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Among declared candidates, two other fresh faces have recently spiked in the polls: David Lisnard, the mayor of Cannes, a socially conservative free marketeer with a slick social media profile; and Raphaël...

Novaya Gazeta was a newspaper of near-legendary status in Russia. It was the home of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, whose books in the early 2000s offered a searing account of human...

Paul Barril’s offer to African dictators was straightforward: Your opponents will be subjected to surveillance and manipulation. Newspapers will be “infiltrated.” Plots against the state will be “neutralized.”Plenty of heads of state...

President Trump’s envoys went to Moscow on Thursday to seek agreement from President Vladimir V. Putin to bring Europe into talks on the war in Ukraine, as the Kremlin pushes to widen...

Abed Abu Shehadeh, a 38-year-old journalist and a Palestinian citizen of Israel, said he was putting on his pajamas on the evening of Nov. 3 when police officers and intelligence agents burst...

The nationwide unrest in France began with a handful of student demonstrations at high schools in suburban Paris last month.Now, in cities across the country, antigovernment marchers are protesting expensive living conditions,...

The nationwide unrest in France began with a handful of student demonstrations at high schools in suburban Paris last month.Now, in cities across the country, antigovernment marchers are protesting expensive living conditions,...

The nationwide unrest in France began with a handful of student demonstrations at high schools in suburban Paris last month.Now, in cities across the country, antigovernment marchers are protesting expensive living conditions,...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel fell short of outright victory on Tuesday night. But he has still emerged with a good chance of clinging to power.Mr. Netanyahu, 77, has plenty of...

For decades, Israel’s Arab parties have been relegated to the margins of Israeli political life, often sitting on the sidelines while Jewish parties assembled a governing coalition in Parliament and picked a...