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A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient is transferred to the main ICU at the La Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, from a makeshift wing which could not support both the dialysis and respirator machines necessary for his worsening condition on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. France is more than two weeks into its second coronavirus lockdown, and intensive care wards have been over 95% capacity for more than 10 days now. Marseille has been submerged with coronavirus cases since September. The port city, on France’s Mediterranean coast, was spared the worst of the virus last spring only to be hit with a vengeance as the summer vacation wound down. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole) DCO102 DCO102

November 16, 2020 at 9:20 pm

A day in the life of a COVID ward: Just trying to hold on VIEW

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — It’s 2 p.m. in the intensive care ward of Marseille’s La Timone hospital, and Dr. Julien Carvelli is phoning families hit...

November 16, 2020 at 9:14 pm

A lifetime of pain in 24 hours: A French ICU in the pandemic VIEW

France is two weeks into its second coronavirus lockdown. AP journalists spent 24 hours with the intensive care team at southern France’s largest hospital as...

Passers by and enthusiasts listen to French tenor singer Stephane Senechal singing at dusk, the U.S. national anthem and Tosca of Puccini, from his apartment window during the monthlong partial lockdown to stop fast-rising virus hospitalizations and deaths, in Paris, Monday, Nov. 09, 2020. 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/Francois Mori) ZFM103 ZFM103

November 9, 2020 at 11:16 pm

As virus spikes, Europe runs low on ICU beds, hospital staff VIEW

In country after country, the intensive care burden of COVID-19 patients is nearing and sometimes surpassing levels seen at last spring's peak. Even if there...

November 2, 2020 at 6:29 am

French schools reopen in mourning after beheading of teacher VIEW

PARIS (AP) — French schools held a nationwide minute of silence Monday in honor of a teacher who was beheaded for opening a class debate...

October 29, 2020 at 11:45 am

Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence VIEW

PARIS (AP) — It’s been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical...

Entertainment

October 29, 2020 at 2:12 am

Tunisian carrying Quran fatally stabs 3 in French church VIEW

NICE, France (AP) — A young Tunisian man armed with a knife and carrying a copy of the Quran attacked worshippers in a French church...

An employee works at Snowman Logistics, a cold storage company, in Taloja, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) RKD101 RKD101

October 19, 2020 at 12:23 am

Vaccine storage issues could leave 3B people without access VIEW

The most promising coronavirus vaccine candidates need nonstop, sterile refrigeration to work. But nearly 3 billion of the world’s 7.8 billion people live where such...

Business

October 15, 2020 at 1:52 am

French police search homes of health minister, ex-PM VIEW

PARIS (AP) — French police searched the homes of the health minister, the former prime minister and other top officials Thursday in an investigation into...

People walk past a screen showing the news report that President Donald Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, in Tokyo. President Trump said Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, just a month before the presidential election and after having spent much of the last year largely downplaying the threat of the virus. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) XEH120 XEH120

October 2, 2020 at 12:56 am

Trump COVID infection thrusts world in uncharted territory VIEW

World leaders were quick to weigh in, with official sympathy from the top and something approaching schadenfreude elsewhere. Trump joins a growing list of the...

Nation & World

October 2, 2020 at 12:41 am

Harvest workers among COVID world’s last regular travelers VIEW

ROCCA DE' GIORGI, Italy (AP) — Her hands were hardly visible, so quickly did they press the clippers before dropping grape clusters into red plastic...