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People stage a protest against the retirement bill in Paris, Monday, March 20, 2023. France's government is fighting for its survival Monday against no-confidence motions filed by lawmakers who are furious that President Emmanuel Macron used special constitutional powers to force through an unpopular bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 without giving them a vote. Les Invalides in background. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

French government fights to survive 2 no-confidence motions

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A woman holds a placard depicting French President Emmanuel Macron sitting on garbage cans that reads, "king of trash" during a protest in Paris, Friday, March 17, 2023. Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote disrupted traffic, garbage collection and university campuses in Paris as opponents of the change maintained their resolve to get the government to back down. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Macron’s leadership at risk amid tensions over pension plan

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Garbage is set on fire by protesters after a demonstration near Concorde square, in Paris, Thursday, March 16, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron has shunned parliament and imposed a highly unpopular change to the nation's pension system, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Protests erupt in France over Macron’s retirement age push

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, shares hands with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Friday, March 10, 2023 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meet for a summit aimed at mending relations following post-Brexit tensions, as well as improving military and business ties and toughening efforts against Channel migrant crossings. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French, British leaders meet in efforts to mend relations

By Sylvie Corbet and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Oil workers gather at the Donges oil refinery, western France, Friday, March 10, 2023 in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron insisted on the need for raising the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 with the aim to make the French pension system financially sustainable in the coming years. The move comes after more than a million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across France this week as train and metro drivers, refineries workers and others have started open-ended strikes against the centrist government's plan. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

Macron insists pension reform is needed, despite protests

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A woman walks past "No retirement at 64" posters in Saint Pee sur Nivelle, southwestern France, Monday, March 6, 2023. Unions are threatening to shut France's economy down this week in what they hope is their toughest riposte yet to President Emmanuel Macron's plan to raise the retirement age. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

France on strike: Unions say ‘non’ to higher pension age

By Sylvie Corbet, Nicolas Garriga and Jade Le Deley - Associated Press

An elderly woman walks past graffitis reading"You want to work until death? Join resistance, General Strike on March 7" in Strasbourg eastern France, Sunday, March 5, 2023. The government is bracing for the biggest disruptions Tuesday, March 7, 2023 when strikes are expected across multiple sectors and protests are planned in cities across France against the retirement bill. The reform, which would raise the official pension age from 62 to 64 (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Unions vow to shut France’s economy down amid pension battle

By Angela Charlton and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, is greeted by Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa Saturday March 4, 2023. Macron, on the last leg of an ambitious Africa trip that took him to Gabon, Angola, the Republic of Congo and Congo, wants to roll out more ambitious economic policies, in a bid to boost France's waning influence in the continent (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Congo leader urges Macron to back sanctions against Rwanda

By Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press

France's Just Fontaine, left, tries to go past Brazil's goalkeeper Gilmar tackles in their semifinal match in Stockholm, on June 24, 1958. Fontaine's former club Reims announced Fontaine's death on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. He was 89. (AP Photo/Reportagebild, Pool, File)

Just Fontaine, who scored 13 goals at 1958 World Cup, dies

By Jerome Pugmire and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Richard Belzer attends "Mistaken For Strangers" Opening Night Premiere during the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival at BMCC on April 17, 2013, in New York City. (File Photo credit: lev radin via Shutterstock)

Richard Belzer, stand-up comic and TV detective, dies at 78

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This image released by Marvel Studios shows a scene from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." (Marvel Studios via AP)

‘False and misleading’: France says troops misrepresented in ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’

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A protester holds a placard reading "Go To Work Lazy, Your Pension at 64years Old, It Is NO" during a demonstration against plans to push back France's retirement age, in Paris, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. France is bracing itself for a fourth round of nationwide protests against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to reform pensions but key transports unions have not called for strikes allowing trains and the Paris metro to run this time. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Fourth day of pension reform protests hits France

By Thomas Adamson and Jade Le Deley - Associated Press

An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank with 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fires its 120 mm smoothbore cannon during a live-fire event as part of Exercise Eager Lion 2015 in Jordan, May 9, 2015. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Devin Nichols/Released)

U.S. to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to help fend off invading Russia in major policy reversal

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, Stéphane Romatet, head of the crisis management and support center in the French Foreign Ministry, left, poses for a photo with Robel Baho, deputy head of the External Relations Department of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, after signing a document of surrender for women and children of Islamic State group militants, at the department's headquarters in the city of Qamishli, Syria, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. France has repatriated another group of women and children from former Islamic State group-controlled areas of Syria. (Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria via AP)

France: More women, children returned from IS camps in Syria

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French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Gen. Stephane Mille, second right, before his New Year address to the French Army, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023 at the Mont-de-Marsan air base, southwestern France. President Emmanuel Macron is expected to unveil his vision for modernizing the military in his nuclear-armed country, taking into account the impact of the war in Ukraine and evolving threats around the world. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, Pool)

Macron proposes increased military spending plan until 2030

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PSG's Lionel Messi, left, celebrates with PSG's Neymar after scoring his sides second goal during the French League One soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Angers at the Parc des Princes in Paris, France, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Messi scores in 1st game after World Cup as PSG wins

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

Protesters gather at Marble Arch before they march to Trafalgar Square to protest against the Islamic Republic in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, in London, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

Marches in Europe support Iran protests, assail government

By Nicolas Vaux-Montagny - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his New Year speech to medical workers at the Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien Hospital in the southern Paris suburban city of Corbeil-Essonnes, Friday Jan. 6, 2023. Emmanuel Macron visits a pediatric hospital and gives a new year's speech to medics, amid protests and anger over long-unresolved funding and hiring issues in France's health care system.( Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

Macron to overhaul France’s struggling health care system

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FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, visits Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, central Japan on Jan. 4, 2023. Japan and the United States will hold security talks between their foreign and defense ministers in Washington the day before Japanese Prime Minister Kishida lands in the U.S. capital next week wrapping up his tour of Group of Seven nations as Tokyo expands its military and deepen alliance with America amid China's growing influence.(Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan, U.S. to hold security talks before Kishida meets Biden

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Passengers arriving from China wait in front of a COVID-19 testing area set at the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. France says it will require negative COVID-19 tests of all passengers arriving from China and is urging French citizens to avoid nonessential travel to China. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

EU urges pre-flight COVID-19 tests on passengers from China

By Raf Casert - Associated Press