Elaine Ganley
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Italian minister scraps trip over French official's remarks
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 → Read More
Lauded fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at age 88
Born Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo in 1934, the future designer fled the Spanish Basque country at age 5 during the Spanish Civil War and took the name of Paco Rabanne. → Read More
Lauded fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at age 88
Born Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo in 1934, the future designer fled the Spanish Basque country at age 5 during the Spanish Civil War and took the name of Paco Rabanne. → Read More
Ukraine's Odesa city put on UNESCO heritage in danger list
PARIS (AP) — The United Nations' cultural agency decided Wednesday to add the historic center of Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa to its list of endangered World Heritage sites, recognizing “the outstanding universal value of the site and the duty of all humanity to protect it.” → Read More
Hard-left leader sees win in French vote, himself as new PM
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. → Read More
A frank exchange of views: French diplomats on rare strike
Members of the French diplomatic corps are dropping their traditional reserve to go on a rare strike Thursday, angered by a planned reform they worry will hurt their careers and France’s standing in the world. → Read More
Algerian dissidents: Victims of crackdown, or outlaws?
Mohamed Benhalima looks as wary and frightened as he is led off a plane at Algiers airport, handcuffed with a security officer’s arm wrapped around him. A team from Algeria’s Rapid Intervention Force then puts him in their vehicle and whisks him to an unknown destination. → Read More
Emmanuel who? Far-right fighting hard-left for French vote
The stakes are high, the fight nasty and the party of centrist President Emmanuel Macron is the one to beat. But to a visitor from outer space, June's parliamentary election in France could look like a contest between the far right and the hard-left. → Read More
May Day rallies in Europe honor workers, protest govts
Citizens and trade unions across Europe are taking to the streets for May Day marches, putting out protest messages to their governments → Read More
May Day Rallies in Europe Honor Workers, Protest Govts
Citizens and trade unions in cities around Europe were taking to the streets on Sunday for May Day marches, and to put out protest messages to their governments, notably in France where the holiday to honor workers was being used as a rallying cry against newly reelected President Emmanuel Macron. → Read More
Far-right Le Pen plots parliament win after loss to Macron
PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen gathered her party’s troops on Monday, not to mourn her loss a day earlier in the French presidential election but to plot how to orch… → Read More
Far-right Le Pen plots parliament win after loss to Macron
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen gathered her party’s troops on Monday, not to mourn her loss a day earlier in the French presidential election but to plot out how to orchestrate a victory in June's parliamentary vote and capture a majority of seats in the National Assembly. → Read More
France's presidential rivals: Key moments, private lives
Voters are choosing between two visions of France and two very different people in Sunday's presidential runoff → Read More
France's presidential rivals: Key moments, private lives
As French voters elect a president Sunday, they are choosing between two visions of France — and two very different people. → Read More
Le Pen’s far-right vision: Retooling France at home, abroad – Daily News
PARIS (AP) — No more Muslim headscarves in public. All schoolchildren in uniforms. Laws proposed and passed by referendum. Generous social services unavailable to foreigners unless they’… → Read More
Le Pen's far-right vision: Retooling France at home, abroad
No more Muslim headscarves in public. All schoolchildren in uniforms. Laws proposed and passed by referendum. Generous social services unavailable to foreigners unless they've held a job for five years. → Read More
Russia's Navalny accuses Le Pen of Kremlin ties before vote
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stepped abruptly into France’s tight presidential campaign Wednesday, urging voters to back incumbent Emmanuel Macron and alleging that far-right challenger Marine Le Pen is too closely linked to Russia. → Read More
Far-right Le Pen campaigns as French 'voice of the people'
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 → Read More
Beer flows, Champagne bubbles as Macron, Le Pen reach final
Beer flowed at incumbent 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. → Read More
French far-right leader Le Pen softens image for election
French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen has softened her rhetoric and her image to broaden her appeal in next week’s presidential election — but is under threat from a provocative rival who has broken her monopoly as the watchdog of the country’s identity that they claim is under threat. → Read More