The French presidency has announced that President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for coronavirus. He will self-isolate for seven days and cancel all upcoming trips, including a planned visit to Lebanon.French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19, the French Presidency said on Thursday. “The President of the Republic has been diagnosed positive for
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French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Muslim leaders to accept a “charter of republican values” as part of a broad clampdown on radical Islam. On Wednesday he gave the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) a 15-day ultimatum to accept the charter. France has in recent times recorded beheadings and stabbings by Muslim immigrants,
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The French government on Wednesday declared a public health state of emergency, giving officials greater powers to impose new measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. “The COVID-19 epidemic constitutes a public health disaster which, by its character and its severity, puts at risk the health of the population,” the government said in a statement
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