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The article reports on how The National Rally and other nationalist political parties are benefiting from the anti-immigrant sentiments of voters in France and other countries like the U.S. Also cited are how Marine Le Pen's National Rally won over the party of French President Emmanuel Macron in the June 2024 parliamentary elections and how former U.S. President Donald J. Trump is using border control and other immigration issues in his presidential campaigns.

The article focuses on President Emmanuel Macron of France navigating the aftermath of deadlocked legislative elections by seeking to build a coalition government from "republican forces," potentially delaying the formation of a new government just days before the Paris Olympics.

The article details French President Emmanuel Macron's urgent plea for centrist voters to counteract the rising influence of the far right and extreme left in upcoming parliamentary elections, amidst concerns over economic instability , following his decision to dissolve the National Assembly.

The article reports on a wave of violent protest in France due to the killing of a teenager, a French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan descent, by a police officer outside Paris. Topics discussed include impact of the protest on President Emmanuel Macron's presidency, estimated number of people arrested and officers injured during protests, and comparison of the teenager's shooting with the murder of George Floyd, who was African American, at the hands of a white police officer in Minnesota.

The article focuses on the deepening division in France following the fatal police shooting of a teenager of Algerian-Moroccan descent, with increasing violence in protests leading to a tribal-like split between law-and-order advocates and those who perceive ethnic profiling and racism in police actions. It reports on French President Emmanuel Macron's efforts to restore order while the police, right-wing leaders, and the left express contrasting views on the situation.

Presents accounts of French journalist Georges Malbrunot's captivity in the hands of Islamic militants in Iraq, together with his Arabic-speaking colleague Christian Chesnot; Apparent ease with which insurgents moved their captives within Iraq; Description of the militants that held the journalists captive; Demands of the abductors on the French government; Malbrunot and Chesnot's rediscovery of their faith and their release from detention.

The article presents the author's account of the famous French shrug regarding the verbal exchange between U.S. president, Donald Trump, and North Korea leader, Kim Jong-un.

The author discusses the trans-Atlantic differences including Americans who are hardwired to the notion of individual self-reliance, while Europeans are bound to the idea of social solidarity and French see the state as a noble idea and embodiment of citizens' rights.

Barack Obama has already won the U.S. election by a landslide. In Europe, that is. Polls show the French putting the first African-American in the White House with 86 percent backing. Obamania is about as intense in Germany and Britain, the two other European countries the Senator will visit this week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The French have always cherished a class of people called ''les bons Americains.'' These good Americans were those truest to a Gallic idea of what the United States should be, and in recent years those at the furthest remove from the aberrant folk who elected George W. Bush. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]