French centrist Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday France would push for European Union sanctions against Poland if he is elected president, signalling he wanted to take the lead in defending the bloc’s democratic values.

President François Hollande has called on French voters to reject far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and back Emmanuel Macron to succeed him.

The man France alerted Belgian security services to as a possible suspect in the deadly Paris shooting has turned himself in to Belgian police in the city of Antwerp, France’s Interior Ministry spokesman said.

A police source told the news agency that the man was on a police watch list for radical Islamic activity.

A shooting at a high school in the southern French town of Grasse has left at least eight people injured, the interior ministry said Thursday. A 17-year-old student has been arrested in connection with the attack.

The European Parliament has lifted French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's immunity from prosecution after she tweeted pictures of so-called Islamic State (IS) violence.

The conservative French presidential candidate has refused to step down from the race despite being summoned by magistrates to face charges for an alleged fake jobs scheme. "I will not withdraw," the Republicains candidate said

A French soldier guarding the Louvre in Paris has shot a man who tried to attack a security patrol with a machete shouting "Allahu Akbar", police say.

Prosecutors in France have widened their investigation into the financial affairs of the centre-right presidential candidate, Francois Fillon, to include payments made to two of his children, reports say.

French Presidential Front-Runner Says He'll Withdraw His Candidacy if Charges Are Brought

The European currency may cease to exist in 10 years without significant economic reforms, mainly by France and Germany, according to French presidential candidate and former economy minister Emmanuel Macron.

On the topic of immigration, Le Pen said she supported measures to restrict the flow of asylum seekers into Europe.

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory, and hopes the two countries can “restore” their relationship from the lowest point since the Cold War.

France says that it has completed an operation to move thousands of migrants out of the "Jungle" camp in Calais.

The EU should be prepared for returning jihadists if the so-called Islamic State (IS) is driven out of its Iraqi stronghold, Mosul, an official warns.

Russia has vetoed a French resolution on Syria at the UN Security Council. The document was submitted by Paris a week ago and is countered by a Russian draft resolution still to be voted on.

In a statement that was not to be made public until his death, the former Israeli President told Jerusalem Post he stopped PM Benjamin Netanyahu from a “catastrophic” military strike against Iran, at the time the world leaders were engaged in nuclear deal talks.

Russia has criticised the US and UK for using "unacceptable" tone and rhetoric in speeches on Syria at the UN, after being accused of "barbarism".

He dismissed criticism of the Syrian army, expressed at the Security Council meeting by the US, France and the UK, over the latest offensive in eastern Aleppo.

Gabonese opposition leader Jean Ping on Thursday filed a vote fraud complaint to the country's highest court following days of deadly clashes over the country’s disputed presidential elections.