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Berlin (dpa) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party is projected to win elections in Germany’s northern-most state, a boost ahead of her campaign for national elections that also deals a second consecutive blow to her centre-left rivals. According to a projection on Sunday from public broadcaster ZDF, Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) won 33.8 per cent in

Emmanuel Macron graduated from one of the world’s most prestigous public administration universities. He later worked as an investment banker at Rothschild. Aged 29, he married a French high school teacher twenty-four years his senior. Her eldest daughter had been Macron’s classmate. In 2014, Emmanuel Macron was appointed France’s economy minister under François Hollande. Macron

The centrist Emmanuel Macron decisively won France’s presidential election on Sunday, beating the far-right into submission with a liberal, internationalist agenda. With more than 99 percent of local areas counted, Macron had taken 65 percent of the vote to his far-right rival Marine Le Pen’s 35 percent. Sunday brought a remarkable campaign to an end.

Manila (dpa) – Philippine police were on high alert Sunday, after twin bomb blasts killed two people near a mosque in Manila, amid fears that more attacks could take place. The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility for the Saturday night bombings, which took place near the largest mosque in the capital. But Oscar Albayalde,

PARIS — Political newcomer Emmanuel Macron will be France’s next president, pollsters projected Sunday night, delivering a resounding victory to an unabashedly pro-European former investment banker and strengthening France’s place as a central pillar of the European Union. A crowd outside the Louvre museum at a Macron victory party jubilantly waved red, white and blue