French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron won the support of a key centrist, hailing it as a turning point in his campaign, as an aide to his far-right rival Marine Le Pen was charged in a fake jobs scandal.
A senior Socialist minister said on Tuesday he might back centrist Emmanuel Macron in France's presidential election, a new blow to the left's hopes that could help Macron as he battles to maintain his campaign's momentum.
Stephane Le Foll, the French Socialist government's spokesman and its agriculture minister, said on Tuesday he backs his party's official candidate Benoit Hamon but might vote for independent centrist Emmanuel Macron instead.
Marine Le Pen, presidential candidate for France's far-right National Front party, cancelled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon's Grand Mufti after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter.
France's far-right National Front accused authorities of staging a media stunt on Monday to influence the presidential election after police searched its headquarters in an investigation into "fake jobs".
Conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon's woes piled up on Thursday when France's financial prosecutor chose to pursue a probe into the fake-work scandal that has dogged him, and as far-right rival Marine Le Pen gained in the polls.
France's far-right party leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday told thousands of flag-waving supporters chanting "This is our country!" that she alone could protect them against Islamic fundamentalism and globalization if elected president in May.
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was seen at Trump Tower on Thursday (Jan 12) but a spokesman for President-elect Donald Trump said she was not meeting with him or his team.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission told French nuclear power company Areva SA it will publish as early as next week the names of U.S. reactors that contain components from its Le Creusot forge that is suspected of falsifying documents despite the company's claim that the information is proprietary.
2016 has had enough of surprises in world politics, from the Brexit vote to US presidential election. In November, France had its first taste.
More than a dozen Chinese celebrities, including film director Zhang Yimou, may not be able to see high returns from their investment in affiliates of LeEco, becoming the latest victims of the Chinese tech major's cash crunch.
PARIS, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- The deputies of the French National Assembly voted Tuesday night in favor of a constitutional reform that would allow people convicted of terrorism to be stripped of their French citizenship under certain circumstances.
Le Ha Huyen, also known as Helen Le, a MBA student at the University of Hamburg in Germany, is the founder of the largest channel featuring Vietnamese food on YouTube, called Helen's Recipes (Vietnamese Food). The Da Nang-born girl’s channel has attracted millions of views around the world.
About 18 people have been evacuated from the shopping center where gunmen held employees hostage Monday morning in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, west Paris, police said.
China on Wednesday refuted ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh's recent accusation that China had complicated the situation in the South China Sea, saying the comments departed from the neutral role that the ASEAN Secretariat should play.
Eighty-one percent of the French said they are ready to mobilize to honor the 12 victims of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, a survey showed on Saturday.
With a major gain, first such performance in four decades, French far-right National Front (FN) topped the race to the European Parliament (EP) more than a week ago with 24.85 percent of the vote, outpacing the conservatives that garnered 20.8 percent and pushed the Socialist Party (PS) to third place with a poor score of 13.98 percent.
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