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By THE NEW YORK TIMES Nineteen people were killed and 59 others were injured in an explosion about 10:35 p.m. on Monday in the foyer outside the main hall of the Manchester Arena. ■ Prime Minister Theresa May said the police were treating the incident as...

The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) welcomed its longest-serving chairman, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, back to his post on Sunday with an emergency congress today to mark the beginning of a new era for the party and the whole country. President Erdoğan has been...

By Hajer M'tiri PARIS Emmanuel Macron was officially inaugurated as France's president during a ceremony at the Elysee Palace on Sunday, thereby becoming the country’s youngest head of state since Napoleon. The pro-Europe centrist leader has vowed to reform his country with a moribund economy and rebuild...

For more than a decade, a new kind of 'newspeak' - coded racism - has become prevalent in France By Thomas Guenole - The writer is political scientist and author of Islamo-psychose , Fayard Publishing, 2017. In the 2017 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen reached a...

by:Edward Robinson WorldRemit uses mobile money to make inroads in remittances Biggest challenge is keeping digital cash away from terrorists Refugee, economist, whistle-blower, entrepreneur -- Ismail Ahmed has played many roles in his odyssey from war-torn Somalia to London’s fintech frontier. But one event stands out: In...

By Griff Witte, James McAuley and Isaac Stanley-Becker May 8 at 7:09 AM PARIS — Emmanuel Macron received congratulations from around the world — including Moscow — on Monday after French voters made the centrist political neophyte their new president and rejected anti-E.U. firebrand Marine...

PARIS—Political newcomer Emmanuel Macron will be France’s next president, pollsters projected Sunday night, delivering a resounding victory to an unabashedly pro-European former investment banker and strengthening France’s place as a central pillar of the European Union. A crowd outside the Louvre museum at a Macron...

By James Masters, Kara Fox and Bryony Jones, CNN Updated 1244 GMT (2044 HKT) May 7, 2017 Paris (CNN)France has started voting in the final act in one of the most tumultuous presidential election campaigns in the country's history. All voting stations will close by 8 p.m....

By ANGELA CHARLTON AND SAMUEL PETREQUIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS French voters decided Sunday whether to back pro-business independent Emmanuel Macron or far-right populist Marine Le Pen as their next president, casting ballots in an unusually tense and important presidential election that also could decide Europe's...

By AURELIEN BREEDEN, SEWELL CHAN and NICOLE PERLROTH MAY 5, 2017 PARIS — On the eve of the most consequential French presidential election in decades, the staff of the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron said late Friday that the campaign had been targeted by a “massive and...