Marseille Mayor Benoit Payan, a candidate for re-election, supported by left wing parties, votes in the first round of the French municipal elections, at a polling station in Marseille, France, March ...

PARIS — Amine Kessaci has been targeted with death threats and lost two brothers to drug gang violence. But that has not silenced the 22-year-old activist who's running on an anti-drug platform in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benoit Payan, Marseille's incumbent mayor, comfortably saw off a challenge from the far right. (© Elodie Clement, AFP) Marseille's ...

PARIS: French voters went to the polls on Sunday (Mar 22) to elect mayors in Paris, Marseille and more than 1,500 other cities and towns, in a test of the far right’s strength and the resilience of ...

In nearly 96% of towns and cities, representing 42.6 million people in France, the municipal elections ended in the first round on Sunday, March 15. In about 1,500 remaining cities, voters were once ...