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After shock election result, France reaches a political deadlock

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Snap elections have produced a win for a left-wing coalition and a somewhat unexpected defeat for the far-right. But no party, or group of parties, has overall control and it isn’t clear whether President Macron’s gamble of calling those elections has paid off. We hear from one of their MPs.

Russia’s latest barrage of missile attacks has killed dozens of people, including at a children’s hospital in Kyiv. And it comes the day before NATO holds its summit of leaders of the western world, in Washington.

Pic: Deputy of LFI Matilde Panod (L) and leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Melenchon arrive to the Headquarter of the Party for a meeting in Paris Credit: Andre Pain/EPA)