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Pressure on French Presidential Candidate to Withdraw
French prosecutors probe payments to Francois Fillon's family
Prosecutors in France are reported to have widened their investigation into the financial affairs of the centre-right presidential candidate, Francois Fillon. They're already probing reports his wife earned €500,000 as her husband's parliamentary assistant, despite doubts about the work she did.
Also in the programme, anti-government protests in Romania grow. And could an acrimonious phone-call between Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull represent a souring in relations?
(Photo: Les Republicains presidential candidate Francois Fillon in January. Credit: Getty Images)
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