Europe

This Sunday, the French will head to the polls for the first round of voting to elect a new parliament. President Macron called the snap election after the far right’s finished first earlier in June.

France will hold national elections soon and it appears the far right could take political power for the first time since World War II. This would represent a huge political shift in France. We hear from our correspondent in Paris.

And the price of gold shot up this spring, due in large part to increased demand for the precious metal in China. We find out what is driving that demand.

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Gunmen attacked several religious sites in the region of Dagestan. A majority Muslim area, it is home to a diverse group of ethnicities and religious faiths, but no stranger to Islamic extremism.

Without the European Union to blame, Britain is confronting its own decline. The next prime minister inherits a country that, without London, would be poorer than Mississippi.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Princeton University professor Kim Lane Scheppele about Hungary's authoritarian leader Viktor Orban, who is about to become EU president.

The political landscape in France is shifting, with a far right party continuing to gain momentum ahead of the country's snap parliamentary elections later this month.