In answering a reporter's question, the French president characterized Africa as a continent of failing states with high birth rates. Viviane Rutabingwa shares her perspective.
French voters cast ballots on Sunday in the first round of voting for Parliament. Turnout was low, but the results were an outsized victory for the new French president's new party.
Emmanuel Macron promised France a "political revolution" if he became president. Now he is encouraging members of the public with little or no political experience to run for the National Assembly.
The newly elected French president is hosting his Russian counterpart at the Palace of Versailles on Monday. On the docket for the leaders: Ukraine, Syria and mending their countries' tattered ties.
President Emmanuel Macron's choice of center-right politician Edouard Philippe is seen as a move to attract members from the left and right to his new party before parliamentary elections next month.
Was Sunday's episode in Beijing a challenge to France's Emmanuel Macron? A jab at China's piano-tuning skills? Or just Putin passing the time with a little Soviet-era nostalgia?
The French presidential candidate has always gone against convention, his biographer notes. He married his high school drama teacher and entered the political fray as a little-known outsider.
Supporters of political newcomer Emmanuel Macron hope that talking to voters on their doorsteps — an unusual approach in France — will help him become their next president.
The industrial city of Amiens, France, is the hometown of presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. But closed factories and angry workers there may vote for extreme political parties instead.