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Far-right presidential candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen

Macron rips Le Pen in first French presidential debate

Daphné Benoit

Game over for France’s traditional left and right?

Members of the National Front youths put up posters of Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for the French 2017 presidential election, ahead of a two-day FN political rally to launch the presidential campaign in Lyon, France, in this Feb.2, 2017 file photo. — Reuters

Le Pen’s National Front no longer taboo for French youth

French presidential election candidate for the right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party Francois Fillon speaks during a debate at the French Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME) union›s headquarters in Puteaux, west of Paris, on Monday. — AFP

Fillon keeps French presidential bid alive as rival Juppe rules himself out

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman addresses the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta, Thursday. — SPA

Need to root out terror: Salman

Emmanuel Macron, former French Minister of Economy and candidate in the French presidential elections, meets with members of the French community in Algiers, Algeria, on Monday. — AFP

Kremlin denies campaign to discredit French election contender Macron

French MP of the right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party Claude Greff arrives to attend a meeting at the campaign headquarters of the LR candidate for the upcoming presidential elections on Tuesday in Paris. — AFP

Right-wing Fillon tries to revive scam-hit campaign

Marine Le Pen

The French political establishment in disarray

A Somali policeman stands guard along a road, which was blocked to control motor vehicle traffic, during a security lock down in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, Tuesday. — Reuters

Somali capital in security lock down before presidential election

French presidential election candidate for the right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party Francois Fillon (2L) steps in a car as he leaves his home to his campaign headquarters on Monday in Paris. — AFP

Fillon under pressure to quit presidential bid as fake work row rages

In this file photo, Somali refugee Nimo Hashi holds a photo of her husband in Salt Lake City. But he won't be arriving as planned to see her and the 2-year-old daughter he's never met. He was among hundreds of people stuck in limbo after President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banned refugees and nearly all travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Somalia. — AP

Somalia presidential hopefuls make last vote pitch in first-ever TV debate

French rightwing candidate for the upcoming presidential election Francois Fillon (right) flanked by his wife Penelope, looking on during a campaign rally in Paris. Fillon’s campaign has been struggling since it emerged that his Welsh-born wife Penelope was paid 830,000 euros (900,000 USD) as a parliamentary assistant over more than a decade ‑ despite almost no one recalling her on the job. — AFP

France’s Francois Fillon fumbles

Former French Prime Minister and candidate Manuel Valls

Ex-PM Valls fights leftist outsider for French presidential nomination

Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement “En Marche” and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election speaks in Quimper, western France, on Monday. — AFP

Macron momentum threatens French election front-runners

This file photo taken on March 28, 2014 shows President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia attending the 44th summit of the 15-nation west African bloc ECOWAS at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Foundation in Yamoussoukro. — AFP

Odd gambits in Gambia

This combination of file pictures shows candidates for the left-wing primaries, from top left to down right, former French minister Arnaud Montebourg, French Socialist Party’s (PS) senator Marie-Noelle Lienemann, PS member Gerard Filoche, French co-president of Nouvelle Donne left-wing party Pierre Larrouturou, former minister and PS member Benoit Hamon, founder of the new Ecology party “ecologistes!” (environmentalists) François de Rugy and French President of the Democrat Front (Front Democrate) Jean-Luc Bennahmias. — AFP

Seven candidates to compete in French left-wing presidential primaries

Members of a local electoral commission count votes after a presidential election at a polling station in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Sunday. — Reuters

Uzbek interim leader seen winning presidential vote

Hussein Shobokshi

Middle East and Donald Trump!

Hussein Shobokshi

It’s President Donald Trump!

A woman passes burning garbage during a demonstration in Oakland, California, US following the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States on Wednesday. — Reuters

Unexpected election result leaves Californians reeling