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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

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

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

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

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

Donald Trump

Trump sets off storm with refusal to accept US poll result in debate

US President Barack Obama speaks during the State Dinner with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House in Washington on Tuesday. — Reuters

‘Stop whining’ about vote fraud, Obama tells Trump

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stand outside a Toyota car dealer before a campaign event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Saturday. — AFP

Trump belittles accusers as more turn up with sordid stories

Michael van Praag, president of the Dutch Soccer Federation and candidate for the UEFA presidency, speaks with a journalist in Athens, Tuesday. — AP

Van Praag talks of backtracking voters as Ceferin set for victory

Austrian Presidential candidate Norbert Hofer of the right-wing Freedom Party answers questions to media after visiting Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, on Monday. — AP

Austria presidential election to be postponed

US Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) gestures during an interview with Reuters in Las Vegas, Nevada, in this file photo. — Reuters

Top Democrat urges FBI probe of allegations Russia seeking to influence US vote

Trump vows to begin deportations immediately if sworn in

Trump vows to begin deportations immediately if sworn in

This combo shows file photos of Philippines presidential and vice presidential candidates, top left to right, the head of the main opposition party and current vice president Jejomar Binay and his running mate Senator Gringo Honasan; the adopted daughter of a late movie star, Senator Grace Poe, and her running mate Senator Chiz Escudero; bottom left to right, current President Benigno Aquino's preferred successor and US-educated investment banker, Mar Roxas, and his running mate Congresswoman Leni Robredo; and late dictator Ferdinand Marcos's son and vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos with his mother and former first lady Imelda Marcos. — AFP

Cliffhanger Philippine presidential election race begins

Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Trump fits GOP’s celeb infatuation, but it doesn’t make him a winner