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French Digital Affairs junior minister Cedric O demonstrates how to use the French app StopCovid meant to trace the virus' future spread on during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, Friday, May 29, 2020. . France is the first major democracy to roll out such an app, and many people fear it invades their privacy. (AP Photo/Masha Macpherson)

AP Interview: French minister confident in virus tracing app

By SYLVIE CORBET and MASHA MACPHERSON - Associated Press

Protesting Renault workers stand outside their plant Friday, May 29, 2020 in Choisy-le-Roi, outside Paris. Struggling French carmaker Renault announced 15,000 job cuts worldwide as part of a 2 billion euros cost-cutting plan over three years. The cost-cutting plan comes as Renault came into the virus crisis in particularly bad shape. Its alliance with Nissan and Mitsubishi is a major global auto player but has struggled since the 2018 arrest of its longtime star CEO Carlos Ghosn. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French carmaker Renault to cut 15,000 jobs worldwide

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

People walk in front of the Gate of the ancient Roman agora with the ancient Acropolis hill seen in the background in the traditional Plaka district of Athens, as lockdown measures continue to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, on Monday April 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Virus-ravaged Europe nudges some doors open, not others

By ANGELA CHARLTON and BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

Army soldiers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus at the Dongdaegu train station in Daegu, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. (Kim Hyun-tai/Yonhap via AP)

Empty streets, economic turmoil as virus alters daily life

By DAVID KLEPPER and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech as he visits a plant of British-Swedish pharmaceutical group Astrazeneca in Dunkirk, northern France, Monday, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting 180 international business leaders at the Palace of Versailles in a bid to promote France's economic attractiveness despite over six weeks of crippling strikes over his government's planned pension changes.(Denis Charlet/Pool Photo via AP)

Changing tack, French strikers turn off power to press govt

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

French PM open to scrapping raising retirement age to 64

Associated Press

A lawyer faces a riot police officer during a demonstration in Rennes, western France, Thursday Jan. 9, 2020. French rail workers, teachers, doctors, lawyers and others joined the fourth nationwide day of protests and strikes on Thursday to denounce President Emmanuel Macron's plans to overhaul the pension system. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

No sight of French deal on pensions as unions hold out

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Empty platform are pictured at the Gare Saint Lazare train station during 33rd day of transport strikes in Paris, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to launch a crucial week of negotiations with labor unions amid nationwide protests and transport strikes against the government's plans to overhaul the pension system. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

No end in sight for hobbling French rail strikes after talks

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Protesters stand on the statue on the Nation square during a march in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. Teachers, doctors, lawyers and workers at the Eiffel Tower — people from across the French workforce walked off the job Tuesday to resist a higher retirement age, and to preserve a welfare system they fear their business-friendly president wants to dismantle. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Macron, under pressure, mulling changes to pension plan

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Medical staffs hold a poster reading &quot;Save Public Hospitals&quot; during a national demonstration Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019 in Paris. Thousands of exasperated nurses, doctors and other public hospital workers are marching through Paris to demand more staff and resources after years of cost cuts. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French government to boost funding for public hospitals

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

France may let lesbian couples use in-vitro fertilization

By Associated Press - Associated Press

France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire listens to a question during a press conference at the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Fukuoka Sunday, June 9, 2019. (Toshifumi Kitamura/Pool Photo via AP)

France’s Le Maire hopes to fortify Renault-Nissan alliance

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and HARUKA NUGA - Associated Press

This photo taken on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019 show a Ranult car parking outside the French carmaker headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, France. French carmaker Renault looks set to give its approval to Fiat Chrysler's merger offer. The company's board is meeting Tuesday afternoon at its headquarters to decide on a deal that could reshape the global auto industry. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Renault delays decision on Fiat Chrysler marriage proposal

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

The Latest: Renault delays decision on Fiat Chrysler merger

Associated Press

The Fiat Chrysler Automobiles world headquarters is shown in Auburn Hills, Mich., Monday, May 27, 2019. Fiat Chrysler proposed on Monday to merge with France's Renault to create the world's third-biggest automaker, worth $40 billion, and combine forces in the race to make electric and autonomous vehicles. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Key challenges facing a Fiat Chrysler-Renault merger

By COLLEEN BARRY and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

This April 26, 2017 file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Twitter stops blocking French government’s ad campaign

By KELVIN CHAN and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Demonstrators walk through a cloud of teargas on the Trocadero plaza during scuffles with police, in Paris, France, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. French yellow vest protest organizers are trying to tamp down violence and anti-Semitism in the movement's ranks as they launch a 15th straight weekend of demonstrations. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

France criticized for its handling of yellow vest crisis

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

SallyLou Bonzer poses for a four-generation photo with her daughter, Lex Schmidt, left, granddaughter McKenzie Ma'aseia, a great-granddaughter Luisa Ma'aseia on the occasion of SallyLou's 100th birthday which was celebrated Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018 by family and friends in Eugene, Ore. Bonzer, World War II veteran, landed on the beaches of Normandy, France three days after D-Day. (Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard via AP)

Nurse who served in World War II hits 100

By ELON GLUCKLICH - Associated Press

France's President Emmanuel Macron stands as he waits Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, prior to a meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France’s government reshuffle expected soon

Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he delivers a speech during a citizenship ceremony in Orleans, central France, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)

France nationalizing shipyard amid Italian takeover interest

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