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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron is negotiating a powerful, wide-ranging competitiveness portfolio within the European Commission for his new commissioner-designate Stéphane Séjourné ahead of Tuesday’s announcement by Ursula von der Leyen. The French commissioner would hold an executive vice…

KYIV — French authorities detained Pavel Durov on allegations that his Telegram social media platform was being used for child pornography, drug trafficking and organized crime — but the immediate freakout came from Russia. That’s because Telegram is widely used…