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Germany suffered their first ever Euro opener defeat as FIFA world champions France benefitted on Mats Hummels own goal to ensure a perfect start into Group F at Football Arena Munich on Tuesday.

The ambassadors of France and Belgium met Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Friday to find out how they can have their citizens living in Thailand inoculated against Covid-19.

The pandemic has hit European economies hard, but the French government’s measures to help foreign investors appear to be working in its favour.

Chinese, French and German leaders agreed during a virtual summit on Friday to jointly work toward an equitable and reasonable climate governance mechanism for win-win cooperation and make the response to climate change a pillar for cooperation between China and the European Union.

French trucking companies, airports and landlords are among those that have most to lose as Parliament starts discussing a law that cracks down on carbon emissions and pollution tied to travel, manufacturing, farming and housing.

PARIS - Concern about the spread of coronavirus variants in eastern France has prompted an acceleration of vaccination in that region, as well as calls to suspend the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to the health care workers there who had been first in line to get it.

The French government is delaying an agonizing decision to lock down the country once more, mulling options to slow new variants of covid-19 as the current curfew is considered insufficient.

France's top health authority is recommending doubling the time between the two required covid-19 vaccine shots as a way to stretch supplies and inoculate as many people as possible amid a resurgence in the spread of the coronavirus.

The shift of jobs and assets to Paris after Brexit will accelerate this year, providing Europe with an opportunity to strengthen its own financial infrastructure, according to Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau.

PARIS - France's privacy watchdog has banned the use of drone cameras to enforce coronavirus restrictions and for other law enforcement purposes, marking a victory for groups arguing that the pandemic has given rise to excessive surveillance.

PARIS - An illegal New Year's Eve party that drew around 2,500 people to a small French village came to an end Saturday morning, more than 24 hours after authorities had to abort an initial attempt to shut the rave down.

LONDON - France agreed Tuesday to reopen its borders to travelers from Britain and get trade flowing again, but it may take days to clear out the thousands of cargo trucks snarled while a travel ban was in place, prompted by fears of a fast-spreading coronavirus mutation in England.