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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen gestures as she arrives to speak after the early result projections of the French presidential election runoff were announced in Paris, Sunday, April 24, 2022. French polling agencies are projecting that centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron will win France's presidential runoff Sunday, beating far-right rival Marine Le Pen in a tight race that was clouded by the Ukraine war and saw a surge in support for extremist ideas. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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Analysis: Loss is victory for far-right in France's election
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Sun,04/24/22-11:03PM , 277 Reads
PARIS (AP) — The far-right has gone mainstream in France.
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French President Emmanuel Macron celebrates with supporters in front of the Eiffel Tower Paris, France, Sunday, April 24, 2022. Polling agencies projected that French President Emmanuel Macron comfortably won reelection Sunday in the presidential runoff, offering French voters and the European Union the reassurance of leadership stability in the bloc's only nuclear-armed power as the continent grapples with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

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To Europe's relief, France's Macron wins but far-right gains
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Sun,04/24/22-1:10AM , 134 Reads
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron comfortably won a second term Sunday, triggering relief among allies that the nuclear-armed power won't abruptly shift course in the midst of the war in Ukraine from European Union and NATO efforts to punish and contain Russia's military expansionism.
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A demonstrator holds a banner that reads: 'Neither Macron nor Le Pen', during a protest in Paris, April 16, 2022. Disgruntled left-wing voters whose candidates were knocked out in the first round of France's election are the wild cards in the winner-takes-all runoff on Sunday April 24, 2022. How they vote — or don’t vote — will in large part determine whether incumbent Emmanuel Macron gets a second five-year term or cedes the presidential Elysee Palace to far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

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Love thy enemy: Critics key for Macron in France's election
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Fri,04/22/22-1:37AM , 185 Reads
PARIS (AP) — As France elects a president, Paris-based artist Vincent Aïtzegagh is going to ground, escaping to a bucolic village to avoid what for him — and millions of other left-wing French voters — is a painful, even impossible, electoral choice.
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A butcher cuts halal meat in a butcher shop, in Paris, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is alarming both Muslims and Jews in France with a pledge to ban the ritual slaughter of animals if elected. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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In France's election, a meaty issue unites Jews and Muslims
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Fri,04/15/22-2:58AM , 233 Reads
PARIS (AP) — As she cooks lunch and talks politics, Sarah Gutmann has a nasty feeling — of would-be French president Marine Le Pen invading the privacy of her home and meddling with her Jewish faith and the plates of chicken and kosher sausages that she is frying for her husband and their
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