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Candidates were making their last campaign pushes Friday for the first round of voting in a high-stakes legislative election in which French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government risks a drubbing at the hands of the far right and hard left.

The latest trial in absentia of Turkish sociologist Pinar Selek opened in Istanbul on Friday, after four previous prosecutions resulted in acquittal. Turkish authorities accuse Selek, who has taken refuge in France and teaches in Nice, of "terrorism" in a case that dates back to 1998.

Displacement takes many forms, from refugees forced into exile to returnees who find themselves strangers in what was once home. In this episode, we speak to aid workers about the very different experiences of refugees in Sudan and Mauritania, and hear from an artist who draws inspiration from his own…

Organisers of the annual Avignon Theatre Festival have reiterated a call to block the far right in the upcoming French legislative elections, which start on Sunday – a day after the event opens.

France is facing a bill of almost nine billion euros for hosting the Paris Olympics but top officials say the financial fallout could be more "psychological" than economic.

The far-right has made immigration its key campaign issue in France's upcoming parliamentary elections, but how to approach asylum and migration also figures high in the manifestos of both the centrists and the left. Here's a rundown of their radically different stances.

EU leaders struck a summit deal Thursday to return Ursula von der Leyen as head of the powerful European Commission, while tapping Estonia's prime minister Kaja Kallas as the bloc's top diplomat.

France's parliamentary elections are pitting the far-right National Rally, which counts a convicted Holocaust denier and a former Nazi paramilitary among its founding members, against left-wing parties – themselves accused of antisemitism after an equivocal response to the war between Hamas and Israel. With all sides quick to condemn the…

Elaine Thompson-Herah, the only woman to have successfully defended the 100m and 200m sprint double, on Thursday pulled out of the Paris Olympics due to an achilles injury.