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Wales'Alun Wyn Jones takes out is mouthguard during the Six Nations rugby union match between Italy and Wales, in the Olympic stadium in Rome, Italy, Saturday, March 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

6N: Welsh experience pivotal in Grand Slam bid, Pivac says

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 10, 2021 file photo, a health worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 to a patient inside the convention center known as &quot;La Nuvola&quot;, The Cloud, in Rome. Irish health officials have recommended the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine after reports of serious blood clotting after inoculations in Norway. Dr. Ronan Glynn, Ireland’s deputy chief medical officer, said Sunday, March 14 the recommendation was made after Norway’s medicines agency reported four cases of blood clotting in adults after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)

EU agency: AstraZeneca vaccine safe, will add clot warning

By MARIA CHENG and FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Chelsea's Christian Pulisic, right, challenges for the ball with Leeds United's Ezgjan Alioski during the English Premier League soccer match between Leeds United and Chelsea at Elland Road stadium, in Leeds, England, Saturday, March 13, 2021.(Laurence Griffiths/Pool via AP)

Reynolds, Odunze receive US call-ups but not Hoppe

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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021 file photo a police officer receives an AstraZeneca vaccine during a mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign at Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid, Spain. The Madrid regional government has started vaccinating its emergency services personnel. At least a dozen countries including Germany, France, Italy and Spain have now temporarily suspended their use of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine after reports last week that some people in Denmark and Norway who got a dose developed blood clots, even though there's no evidence that the shot was responsible. The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization say the data available don't suggest the vaccine caused the clots and that people should continue to be immunized. Here's a look at what we know — and what we don't. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

The Latest: Philippines imposes airport entry restrictions

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FILE - In this March 12, 2021, file photo, a health worker holds a bottle of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with name Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha written on it, at Bamrasnaradura Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. In recent days, countries including Denmark, Ireland and Thailand have temporarily suspended their use of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine after reports that some people who got a dose developed blood clots, even though there's no evidence that the shot was responsible. The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization say the data available do not suggest the vaccine caused the clots. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

EXPLAINER: Why countries are halting the AstraZeneca shot

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Pap Ndiaye, a Black French scholar and expert on the U.S. civil rights movement poses for a photo inside France's National Museum of the History of Immigration, in Paris, Thursday, March 11, 2021. Ndiaye, who is taking over France’s state-run immigration museum, advocates for a better understanding of France's long history of slavery and colonialism and the role of immigration in the construction of the country as key in the fight against racial injustice and discrimination. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Black scholar: It’s time France confronts its colonial past

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

England's Maro Itoje, center, scores a try during the Six Nations rugby union match between England and France at Twickenham Stadium, London, Saturday, March 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

6N: England topples France to redeem woeful title defense

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FILE - In this May 27, 1956 file photo, French troops seal off Algiers' notorious casbah, 400-year-old teeming Arab quarter. French President Emmanuel Macron announced a decision to speed up the declassification of secret documents related to Algeria's seven-year war of independence from 1954 to 1962. (AP Photo, File)

France to speed up opening of secret archives on Algeria War

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

A nurse receives the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in the state of Brandenburg where the first coronavirus vaccinations are given in doctors' surgeries, in Senftenberg, Germany, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool via AP)

After mixed messages, Europe warns against vaccine shopping

By ANGELA CHARLTON and DAVE RISING - Associated Press

Plaintiff Sabrina Deliry arrives for a hearing at the Paris Palace of Justice, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. A Paris court holds a hearing Wednesday in a class-action effort to hold French health authorities and companies accountable after thousands of people with the virus died in nursing homes, and families were locked out and left in the dark about what was happening to their isolated loved ones. Sabrina Deliry has mobilized families around France since her mother's Paris nursing home was first locked down a year ago. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

French court weighs action over nursing home virus deaths

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

FILE - This Aug. 25, 2013 file photo shows black columns of smoke rising from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood in East of Damascus, Syria. A group of Syrian chemical attack survivors and Syrian rights groups said Tuesday they have filed a criminal complaint in France over two August 2013 attacks outside Damascus, pointing to the alleged responsibility of the Syrian government in what would constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Groups ask France to probe 2013 Syria chemical attacks

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Illustration on efforts to maintain french unity by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

President Macron deserves credit for trying to unite France

By Clifford D. May

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom in Paris, Monday, March 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France’s Nicolas Sarkozy convicted of corruption, sentenced to jail

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

France to play All Blacks in opener of 2023 Rugby World Cup

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

6N: France-Scotland to be postponed after 11th virus player

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan.18, 2019 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron meets pupils as he visits a school canteen in Saint-Sozy, southwestern France. By taking meat off the menu at school canteens, the Green Party mayor of Lyon has kicked up a storm of protest and debate in a country increasingly asking questions about the environmental costs of its meaty dietary habits. With a meatless four-course meal that Lyon City Hall says will be quicker and easier to serve to children who must be kept socially distanced while eating lunch to avoid coronavirus infections. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP, FILE)

Food fight: Meat-free school meals spark furor in France

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

6N: Fate of France v Scotland to be decided on Wednesday

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Louisiana, France renew educational, professional agreement

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FILE - In this Jan.22, 2019 file photo, cables are plugged into a device by Cyber Test Systems at the Cybersecurity Conference in Lille, northern France. French President Emmanuel Macron is unveiling on Thursday a plan to better arm public facilities and private companies against cybercriminals as ransomware attacks struck two hospitals earlier this month, amid an upsurge of similar attacks in the country. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

France to boost cyberdefense after hospital malware attacks

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

In this Nov. 18, 2007 photo, lawyer Harry Durimel, right, stands next to an activist with a sign that reads in French &quot;No to Chlordecone poison,&quot; as they protest during the arrival of the French government’s Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot in Raizet Abymes, Guadeloupe. Durimel is among the attorneys representing agricultural workers in Guadeloupe and Martinique who have long been fighting for compensation for the use of a banned pesticide, chlordecone. (AP Photo/Dominique Chomereau-Lamotte)

French Caribbean fights to keep pesticide case alive

By DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press