Far-right presidential candidate says animals should be stunned to reduce suffering, which is incompatible with kosher and halal rules

Incumbent wins initial round with 27.85% to far-right candidate's 23.15%

Incumbent leads far-right candidate by several percentage points in first round; is set to focus more on campaigning, in bid to find election momentum that has so far eluded him

Analysts believe French president will come out ahead of far-right candidate by a handful of percentage points in round one, with the two going to a second round vote on April 24

Campaigning on cost of living and seemingly balanced out by the more extreme Zemmour, far-right leader is posing a threat to incumbent

As elections near, right-wing presidential candidate highlights death of Jérémie Cohen, previously thought to be an accident, saying it was result of an antisemitic attack

Her positions haven't changed on immigration and national identity, expert says, but she's using 'a different vocabulary' around cherished French values like secularism, feminism

Nationalist leaders denounce Russian invasion while echoing the Kremlin's claim that NATO expansion to blame; in surprise, some parties say open to welcoming Ukrainian refugees

Director David Cromer explains how his own Jewish background impacts his direction of 'Prayer for the French Republic,' a buzzed-about work on conflicting identities in a family

With Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen railing against their religion in frequent diatribes, many French Muslims fear such rhetoric has been normalized