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Macron says normal life still far away as France needs recovery
May 02, 2020 01:23French President Emmanuel Macron says normal life is still far away from the country even as it moves to end a weeks-long lockdown imposed over the new coronavirus pandemic.
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France rejects US anti-China claim of COVID-19 link to Wuhan lab
Apr 18, 2020 10:56The French government has rejected as unfounded the recent US allegations linking a Chinese research laboratory in the city of Wuhan to the new coronavirus.
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Almost half of crew on French aircraft carrier fleet have COVID-19
Apr 18, 2020 00:56France’s Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly says more than 1,000 of the sailors on the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier fleet have tested positive for the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19.
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One month since declared coronavirus pandemic, over 108,000 dead
Apr 12, 2020 03:42One month since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), 108,867 people have died of complications caused by the pathogen and more than 1,777,666 people have been infected worldwide, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
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Death stalks French nursing home as decomposing corpses lie in bedrooms: Report
Apr 11, 2020 01:02A grim report from a nursing home in the French capital Paris reveals that several bodies of the elderly who have died of COVID-19 are still waiting to be buried, while the stench of decomposing corpses pervades the facility.
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50 test positive for COVID-19 aboard French aircraft carrier
Apr 11, 2020 00:27France’s armed forces ministry has announced that 50 coronavirus cases have been recorded among the crew of the country’s sole aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle.
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France’s economy shrinks most since World War II amid coronavirus pandemic
Apr 08, 2020 11:17The French economy has shrunk about six percent in the first quarter of this year amid the spread of the new coronavirus and a consequent lockdown that has disrupted economic activity.
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Rouhani: Friendly countries must pressure US to lift Iran sanctions amid pandemic
Apr 07, 2020 00:41President Hassan Rouhani says friendly countries should exert pressure on the United States to lift its "cruel and one-sided" sanctions against Tehran at the current juncture that the Islamic Republic is diligently fighting the deadly new coronavirus pandemic.
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France probing ‘terror’ knife rampage in southeastern town
Apr 05, 2020 03:50French authorities have launched an investigation into a knife rampage in a town in southeastern France that killed two people and injured five others in what is being treated as a “terror” attack.
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UK, Germany and France use INSTEX to circumvent US sanctions on Iran
Apr 01, 2020 01:47The UK, Germany and France have circumvented US-led sanctions imposed on Iran to send it medical equipment. The trio used a special purpose vehicle called INSTEX to achieve this.