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More than 180,000 people across France march against soaring antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war
French President Emmanuel Macron, flanked by French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, attend a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe, as part of the commemorations marking the105th anniversary of the Nov. 11, 1918 Armistice, ending World War I, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023 in Paris. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)
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France’s Macron urges Israel to stop bombing Gaza
French President Emmanuel Macron talks to journalists on the tarmac of Cairo airport, Egypt, as he departs Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Christophe Ena/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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French Institute in Gaza, AFP office hit by Israeli air strike
This picture taken on November 3, 2023 shows a gaping hole following an Israeli strike on the Hajji building, which houses several offices including those of Agence France Presse (AFP) in Gaza City amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP) (Photo by BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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Emmanuel Macron vows to enshrine abortion rights in French Constitution in 2024
France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) and his wife Brigitte Macron pay their respects by the coffins of former French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil and her husband Antoine Veil during the burial ceremony at the Pantheon in Paris on July 1, 2018. Former Health Minister, Simone Veil, who passed away on June 30, 2017 became president of the European Parliament and one of France's most revered politicians by advocating the 1975 law legalising abortion in France. She will be only the fifth woman buried at the monument to France's dignitaries, where she will be laid to rest at the Pantheon with her husband Antoine, a high-ranking civil servant who died in 2013. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / LUDOVIC MARINLUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images
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France raises alert level to highest after teacher killed in knife attack
French police secure the area after a teacher was killed and several people injured in a knife attack at the Lycee Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras, northern France, October 13, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
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Pope Francis insists Europe doesn’t have a migrant emergency and challenges countries to open ports
Pope Francis is welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron as arrives at the final session of the "Rencontres Mediterraneennes" meeting at the Palais du Pharo, in Marseille, France, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. Francis, during a two-day visit, will join Catholic bishops from the Mediterranean region on discussions that will largely focus on migration. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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King Charles greeted in France with pomp, diplomacy on state visit
Britain's King Charles III (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) stand to attention during an official welcoming ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on September 20, 2023, on the first day of a state visit to France. Britain's King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla are on a three-day state visit to France. (Photo by Chris Jackson / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS JACKSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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French ambassador will stay in Niger, despite pressure from junta to leave, Macron says
French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he holds his annual foreign policy speech in front of French ambassadors at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Monday Aug. 28, 2023. (Teresa Suarez, Pool via AP)
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Macron’s post-riots reset will not fix a broken France
Konrad Yakabuski
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Tensions on France’s streets ease, fewer arrests overnight
French riot police officers and emergency personnel work to move a vehicle during the fifth day of protests following the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer in Nanterre during a traffic stop, in Paris, France, July 2, 2023. REUTERS/Juan Medina
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Youths clash with French police, loot stores in fourth day of riots triggered by fatal police shooting
Riot police officers patrol as smoke billows from burnt vehicles on the third night of protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, France, Friday, June 30, 2023. The June 27 shooting of the teen, identified as Nahel, triggered urban violence and stirred up tensions between police and young people in housing projects and other neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
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New firefighting planes from De Havilland Canada are on their way, with a little delay
FILE - A Canadair water-bomber aircraft drops water during an exercise as French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Nimes-Garons firefighters air base, Friday, June 2, 2023 near Nimes, southern France. Production of a workhorse fire-fighting plane that is eagerly awaited in Europe to combat worsening mega-blazes fueled by climate change is slipping "a little bit" behind schedule and the first will now not be delivered before the fire season of 2027 — the year after some governments hoped, manufacturer De Havilland Canada said. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, Pool, File)
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French stabbing suspect charged with attempted murder as injured toddlers remain hospitalized
A general view of flowers and candles left at the Le Paquier park after several children and adults were injured in a knife attack, near the lake in Annecy, in the French Alps, France, June 9, 2023. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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France plans major police presence for day of nationwide protests
FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron talks to a person opposed to the pension reform, in Selestat, eastern France, April 19, 2023. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS
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Zelensky presses NATO, EU case at Moldova summit close to Ukraine’s border
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a welcome ceremony during a meeting of the European Political Community at Mimi Castle in Bulboaca, Moldova June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Vladislav Culiomza
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Macron courts Tesla’s Musk and other investors to ‘Choose France’
SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk meets with France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on May 15, 2023. (Photo by Michel Euler / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MICHEL EULER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Anger at new retirement age fuels further protests in France
People demonstrate before French President Emmanuel Macron's visit, Thursday, April 20, 2023 in Ganges, southern France. The French leader tries to repair damage done to his presidency by forcing through unpopular pension reforms. Raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 has ignited a months-long firestorm of protest in France. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
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Macron addresses France amid anger over pension reform
FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he talks with Senegalese war veterans Friday, April 14, 2023 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron is aiming to calm public anger that threatens the ambitions of his remaining four years in power with a first televised address to the nation on Monday April 17, 2023 since he enacted protest-igniting pension reforms. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, Pool, File)
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Macron cleared to raise French retirement age, protesters vow to fight on
A French gendarme stands guard as a security perimeter is established around France's Conseil Constitutionnel (constitutional council) on the day of a ruling from France's Constitutional Council on a contested pension reform pushed by the French government, in Paris on April 14, 2023. - France's top constitutional court is to rule on April 14 on whether to approve the French President's deeply unpopular pensions overhaul after months of protests. (Photo by Ian LANGSDON / AFP) (Photo by IAN LANGSDON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Protesters take to streets again in France ahead of ruling on legality of controversial pension bill
French SNCF workers, members of French CGT and Sud Rail labour unions gather at Gare de Lyon train station as part of the 12th day of nationwide strikes and protests against French government's pension reform, in Paris, France, April 13, 2023. REUTERS/Bart Biesemans
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Macron comments on Taiwan raise questions on EU global ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping, second left, and French President Emmanuel Macron talk in the garden of the Guandong province governor's residence, in Guangzhou, China, Friday, April 7, 2023. (Jacques Witt, Pool via AP)
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Clashes erupt in Paris during nationwide protests against controversial pension bill
Railway workers gather at the Gare de Lyon train station, Thursday, April 6, 2023 in Paris. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill the streets of France Thursday for the 11th day of nationwide resistance to a government proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. The furious public reaction to the plan has cornered and weakened French President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
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France’s Macron warns against shunning China ahead of meeting with Xi
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech as he meets the French community, in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Macron will have to muster all his diplomatic adeptness and political acumen on a three-day state visit to China where the war in Ukraine will be front and center. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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The French spring of discontent pits Macron against the street
Konrad Yakabuski
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French police counter protest violence; trash strike ends
CFDT unionists take part in a demonstration after the government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49.3 of the constitution, in Nice, southern France, on March 28, 2023. - France faces another day of strikes and protests nearly two weeks after the president bypassed parliament to pass a pensions overhaul that is sparking turmoil in the country, with unions vowing no let-up in mass protests to get the government to back down. The day of action is the tenth such mobilisation since protests started in mid-January against the law, which includes raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. (Photo by Valery HACHE / AFP) (Photo by VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Macron delays King Charles’ state visit amid massive demonstrations
Firemen controlling the remains of a garbage fire from last night protests against the retirement bill in Paris, Friday, March 24, 2023. French President Macron's office says state visit by Britain's King Charles III is postponed amid mass strikes and protests. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
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Violence hits Paris in day of protests over Macron’s pension changes
A protester, wearing a mask depicting French President Emmanuel Macron, attends a demonstration during the ninth day of nationwide strikes and protests against French government's pension reform, in Nice, France, March 23, 2023. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
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Macron wants French pension plan implemented by end of year
Sanitation workers on strike watch French President Emmanuel Macron during his speech on television, in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron says the pension bill that he pushed through without a vote in parliament needs to be implemented by the "end of the year." (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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French government narrowly survives no-confidence vote but faces more challenges
A protester speaks above a banner depicting (L-R) French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, French President Emmanuel Macron and French Labour Minister Olivier Dussopt reading "No to the retirement of the dead, withdrawal of Macron's plan" during a demonstration a day after the French government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49.3 of the constitution, in Rennes, western France, on March 17, 2023. - French President faces intensified protests and accusations of anti-democratic behaviour after pushing through a contentious pension reform without a parliamentary vote. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP) (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP via Getty Images)