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May 20, 2020 at 10:33 am

“Incredible:” Italian woman wins 1-million-euro Picasso

PARIS (AP) — An Italian accountant whose son bought her the raffle ticket as a Christmas present won a Pablo Picasso oil painting valued at...

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The painting “Nature morte” by Picasso hangs on a wall at Christie’s auction house, Tuesday, May 19, 2020 in Paris. After an eight-week delay caused by France’s COVID-19 lockdown, the Christie’s auction house in Paris is hosting a raffle draw Wednesday for “Nature Morte,” an oil on canvas that Picasso painted in 1921.Raffle organizers say they have already raised 5 million euros ($5.4 million) by selling 50,000 tickets online for 100 euros ($109) each. Their hoped-for sales target was 200,000 tickets but the coronavirus crisis complicated the task. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) PAR101 PAR101

May 19, 2020 at 3:43 am

An antidote to coronavirus blues? A Picasso on your wall VIEW

Raffle organizers say they have raised 5 million euros ($5.4 million) by selling 50,000 tickets online for 100 euros ($109) each. Proceeds will help provide...

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May 15, 2020 at 10:07 am

Boy, 9, is 1st French death from likely COVID-linked illness

LE PECQ, France (AP) — Medics at a hospital that treated the first child to die in France with a puzzling inflammatory condition seemingly linked...

May 4, 2020 at 12:50 pm

Freedom! In France, a nursing home takes on COVID and wins VIEW

LYON, France (AP) — As the coronavirus scythed through nursing homes, cutting a deadly path, Valerie Martin vowed to herself that the story would be...

In this photo provided by the Vilanova nursing home, residents play inside the Vilanova nursing home on April 30 2020 in Corbas, central France. As the coronavirus cut a deadly path through nursing homes, staff locked themselves in with the 106 residents at this care home to stop COVID-19 coronavirus from infecting and killing the vulnerable older adults in their care, and they have not had any people falling victim to the virus.(Valerie Martin via AP) LYO105 LYO105

May 4, 2020 at 1:04 am

Freedom! In France, a nursing home takes on COVID and wins VIEW

For 47 days and nights, staff and residents of the Vilanova nursing home on the outskirts of Lyon waited out the coronavirus storm together.

May 1, 2020 at 11:29 pm

End of lockdown to uncork pent-up mourning for the lost VIEW

PARIS (AP) — As body after body has passed through his rubber-gloved hands, sealed in double-layered bags for disposal, Paris undertaker Franck Vasseur has become...

April 29, 2020 at 10:27 pm

Economic figures show grim toll in Europe and US from virus VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — Bleak new figures Thursday underscored the worldwide economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus: The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits...

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April 26, 2020 at 7:50 am

Parisians defy lockdown by dancing, briefly, in the street

LE PECQ, France (AP) — The itch to dance, to break out of coronavirus lockdown and bust a few moves in the fresh air, out...

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April 22, 2020 at 11:38 pm

‘We are in prison’: France opens nursing homes, exposes pain VIEW

PARIS (AP) — For her first authorized visit in more than six weeks with her 80-year-old mother, Sabrina Deliry prepared a selection of their favorite...

April 9, 2020 at 11:37 pm

Rising from sick beds, COVID medics head back to front lines

PARIS (AP) — “Be strong, mum, we really love you," is what Dr. Aurelie Gouel's kids tell the ICU physician when she sets off for...