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Populist right says party would use French Parliament to block President Macron from deploying soldiers to the Ukraine War. 

Making a last-ditch attempt at reclaiming the narrative before the snap elections, Macron vowed to “change” while refusing to resign.

A pro-independence leader in the French Pacific territory New Caledonia will be held in France after being charged Saturday over deadly riots last month.

Candidate for the French election representing Marine Le Pen’s National Rally was hospitalised after an attack by a “group of masked people”. 

Three young teenagers have been arrested in France after the anti-semitic-inspired gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl after dragging her into an abandoned building in Courbevoie.

A street-cleaner and a police officer were injured in a stabbing attack by a man armed with a screwdriver in France on Wednesday morning.

The European Union’s executive arm lambasted France for running up excessive debt, a stinging rebuke at the height of an election campaign.

Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Monday that former President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran “exists only on paper and means nothing.”

Right-wing populist politicians should be “eradicated”, a leading French leftist parliamentarian said in a supposed slip of the tongue.

A mass stabbing in a supermarket the Northern French city of Metz has left five people injured, including at least one very seriously.

Those who consider themselves “native French” represent a “serious problem” for social cohesion, far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declared.

Former French President François Hollande will run as a National Assembly candidate for the far-left-led “New Popular Front” alliance.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper predicted on Friday that the Group of 7 (G7) nations, a coalition mostly made up of America and European states, would soon lose its relevance as “internal divisions” challenged its unity, describing coverage of this year’s summit as having a “funeral vibe.”

Israel rejected a French mediation effort with the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Friday, saying that France had adopted “hostile” policies toward Israel and ignored atrocities carried out by Hamas terrorists.

The European Parliament elections saw over six in ten Muslims in France back the far-left party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has faced accusations of antisemitism.

French President Emmanuel Macron excoriated the Les Républicains leader Éric Ciotti for supporting an election pact with the National Rally party in the snap election

President Macron threw down the gauntlet to the French people and the right-populist opposition on Sunday.

Chinese media concluded the European Parliament elections would end “policies on immigration, green transition and its support for Ukraine.”

Allies of French President Emmanuel Macron have reportedly dubbed his deicision to call for a snap election “suicidal”.

Former President Donald Trump and American Republicans feel buoyed by right-wing victories across Europe in this weekend’s European Parliament elections that shocked France and other nations, a possible foreshadowing of the U.S. electoral landscape similar to how the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit referendum preceded Trump’s victory here that year.

President Macron responded to the defeat by dissolving the national parliament for fresh elections in bid to regain authority. 

The farmer movements are leading the charge against the green agenda during the EU elections, a Member of the European Parliament said.

A court in Moscow ordered a French citizen accused of collecting information on military issues in Russia be held in jail pending a trial.

A group of eight Congressmen parachute-jumped out of a plane over Normandy, France, on Friday in honor of the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper accused leftist American President Joe Biden on Thursday of a “lack of confidence” in Ukraine’s ability to defeat the two-year-old Russian invasion of its homeland, condemning him for skipping a global “peace summit” organized by Ukraine in Switzerland.

The EU Parliament elections represent an opportunity to reclaim national sovereignty and stop the destruction of mass migration, MEP Patricia Chagnon said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday passed a resolution condemning Iran for banning nuclear inspectors and calling on the Iranian government to cooperate more fully with the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

A 102-year-old World War II U.S. Navy veteran died while traveling to Normandy, France, to participate in a D-Day memorial event.

A pro-Russian Ukrainian male has been arrested after allegedly accidentally setting off an explosive device at France’s largest airport. 

British paratroopers who led an historic reenactment to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day were met by French border officials immediately after they touched down Wednesday in a Normandy field.

Russia responds to Ukraine’s claim that it will soon be welcoming French troops to its borders by threatening to kill them.

Police launch investigation after motorist ran down school group of 12 children who were cycling to a city park, critically injuring several.

U.S. President Joe Biden touched down on French soil early Wednesday morning ahead of Europe’s D-Day commemorations as Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia continues to roil the continent.

A climate activist was arrested after sticking an “apocalypse” poster on top of Claude Monet’s “The Poppies” in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

French authorities on Friday arrested an 18-year-old man from Chechnya on suspicion of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack on the Olympics.

Many European newspapers report trial won’t be as advantageous to Democrats as they might earlier have hoped.