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France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen won a seat in parliament for the first time on Sunday, but it was a bittersweet victory that masked an underwhelming election cycle for her National Front (FN) party. The feisty 48-year-old, who lost by a 20-point margin to Emmanuel Macron in May’s presidential run-off, won handily in her

A vehicle collided with pedestrians in a largely Muslim area of London early Monday local time, causing “a number of casualties,” police said. The incident occurred on Seven Sisters Road in the Finsbury Park section of north London. Police closed the street and the transportation authority issued a traffic advisory. Two hours after London’s Metropolitan

French President Emmanuel Macron wrapped up his extraordinary string of electoral victories on Sunday as his fledgling new party picked up a large majority of seats in legislative polls marred by the lowest turnout on record. The takeover is complete. Just over a month after his stunning election to the Elysée Palace, France’s youngest-ever president

British Brexit minister David Davis is in Brussels to open divorce talks with the EU with a message that there should be “no doubt — we are leaving the European Union”. Days after a suggestion from French President Emmanuel Macron that Britain could still choose to remain, Davis said there would be no backtracking from