BRIGITTE MACRON

French President Emmanuel Macron has paid a visit to Louisiana, the U.S. state most closely aligned with his country historically and culturally.

President Joe Biden's first White House state dinner has drawn big names from the worlds of entertainment, politics, business and fashion to celebrate French President Emmanuel Macron.

With the tent ready and the tables set for Thursday’s big state dinner at the White House, hostess Jill Biden took her French counterpart and fellow teacher on an outing to a language museum to highlight their mutual interest in learning and their growing friendship. “We are friends,” Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, said as she and Biden clasped hands at Planet Word, a museum dedicated to words and language. “We are friends,” Biden repeated before they again said they are friends.

French President Emmanuel Macron will be the guest for the first state visit of Joe Biden’s presidency.

In just five years as France's president, Emmanuel Macron has gone from a young newbie in politics to a key world player and weighty decision-maker in the European Union.

Voters are choosing between two visions of France and two very different people in Sunday's presidential runoff.

President Joe Biden has told French President Emmanuel Macron that America was “clumsy” in its orchestration of a secret U.S.-British submarine deal with Australia.

Paris Fashion Week roared into its second full day in shows that spanned grassy fields, gilded salons and Napoleon’s final resting place.

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French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Covid-19, his office announced Thursday, prompting several other European officials to go into quarantine. "In accordance with the health instructions in force applicable to all, the President of the Republic will isolate himself for 7 days." Macron, who turns 43 next week, will continue to work remotely, the statement added. His 67-year-old wife, Brigitte, will also self-isolate but she has not reported any Covid symptoms, her office said. Sanchez, who had lunch with Macron on Monday, said he would suspend all public activities through to Christmas Eve.

In sharp contrast to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this year's 76th will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever, as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping nearly everyone from traveling. It poses a particular threat to the elderly like the surviving D-Day veterans who are in their late nineties or older. All across the beaches of Normandy tens of thousands came from across the globe to pay their respects to the dead and laud the surviving soldiers. The acrid smell of wartime-era jeep exhaust fumes and the rumble of old tanks filled the air as parades of vintages vehicles went from village to village. Someday the COVID-19 pandemic, too, will pass, and people will turn out to remember both events that shook the world.

'That's not happening'"That's not happening -- that won't be happening," Trump said during a Wednesday briefing in the Oval Office. The President claimed that the US is "not looking for regime change," but suggested painful US measures are to come. It's also the principle means by which you bring Iran back to the negotiating table." US sanctions against Iran's oil exports have hit particularly hard and on Wednesday, US officials announced new Treasury Department actions to restrict Iran's oil exports that they said benefit the Syrian regime and others. "The economic and reputational cost that result from US sanctions are not worth the modest gains of doing business with Iran."