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Government support for banning the chokehold and disciplining officers suspected of racism drew angry pushback, placing President Emmanuel Macron in a bind and limiting the changes approved.Police officers marching in Paris on Friday against the government’s proposals to ban the chokehold and discipline racist officers.Credit...Gonzalo Fuentes/ReutersJune 12, 2020PARIS — The French police, furious at a popular…

By Brooke Seipel - 05/15/20 06:45 PM EDT © Getty Images In what would mark a massive shift in the timeline of coronavirus spread, French researchers believe there is evidence coronavirus may have been in Europe as early as November 2019. X-rays obtained exclusively by NBC News show two patients with symptoms in their lungs consistent with…

PARIS — Health investigators around the world are racing back in time.While it was thought COVID-19 only began to spread beyond China and across Europe in January and February, French doctors this week said they have established the coronavirus was already present in Paris by late December — a month before the country’s first official…

PARIS — Health investigators around the world are racing back in time.While it was thought COVID-19 only began to spread beyond China and across Europe in January and February, French doctors this week said they have established the coronavirus was already present in Paris by late December — a month before the country’s first official…

French scientists have identified the earliest-known case of COVID-19 in the nation: a patient who was treated in a hospital near Paris in December, an indication that the virus has been spreading across the world for far longer than had previously been known.The doctors from the Groupe Hospitalier Paris Seine in Saint-Denis said a sample taken…