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Widespread riots in France sparked by the police killing of a teenager with North African roots have revealed the depth of discontent roiling poor neighborhoods.

Even in normal times Emmanuel Macron needed the help of allies in governing France.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has abruptly canceled a trip to Paris over remarks by the French interior minister criticizing the Italian premier’s migration policy.

A parody photo appearing on protest signs and online in France shows President Emmanuel Macron sitting on piles of garbage.

The French parliament has started debating President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reform proposals, which prompted strikes and large demonstrations in recent weeks.

An ambitious 27-year-old has been elected to replace Marine Le Pen as president of France's main far-right party National Rally.

A Black lawmaker says he was “deeply hurt” after a far-right member of the French parliament made a racist remark during a legislative session.

French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist government has survived two no-confidence votes prompted by opposition lawmakers to protest the use of a special constitutional power to force the budget bill through the National Assembly without a vote.

French President Emmanuel Macron has visited Paris’ main mosque to mark 100 years since it was built -- a stop to show how the French leader wishes to represent all factions of French society months after his reelection.

The French government says the slaying of a 12-year-old girl whose body was found inside a plastic box in a Paris building courtyard has left France “profoundly shaken.”.

French President Emmanuel Macron and over 40 European leaders have sought to show the unity of the continent faced with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A party with neo-fascist roots has won the most votes in Italy’s national election, setting the stage for talks to form the country’s first far right-led government since World War II, with Giorgia Meloni at the helm as Italy’s first female premier.

French lawmakers have failed to pass a no-confidence motion requested by a leftist coalition to symbolically mark their opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s government and economic policies.

The right to abortion in France has been inscribed in law for 47 years and enjoys broad support across the political spectrum.

French President Emmanuel Macron has reshuffled his Cabinet in an attempt to adjust to the new political reality following a legislative election in which his centrist alliance failed to win a majority in the parliament.

France’s lower house of parliament has elected Yaël Braun-Pivet of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance as its new speaker.

Emmanuel Macron appears weakened at home after parliamentary elections forced him into political maneuvering.

French President Emmanuel Macron is proposing to “legislate in a different way” based on compromises between diverse political forces.

French President Emmanuel Macron has held talks with France’s main party leaders after his centrist alliance failed to win an absolute majority in parliamentary elections.

France has awakened to an ecstatic Marine Le Pen after her party’s far-right candidates for parliament sent shockwaves through the political establishment.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance is expected to keep its parliamentary majority after the first round of voting Sunday, but will likely have far fewer seats than five years ago.

Emmanuel Macron saw off the far right’s Marine Le Pen in April’s presidential election, but now the French president is facing a threat from the other end of the political spectrum in the fight for parliamentary power.

Leftist parties that had nearly disappeared from the French political landscape have grown wings in the runup to Sunday’s legislative elections and now threaten to weaken President Emmanuel Macron and his hopes of slam-dunking his agenda through parliament.

The stakes are high, the fight nasty and the party of centrist President Emmanuel Macron is the one to beat.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been inaugurated for a second term.

No sooner had Emmanuel Macron defeated a far-right rival in last month's presidential vote than left-wing parties began mounting a challenge for legislative supremacy in June elections.

Tens of thousands of people were marching in cities across Europe for May Day protests to honor workers and shame governments into doing more for their citizens.

French President Emmanuel Macron's reelection has bolstered his standing as a senior player in Europe.

Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks stormed back from sharp losses to log strong gains.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is gathering her party’s troops, not to mourn her loss in the presidential election but to plot out a victory in France's parliamentary election in June.

Russia has unleashed a string of attacks against rail and fuel facilities deep inside Ukraine in an apparent attempt to thwart Ukrainian efforts to marshal supplies.

One of the headlines from the presidential election in France is that the far-right has come out of the cold and gone mainstream.

In just five years as France's president, Emmanuel Macron has gone from a young newbie in politics to a key world player and weighty decision-maker in the European Union.

Japan welcomed the reelection of French President Emmanuel Macron as key to the unity of Group of Seven.

Voters are choosing between two visions of France and two very different people in Sunday's presidential runoff.

French voters in the presidential election are using an old-school voting system that has defied calls for more flexibility or modernization.

French President Emmanuel Macron has comfortably won reelection to a second term.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with the U.S. secretaries of state and defense in the highest-level visit to Kyiv by an American delegation since the start of the Russian invasion.

It’s crunch time for voters in France as centrist incumbent President Emmanuel Macron is meeting far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen of the National Rally at the ballot box for Sunday’s final presidential vote.

French President Emmanuel Macron is in the pole position to win reelection Sunday in France's presidential runoff.

Marine Le Pen’s vision for France — if the far-right leader wins Sunday’s presidential runoff — would include no Muslim headscarves in public, schoolchildren in uniforms and laws passed by referendum.

The finalists for France’s presidency, President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen, traded blows on the last day of legal campaigning as they tried to appeal to undecided voters.

Stocks slumped on Wall Street Friday, leaving the S&P 500 with its biggest one-day loss in almost seven weeks, as worries deepen about a surge in interest rates and the U.S. central bank's efforts to fight inflation.

Disgruntled left-wing voters whose candidates were knocked out in the first round of France's election are the wild cards in the winner-takes-all runoff on Sunday.

French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting a multicultural, working-class suburb north of Paris to woo leftist voters ahead of Sunday's presidential runoff against far-right challenger Marine Le Pen.

France’s presidential campaign has been difficult for voters of immigrant heritage and religious minorities.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny waded into France’s tight presidential campaign, urging voters to back incumbent Emmanuel Macron in Sunday's runoff and alleging that far-right challenger Marine Le Pen is too closely linked to Russia.

French President Emmanuel Macron has torn into his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in a television debate for her ties to Russia and for wanting to strip Muslim women of their right to cover their heads in public, as he seeks the votes he needs to win another 5-year term.

Paris prosecutors are studying a report by the EU fraud agency accusing French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of misusing public funds while serving in the European Parliament.

French President Emmanuel Macron is holding a major campaign rally in Marseille to seek backing from voters who supported a left-wing candidate in the first round of the presidential election.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger in the French presidential vote, Marine Le Pen, have decried as “shocking” the multimillion euro payout to the CEO of carmaker Stellantis.

Muslim headscarves have taken center stage in France’s presidential campaign amid far-right candidate Marine Le Pen’s push to ban them.

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is alarming both Muslims and Jews in France with a pledge to regulate the ritual slaughter of animals if she is elected.

The capital of France may be thousands of miles away from the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, but what happens in French voting stations this month could have repercussions there.

The head of the European Central Bank says the bank would raise interest rates “some time after” ending its pandemic stimulus efforts later this year.

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has warned against sending any more weapons to Ukraine.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen is envisioning a France with the people’s voices at the center of the political process if she gets elected president in 12 days.

French President Emmanuel Macron is facing a tougher-than expected fight for reelection.

A win for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in France's presidential race would have immense repercussions on the functioning of the European Union.

French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants to “convince” a broad range of French voters to back his centrist vision.

Asian stock markets are lower as investors wait for U.S. inflation data amid unease about higher interest rates, Chinese efforts to contain coronavirus outbreaks and Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Beer flowed at President Emmanuel Macron’s celebration of his first-round victory in the French presidential election, while Champagne corks popped across town to mark far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s second-place showing.

The 12 candidates in France’s presidential race are proposing drastically different ideas.

Incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron will face far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen in a winner-takes-all runoff for the presidency.

For months, French President Emmanuel Macron looked certain to become the country's first leader in 20 years to win a second term.

Poland has summoned the French ambassador over recent comments by President Emmanuel Macron who called Poland’s prime minister a “far-right anti-Semite” in a budding feud over Russia’s war on Ukraine.

President Emmanuel Macron says he has no fear of losing France’s presidential election despite far-right rival Marine Le Pen narrowing the gap in opinion polls days before the first-round vote.

With war singeing the European Union's eastern edge, French voters will make a choice in a presidential election that will have an impact beyond the country's borders.

French voters in Sunday’s presidential election will use the same system that’s been used for generations.

French President Emmanuel Macron is the clear favorite in the country's presidential vote on Sunday.

French nationalist Marine Le Pen has softened her rhetoric and her image as she tries to unseat centrist President Emmanuel Macron in the upcoming election, taking place in two rounds on April 10 and 24.

French President Emmanuel Macron held his first big rally Saturday in his race for reelection, promising the French more “progress” and “solidarity” over the next five years.

Three weeks before France’s presidential election, far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon has rallied tens of thousands of supporters on the streets of Paris for his biggest campaign event to date.

French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled his proposals to boost the economy, fight inequality and improve France’s reactions to global crises if he wins a second term in next month’s elections.

French President Emmanuel Macron has formally announced that he will run for a second term in April’s presidential election.

Two words considered taboo for many in France because they evoke a conspiracy theory embraced by white supremacists are haunting the French presidential campaign.

A conservative politician who is vying to become France’s first female president is hoping to boost her declining fortunes with her first major campaign rally.

French President Emmanuel Macron hasn’t officially declared that he’s a candidate for April’s presidential election yet.

France’s dueling far-right presidential candidates have held back-to-back campaign rallies.

French President Emmanuel Macron is pushing to strengthen the European Union’s external borders against migrants illegally entering the bloc’s passport-free area.

The French left is running divided and weakened in this year's presidential race.

In France, election-time politics and fury among opponents of COVID-19 vaccinations are making public service increasingly risky.

France’s government is pledging to investigate what it called “absolutely revolting” allegations that a world leader in care for older adults has been putting profit before quality, rationing food and other items for nursing home residents.

French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to make the European Union more powerful as his country holds the bloc’s presidency for six months.

Far-left French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon is seeking to reinvigorate his flagging campaign for April’s election with an unusual rally.

A progressive icon from the South American territory of French Guiana has joined the race for France’s presidential election in April.

The conservative candidate in France's presidential race says she will adapt her campaign to coronavirus conditions, focusing on social media and staging small gatherings with voters instead of big rallies.

French President Emmanuel Macron has held talks in Hungary’s capital with the leaders of the European Union’s eastern nations.

In her first address as a French conservative presidential candidate, Valérie Pécresse is vowing to break with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist policies and to defeat the extremism of her far-right presidential rivals.

French President Macron has vowed to work to make Europe “more powerful” as France’s turn in the European Union’s rotating six-month presidency starts Jan. 1 and overlaps with the country’s presidential election.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has defended a recent meeting of European populist leaders by saying that his government is seeking allies in its challenge of what he called a “centralized Europe.”.

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into violence that erupted at the first official campaign rally of a far-right candidate who has shaken up France’s presidential race.

Some anti-racist activists were beaten up as far-right former French TV pundit Eric Zemmour held his first campaign rally near Paris.

Valérie Pécresse, the head the Paris region and a former conservative minister, has been chosen to run in France’s presidential race for The Republicans party.

The leaders of European right-wing populist parties say they will cooperate more closely at the European Union’s parliament in order to defend the sovereignty of their nations.

A prime-time address to the nation by French President Emmanuel Macron sounded very much like the launch of a re-election campaign.

A rabble-rousing television pundit and author with repeated convictions for hate speech is rocking the early stages of France's race to replace President Emmanuel Macron.

Key European Union leaders are unconvinced by Polish arguments that fundamental judicial changes the country has made would not undermine the bloc and said that the withholding of billions in EU recovery funds would likely continue unless Warsaw falls back into line.

Italy is wrestling with how to deal with a neo-fascist party that has violently exploited anger over the government's anti-COVID restrictions.

A French government spokesperson says France plans to reduce the number of visas issued to people in North Africa because governments there are refusing to take back deported migrants.