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Actress Robin Wright attends Kering Talks Women In Motion At The 70th Cannes Film Festival at Hotel Majestic on May 18, 2017 in Cannes, France. Fans who love tales of White House drama and political intrigue used to get their fix from “House of Cards,” the hit Netflix series about a fictional president with ego to burn and an evil grip on power.

Macron wins French presidency, to sighs of relief in Europe

Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union. PARIS: Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union.

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French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's team blasted a "massive and coordinated hacking attack" against his campaign after a flood of internal documents were released online late Friday, barely 24 hours before the election. The centrist candidate's furious staff said the release of thousands of emails, accounting documents and other files was an attempt at "democratic destabilisation, like that seen during the last presidential campaign in the United States".

Emmanuel Macron vows to avoid ‘mistake Hillary Clinton made’

There is just over a week to go in France's presidential election, but the man tipped to become the country's new leader is taking nothing for granted. Emmanuel Macron may be leading in the polls but the 39-year-old independent centrist has endured one of the most difficult weeks of his campaign so far.

Macron and Le Pen: How two outsiders defeated France’s political elite

A political novice who has never before stood for elected office is facing off against a far-right nationalist from the fringes of French politics -- it's safe to say France's presidential election is one for the history books. Voters collectively turned up their noses at the political establishment Sunday, in the first round of the French presidential election.

France’s choice: European globalism or populist nationalism

A combination of pictures made on April 23, 2017 shows French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron and French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National party Marine Le Pen posing in Paris. Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen appear to have won the first round of France's presidential election .

The Latest: Voter turnout in France so far similar to 2012

French voters are casting ballots for their next president in an unusually close first-round election Sunday, aft... . A man casts his vote for the first-round presidential election at a polling in Tulle central France, Sunday, April 23, 2017.

What if Marine Le Pen won the French election? Graphic Novels imagine Fascist Dystopia

The 2017 presidential campaign in France has been full of surprises , from FranA ois Hollande's decision not to run for a second term to former prime minister Manuel Valls getting defeated in the Socialist Party primary; from the rise of insider-outsider Emmanuel Macron to the standout debate performance by far-left candidate Philippe Poutou; from FranA ois Fillon's rise, fall, and rise to Jean-Luc MA lenchon's last-minute surge . All the twists and turns have increased the uncertainty of an election that was up in the air from the start.

Trump says Paris attack will help Le Pen in election

President Donald Trump on Friday said he believes an attack on police officers this week in Paris will help Marine Le Pen, the far-right presidential candidate, in upcoming elections in France. In an interview with The Associated Press, Mr. Trump said that while he is not explicitly endorsing Ms.

French election: Fake news spreads ahead of presidential poll

Lille, France: So called 'Twitter bots' that masquerade as real people and spread fake news and propaganda on social media have been detected in action in France in the lead-up to this weekend's presidential election.However, French voters are sharing much better quality information online than what many US voters shared in last year's presidential election, according to an analysis released on Saturday by a group of experts from Oxford University. France attack raises new questions over election The killing of a policeman in an Islamist militant attack overshadows the last day of France's unpredictable presidential election campaign as centrist Emmanuel Macron holds onto his status as frontrunner in the polls.

Four Candidates Fight For French Presidency With One Week To Go

Candidates for the 2017 presidential election Francois Fillon, former French Prime Minister, member of the Republicans and candidate of the French centre-right, Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, Jean-Luc Melenchon of the French far left Parti de Gauche, Marine Le Pen, French National Front political party leader and Benoit Hamon of the French Socialist party pose before a debate organised by French private TV channel TF1 in Aubervilliers, outside Paris, France, March 20, 2017.

World briefs: Putin critic, who said he was poisoned in 2015, falls into coma

A leader of the Russian opposition who has been a vocal critic of what he calls a Kremlin policy of assassinating political enemies has fallen into a life-threatening coma caused by an unknown poison, his wife said Monday. The diagnosis of what ailed Vladimir Kara-Murza came at a delicate political moment for the United States and Russia, as President Donald Trump had just brushed aside criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "killer."

NOAA Scientists Manipulated Temperature Data To Make Global Warming Seem Worse

A whistleblower says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration rushed a landmark study claiming the planet was warming much faster than expected in order to influence international climate negotiations. Dr. John Bates, the former principal scientist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., told the Daily Mail NOAA's 2015 study was meant "to discredit the notion of a global warming hiatus and rush to time the publication of the paper to influence national and international deliberations on climate policy."