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The Beluga whale swims in the lock of Notre Dame de la Garenne in Saint-Pierre-la-Garenne, west of Paris, France, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. During Wednesday's rescue operation, the dangerously thin animal began to have breathing difficulties, and experts decided the most humane thing to do was to euthanize the creature. Aurelien Morissard/AP hide caption

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A firefighter cries Sunday near a wildfire in the Losacio area in northwestern Spain. Firefighters battled wildfires raging out of control in Spain and France as Europe wilted under an unusually extreme heat wave that authorities in Madrid blamed for hundreds of deaths. Emilio Fraile/AP hide caption

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La Rotisserie D'Argent in Paris is one of Scott Simon's favorite restaurants. He recently ate there with his family while on vacation and was impressed by his waiter. Scott Simon hide caption

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Opinion: In Paris, heroes carry espresso

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A burkini (right) and a culotte swimmer (center) are on display in the Cherchez la Femme (Look for the Woman) exhibition in the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, on March 30, 2017. Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images hide caption

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A French city approved burkinis in its pools. Then the backlash came

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A child plays in a fountain in the warm weather in London, Friday, June 17, 2022. A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is giving much of western Europe its first heat wave of the summer, with temperatures forecast to top 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) from Malaga to London on Friday. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption

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From left, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Prime Minister of Italy Mario Draghi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, France's President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday. The French, German, Italian and Romanian leaders vowed to back Kyiv's bid to become an official candidate to join the European Union. Ludovic Marin/AP hide caption

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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi (left), German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (second left), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (center), French President Emmanuel Macron (second right), and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis meet at the Ukrainian presidential compound Thursday in a collective show of European support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. Ludovic Marin/AP hide caption

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A view of an election poster for the upcoming parliamentary election with the face of Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the far left opposition party, in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Jean-Francois Badias/AP hide caption

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Young women eat lunch in the Tuileries Garden in Paris in January 1929. Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images hide caption

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Drop that fork! Why eating at your desk is banned in France

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Young women eat lunch in the Tuileries Garden in Paris in January 1929. Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images hide caption

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Lunching@Work: When Eating at Your Desk Is Forbidden

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Yuri Mazurenko and Macha Levitin get ready to go on a walk with their dogs Rolly and Safra in a village in Burgundy, France. Eleanor Beardsley/NPR hide caption

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How a Facebook page for Irish setter lovers helped Ukrainians flee with their dogs

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