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9/8/2024 7:46:05 PM
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday urged President Emmanuel Macron to hold a referendum on key issues such as immigration, suggesting that giving the French a direct vote might help break the political deadlock.
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World
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International
9/5/2024 4:08:50 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday named the European Union's former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as new prime minister, following almost two months of political deadlock after snap polls, the presidency said.
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World
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International
9/2/2024 6:04:42 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron intensified efforts to find a new prime minister on Monday after almost two months of deadlock following inconclusive legislative elections, hosting two former presidents and two potential candidates.
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World
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International
8/31/2024 8:51:17 PM
Hard-left party France Unbowed on Saturday asked other political groupings to back its long-shot bid to impeach President Emmanuel Macron for "serious failings" in his constitutional duties.
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World
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Region
8/31/2024 4:12:38 PM
The fraught relations between France and its former colony Algeria had eased a little in recent years, but a new rift over Paris backing Morocco's autonomy plan for disputed Western Sahara has sent rapprochement efforts into a tailspin.
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World
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International
8/29/2024 6:31:06 PM
UK Premier Keir Starmer was welcomed warmly Thursday in Paris by French leader Emmanuel Macron, as the new centre-left British government seeks to relaunch post-Brexit ties with Europe.
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World
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International
8/26/2024 4:16:16 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron hosted far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen for rare talks Monday, as pressure mounts for him to finally name a prime minister after July's inconclusive parliamentary poll.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/9/2024 9:36:00 PM
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi stressed Thursday to his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in a phone call the importance of concerted international efforts to advance a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, as the continuation of the war in the strip is the basis of the current escalation in the region.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/9/2024 4:50:47 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday called for an end to Israel's war on Gaza, saying France was lending its "full support" to mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas.
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World
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Region
8/8/2024 6:36:14 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to "avoid a cycle of reprisals" in the Middle East, his office said, as fears of a regional war soar.
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World
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Region
8/4/2024 9:13:47 PM
France's Emmanuel Macron and Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday said a military escalation in the Middle East must be avoided "at all costs" during a telephone call, the French presidency said.
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World
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Region
7/30/2024 6:05:53 PM
Algeria said Tuesday it was withdrawing its ambassador to France over French President Emmanuel Macron's statement that Rabat's plan for Western Saharan autonomy within Morocco was the "only" solution to the dispute.
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Sports
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Omni sports
7/24/2024 12:33:32 PM
The French Alps was named as the 2030 Winter Games host by the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday, though with conditions attached.
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World
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International
7/17/2024 8:10:15 PM
With nine days to the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Wednesday that the deeply divided country is "in a quagmire” after chaotic legislative elections produced a fragmented parliament.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/16/2024 10:12:32 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and French President Emmanuel Macron have called for intensified joint international actions to prevent the Gaza war from expanding and to prevent the region from descending into a new cycle of unaccounted conflict.
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World
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International
7/16/2024 10:09:00 PM
France's President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's government on Tuesday, which will now serve only in a caretaker capacity, the presidency said.
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World
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International
7/14/2024 2:20:32 PM
Hopes of France's left-wing bloc finding a consensus candidate to lead the country's next government after an inconclusive snap election unravelled Sunday as the best-placed contender dropped out.
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World
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International
7/12/2024 4:58:57 PM
France's political parties scrambled Friday to break a parliamentary deadlock brought on by an inconclusive snap election, as the outgoing prime minister vowed to prevent any government with far-right or hard-left members.
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World
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International
7/10/2024 12:25:48 PM
Following the surprising results of the French snap polls, Olivier Schouteden, an assistant professor of history at the American University in Cairo (AUC) specializing in European colonial history and its relation to the modern world, spoke to Ahram Online about the election outcomes and the unexpected victory of the leftist National Front.
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World
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International
7/8/2024 4:56:00 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron refused the resignation of the country’s prime minister, asking him on Monday to remain temporarily as the head of the government after chaotic election results left the government in limbo.
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