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In one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the race's history, Tadej Pogačar edged out the favourite, fellow Slovenian Primož Roglič.
It has been two years since the pupils of the Paris Opera presented their annual show. At the Palais Garnier opera house, the students are euphoric as they return to the stage.
While the fourth wave of Covid-19 is on a downward trend in France, the intensive care units at Lyon Sud hospital are far from empty. With "younger and unvaccinated" patients infected with the Delta variant, medics are overwhelmed.
French President Emmanuel Macron begins his nationwide tour on Wednesday ahead of next year's presidential election, in a risky repeat of previous meet-and-greet initiatives that saw him heckled by angry voters. The 43-year-old centrist, widely expected to seek a second term in polls next April and May, will begin what he calls the task of "measuring the country's pulse" in picturesque villages in southwest France. Around a dozen stops are planned over the next two months, in a sign that the former investment banker has an eye on regional elections on June 20 and 27, as well as his own personal political test next year. IMAGES
The suspended rollout of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in France and some other European countries over concerns about possible side effects could delay a goal of immunizing the population against the resurgent coronavirus.
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