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French President and centrist candidate for reelection Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron stand in voting booths at a polling station in Le Touquet, northern France, Sunday, April 24, 2022. France began voting in a presidential runoff election Sunday with repercussions for Europe's future, with centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron the front-runner but fighting a tough challenge from far-right rival Marine Le Pen. (Gonzalo Fuentes; Pool via AP)

Live updates | Japan: Macron’s reelection key to G-7 unity

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French President and centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with well-wishers as he heads to the polling station in Le Touquet, northern France, Sunday, April 24, 2022. France began voting in a presidential runoff election Sunday with repercussions for Europe's future, with centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron the front-runner but fighting a tough challenge from far-right contender Marine Le Pen. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France’s Macron is reelected but far-right rival raises game

By John Leicester - Associated Press

A man is about to cast his ballot in Sevres, near Paris, France, Sunday, April 24, 2022. France votes in a presidential runoff election Sunday with repercussions for Europe's future, with centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron the front-runner but fighting a tough challenge from far-right contender Marine Le Pen. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Macron vs Le Pen in French presidential election runoff

By John Leicester - Associated Press

FILE - Women wait in line before voting for the first round of the presidential election at a polling station Sunday, April 10, 2022 in the Malpasse northern district of Marseille, southern France. French voters head to polls on Sunday in a runoff vote between centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron and nationalist rival Marine Le Pen, wrapping up a campaign that experts have seen as unusually dominated by discriminatory discourse and proposals targeting immigration and Islam. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

Tensions over race, religion in France’s presidential race

By Arno Pedram - Associated Press

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at photographers standing in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny threw a bombshell Wednesday April 20, 2022 into France's tight and tense presidential election campaign, alleging that Russian leader Vladimir Putin may have bought off French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen with a bank loan. Navalny offered no proof of his allegation, and made it clear he supports incumbent Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russia’s Navalny accuses Le Pen of Kremlin ties before vote

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

French President and centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron speaks during a campaign rally, Saturday, April 16, 2022 in Marseille, southern France. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen is trying to unseat centrist President Emmanuel Macron, who has a slim lead in polls ahead of France's April 24 presidential runoff election. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Macron courts Marseille voters; Climate activists in Paris

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French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen shakes hands with supporters after delivering a speech at her election day headquarters in Paris, Sunday, April 10, 2022. French polling agency projections show incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen leading in the first round of France's presidential election Sunday. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Macron, Le Pen kick off French presidential runoff campaigns

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

A girl walks past presidential campaign posters at a school working as a polling station for French citizens who living in Chile to vote one day ahead of France's general elections in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Macron challenged by far right as French vote for president

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

A man walks past presidential campaign posters of french president Emmanuel Macron and centrist candidate for reelection and french far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in Anglet, southwestern France, Wednesday, April 8, 2022. France's first round of the presidential election takes place on April 10, with a presidential runoff on April 24 if no candidate wins outright. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

In France, a nail-biting election as Macron’s rival surges

By John Leicester - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron and centrist candidate for reelection gestures as he delivers his speech during a meeting in Paris, on April 2, 2022. While he’s been the favorite for months, disillusionment and anger over his leadership, growing support for political extremes and creeping apathy could threaten his predicted victory. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Macron leads polls, but turnout a big question in French vote

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

A woman measures a window before covering it with plastic sheets in a building damaged by a bombing the previous day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022. As Russia intensified its effort to pound Mariupol into submission, its ground offensive in other parts of Ukraine has become bogged down. Western officials and analysts say the conflict is turning into a grinding war of attrition, with Russia bombarding cities.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) **FILE**

Live updates: France’s Macron speaks with Putin, Zelenskyy

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People without face mask at a market in Biarritz, southwestern France, Monday, March 14, 2022. France has lifted most COVID-19 restrictions on Monday, allowing people to remove face masks in almost all places and allowing those unvaccinated back into restaurants, sports arenas and other leisure venues. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

France lifts COVID-19 rules on unvaccinated, mask wearing

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

A man walking past the Russian Olympic Committee building casts a shadow on a window in Moscow, Russia on Nov. 18, 2015. The invasion of Ukraine could further undermine Russia's status as an elite sports dynasty, which already has been weakened by deception and doping scandals but often punished only by a tepid pushback from international sports bodies. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File) **FILE**

Ukraine invasion puts Russia’s elite sports status at risk

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Sharpe’s Assassin: Richard Sharpe and the Occupation of Paris, 1815 (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Sharpe’s Assassin: Richard Sharpe and the Occupation of Paris, 1815’

By Paul Davis

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

America COMPETES Act: Nancy Pelosi’s climate trap

By Steve Milloy

French far-tight leader Marine Le Pen delivers her speech during a campaign rally, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022 in Reims, eastern France. France's dueling far-right presidential candidates Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen are holding back-to-back campaign rallies Saturday, trying to steal each other's thunder and keep their anti-immigration, anti-Islam agenda front-and-center in the race for the April presidential election. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French far-right presidential candidates fight for limelight

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In this June 7, 2017 file photo, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) headquarters is pictured in Paris, France. Nearly 140 countries have agreed on a tentative deal that would make sweeping changes to how big, multinational companies are taxed in order to deter them from stashing their profits in offshore tax havens where they pay little or no tax. The agreement announced Friday foresees countries enacting a global minimum corporate tax of 15% on the biggest, internationally active companies. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

The OECD crusade to raise taxes

By Preston Brashers - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2018 file photo, former Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton manning talks prior to an NFL football game between the Denver Broncos and the Houston Texans in Denver. The roster of men entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend of Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, features everything from the prolific passer, to the dominant defender, and not to mention coaches. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)

Forget Brady, NFL playoffs: Manning offers expert analysis of ‘Emily in Paris’ on ‘SNL’

By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times

France's President Emmanuel Macron talks with representatives of families of repatriates from Algeria after the country's independence war with its colonial power, at the Elysee palace in Paris, Wednesday Jan. 26, 2022. French President Emmanuel Macron is pushing for dialogue with Russia, despite signs pointing to a potential war amid escalating tensions with Ukraine. It's part of France's post-World War II tradition of carving out its own geopolitical path. Macron is to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday morning. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

France’s Macron takes own path, seeks dialogue with Russia

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

France's President Emmanuel Macron leads a special cabinet meeting from the Fort de Bregancon presidential holidays residence, in Bormes-les-Mimosas, southern France, Monday, Dec. 21, 2021. Macron held a special virus meeting on Monday with some key ministers via video call from his holiday residence at Fort de Bregancon, on the French Riviera, after the country recorded more than 100,000 virus infections in a single day for the first time in the pandemic. (Nicolas Tucat, Pool Photo via AP)

France imposes new virus measures amid spike in infections

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