National Front leader Marine Le Pen has taken a commanding lead in the latest French presidential election poll. The far-right leader had 29 per cent of the vote when pitted against Les Républicains’ Nicolas Sarkozy, who was eight points behind, and held a 15-point lead over the Parti de Gauche’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the poll released by Ipsos, which analysed five scenarios with different frontrunners. The... 

Israeli soldiers in West Bank arresting a Palestinian protester. Thousands of European Jews, including a number of EU parliament members, have signed a petition warning against systematic support for Israeli policies. The petition, which was slated to be delivered to the European Parliament on Sunday, is signed by more than 3,000 European Jews, including renown French philosophers Bernard-Henri Levy...