PARIS: The European Parliament accuses French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s party of defrauding it of nearly five million euros ($5...
The parliament accuses Le Pen’s anti-EU National Front (FN) of using funds meant for parliamentary assistants to pay staff for party work in France between 2012 and 2017...
PARIS: By pushing her maverick father out of the far-right party he founded four decades ago, French National Front leader Marine Le Pen is banking on an act of political patricide to ensure he does not end up ruining her bid for power...
The feud between Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter has few parallels in modern European politics and has been compared to everything from slapstick farce to King Lear, Shakespeare’s tragedy of a...
KARACHI: An owner of a cattle pen in the Cattle Colony died of Congo Crimean Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) on Saturday, the first death in Sindh because of the deadly tick-borne virus this year, officials said...
Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen will contest the second round of the French presidential election, initial projections suggested Sunday, after a nail-biting vote seen as vital for the future of the EU...
Macron was projected to win between 23 and 24 percent in Sunday's first round, slightly ahead of National Front leader Le Pen with between 21...
PARIS: Centrist Emmanuel Macron will face off against far-right Marine Le Pen in the second round of France’s presidential election, projections showed on Sunday, making him clear favourite to emerge as the country’s youngest leader in modern history...
Macron was projected to win between 23 and 24 per cent in Sunday’s first round, slightly ahead of National Front (FN) leader Le Pen with between 21...
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande on Monday urged voters to reject far-right leader Marine Le Pen in next month’s presidential run-off against pro-EU candidate Emmanuel Macron...
01 per cent of votes, ahead of National Front (FN) leader Le Pen on 21...
He was among the team of calligraphers who volunteered to work at the sharine of Data Sahib and later formed the Pakistan Calligraphy-artists´ Guild in 1997...
With two solo shows and numerous group shows to his credit, his works was displayed and appreciated in Pakistan, England, Iran Turkey and Saudi Arabia...
If Marine Le Pen convinces France to embrace her anti-euro stance, Mario Draghi will likely be called on again to be saviour of the single currency...
And Le Pen’s promise to hold a referendum on pulling France out of the euro could see just such a situation arising, leaving the Frankfurt-based ECB sitting on the sidelines as politicians grapple with the currency’s fate...
PARIS: Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen denied on Sunday that the French state was responsible for the wartime round-up of Jews at a Paris cycling track who were then sent to Nazi death camps...
But Le Pen told the LCI television channel on Sunday: “I don’t think France is responsible for the Vel d’Hiv...
PARIS: With a week to go before France’s presidential election runoff, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen stayed on the offensive against frontrunner Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, trying to close a 19-point gap in the polls...
After a surprise visit to a controversial aluminium plant in the southern town of Gardanne, the 48-year-old Le Pen went on to lay a wreath at a World War II monument in the nearby port of Marseille...
PARIS: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was charged on Friday over claims her party illegally claimed millions of euros from the European Parliament to pay for France-based staff...
Rodolphe Bosselut said Le Pen had been summoned by investigating magistrates in Paris and that they had, “as expected, charged her”, adding that she would appeal...
KARACHI: The power of the pen is the main theme of the play Sir Kalam, which premiered at the Karachi Arts Council on Monday...
Organised by ISPR and The Insane, a theatre troupe from Islamabad, the play aims to highlight the “theme ‘Hum Sab ka Pakistan’ ...
PARIS: Jean-Marie Le Pen, the expelled founder of France’s National Front (FN), launched a new party on Saturday, adding fuel to a family feud that has dogged his daughter Marine’s campaign to become president...
The announcement of the new party, to be called “Blue-White-Red rally” after the colours of the French flag, overshadowed an annual gathering of Marine Le Pen’s FN taking place in Marseille, three months before regional...
COLOMBO: The following are profiles of main players in Sri Lanka’s general election on Monday...
‘Lord of the rings’Sri Lanka’s former strongman president, Mahinda Rajapakse, who was ousted in January and is seeking a return to power as prime minister, is a polarising figure
Prakash, president of the Minority Rights Commission, asked the young writers gathered to send a strong message in support of peace and harmony in society by harnessing the power of their pen...
He called for legislation to protect religious minorities in Pakistan, urging them to iron out their differences...