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30.12.2020 / 12:36

After a year like this, expect a strange New Year's Eve

NEW YORK – If ever a year's end seemed like cause for celebration, 2020 might be it.Yet the coronavirus scourge that dominated the year is also looming over New Year's festivities and forcing officials worldwide to tone them down.From New York's Times Square to Sydney Harbor, big public blowouts are being turned into TV-only shows and digital events. Fireworks displays have been canceled from the Las Vegas Strip to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer and licensing pioneer, dies at 98

French fashion designer Pierre Cardin acknowledges the crowd at the end of a show at the Institut de France, on Nov. 30, 2016 in Paris.

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Mali's opposition leader and ex-hostage dies with COVID-19

BAMAKO – Mali's opposition leader Soumaila Cisse, who was held hostage for six months earlier this year by jihadists and was considered a leading contender in 2022 elections, has died in Paris, his family said Friday.Cissé, 71, died after contracting COVID-19, his eldest son Bocar told The Associated Press.“The doctors did everything to keep him alive, but that’s the way of God’s will,” he said.The news throws Malian politics into new uncertainty. Cissé was the runner-up in the past three presidential elections and many thought he had the best chances of finally winning in 2022.He was taken hostage by jihadists in March while campaigning for legislative elections in his hometown of Niafunke in northern Mali.

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Christmas Eve concert held in Paris' fire-wrecked Notre Dame

PARIS – Wearing hard hats and protective suits, the choir of Notre Dame Cathedral sang inside the medieval Paris landmark for the first time since last year’s devastating fire for a special Christmas Eve concert.Accompanied by an acclaimed violinist, a rented organ and a soprano soloist, 20 singers performed beneath the cathedral’s stained-glass windows amid the darkened church, which is transitioning from being a precarious hazardous clean-up operation to becoming a massive reconstruction site.The singers stood socially distanced to be able to take off their masks — which is required indoors in France to stem the spread of the virus — and sing.The concert was recorded Saturday and will be broadcast Thursday night.

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US negotiating with Pfizer for millions more doses of COVID-19 vaccine

This illustration picture taken in Paris on November 23, 2020 shows a syringe and a bottle reading "Covid-19 Vaccine" next to the Pfizer company logo. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - The U.S.

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Port of Dover and Eurostar closed in bid to stop mutant coronavirus spread

The port at Dover and Eurostar services to Paris will close at midnight in a bid to tackle the mutant coronavirus spreading to France.

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'Why the chronic disease I self-diagnosed with Google has been the making of me'

direct to your inboxOne in five people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the UK is now under the age of 30.And when patients are diagnosed with MS, no one can predict how the condition will affect them, or how disabled they will become.It's a frightening position for a young a person to be in - one Amy Thompson, 23, knows all about.The fashion graduate, who lives in Worsley, was diagnosed with MS, a condition which affects the central nervous system, just before her 21st birthday, while studying fashion marketing at university and doing an internship in France."I was living in Paris at the time and I went on a weekend away," Amy explained."My leg had started to feel really heavy, but as I couldn't explain it I just ignored it for a

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Lily-Rose Depp, 21, chats on phone as she stops by Hollywood coffee shop in hoodie and blue jeans

She spent a large part of 2020 quarantining in Paris with her mom Vanessa Paradis.But on Thursday, Lily-Rose Depp, 21, was spotted out and about in Hollywood.The model chatted away on her phone as she stopped by a coffee shop to pick up some beverages to go. Errands: Lily-Rose Depp, 21, was spotted out and about in Hollywood on Thursday.

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2nd healthcare worker in Alaska reports adverse reaction to COVID vaccine

This illustration picture taken in Paris on November 23, 2020 shows a syringe and a bottle reading "Covid-19 Vaccine" next to the Pfizer company logo. (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)NEW YORK - Health officials in Alaska have reported that a second health care worker had an adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine.Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau says the two workers showed adverse reactions about 10 minutes after receiving the vaccine and were treated.

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Verdicts due for 14 over links to Jan. 2015 Paris attackers

PARIS – The terrorism trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 Paris attacks on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket ends Wednesday after three months punctuated by new attacks, a wave of coronavirus infections among the defendants, and devastating testimony bearing witness to three days of bloodshed that shook France. Three of the 14 fled to Syria just ahead of the Jan.

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French theater, cinema workers protest against virus closure

PARIS – Thousands of people working in the French theater and cinema industries demonstrated in Paris on Tuesday against the prolonged closure of entertainment facilities amid the coronavirus pandemic.France earlier Tuesday lifted a partial lockdown imposed on Oct. 30, but will still maintain strict measures at least until Jan.

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Dozens arrested at Paris protest over proposed security law

PARIS – Paris police took dozens of people into custody at what quickly became another tense and sometimes ill-tempered demonstration in the French capital on Saturday against a proposed security law.Police targeted protesters they suspected might coalesce together into violent groups like those who vandalized stores and vehicles at previous demonstrations. Paris police made at least 81 arrests, the interior minister tweeted.

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The Paris climate pact is 5 years old. Is it working?

Warren CornwallWhen world leaders celebrated reaching a landmark climate change agreement in Paris in December 2015, the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe were illuminated with green floodlights and the message “Accord de Paris c’est fait!” (the Paris agreement is done!). Now, five tumultuous years later, a new slogan might be “travail en cours” (work in progress).That will be the implicit message sent tomorrow when nations gather—virtually—to look back on what the Paris agreement has achieved in its first half-decade and, more importantly, to unveil new pledges to further cut planet-warming emissions.

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COVID-19 outbreak declared at Walmart in Brantford, Ont.

Canada approves Pfizer coronavirus vaccine BCHU believes there is a low-risk of virus transmission to shoppers during that period but suggests anyone with concerns reach out via the region’s website to arrange for assessment and testing.The health unit reported an additional outbreak on Dec. 8 at St.

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Europe to revive international night train links

BERLIN – Four European rail companies announced Tuesday they plan to boost the continent's network of night train connections by reviving routes that were dropped several years ago for cost reasons.German rail company Deutsche Bahn and the main national train operators in France, Switzerland and Austria said the routes from Vienna to Paris, via Munich, and Zurich to Amsterdam, via Cologne, will be re-established starting next December.Further international connections from Vienna and Berlin to Brussels and Paris will be created in 2023, and a Zurich to Barcelona sleeper will begin rolling in 2024.The move marks a change of direction for Deutsche Bahn, which successively shut down its night train service in recent years citing unsustainable

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Russian sentenced to French prison for bitcoin laundering

PARIS – A Russian bitcoin expert at the center of a multi-country legal tussle was sentenced in Paris on Monday to five years in prison for money laundering and ordered to pay 100,000 in fines in a case of suspected cryptocurrency fraud.A court acquitted Alexander Vinnik of charges of extortion and association with a criminal enterprise, according to his lawyers. Vinnik denies wrongdoing, and his lawyers are discussing whether to appeal.Vinnik, 41, is also wanted in the United States and Russia.

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France prepares for 'widespread' Covid vaccinations in early 2021

France is aiming to launch a widespread Covid-19 vaccination campaign between April and June next year, President Emmanuel Macron has said.

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French lawmakers to rewrite proposed bill on filming police

PARIS – Lawmakers from French President Emmanuel Macron’s party will rewrite the most criticized article of a proposed security law, involving a measure aimed at banning the publication of images of police officers with intent to cause them harm.The move comes after tens of thousands of protesters marched Saturday in Paris and across the country to reject the draft law. In an apparent effort to quell criticism, the head of Macron's party grat the National Assembly, Christophe Castaner, said Monday “there is a need to clarify the measure.” “We are going to propose a new, complete rewrite of the article 24,” he added.

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Nevada governor tightens restrictions as virus cases rise

Panoramic View of Las Vegas Nevada at night with neon from Paris Eifel Tower view spot. (Photo by: Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) CARSON CITY, Nev. - Nevada Gov.

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American train-attack witness hospitalized in Paris

PARIS – An American who had been scheduled to appear as a star witness at the trial in Paris of an Islamic State operative was hospitalized Thursday in the French capital, casting doubt on whether he would still be able to testify about his role in the dramatic capture of the gunman that averted a possible mass slaughter aboard a high-speed train. Spencer Stone's lawyer, Thibault de Montbrial, wouldn't give details about what is ailing the former U.S.

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US top diplomat arrives in France on touchy 7-nation tour

PARIS – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Paris on Saturday at the start of a seven-country tour of Europe and the Middle East, a trip that is certain to be awkward since all the nations on his schedule have congratulated Joe Biden for his victory in the U.S.

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

PARIS – Dry-coughing as he pedals — a hack, hack, hack after-effect of his own personal battle with COVID-19 — the doctor cycles through the dark of pre-dawn Paris, speeding to a crisis meeting at his hospital where, way back in February, the disease carried away the first of what has now become more than a quarter-million dead in Europe.In the nine months since then, critical care chief Philippe Montravers and the 150 doctors and nurses he leads at the towering Bichat Hospital in Paris have become experts about their enemy.

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Attacks spur EU to weigh tough border, anti-extremism steps

BRUSSELS – European Union interior ministers on Friday weighed new measures to counter extremist attacks following a series of killings in Austria and France in recent weeks by lone-wolf attackers with links to Islamic groups.The ministers met via video conference on the fifth anniversary of one of the bloodiest attacks in recent memory on European soil, the Islamic State-claimed rampage in Paris that killed 130 people at a music hall and cafes on Nov. 13, 2015.

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Trial of Russian charged in bitcoin fraud begins in Paris

PARIS – The trial of a Russian man alleged to have used ransomware in a 135 million euros ($157 million) bitcoin fraud will begin Monday.Alexander Vinnik, who is also wanted in the United States and in Russia, faces up to ten years in prison at his Paris trial over charges of extortion, money laundering and criminal association.French prosecutors say Vinnik was one of the creators of malware called “Locky” which was delivered through email. If downloaded, the recipient's data was encrypted and they were asked to pay a ransom in bitcoin to free it.

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Facing terror charges, ETA's last boss apologizes for deaths

PARIS – The last known chief of ETA, the now-extinct Basque separatist militant group, goes on trial Monday in Paris for terrorism charges that he deems “absurd” because of his role in ending a conflict that claimed hundreds of lives and terrorized Spain for half a century.Josu Urrutikoetxea led ETA during one of its bloodiest periods, when its victims included children bombed to death while sleeping in a Zaragoza police compound, where a monument to their stolen lives now stands.

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Demonstrations in France will pay tribute to slain teacher

PARIS – Demonstrations around France have been called in support of freedom of speech and to pay tribute to a French history teacher who was beheaded near Paris after discussing caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad with his class.Samuel Paty was beheaded on Friday by a 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee who was shot dead by police.Political leaders, associations and unions will demonstrate Sunday afternoon in Paris and in other major cities including Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Nantes, Marseille, Lille and Bordeaux.The gatherings come as French authorities say they have detained a 10th person following the horrific incident.French anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said an investigation for murder with a suspected

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New virus restrictions in Europe; Merkel warns of hard days

BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to come together like they did in the spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus as the country posted another daily record of new cases Saturday.“Difficult months are ahead of us,” she said in her weekly video podcast. “How winter will be, how our Christmas will be, that will all be decided in these coming days and weeks, and it will be decided by our behavior.”Meanwhile, new restrictions went into effect in several other European nations in an effort to staunch the resurgence of the pandemic.

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Coronavirus surge crimps Europe with London and Paris leading the way

Covid-19 across Europe.Two of the worst-hit economies -- the U.K. and France -- are trying to avoid nationwide restrictions as cases reach records across Europe.

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Coronavirus: Daily cases hit 330,000 worldwide as virus surges in Europe

Coronavirus cases around the world have climbed to all-time highs of more than 330,000 per day as the scourge comes storming back across Europe and spreads with renewed speed in the U.S., forcing many places to reimpose tough restrictions eased just months ago.Well after Europe seemed to have largely tamed the virus that proved so lethal last spring, newly confirmed infections are reaching unprecedented levels in Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy and Poland. Most of the rest of the continent is seeing similar danger signs.

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French police search homes of top officials in virus probe

PARIS – French police searched the homes of the former prime minister, the current and former health ministers and other top officials Thursday in an investigation into the government response to the global coronavirus pandemic. The Health Ministry confirmed the dawn searches, which included the offices of the current health minister Olivier Veran.

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Many cities in France go under curfew as Europe struggles with coronavirus spike

European country to toughen anti-coronavirus measures, imposing a curfew in Paris and eight other cities from Saturday, while Germany and Ireland also ramped up restrictions."We have to act.

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Macron orders curfew for a 3rd of France to beat back coronavirus

Emmanuel Macron ordered a third of France’s population be put under nightly curfew on Wednesday to tackle a surging second wave of the coronavirus, saying now was not the time for conviviality.The virus was spreading at parties and private gatherings, the president said, and action was needed now in Paris and eight other big French cities to slow the rate of infection or else hospitals risked being overwhelmed.Macron said the curfews were to put a temporary halt to “the parties, the moments of conviviality where there are 50 or 60 people, festive evenings because, unfortunately, these are vectors for the acceleration of the disease.” France’s daily coronavirus case total surpasses 10,000 for the first time Macron announced the curfews,

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Herbert Kretzmer, lyricist of Les Miserables, dead at 95

LONDON – Herbert Kretzmer, the journalist and lyricist best known for his English-language adaptation of the musical Les Miserables, has died.

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Warning over ICU capacity as Covid cases rise in Paris

Hospitals in Paris could have up to 90% of intensive care beds taken up with Covid-19 patients as soon as next week.

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Lucky 13 in Paris lets Nadal tie Federer with 20 Slam titles

Spain's Rafael Nadal poses with the Mousquetaires Cup (The Musketeers) during the podium ceremony after winning the men's singles final tennis match against Serbia's Novak Djokovic at the Philippe Chatrier court, on Day 15 of The Roland Garros 2020 F PARIS - Rafael Nadal tied Roger Federer with 20 Grand Slam titles by producing a nearly perfect performance against Novak Djokovic in the French Open final.Nadal equaled long-time rival Federer for the most major singles tennis championships won by a man and added to his own record at Roland Garros with No. 13 on the red clay, courtesy of a surprisingly dominant 6-0, 6-2, 7-5 victory over the No.

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Nadal ties Federer at 20 Slams by beating Djokovic in Paris

PARIS – Rafael Nadal tied Roger Federer with 20 Grand Slam titles by producing a nearly perfect performance against Novak Djokovic in the French Open final.Nadal equaled long-time rival Federer for the most major singles tennis championships won by a man and added to his own record at Roland Garros with No. 13 on the red clay, courtesty of a surprisingly dominant 6-0, 6-2, 7-5 victory over the No.

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Quarantined in New York, Mladenovic wins doubles in Paris

PARIS – Unlike in New York, at the U.S. Open where she was placed in quarantine and forced out of the women's doubles tournament after playing cards with a coronavirus-infected player, Kristina Mladenovic came up trumps in doubles at the French Open.

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‘Emily In Paris’ on Netflix is a truly terrible show, but you won’t be able to stop watching

French critics have called out the show for playing into stereotypes about their culture.So, when a show starts out with so much bad criticism, how is it fun to watch?Part of it has to do with the times we are all currently living in. Every single day tops the day before it with outrageous and unbelievable news, so when a show comes along that is so mindless, it’s not surprising viewers can’t get enough of it.It’s pure escapism at its finest.

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Paris hospitals on emergency footing as virus cases rise

PARIS – Paris region health authorities ordered hospitals to activate emergency measures starting Thursday to cope with fast-rising numbers of COVID-19 patients, who now fill 40% of the region’s intensive care units.The French health minister is expected to announce new restrictions for areas where hospitals are facing strain and infections are mounting, after shutting down bars in Paris and several cities and limiting private gatherings in recent weeks.The director of the Paris region public health agency, Aurelien Rousseau, tweeted Thursday that he ordered hospital directors to activate a special emergency plan to free up resources and protect medical staff.

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Celtic set to challenge Covid rules as top brass await Odsonne Edouard derby return decision

Odsonne Edouard and Ryan Christie could be forced to sit out the first Old Firm game of the season. Christie has been ordered to self-isolate for a fortnight after being told by health officials to leave Scotland’s squad ahead of Thursday’s Euro 2020 play-off with Israel.And, despite speculation Edouard has already been given the all-clear to return to Glasgow next week, understands talks between the club and various health authorities were still on-going late on Wednesday after the Frenchman’s positive coronavirus test in Paris on Tuesday.

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Rwandan genocide suspect seeks transfer to The Hague

THE HAGUE – The defense lawyer of an 87-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in France has appealed to an international court not to send him to Tanzania to face trial, but instead to transfer him to the Netherlands for health reasons, according to a written request filed Monday.Félicien Kabuga, one of the most wanted fugitives in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, was arrested outside Paris in May after 25 years on the run. He is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity for equipping militias that killed more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them.Kabuga has denied involvement in the massacre.A court Paris last week approved Kabuga's extradition to a special international court in Arusha, Tanzania.

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Japanese Fashion Designer Kenzo Takada Died at the Age of 81 From Coronavirus

Kenzo Takada, the Japanese-French designer and founder of Kenzo, has died from complications of COVID-19 at the age of 81, a spokesman confirmed to The Guardian. He died in the American hospital in Paris."Kenzo Takada has, from the 1970s, infused into fashion a tone of poetic lightness and sweet freedom which inspired many designers after him," Bernard Arnault, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of LVMH said in a statement.

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Kenzo founder Kenzo Takada dies of coronavirus aged 81

fashion designer Kenzo Takada, the founder of the brand Kenzo, has died of coronavirus at the age of 81.Takada passed away on Sunday 4 October in Paris, the city he called home since he moved to France in 1965 to start his fashion career.Known for his use of bright colours and for bringing Japanese prints and textiles to Europe's catwalks, Takada was one of the defining fashion designers of the 70s and 80s.Born in 1939 in Himeji to hotelier parents, Takada struggled to realise his dreams of being a designer in his homeland."I was once told that it was impossible for a Japanese man to work in the fashion industry in Paris," Takada once told the Financial Times."Men weren't allowed into design schools.

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Paris on maximum virus alert, closing bars, not restaurants

PARIS – French authorities placed the Paris region on maximum virus alert on Monday, banning festive gatherings and requiring all bars to close but allowing restaurants to remain open, as numbers of infections increased rapidly. Paris police prefect Didier Lallement announced the new restrictions would apply at least for the next two weeks.“We are continuously adapting to the reality of the virus.

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The Latest: Police allows French Open to keep its 1,000 fans

PARIS – The Latest from the French Open (all times local):___12:20 p.m.There will still be crowds for the final week of French Open after Paris police decided not to reduce the limit of 1,000 spectators per day.Paris police chief Didier Lallement said bars in Paris will close for two weeks from Tuesday as part of new measures to slow coronavirus infections.But he maintained the current limit of 1,000 spectators at sports events in Paris and specifically noted the clay-court tournament at Roland Garros.The decision will come as a relief to players.Many have said how much they appreciate having spectators even in much smaller numbers than normal.___More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/apf-Tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports

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Sparkle, dance and postal service infuse Paris Fashion Week

PARIS – From escapism at the disco, to resistance and aggression, even to pondering the importance of the postal service while working from home, designers in Paris have presented divergent creative responses to the global health crisis as spring-summer shows continued Friday. Like Milan before it, Paris is undertaking an unusual fashion season for spring-summer 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Ball-maker hoping Nadal wins in Paris to prove himself wrong

PARIS – Less than half a gram, or half the weight of a dollar bill. That, according to their manufacturer, is the almost infinitesimal weight difference between the old French Open ball that Rafael Nadal happily bashed in winning his 12th title last year and the new one riling him in his chase for No.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0