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French far-right party Front National president Marine Le Pen speaks during her party's congress on March 11, 2018 in Lille, north of France, after being re-elected for a third term as leader. (AFP/PHILIPPE HUGUEN)
March 11, 2018, 2:08 pm
Seeking makeover, French far-right party jettisons anti-Semitic founder
National Front party reelects Marine Le Pen as leader, considers name change amid bid to break into mainstream
By AP
Far right National Front party regional leader for southeastern France, Marion Marechal-Le Pen, at a meeting with supporters, in Carpentras, southern France, December 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
February 20, 2018, 11:24 am
Niece of French far-right leader to speak at US conservative event
Marion Marechal-Le Pen will headline Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington alongside Trump, Pence
By AFP
Outgoing French president Francois Hollande, left, greets President Emmanuel Macron before the handover ceremony, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Sunday, May 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
May 14, 2017, 1:27 pm
Emmanuel Macron, youngest French leader since Napoleon, sworn in
After ceremony, outgoing president Hollande is applauded by staff – and his successor – as he leaves Elysee palace
By AP and TOI staff
French president-elect Emmanuel Macron (C) and his wife Brigitte Trogneux (R) greet supporters in front of the Pyramid at the Louvre Museum in Paris on May 7, 2017, after the second round of the French presidential election. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Thomas SAMSON)
May 7, 2017, 9:34 pm
Macron overwhelmingly defeats Le Pen to win French presidency
Pro-European candidate wins over 65% of vote according to initial count, halting unlikely rise for leader of far-right National Front
By Adam PLOWRIGHT
A combination of video grabs from an AFP video taken on May 3, 2017 during a live televised debate shows French presidential candidates Marine Le Pen, left, and Emmanuel Macron, right, ahead of the second round of the French presidential election on May 7, 2017. (AFP Photo/Stringer)
May 7, 2017, 6:16 am
In French vote, two radically different visions for country’s future
The business-minded centrist Macron urges a France ensconced in a wider Europe; his populist challenger Le Pen wants to cut immigration, leave the EU and abandon the euro
By Joshua MELVIN and Guy JACKSON
This combination of pictures made on April 23, 2017 shows French presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron, left, and Marine Le Pen, right, posing in Paris. (Eric Feferberg, Joël Saget/AFP)
May 7, 2017, 5:26 am
Macron, Le Pen face off in dramatic final vote of French election
After Brexit and Trump’s win, race between pro-Europe centrist and anti-immigration far-rightist seen as bellwether of anti-globalization trend
By Adam PLOWRIGHT
Election campaign posters for French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen are displayed in front of the polling station where Marine Le Pen will vote in Henin Beaumont, northern France, Saturday, May 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
May 7, 2017, 1:23 am
Russian effort suspected in French election hacking attack
Paris’s cybersecurity agency to probe leak of Macron campaign documents as expert notes ‘Cyrillic script in the metadata’ of hacked files
By PHILIPPE SOTTO, John Leicester and Raphael Satter
French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party, Marine Le Pen (L) and French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement, Emmanuel Macron pose prior to the start of a live brodcast face-to-face televised debate, on May 3, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Eric FEFERBERG)
May 4, 2017, 1:56 am
Macron, Le Pen clash on terror, EU in heated final French debate
Ahead of weekend runoff, presidential candidates trade barbs over attitudes to Islam and globalization
By Adam PLOWRIGHT and Guy JACKSON
A person cast his ballot at a polling station in Strasbourg during the first round of the Presidential elections, April 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Federick Florin)
April 23, 2017, 9:50 am
French voters begin casting ballots in presidential nailbiter
Over 60,000 polling stations open for some 47 million eligible voters, who will choose between 11 candidates
By AFP and TOI staff
Former French presidential election candidate for the far-left coalition La France insoumise Jean-Luc Melenchon on the campaign trail in eastern France, April 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Sebastien Bozon)
April 23, 2017, 7:50 am
Melenchon, France’s ‘unbowed’ hard-left candidate
The fiery Communist-backed eurosceptic vows to return ‘power to the people’ if he shocks the establishment to become president
By Gina DOGGETT
French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen at a press conference at her campaign headquarters in Paris, April 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure)
April 23, 2017, 7:41 am
Le Pen: Far-right heir hopes to become France’s first female president
Propelled by anti-establishment fury that drove Brexit and Trump victories, ‘party of patriots’ leader is banking on rebranded ultranationalist rhetoric
By Clare BYRNE
French independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron speaking to the media in Berlin, Jan. 10, 2017. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images/JTA)
April 23, 2017, 6:47 am
Macron, 39-year-old maverick of French politics, eyes the presidency
The centrist candidate, running in his first-ever election, could become the youngest French president in modern times
By Adam PLOWRIGHT
A French riot police officer carries flowers given to him by a demonstrator, in Paris, Saturday, April 22, 2017, a day before the country begins its two-round presidential election. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
April 23, 2017, 5:47 am
Security tight as France goes to the polls in presidential vote
50,000 police, 7,000 soldiers safeguarding Sunday’s election, with terrorism and a lackluster economy topping voters’ concerns
By Thomas Adamson
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
April 23, 2017, 2:02 am
Russian chief rabbi: France’s Jews should leave if Le Pen wins
At Limmud FSU gathering near Moscow, Berel Lazar warns the French are ‘heading toward radicalization’
By JTA
French presidential candidate Francois Fillon gets covered in flour during a campaign event in Strasbourg, France on April 6, 2017. (Screenshot)
April 7, 2017, 12:41 am
French presidential candidate Fillon doused in flour at campaign event
Young man tackled by security guards after dumping bag of flour onto ex-PM in Strasbourg while he was shaking hands
By Agencies
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