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Macron and his government have taken a spectacular step towards adopting a discriminatory, racist and xenophobic policy towards non-EU foreigners, with the support of the far right.

It is almost six years to the day since Marine Le Pen went head to head with Emmanuel Macron in a live television debate that came to be seen as the defining moment of the 2017 French presidential campaign. It did not end well for the leader of the National Front, the party she has

The Frenchman is self-suspended from his role as World Rugby vice-chairman.

French rugby was thrown into further turmoil just over seven months before the World Cup as Bernard Laporte resigned as president of the French rugby federation (FFR) on Friday.

It has been confirmed by sports minister Amelie Oudéa-Castéra that Bernard Laporte has resigned as president of the FFR after being convicted of corruption.

PARIS (AP) — French Rugby Federation president Bernard Laporte resigned on Friday to avoid further embarrassing France's preparations for staging the Rugby World Cup this year. A Paris court in December found Laporte guilty of passive corruption, influence peddling, illegal interest taking and misuse of corporate assets.

PARIS (AP) — French rugby clubs voted against accepting Patrick Buisson as the French Rugby Federation interim president on Thursday. Buisson was nominated by the suspended FFR president Bernard Laporte to replace him on an interim basis while Laporte fights a suspended two-year sentence on corruption charges.

PARIS (AP) — French Rugby Federation president Bernard Laporte was detained for questioning Tuesday — the latest judicial twist in his battles over allegations of financial wrongdoing. France's national prosecution office that focuses on financial crimes said police were questioning Laporte for suspected tax-related wrongdoing.

Despite a meeting with Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, French French Rugby Federation President Bernard Laporte has held firm to only step down temporarily regardless of her demands for him to vacate the role completely as the criminal investigation into his corruption charges takes place.

Former president Nicolas Sarkozy's closest aide, Claude Guéant, has been charged with complicity in favouritism in the latest legal case to hit the mainstream right leader's entourage. Sarkozy has so…