French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he is introduced before speaking to a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Standing behind him are Vice President... (Associated Press) 
 
 French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he is introduced before speaking to a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Standing behind him are Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on French President Emmanuel Macron speaking in front of a joint meeting of Congress (all times local): 
 
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 12:08 p.m. 
 
 "I have a Rendezvous with Death." 
 
 French President Emmanuel Macron used those chilling words from an American soldier-poet to stress the historical alliance between the U.S. and France in his speech to Congress. 
 
 They were written by Alan Seeger a century ago in the World War I battlefields of northern France. His bones now lie mixed in with those of others who died alongside him on July 4, 1916. 
 
 Macron's speech highlighted the ways the U.S. and France have long sacrificed for each other. But in repeating the Seeger quote, Macron also took aim at the isolationism that U.S. President Donald Trump has favored. 
 
 Seeger embraced the idea of fighting for a global, common cause, and his "Rendezvous with Death" poem eventually became a favorite of U.S. President John Kennedy. 
 
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 11:54 a.m. 
 
 French President Emmanuel Macron is urging the United States against "closing the door to the world." 
 
 In his address to Congress Wednesday, Macron said Americans and Europeans are "living in a time of anger and fear" under global threats. 
 
 "But these feelings do not build anything. You can play with fear and anger for a time," he said, adding, "Anger only freezes and weakens us." 
 
 Macron said, "We can choose isolationism, withdrawal and nationalism ... but closing the door to the world will not stop the evolution of the world." 
 
 He spoke after a state visit with Trump, who has pushed an "America first" agenda on key global agreements, jobs, the military and immigration policy. 
 
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 11:40 a.m. 
 
 French President Emmanuel Macron is lashing out against fake news — and gave a tongue-in-cheek apology for violating President Donald Trump's "copyright" on the term. 
 
 In a speech to a joint meeting of Congress Wednesday, Macron warned that lies disseminated online are threatening freedoms worldwide. 
 
 Macron, an independent centrist, said: "Without reason, without truth, there is no real democracy because democracy is about true choices and rational decisions." 
 
 Macron tasked his government this year with drafting a law to punish false information distributed during election campaigns. Macron says his presidential campaign last year was a victim of fake news, notably accusing Russian news sites RT and Sputnik. 
 
 He also warned against "terrorist propaganda that spreads its fanaticism on the internet." 
 
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 11:30 a.m. 
 
 French President Emmanuel Macron is casting climate policy in President Donald Trump's signature terms. 
 
 Addressing a joint meeting of Congress Wednesday, Macron said he was confident the U.S. will re-join the Paris climate agreement. 
 
 His appeal: "Let us work together in order to make our planet great again and create new jobs and new opportunities while safeguarding our earth." 
 
 Because if earth's climate continues to warm, "there is no Planet B," he added. 
 
 It was a clear play on Trump's signature campaign pledge in 2016 to "make America great again." Trump canceled any U.S. involvement in the landmark climate accord and said his focus is on American jobs. 
 
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 11:19 a.m. 
 
 French President Emmanuel Macron drew on the shared history and "special bond" of U.S.-French relations as he opened a joint meeting of Congress. 
 
 Macron told Congress, "the American and French people have had a rendezvous with freedom." 
 
 In recounting common bonds from the earliest days of United States, he was telling of a meeting between Ben Franklin and the French philosopher Voltaire, "kissing each other's cheeks." 
 
 In an apparent reference to his friendly meetings this week with President Donald Trump, he said, "It can remind you of something." 
 
 Macron was speaking Wednesday as part of his visit to the United States. It's the first time a president from France has addressed Congress in more than a decade, but follows a tradition of foreign leaders appearing at the U.S. Capitol. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Five times Macron ripped up Trump agenda 
 
 French President Emmanuel Macron has used his speech to the joint houses of the US Congress to denounce nationalism and isolationism. 
 
 Mr Macron said such policies were a threat to global prosperity. 
 
 The speech was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled attack on President Donald Trump's America First agenda. 
 
 Mr Macron also raised differences on global trade, Iran and the environment, seemingly in contrast to the warm bonhomie of his visit so far. 
 
 The French president was given a three-minute standing ovation as he took his place in the chamber for his speech. 
 
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 He hailed the "unbreakable bonds" of the US and France, forged in "liberty, tolerance and equal rights". 
 
 He has developed a strong relationship with President Trump, and is in Washington as the first foreign leader to be afforded a US state visit by the Trump White House. 
 
 But the French president's comments showed that the pair do not agree on all subjects. 
 
 Mr Macron said isolationism, withdrawal and nationalism "can be tempting to us as a temporary remedy to our fears. But closing the door to the world will not stop the evolution of the world. It will not douse but inflame the fears of our citizens". 
 
 He added: "We will not let the rampaging work of extreme nationalism shake a world full of hopes for greater prosperity." 
 
 Mr Macron said that the US had invented multilateralism and now needed to reinvent it to create a new 21st Century world order. 
 
 He said the UN and the Nato military alliance might not be able to fulfil their mandates and assure stability if the West ignored the new dangers arising in the world. 
 
 Bonhomie and blows 
 
 Analysis by BBC North America editor Jon Sopel 
 
 Macron has provided a masterclass to other world leaders on how to handle Donald Trump - you cuddle up close, you flatter where necessary - but you use that to allow you to pack a big punch. 
 
 He also spoke about the very special relationship between France and the US, a move that might have had some in Downing Street choking on their tea. 
 
 In a cleverly crafted speech, he started with the entente between himself and the US president that some said was just too cordial. But then came the punches - and they were hard-hitting jabs, taking direct aim at Donald Trump's policy agenda. On free trade, on the importance of science, on inequality - and Mr Trump's America First policies. 
 
 Then he audaciously borrowed Donald Trump's Make America Great Again slogan to talk about the environment, and the importance of the climate change agreement the US has said it will withdraw from. He said it was time to make the Earth great again. 
 
 The speech was punctuated by applause and cheering. This was an important moment in the US Congress. Emmanuel Macron has emerged as a world leader who offers a competing and sharply different world vision to the US president - while all the time maintaining a bonhomie with him. That's quite a political feat. 
 
 On trade, Mr Macron said that "commercial war is not the proper answer", as it would "destroy jobs and increase prices", adding: "We should negotiate through the World Trade Organization. We wrote these rules, we should follow them." 
 
 Mr Trump has in the past said that trade wars are good and easily won. He has taken on Europe and China with new tariffs, saying the US has suffered from unfair trade practices. 
 
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 On another issue of difference, Iran, Mr Macron said his country would not abandon a nuclear deal with Tehran that was agreed by world powers when President Barack Obama was in office but which Mr Trump has branded "terrible". 
 
 Mr Macron said: "This agreement may not address all concerns, and very important concerns. This is true. But we should not abandon it without having something more substantial instead." 
 
 But he added: "Iran shall never possess any nuclear weapons. Not now. Not in five years. Not in 10 years. Never." 
 
 On the environment, he said by "polluting the oceans, not mitigating CO2 emissions and destroying biodiversity we are killing our planet. Let us face it, there is no Planet B". 
 
 Donald Trump last year announced that he intended to withdraw the US from the Paris global climate accord, another landmark Obama achievement, saying it was a "very bad deal for the US". 
 
 The accord, signed by nearly 200 countries, aims to cut damaging emissions. 
 
 Mr Macron's wide-ranging address highlighted numerous political and cultural links, citing American Revolutionary War officer Marquis de Lafayette, writer and feminist Simone de Beauvoir, Abraham Lincoln, author Ernest Hemingway, the founder of French romanticism François-René Chateaubriand and both Presidents Roosevelt. 
 
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 His quoting of Franklin D's "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" drew one of his biggest applauses. 
 
 How did the Congress speech go down? 
 
 Senior House Democrat Adam Schiff said Mr Macron had offered "more of a direct contradiction of the president than I was expecting", telling AFP: "There were more than a few uncomfortable moments on the [Republican] side of the aisle." 
 
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 Republican Senator Jeff Flake said the speech was "very contrary to Trumpism, very much contrary to an America First agenda". 
 
 But Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy denied there was any rebuke. 
 
 "He said in there that he believes in free and fair trade. That's exactly what the president asked for," he said.
– French President Emmanuel Macron addressed Congress Wednesday during his visit to Washington, DC, quoting what the AP calls "chilling words from an American soldier-poet" to emphasize France's historical alliance with the US. "I have a Rendezvous with Death," he said, quoting a poem written by Alan Seeger as he fought in the World War I battlefields of northern France, where he died in 1916. Macron used the poem to illustrate how the US and France have sacrificed for each other over the decades, but also to take aim at President Trump's favored policy of isolationism. He warned the US against such a policy: "We can choose isolationism, withdrawal and nationalism ... but closing the door to the world will not stop the evolution of the world," he said. The BBC says the speech was seen as "a thinly veiled attack on ... Trump's America First agenda." He also spoke out against "fake news," jokingly apologizing to Trump for violating the US president's "copyright" on the term. Lies are being spread online, he said, and that threatens freedom: "Without reason, without truth, there is no real democracy because democracy is about true choices and rational decisions." He also warned against "terrorist propaganda that spreads its fanaticism on the internet." But he raised other differences with Trump, including Iran, trade, and climate change; when speaking on the latter, he played on Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again," noting that he believes the US will re-join the Paris climate agreement after Trump canceled US involvement in the climate accord. "Let us work together in order to make our planet great again and create new jobs and new opportunities while safeguarding our earth," Macron said.