Convicted of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, far-right politician Marine Le Pen stood unshaken ...

The American president cast the French politician’s conviction as an example of far-right persecution, ignoring ample ...

The court's decision will make it more difficult for the weak minority government to make the crucial decisions needed to control a ballooning public debt.

The judge also gave Le Pen a four-year prison sentence - of which two years are suspended and the rest served under home detention - and a 100,000 euro fine.

A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years — a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and an earthquake ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said that barring her from running for public office for five years is a "political decision" aimed at preventing her from running in the next ...

President Trump on Thursday defended embattled French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, arguing the “witch hunt” against her is ...

Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, is barred from running in France’s 2027 presidential election after an embezzlement conviction involving her political party. Roger Cohen, the Paris bureau ...

F or the better part of a decade Marine Le Pen has worked methodically to transform an extremist, xenophobic fringe movement into a more respectable nationalist party ready to govern. The French ...

French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds, in a politically explosive ...

Since French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was sentenced, in the first instance, on March 31, to four years in prison – two suspended and two at home with an electronic tag – and a five-year ...

Marine Le Pen, the figurehead of the ascendant far-right political movement in France, was hit with a non-custodial prison sentence and barred from running in elections for five years on Monday as ...