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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

Trains park at the Hendaye train station, southwestern France, Sunday Dec.8, 2019 on the fourth day of nationwide strikes that disrupted weekend travel around France. France's prime minister is holding special meetings Sunday about the government's divisive redesign of the national retirement system, amid warnings that strike-related transport troubles will get even worse in the coming days. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Pension strikes cripple Paris, more travel woes ahead

By NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGE and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrive for a working session at the Elysee Palace Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in Paris. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's president are meeting for the first time at a summit in Paris to find a way to end the five years of fighting in eastern Ukraine. (Ian Langsdon/Pool via AP)

Vladimir Putin sits down for talks with Ukraine leader for first time

By Vladimir Isachenkov and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

A Ukrainian soldier eats in a trench in the front line near the town of Novoluhanske in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. A long-awaited summit in Paris on Monday aims to find a way to end the war in eastern Ukraine, a conflict that after five years and 14,000 lives lost has emboldened the Kremlin and reshaped European geopolitics. (AP Photo/Vitali Komar)

UN resolution condemns Russia’s occupation of Crimea

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A sign reading &quot;Strikes Blockades&quot;, flags with flares are displayed during the yellow vests 56th round demonstration in Paris, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. A few thousand yellow vest protesters marched Saturday from the Finance Ministry building on the Seine River through southeast Paris, pushing their year-old demands for economic justice and adding the retirement reform to their list of grievances. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

France braces for even worse travel woes, govt seeks answers

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In this Nov. 27, 2019, photo, Georgia Tech professor Kim Cobb poses for a photo at her home in Atlanta. Some climate scientists and activists, including Cobb, are limiting their flying, their consumption of meat and their overall carbon footprints to avoid adding to the global warming they study. (AP Photo/John Amis)

Climate scientists try to cut their own carbon footprints

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

High-speed trains park at the Gare Montparnasse train station, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019 in Paris. Frustrated travelers are meeting transportation chaos around France for a second day, as unions dig in for what they hope is a protracted strike against government plans to redesign the national retirement system. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French protest retirement changes, travel disruptions abound

By NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGE and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV - Associated Press

People march among flares during a demonstration in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. The Eiffel Tower shut down, France's high-speed trains stood still and tens of thousands of people marched through Paris and other cities Thursday, in a massive and sometimes chaotic outpouring of anger at the government's plan to overhaul the retirement system. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

France on strike: Trains stuck, Versailles shut, unions firm

By Angela Charlton and Mstyslav Chernov - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a press conference at the COP25 climate talks summit in Madrid, Monday Dec. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrea Comas)

US feels the heat as Trump pulls out of global climate pact

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

A man waits on the platform of Louveciennes train station, west of Paris, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Tourists are canceling travel plans and Paris is deploying thousands of police as France girds for massive, nationwide strikes and protests against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to overhaul the retirement system. Transport will be hardest hit by the walkout, with flights, trains and buses canceled and most of the Paris subway system coming to a halt. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Mass strike over pensions tangles transport across France

By Angela Charlton and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

A truck is set ablaze during a demonstration in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. The Eiffel Tower shut down Thursday, France's vaunted high-speed trains stood still and teachers walked off the job as unions launched nationwide strikes and protests over the government's plan to overhaul the retirement system. (AP Photo/Alexander Turnbull)

The Latest: French protesters set fires amid strikes

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A man stands on a traffic light during a demonstration in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. The Eiffel Tower shut down, France's vaunted high-speed trains stood still and several thousand protesters marched through Paris as unions launched open-ended, nationwide strikes Thursday over the government's plan to overhaul the retirement system. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Paris police arrest scores amid strike over pension reform

By Thomas Adamson and Claire Parker - Associated Press

Models wear creations for Chanel's Metiers d'Art collection presented at the Grand Palais in Paris, Wednesday, Dec.4, 2019. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Chanel celebrates its artisans in glimmering Paris show

By THOMAS ADAMSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 3, 2018 file photo a passenger crosses railroad tracks at rush hour at Gare de Lyon train station, in Paris. France's rail operator SNCF and the Paris Metro say nationwide strikes will wipe out most services Thursday, impacting millions. The SNCF expects that 9 out of 10 high-speed trains won't run and that half of the Eurostar services linking France and Britain will be canceled, too. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French trains stop as mass strike begins over pensions

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ALEX TURNBULL - Associated Press

PSG coach Thomas Tuchel, second right, celebrates with teammate Edinson Cavani at the end of the French League One soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Lille at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. PSG won 2-0. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

PSG marksman Cavani playing patient game again after injury

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Farmer drive their tractors on the Paris ring road in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. French farmers are driving tractors into Paris and Lyon to protest stagnant revenues and unfair competition. The placard reads « Save your farmer ». (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French farmers protest stagnant revenues, unfair competition

By CLAIRE PARKER - Associated Press

In this Oct. 31, 2019 photo, the word &quot;violence&quot; is pasted onto a wall by a group of women in a dark street in Paris. In Paris and cities across France, the signs are everywhere. &quot;Complaints ignored, women killed&quot; and &quot;She leaves him, he kills her,&quot; they read in black block letters pasted over stately municipal buildings. Under cover of night, activists have glued them to the walls to draw attention to domestic violence, a problem French President Emmanuel Macron has called &quot;France's shame.&quot; (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

When domestic violence kills: Mass women’s protest in Paris

By ANGELA CHARLTON and THIBAULT CAMUS - Associated Press

In this Oct. 31, 2019 photo, the word &quot;violence&quot; is pasted onto a wall by a group of women in a dark street in Paris. In Paris and cities across France, the signs are everywhere. &quot;Complaints ignored, women killed&quot; and &quot;She leaves him, he kills her,&quot; they read in black block letters pasted over stately municipal buildings. Under cover of night, activists have glued them to the walls to draw attention to domestic violence, a problem French President Emmanuel Macron has called &quot;France's shame.&quot; (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

AP PHOTOS: France’s night-time campaign for justice

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FILE - In this Monday Nov. 4, 2019 file photo, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, second left, and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo look at an architectural model as they attend a ceremony to mark the start of the construction of Paris 2024 Olympic Village in Saint-Ouen, near Paris. A partnership deal signed by the IOC with Airbnb has sparked the ire of French hoteliers, who have suspended their collaboration with Paris 2024 Olympics organizers over fears the agreement sealed with the platform will create unfair competition. (Gonzalo Fuentes, Pool via AP, File)

Paris hoteliers angered by IOC sponsorship deal with Airbnb

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 24, 2016, file photo, a Native American flag hangs far above American Indian advocates as they hold a news conference at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, to contest a Paris auction house's upcoming auction of Native American remains and sacred objects. A ceremonial shield has been returned to New Mexico more than three years after it became central to an international debate over the export of Native American items. U.S. and Acoma Pueblo officials planned Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, to announce the shield's return from Paris, where it had been listed for bidding in 2016 before the EVE auction house took the rare step of halting its sale. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Native American shield returned to New Mexico from France

By MARY HUDETZ - Associated Press