Marine Le Pen says she is not racist but a multicultural country can never live in peace. Marine Le Pen was late back from lunch. This is a common condition among French politicians but unusual for Le Pen. She is known for being on time and being polite, charming and, unlike her father, difficult to dislike. She arrived “only” 20 minutes late. The National Front, she says, is not a racist... 

Rene holding a speech in Berlin. His friend Wilders can be seen in the background. Few people outside of Germany paid much attention when a little-known Berlin politician named Rene Stadtkewitz convened a news conference last week and announced the formation of a new “Freedom” party. But in the German capital, the founding of a movement modelled on the anti-immigrant party of Dutch populist... 

Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure to extend a freeze on building Jewish settlements ahead of peace talks with Hillary Clinton and Mahmoud Abbas. Jerusalem says EU demand for discussions on eve of Yom Kippur is highly insensitive. Israel has said it will not meet a delegation of European foreign ministers, including William Hague, this week as diplomatic pressure mounts on its government to extend... 

“Arizona has a long and proud history of fighting the Washington, D.C. elite’s insatiable appetite for bigger government at the cost of States’ rights. The battle over the Affordable Care Act better known as “ObamaCare” is the latest round. Once again, the feds have gone too far. “The cost of ObamaCare places unsustainable burdens on our federal government, our state government, and on... 

North Korea has offered South Korea a new round of reunions for families separated by the Korean War, state media said Saturday. Reunions last happened in September and October 2009, and their potential renewal could signal an easing of tensions after the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship in March. The North proposed that the two Koreas’ Red Cross societies meet soon to discuss the gatherings.... 

Japan’s Defense Ministry stressed the importance of U.S. military forces in Japan and cast a wary eye on China’s military expansion in an annual report Friday, as diplomatic tensions with China rose following a collision near disputed islands. The annual defense policy report also said a group of South Korean-controlled islands, called Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, were an... 

The president was elated over the outcome of the vote Protesters burnt an effigy of President Mahinda Rajapaksa Sri Lankan MPs have approved proposals to let President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek an unlimited number of terms, in a move critics say could lead to dictatorship. The constitutional amendment also hugely boosts the president’s powers. Amid protest and counter-protest in the capital Colombo,... 

Jens John raising a variation of the German flag in his garden in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany. A truck driver, Mr. John has often been without work in the economic downturn. As a youth in the 1950s, the film director Volker Schlöndorff tried to hide his German origins by learning to speak unaccented French. This summer, his daughter painted German flags on her cheeks and joined crowds of thousands... 

Swedish TV channel TV4 announced on Friday that it has refused to broadcast a campaign advert by the far-right Sweden Democrats because it claims it contains racial hatred. The party wanted to pay the channel 1.5 million kronor ($201,240) to run the ad. The half-minute advert shows a race in which an elderly woman with a walker is chased by a group of burqa-clad women pushing prams with a slogan promising... 

Youths trying to extinguish a fire near the Jewish West bank settlement of Har Bracha on Monday July 26, 2010. ‘Idea is not to make Wikipedia rightist but for it to include our point of view,’ Naftali Bennett, director of the Yesha Council says. “Point of view” in Wikipedia? But encyclopedias were supposed to be neutral… For years now, Wikipedia has been a fierce battleground... 

South Sudanese celebrate independence-referendum possibility. Official: Southern Sudan parliament may vote to secede if January independence vote is delayed. Southern Sudan’s parliament may vote to secede from the Khartoum-based north if an independence reference scheduled for January is delayed, a former top Southern Sudan official said Thursday. The oil-rich region can take such action under... 

The director general of the BBC admitted that his organisation had been guilty of a “massive bias to the left” but said “a completely different generation” of journalists now works at the broadcaster. The director general of the BBC admitted Thursday that his organisation had been guilty of a “massive bias to the left” but said “a completely different generation”... 

Back in the public eye with the release of his memoirs, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair might lead one to believe it is 2003 all over again. Praising George W. Bush as a great leader and one of the most decisive men he had ever met, Blair also lauds the Iraq War. And if the Iraq War has somewhat faded in Americans’ memories with the myriad false declarations of victory in recent weeks,... 

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state’s controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations’ human rights commissioner. The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is “downright... 

The warning comes after recent bomb attacks and clashes between nationalist youths and the police AUSTRALIANS are being warned against travelling to Northern Ireland following bomb attacks earlier this month. The Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade updated the advice on its website for travellers to the UK to take account of recent bomb attacks and clashes between nationalist youths and the police. “Incidents...