Turkmenistan prepares for rubber-stamp election of president’s son
Turkmenistan’s presidential election on Saturday is expected to allow the president’s son to take over. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov’s son, Serdar,…
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Uzbekistan’s President Mirziyoyev cruises to victory after sham election
Uzbekistan appears to have given President Shavkat Mirziyoyev a second five-year term as a weak opposition failed to challenge the…
Markets and euro see French boost
French shares and the euro rallied as investors assumed centrist Emmanuel Macron will beat Marine Le Pen (pictured) in the…
Le Pen takes aim at ‘weak’ Macron
Centrist French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron (pictured) took a big step towards the Elysee Palace on Sunday by winning the…
Terror raid rattles French race
Security concerns again shook France’s presidential race as the authorities announced arrests ahead of an alleged planned attack amid an…
Le Pen under fire over Holocaust
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has provoked outrage for denying that France was to blame for the round-up…
Fillon’s wife charged for ‘fake’ jobs
François and Penelope Fillon in the background in 2007. The Welsh-born wife of French conservative presidential hopeful François Fillon has…
Polls tip Macron for victory
Former finance minister Emmanuel Macron. French presidential front-runner, the 39-year-old former finance minister Emmanuel Macron, now has over a 60-per-cent…
Trump doing Russia’s work: ex-UK envoy
GCHQ in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Moscow may have been behind the claim that the UK Government’s Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) spied on…
Fillon fights on despite divides
Former French prime minister François Fillon meets Russian President Vladimir Putin. Fillon is seen as being too deeply embedded with…
Le Pen set to lose immunity over IS tweets
Front National leader Marine Le Pen at work in the European Parliament. Source: Wikimedia MEPs have paved the way for…
France nearing ‘civil war’: Fillon
Francois Fillon is concerned about the level of violence during the election campaign. Source: Flickr French conservative presidential…
Fillon questioned over wife’s salary
Francois Fillon and his wife Penelope. Source: YouTube French right-of-centre presidential candidate Francois Fillon and his wife Penelope are being…
Fillon well-placed for presidential ticket
Francois Fillon. Source: Wikimedia French conservatives are choosing their nominee for next year’s presidential election from two former prime ministers…