ADAMSON - Associated Press

In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, Notre Dame cathedral choir's director Henri Chalet directs the Notre Dame choir during a rehearsal at the Saint Sulpice church in Paris. Notre Dame Cathedral kept holding services during two world wars as a beacon of hope amid bloodshed and fear. It took a fire in peacetime to finally stop Notre Dame from celebrating Christmas Mass for the first time in more than two centuries. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Notre Dame Cathedral to miss first Christmas in centuries

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2019, file photo visitors hold up patriotic slogans including &quot;Cheer for China&quot;, &quot;My China Dream&quot; near an I Heart China art installation in Beijing. Chinese leaders have long been sensitive about their communist country’s international image. Now, they are battling back, investing in diplomacy and a courtship of hearts and minds, just as the United States digs in on the Trump administration’s “America First” mindset. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

As Trump shuns US multilateralism, China ups diplomatic ante

By JAMEY KEATEN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

High-speed trains are pictured at Gare du Nord train station in Paris, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. With French President Emmanuel Macron under heavy pressure over his pension reform plans, government officials are meeting with employers and unions on Wednesday to consider the way forward. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French unions: Keep retirement strikes going through January

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot sign deal for 50-50 merger

By Colleen Barry and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

A screen announces the closure of the Eiffel Tower, Tuesday Dec.17, 2019 in Paris on the 13th straight day of traffic headaches. Teachers, doctors, lawyers and workers at the Eiffel Tower _ people from across the French workforce walked of the job Tuesday to resist a higher retirement age, or to preserve a welfare system they fear their business-friendly president wants to dismantle. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Paris strikes pressure Emmanuel Macron on welfare reform

By Jabeen Bhatti - Special to The Washington Times

Commuters board in a subway, in Paris, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. French President Emmanuel Macron suggested Thursday that he was ready to make changes to his plans to overhaul the pension system as a major union warned that nationwide strikes and protests could continue unabated until Christmas. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France on strike: Power cuts, schools shut, no Eiffel Tower

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

A woman looks at a World globe at the COP25 climate talks congress in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. Officials from almost 200 countries are scrambling to reach an agreement at a United Nations climate meeting amid growing concerns that key issues may be postponed for another year. (AP Photo/Paul White)

U.N. climate talks in limbo as chair Chile bids for compromise

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

A woman pictures the closed access to the subway lines Friday, Dec.13, 2019 in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron suggested Thursday that he was ready to make changes to his plans to overhaul the pension system as a major union warned that nationwide strikes and protests could continue unabated until Christmas. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Macron pushes ahead with pension plan amid damaging strikes

By CLAIRE PARKER - Associated Press

Young activists from the 'Fridays For Future' climate protest Movement form a human chain at the COP25 Climate summit in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. A global U.N.sponsored climate change conference is taking place in Madrid. (AP Photo/Andrea Comas)

Bloomberg tells UN climate talks: You can count on the US

By FRANK JORDANS and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Commuters wait to catch a subway train Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019 in Paris. Only about a fifth of French trains ran normally Tuesday, frustrating tourists finding empty train stations, and most Paris subways were at a halt. French airport workers, teachers and others joined nationwide strikes Tuesday as unions cranked up pressure on the government to scrap changes to the national retirement system. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Voting with their feet: French march against pension reforms

By ANGELA CHARLTON and NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGE - Associated Press

A woman rides her bicycle as commuters wait for a bus at Gare du Nord Station, in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. Only about a fifth of French trains ran normally Tuesday, frustrating tourists finding empty train stations, and most Paris subways were at a halt. French airport workers, teachers and others joined nationwide strikes Tuesday as unions cranked up pressure on the government to scrap changes to the national retirement system. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Parisians dodge strikes by logging on to share rides, bikes

By by CLAIRE PARKER - Associated Press