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FILE PHOTO: A woman, wearing a protective face mask, shops for fruits and vegetables at the Bastille Market in Paris as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesPARIS (Reuters) - France is trying to facilitate the repatriation…

FILE PHOTO: Employees work on an Airbus A220-300 at the Airbus facility in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada February 20, 2020. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File PhotoPARIS (Reuters) - Airbus (AIR.PA) has drawn up contingency plans to slow or stop production if France is placed under a drastic lockdown due to coronavirus, two people familiar…

FILE PHOTO: An information sign is seen at a school in Nice as France will close from Monday all nurseries, schools and universities to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), France, March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Eric GaillardPARIS (Reuters) - France is preparing an order that would put…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPolice use drones to enforce movement restrictions in Spain's fight against the coronavirus infectionThe three states bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe have all recorded their highest death tolls for a single day.Italy saw 368 deaths bring its total…

FILE PHOTO: French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire looks on during a meeting with his Greek counterpart Christos Staikouras (not pictured) at the Finance Ministry in Athens, Greece, February 25, 2020. REUTERS/Costas Baltas/File PhotoPARIS (Reuters) - France will not hesitate to take further steps to protect its citizens from the…

PARIS (Reuters) - Steps taken on the Franco-German frontier as a result of the coronavirus outbreak are not border closures, but a strengthening of controls, France’s presidency said on Sunday. Without citing a source, Bild reported that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her interior minister had agreed closures with the…

PARIS (Reuters) - The participation rate at lunchtime for local elections in France was down 5 percent from 2014, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Participation was at 18.3 pct compared to 23.1 pct in 2014 at 1200 (1100 GMT). Polls begin closing from 1800 local time.…

PARIS (Reuters) - France will close from Monday all nurseries, schools and universities to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus, President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address, calling the outbreak the nation’s worst public health crisis in a century. To prevent the economy from nosediving during the…

“Frog” is a derogatory epithet for a French person, originating in the World War I era and based on the French penchant for eating frog legs. But those who started using the term likely had never eaten frog legs before. Perhaps if they’d tried the dish, they would’ve realized that…

Photo: Getty ImagesA maintenance worker at Disneyland Paris in France has tested positive for the new coronavirus that has sickened over 111,000 and killed at least 3,800 people globally, according to a new report from Reuters and France’s Le Parisien.The Disney worker has not had any direct contact with visitors…