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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.
Voting begins in the first round of French local elections, as the anti-immigration National Front hopes to consolidate leader Marine Le Pen's bid for the presidency in 2017. Pavithra George reports.
France goes to the polls on Sunday in the first round of parliamentary elections, with a resurgent and newly unified left seeking to thwart President Emmanuel Macron's plans for reform. Elections for the 577 seats in the lower house National Assembly are a two-round process. The shape of the new parliament will become clear only after the second round, a week later, on June 19. IMAGES of France's National Assembly exterior
Sofia, Jul 11 (EFE/EPA).- Bulgarians flocked to polls across the country on Sunday to cast their vote in a parliamentary election that will decide whether protest parties can form the next government.Until the polls close at 8:00 PM (5:00PM GMT), voters will be able to choose between 23 parties and alliances, seven fewer than the previous 04 April legislatures, to form the new 240-seat Parliament. Victory will be contested by the conservatives of the Bulgarian Citizens for European Development (GERB), led by former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, and by There Is Such a People, a political party recently founded by singer and television host Slavi Trifonov. (Camera: VASSIL DONEV).SHOT LIST: BULGARIAN VOTERS CAST THEIR VOTE USING A VOTING MACHINE AT A POLLING STATION DURING THE COUNTRY'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN SOFIA, BULGARIA.
A polling station in Addis Ababa closes after Ethiopians voted in a delayed national election against the backdrop of war and famine in the northern Tigray region and questions over the poll's credibility. IMAGES
Lima, Jun 6 (EFE).- Peru's right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori was ahead of the leftist Pedro Castillo in the presidential elections Sunday, according to an exit poll which has yet to allow her to claim the victory.According to the polls carried out by Ipsos for the América Televisión channel, which has a margin of error of 3 percent, Fujimori gathered 50.3 percent of the valid votes compared to 49.7 percent that Castillo received. (Camera: MIKHAIL HUACÁN).SHOT LIST: KEIKO FUJIMORI'S SUPPORTERS CELEBRATE AS THE EXIT POLL SUGGEST THAT SHE WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN LIMA, PERU.
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