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A demonstrator holds a banner that reads: 'Neither Macron nor Le Pen', during a protest in Paris, April 16, 2022. Disgruntled left-wing voters whose candidates were knocked out in the first round of France's election are the wild cards in the winner-takes-all runoff on Sunday April 24, 2022. How they vote — or don’t vote — will in large part determine whether incumbent Emmanuel Macron gets a second five-year term or cedes the presidential Elysee Palace to far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

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Love thy enemy: Critics key for Macron in France's election
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Fri,04/22/22-1:37AM , 496 Reads
PARIS (AP) — As France elects a president, Paris-based artist Vincent Aïtzegagh is going to ground, escaping to a bucolic village to avoid what for him — and millions of other left-wing French voters — is a painful, even impossible, electoral choice.
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A butcher cuts halal meat in a butcher shop, in Paris, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is alarming both Muslims and Jews in France with a pledge to ban the ritual slaughter of animals if elected. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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In France's election, a meaty issue unites Jews and Muslims
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Fri,04/15/22-2:58AM , 349 Reads
PARIS (AP) — As she cooks lunch and talks politics, Sarah Gutmann has a nasty feeling — of would-be French president Marine Le Pen invading the privacy of her home and meddling with her Jewish faith and the plates of chicken and kosher sausages that she is frying for her husband and their
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Electoral posters displaying the presidential candidates is displayed in Aubers, northern France, Friday, 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/Michel Spingler)

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In France, a nail-biting election as Macron's rival surges
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Sat,04/09/22-4:13AM , 462 Reads
POISSY, France (AP) — From the market stall outside Paris that she's run for 40 years, Yvette Robert can see first-hand how soaring prices are weighing on France's presidential election and turning the first round of voting on Sunday into a nail-biter for incumbent President Emmanuel Macr
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This photo provided by the CNES shows a Russian Soyuz rocket lifting off from the Kourou space base, French Guiana, early Wednesday Dec.18, 2019. The war in Ukraine is causing a swift and broad decaying of scientific ties between Russia and the West. (JM Guillon/ESA-CNES-Arianespace via AP, File)

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Without Russia, science going solo on world's woes, dreams
By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
Sun,03/27/22-3:06AM , 338 Reads
PARIS (AP) — Without Russian help, climate scientists worry how they'll keep up their important work of documenting warming in the Arctic.
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