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Google launched a verification platform dubbed 'CrossCheck' at the French Development Agency's headquarters in Paris on Tuesday, aimed at combatting fake news. The partnership between First Draft and the Google News Lab will work in collaboration with 17 newsrooms, including Agence France-Presse (AFP), BuzzFeed News, France Televisions and Le Monde, among others. The CrossCheck launch comes as France prepares to hold presidential elections this summer.
On the last day of official campaigning for the first round of France's parliamentary elections, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne campaigns at a market in Vire, a town in the Normandy region, in the constituency of Calvados where Borne is running. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom after the Paris court of appeal lightened a one-year prison sentence for the former French president over illegal campaign financing, saying he needed to spend only half that time behind bars. But while lighter than the original sentence, Wednesday's ruling was still harsher than the one-year suspended sentence that prosecutors called for. IMAGES
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Paris courthouse to hear the verdict of the appeal trial in the 'Bygmalion' case. Sarkozy was previously sentenced to a year in prison for illegal financing of his 2012 presidential campaign. IMAGES
Images of El Salvador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) employees loading boxes containing electoral material in San Marcos, for the presidential and legislative elections on February 4, to be distributed across the different municipalities. President Nayib Bukele is all but guaranteed a resounding victory, with his no-holds-barred war on gangs having earned him approval ratings hovering around 90 percent. IMAGES
France unveils its athletes' outfits for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with a mix of streetwear and sportswear. IMAGES