PARIS (AP) – France’s president says he has no regrets about refusing to impose a third national lockdown earlier this year, despite the fact that the country’s hospitals are being infected with the acute coronavirus and more than a thousand people die every week. President Emanuel Macron’s government has stressed …
Read More »France’s Macron out of virus, Versailles retreat fever
PARIS (AP) – As French President Emmanuel Macron rides a coronavirus in solitary confinement at Versailles, critics on Friday called for slip-ups in their virus-prevention behavior, for a handful of repeated large group meals in nearby quarters. Last week. Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovich, a fellow European leader who spent …
Read More »China says it is now in the final stages of making progress on EU investment deals
China said talks on a bilateral investment deal with the European Union are in the final stages, as they push for an agreement before the one-year deadline, citing progress between the negotiators. The talks are now in the final stages, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in a briefing …
Read More »French President Macron tests positive for COVID-19
PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19, President Elysee Palace announced Thursday. He says the president “took a test as soon as the first symptoms appeared.” The brief statement did not say what symptoms Macron experienced. He said he would isolate himself for seven days. …
Read More »Rage in France over proposed limits on police filming
PARIS (AP) – French activists fear the proposed new security law would deprive them of a powerful weapon against police hostility – cellphone videos of police activity – threatening their efforts to document possible cases of police brutality, especially in poor colonial neighborhoods. The government of French President Emmanuel Macron …
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