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The Latest: Counterterror probe in Paris attempted attack

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, addresses the opening IOC session in Lima, Peru, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. Bach is in Lima for the Wednesday IOC session to vote on the host cities for the next Olympics. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

The Latest: Macron offers congratulations to Paris for 2024

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during the opening IOC session in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. The IOC will vote to ratify Los Angeles as the host city of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Paris as the host city of the 2024 Games. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Olympic double: IOC says yes to Paris in 2024, and LA for 2028

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

In this Monday, Sept. 4, 2017 photo, Etienne Thobois, chief executive of Paris' bid for the 2024 Olympic Games, tours one of the future building for athletes in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. The International Olympic Committee is expected at a meeting Wednesday in Lima, Peru, to formally confirm its choice of Paris as host of the 2024 games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Paris aiming to make Olympic Games desirable again by 2024

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 21, 1979 file photo, feminist activist Kate Millett, right, laughs, during a surprise birthday party for her niece, Kristan Vigard, in New York. Millett, the activist, artist and educator whose best-selling &quot;Sexual Politics&quot; was a landmark of cultural criticism and a manifesto for the modern feminist movement, has died at 82, it was reported on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File)

Kate Millett, feminist author of ‘Sexual Politics,’ dies

By HILLEL ITALIE and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron is facing a critical early test this month as he rolls out reforms to France's notoriously rigid labor laws in a bid to reinvigorate the country's economy. (Associated Press/File)

Emmanuel Macron, French president, takes on labor laws with 30 percent approval rating

By Maya Vidon-White - Special to The Washington Times

Carlos Nuzman, president of the Brazilian Olympic committee, arrives at Federal Police headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Federal police searched Nuzman's house Tuesday morning. French and Brazilian authorities have been working on a corruption investigation involving bribery surrounding the awarding of the 2016 Rio Games and the 2020 Tokyo Games. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

IOC can’t escape Rio; top organizer Nuzman held in dawn raid

By STEPHEN WADE and PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, file photo, designer Thom Browne acknowledges applause at the Thom Browne collection runway show during Fashion Week, in New York. The New York fashion world gathers Wednesday, Sept. 6, to honor designer Browne with the annual Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Browne, who regularly puts on the most fascinating, theatrically stunning shows in all of Fashion Week, won't be showing here: He's moving his women's shows to Paris, where he already shows his menswear. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

As he leaves for Paris, NY fashion world fetes Thom Browne

By JOCELYN NOVECK - Associated Press

Film director Clint Eastwood aims a gun during the filming of &quot;The 15:17 to Paris&quot; in Arras, northern France, Friday Sept.1 2017. The film recounts the story of three Americans who thwarted a terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train on Aug. 21 2015. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

Making their day: Eastwood re-enacts France train attack

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Britain's Prince William, left, and Prince Harry walk away after placing flowers amongst the floral and pictorial tributes to their late mother Princess Diana placed on the gates of Kensington Palace, London, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. Princes William and Harry paid tribute to their mother, Princess Diana, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of her death by visiting the Sunken Garden to honor Diana's work with charities. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Floral tributes laid at the palace for Diana anniversary

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

FILE - In this 1980 file photo, Lady Diana Spencer, 21, Prince Charles's girlfriend, is pictured at the Kindergarten in St. Georges Square, Pimlico, London, where she works as a teacher. It has been 20 years since the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris and the outpouring of grief that followed the death of the “people’s princess.” (AP Photo, File)

From teacher to tragic figure, the life of Princess Diana

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FILE- In this Saturday, Sept. 6, 1997 file photo, Britain's Prince Charles, Prince Harry, Earl Charles Spencer, Prince William and Prince Philip, from left, stand as the coffin bearing the body of Princess Diana is taken into Westminster Abbey in London. It has been 20 years since the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris and the outpouring of grief that followed the death of the &quot;people's princess.&quot; (AP Photo/John Gaps III, Pool, File)

AP Was There: A sea of tears for Princess Diana’s funeral

By MAUREEN JOHNSON - Associated Press

Rescuers transfer African migrants to a rescue boat during a rescue operation from the Aquarius vessel of SOS Mediterranee NGO and MSF (Doctors Without Borders) in the sea some 25 Nautical miles (29 miles, 46 kilometers) north of the Libyan coast, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Europe-Africa summit yields new approach to asylum claims

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

French soldier in anti-terror force shoots himself in room

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FILE - In this 1980 file photo, Lady Diana Spencer, 21, Prince Charles's girlfriend, is pictured at the Kindergarten in St. Georges Square, Pimlico, London, where she works as a teacher. It has been 20 years since the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris and the outpouring of grief that followed the death of the “people’s princess.” (AP Photo, File)

From teacher to tragic figure, the life of Princess Diana

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FILE - This is a Sunday, April 9, 2017, file photo of Britain's Prince William, left, and Britain's Prince Harry as they arrive at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in Vimy, near Arras, northern France, to attend the commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Princes William and Harry have spoken candidly about the death of their mother, Princess Diana, in an interview marking 20 years since she was killed in a car crash. (Philippe Huguen/Pool Photo, File via AP)

Princes William and Harry speak candidly about Diana’s death

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Police work behind a van and screen covering the entrance of a telephone call centre as they search the premises in Ripoll, Spain, Tuesday Aug. 22, 2017. The lone fugitive from the Spanish cell that killed several people in and near Barcelona was shot to death Monday after he flashed what turned out to be a fake suicide belt at two troopers who confronted him in a vineyard just outside the city he terrorized, authorities said. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Spain suspects were in France before attacks

By CIARAN GILES and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Suspect in car attack near Paris is an Algerian national

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

New Mexico city vows to support climate initiatives

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French police officers work on the scene where French soldiers were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret near Paris, France, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. French police are searching for a driver who slammed his BMW into a group of soldiers, injuring six of them in an apparent ambush before speeding away, officials said. The incident in Levallois, northwest of Paris, is the latest of several attacks targeting security forces in France.(AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

Vehicle hits soldiers in Paris suburb, injuring 6

By Angela Charlton and Raphael Satter - Associated Press