Jean-Marie Le Pen has died, aged 96, on the same day that France solemnly honored the victims of the Islamist terrorist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ten years earlier. Charlie Hebdo ...

A move by France’s ruling Socialists to ban the far-right National Front from a peace march for Charlie Hebdo shooting victims may backfire, forcing undecided voters to choose between Marine Le Pen ...

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Our live coverage of France’s election has now ended for today. Read our key takeaways write here and browse the posts below to catch up on Monday’s earlier news. President Emmanuel Macron called ...

Parties on the left were so fractious, they broke up their alliance months ago, but the possibility of a government controlled by the far right drew them back together. By Catherine Porter Catherine ...

One word encapsulates French politics after last week’s parliamentary elections: impasse. Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally failed to gain a majority — but neither did the leftist alliance New ...

A left-wing coalition has won the most seats in France’s National Assembly, a surprise surge that denied power to the far-right but left France’s government even more fractured than before. The ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's main far-right party, is pictured. (Image by Mathias Destal from Flickr via Courthouse News) MARSEILLE, France (CN) — France’s extreme-right National Front ...

Paris — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the historic leader of France's far-right political movement, died Tuesday at the age of 96, the French news agency AFP said, citing his family. Le Pen, who had been in a ...