Estelle is a Senior Live Pages Journalist based in London, part of a team providing real-time multimedia coverage of the biggest news stories in the world. In her 25 years at Reuters, she has reported ...

Twice-convicted criminal Marine Le Pen remains the strong favourite to become the next French president, an opinion poll suggests. Le Pen, 57, had her conviction for embezzling millions from the ...

Marine Le Pen announced on Tuesday that she would run for president of France next year, after an appeals court reduced her sentence to make her eligible. The Paris Court of Appeals shortened Le Pen’s ...

“The president of France is my friend, whoever it may be,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said a few months ago. But what if the next one turns out to be far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen, known ...