Le Pen’s Embezzlement Charges and What They Mean for France’s Democracy
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Le Pen’s Embezzlement Charges and What They Mean for France’s Democracy

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Last year, Marine Le Pen spoke menacingly of the possible fallout from her trial on embezzlement charges. “Tomorrow, potentially, millions and millions of French people will see themselves deprived of their candidate for the presidency.” After a court disqualified her on Monday from…

Marine Le Pen Barred From French Presidential Run After Embezzlement Ruling
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Marine Le Pen Barred From French Presidential Run After Embezzlement Ruling

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was found guilty of embezzlement by a criminal court in Paris on Monday and immediately barred from running for public office for five years, setting off a democratic crisis in France. The verdict effectively barred the…

Marine Le Pen Barred From French Presidential Run After Embezzlement Ruling
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Marine Le Pen Found Guilty of Embezzlement by French Court

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was found guilty of embezzlement by a criminal court in Paris on Monday, jeopardizing her plans to compete in France’s 2027 presidential election. The verdict was a major blow to the perennial presidential ambitions of Ms….

A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era
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A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For decades a core objective of the Soviet Union was to “decouple” the United States from Europe. Decoupling, as it was called, would break the Western alliance that kept Soviet tanks from rolling across the Prussian plains. Now, in weeks, President Trump has…

Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’
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Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Since taking office, President Trump has threatened European countries’ security and economies, angled to take control of Greenland, and promised to “definitely” slap the nations with tariffs. Even parties that would seem to be his natural allies are nervous. Some have quietly tiptoed…

Belarus’s Strong-Arm Leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Cruises to Re-election
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Belarus’s Strong-Arm Leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Cruises to Re-election

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Europe’s longest-serving leader, President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, cruised to his seventh election victory in a row on Sunday in a contest that his exiled opponents dismissed as a sham, whose only purpose was to cement his autocratic grip on the former…