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Marine Le Pen, president of France's right-wing party the National Rally, votes in the first round of local elections, in Hénin-Beaumont. IMAGES
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.
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte post their ballots at a polling station in Le Touquet for the second round of the French municipal elections. Ongoing concerns over the spread of coronavirus means the second round of the elections takes place with exceptional health precautions, three months after the first round was held. IMAGES
Hydroalcoholic gel, a maximum of three people inside at any one time and the systematic disinfection of the electronic voting board after each voter: in Mulhouse, which saw the first coronavirus outbreak in France, exceptional health measures are put in place as voters begin to vote in the second round of the municipal elections. IMAGES
External images of French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte voting in Le Touquet for the first round of the local elections. IMAGES
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