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PARIS (AFP) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday to go “above and beyond” the Paris Agreement on climate change, after the US said it would quit the deal. Speaking two days after US

(AP) — The head of the French government’s cyber security agency, which investigated leaks from President Emmanuel Macron’s election campaign, says they found no trace of a notorious Russian hacking group behind the attack.

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday justified his choice to back two ministers in his government whose past actions have clouded the new leader’s effort to clean up politics. Macron said that only the justice system, and

This being that time of year when we are supposed to remember and be grateful, it is highly appropriate that we in the damned media — we, the enemy of the public; we, the ink-stained wretches; we, the writers of history’s first draft — should pause a moment and give thanks for President Donald J. Trump, politician extraordinaire.

PARIS (AP) – Human rights activists are gathered in Paris to draw attention to the situation of gays in Chechnya before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to France. The activists want newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the issue

French President Emmanuel Macron bragged to a Sunday newspaper this week that a handshake with President Donald Trump was “not innocent” and was instead a sign that the milquetoast Frenchman was not going to make even “small concessions” with Trump.

TAORMINA (ITALY) (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday brushed off Theresa May’s request for early talks on a trade deal with the EU after Brexit. As the two held their first official talks on the sidelines of the

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s effort to clean up politics has suffered its first blow, with a newspaper report suggesting a dubious property deal by one of his ministers.

The political establishment prepared detailed plans to “protect the republic” if Marine Le Pen won the French presidency. “It was a multi-stage rocket. The philosophy, and the imperative priority, was to maintain civil peace,” a senior government official told L’Obs.

Contents: France’s new president Macron commits troops to Mali ‘as long as necessary’; UN peacekeeping forces grow as jihadist attacks increase and Mali A riddle

GAO, Mali (AP) — On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday highlighted his determination to crush extremism but said “other countries can do more” to help protect Europe from the threat. He was visiting France’s largest overseas military operation, which is combating jihadist groups in West Africa.

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron held a special security meeting, spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and convened his Cabinet for the first time Thursday — all under a growing cloud of concern that his office is trying

PARIS (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron is set to end the suspense over his first government on Wednesday after a 24-hour delay in unveiling what he has promised will be a new-look cabinet. On the campaign trail ahead of his election

In a telegram congratulating the new French president, Emmanuel Macron, for his investiture, Pope Francis took the occasion to remind the lapsed Catholic president of his country’s “Christian tradition.”

Emmanuel Macron, the new president of France, travelled to Berlin on his first day of office to continue the long-standing tradition of French leaders meeting the German chancellor their first priority in office, and used the occasion to kick into

PARIS (AP) — France’s new president is hosting the International Olympic Committee to try to boost Paris’ bid to beat out Los Angeles in the heated race for the 2024 Games.

BERLIN (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Monday, being greeted on a red carpet outside the chancellery with military honors on a busy first full day in office that started with his naming 46-year-old lawmaker Edouard Philippe as his new prime minister.

PARIS (AP) — On his first full day in office, France’s freshly inaugurated President Emmanuel Macron is expected to move quickly Monday on fronts foreign and domestic, meeting in Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel and possibly unveiling his choice of prime minister.

PARIS (AP) – France’s new President Emmanuel Macron is formally taking power Sunday during a ceremony at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris.

Emmanuel Macron plans to use his first full day as president of France to fly to Berlin to lobby for greater Eurozone integration. Macron wants a common budget and a joint finance minister for all 19 states to have adopted the euro.

PARIS (AP) – Candidates running under the banner of France’s President-elect Emmanuel Macron gathered Saturday in Paris for a training workshop ahead of crucial parliamentary elections in June. His Republic on the Move movement announced an initial list of 428

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is under fire from leftists who accuse the publication of sexism after its latest cover depicts the 64-year-old wife of newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron pregnant.

LONDON (AP) — Macronomics — it’s the new French president’s proposed cure for a decade’s worth of relative economic gloom. Emmanuel Macron’s victory in Sunday’s election puts him in place to pursue his economic agenda, from cutting taxes on companies

PARIS, France: Influential French “new right” political philosopher Alain De Benoist believes the only solution to Islamism lies in controlling migration and that politics is now about elites against the grass roots.

PARIS (AP) – Two days before French president-elect Emmanuel Macron takes power, the names of the prime minister and the ministers who will form his first government remain a mystery even to some of his most trusted collaborators. Richard Ferrand, who

Exile all the top climate scientists in the U.S. to a failing economy where unemployment is rising, taxes are prohibitive and terrorism is rife. What kind of a vicious, sadistic bastard would dream of such a proposal?

(AFP) — Dogged by France’s stubbornly high unemployment throughout his presidency, Francois Hollande also faced an unprecedented wave of jihadist attacks, violent protests over labour reforms and public airing of his tangled private life. Here are some of the defining

PARIS (AFP) – Former French prime minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday he wanted to be a candidate for newly elected president Emmanuel Macron’s centrist movement in next month’s legislative elections. The statement from Macron’s former boss — Macron was economy

Next month, France will hold elections for its National Assembly and the anti-mass migration Front National are set to make huge gains whilst newly elected President Emmanuel Macron may be forced into a coalition to govern.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called Emmanuel Macron to congratulate him on his victory in the French presidential elections and pledged to work closely with him.

PARIS (AP) — In order to govern properly, Macron’s fledgling political movement La Republique En Marche (Republic On the Move) must now scramble together a majority of lawmakers in June’s parliamentary elections.

The far left “Front Social” group have organised a reportedly 10,000 person-strong protest against newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron, with some protesters clashing with police.

Thoughtful leftists might have realised that Marine Le Pen would have probably done more for their socialist economic cause than Emmanuel Macron ever will. Still, this hasn’t stopped them gloating since the glaringly obvious (to me, anyway) happened, and Marine

BERLIN (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that millions of Europeans were counting on the success of incoming French president Emmanuel Macron.

Whilst 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron is the youngest president in French history, he is younger than his average voter as an increasing number of young people voted for his anti-mass migration rival Marine Le Pen.

Emmanuel Macron’s first call after winning the French presidency was to Germany’s Angela Merkel, who “praised him for championing a united Europe that is open to the world”, according to the Chancellor’s spokesman. Merkel’s government has been heavily criticised after