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Added on the 20/02/2017 16:25:00 - Copyright : AFP EN
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.
Major disappointment for Marine Le Pen Sunday as her far right National Front did not win any of France's 18 regions. The result, however, is the best in the history of the far right party.
The leader of France's far-right National Front party, Marine Le Pen has announced she wants to offer the country a referendum on the death penalty, which has been abolished in 1981.
"Marine President, Marine President!" French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is welcomed enthusiastically in the town hall square of Saint-Pierre-en-Auge, where she meets with activists and supporters. IMAGES
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen lays a wreath of flowers in front of a war memorial during a Victory in Europe Day celebration in Hénin-Beaumont - a town led by her party. IMAGES
Defeated presidential candidate Marine Le Pen claims a "historic, massive result" for her far-right National Front in France's presidential run-off won by centrist Emmanuel Macron. SOUNDBITE
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