JOHN LEICESTER

November 30, 2020 at 11:54 pm

As the virus resurges, mental health woes batter France VIEW

ROUEN, France (AP) — The panicked 22-year-old is led to Consultation Room No. 2, with its easy-mop floor and honeycombed meshing over the window. Behind...

November 26, 2020 at 11:26 pm

In Santa’s mailbag, a peek into children’s pandemic worries VIEW

LIBOURNE, France (AP) — Jim, from Taiwan, slipped a face mask inside the greeting card he sent to Santa and marked “I (heart) u." Alina,...

November 19, 2020 at 2:29 am

At Paris trial, passengers recall disarming of train gunman VIEW

PARIS (AP) — When the bare-chested gunman suddenly appeared aboard the speeding Paris-bound train, laden with weapons and his mind allegedly filled with Islamic State...

November 13, 2020 at 11:22 pm

Amid virus surge, Paris hospitals begin to see signs of hope VIEW

PARIS (AP) — Dry-coughing as he pedals — a hack, hack, hack after-effect of his own personal battle with COVID-19 — the doctor cycles through...

November 9, 2020 at 11:59 pm

Ex-Vatican envoy’s trial for sex assault begins without him

PARIS (AP) — A sexual assault trial for the Vatican’s former ambassador to France went ahead without him Tuesday after he produced a doctor's note...

Nation & World

Employees of a nursing home in Ammerschwihr, eastern France, react before being tested with COVID-19 with a PCR test, Monday, Nov.9, 2020. The situation in hospitals and nursing homes is grim, with emergency wards approaching saturation and some sick patients being evacuated from struggling hospitals to others that still had space. With more than 1.8 million infections since the start of the health crisis, France has Europe’s highest cumulative total of recorded cases and the fourth-highest worldwide. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias) STR121 STR121

November 9, 2020 at 5:01 am

Europe hunkers down but also notes wins against virus surge VIEW

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal and Hungary on Monday became the latest European countries to impose curfews against the resurgent tide of coronavirus infections and...

Business

November 8, 2020 at 10:11 am

Pent-up global wish list of hopes, demands awaits Biden VIEW

LONDON (AP) — Spare a thought for the people who'll be managing Joe Biden's presidential appointment diary. Four years of inward-looking “America First” leadership by...