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Marine Le Pen, figurehead and presidential candidate of the far-right Rassemblement National party has told French daily Le Parisien that 'Emmanuel Macron is finished, or nearly' and that she is 'preparing for early presidential elections'.

Interior minister Bruno Retailleau has arrived in Mayotte and told French media: "It will take days and days to establish the human toll".

Cyclone Chido has also caused extensive damage in nearby islands Comoros and Madagascar, as well as Mozambique.

Man, 22, hands himself in after one person shot in Wormhout, near Dunkirk, and four more at Loon-Plage camp.

Officials warn it will take days to know the full toll after Cyclone Chido swept across the Indian Ocean island on its way to east Africa.

The 73-year-old former justice minister, who ran for president three times before rallying behind Macron in 2017, is the founder of the centrist Democratic Movement political party (MoDem), and mayor of the southwestern town of Pau.

The Elysée presidential palace made the announcement after French president cut short a trip to Poland.

The Real Madrid player and French captain, one of football's most high-profile stars, was never formally named by Swedish prosecutors or notified by them of being under suspicion of a crime.

Prosecutor demands two-year house detention for Christophe Ruggia for alleged sexual assault of the actor when she was a child.

Top party chiefs in France met with President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to discuss a way out of the latest political crisis, after fall of Michel Barnier's government last week.