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France hit by 3rd virus surge; culture minister in hospital
Read full article: France hit by 3rd virus surge; culture minister in hospitalFILE - In this Nov.26, 2020 file photo, French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot speaks during a press conference on easing of Covid-19 restrictions, in Paris. France's high-profile culture minister has been hospitalized for treatment of COVID-19, the latest government member to be infected as the nation tips into a third wave of the coronavirus. President Emmanuel Macron, infected months earlier but never hospitalized, announced Tuesday that France would accelerate its vaccination campaign, dropping eligibility from age 75 to 70. Bachelot, a former health minister and talk show regular, is considered one of France most popular ministers. Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire and Trade Minister Franck Reister were infected in the past.
France to return Nazi-looted Klimt to rightful Jewish heirs
Read full article: France to return Nazi-looted Klimt to rightful Jewish heirsFrench Culture Roselyne Bachelot poses next to a spoiled oil painting by Gustav Klimt painted between in 1905 called"Rosebushes under the Trees," during a ceremony at the Orsay museum in Paris, Monday, March 15, 2021. The French government hands over a Klimt painting to the grandchildren of the holocaust victim Nora Stiasny stolen by the Nazis during World War II. (Alain Jocard/Pool Photo via AP)PARIS – The French government announced Monday that it will return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80 years after it was stolen from a Jewish family in Austria in 1938. The colorful 1905 oil work by the Austrian symbolist painter titled “Rosebushes under the Trees” has been hanging in Paris’ Musee d’Orsay museum for decades. Though many have been returned, French authorities have stepped up efforts in recent years to find homes for the scores of hanging heirlooms that remain unclaimed.