An angry mob retaliating over attacks on firefighters and police has ransacked a Muslim prayer house in the French island of Corsica. The crowd set books, including several copies of the Koran on fire. Tensions mounted in Ajaccio, Corsica’s largest city of some 65,000 residents, after a night of violence in Jardins de L’Empereur. Two firefighters and a police officers were injured in what... 

French police are investigating the nationalist leader Marine Le Pen for posting violent Islamic State images on her Twitter account. The images included the body of the American journalist James Foley who was allegedly decapitated in August 2014. Other tweeted propaganda images include a man ran over by a tank and another set on fire in a cage. Le Pen added the caption “Daesh is this,” using... 

A teacher has been attacked at a nursery school in Paris by a hooded knife-wielding man claiming links to Islamic State. The 45-year-old male victim was alone in his classroom at the kindergarten in the northern suburb of Aubervilliers, when the armed assailant burst in at around 7.30am local time. According to the prosecutor, prior to launching the attack, the man using another name for Islamic State... 

France is set to vote in the second round of regional elections on Sunday, December 13, inclined to be a challenge for the far-right National Front (FN) party to repeat its historic success notched up in the first electoral tour. The second round is held if no party gets at least 50 percent of the vote in the first electoral stage. The political faction that grips an absolute majority of votes automatically... 

New Paris-style massacres are likely to happen and will solidify Europe and America’s turn to the right, Patrick J. Buchanan predicts. American conservative commentator, author and syndicated columnist Patrick J. Buchanan points out that the world is steadily leaning to the right in the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks. “In Sunday’s first-round of regional elections in... 

Three automakers from Sweden, Germany and France will resume operations in Iran when a July nuclear accord goes into effect, instead of moving to impoverished East-EU states to support their economy. Iran is also in talks with Italian and Japanese carmakers for cooperation but they still have to reach an agreement, he told reporters on the sidelines of an Iran-Finland trade forum in Tehran on Tuesday. “We... 

Enough is enough! It seems the French are fed up with their government’s policy, that’s why France’s right-wing, anti-immigration, eurosceptic National Front party came out on top in six of 13 regions in the first round of the regional elections. The victory, described as a “historical breakthrough” by French and foreign political experts alike. While analysts are divided... 

Militants of the Islamic State terrorist group (also known as Daesh) threaten to conduct a series of attacks in the United States and Russia. In a new video that appeared on the Internet, the militants said that France was only the beginning, and now is the turn for Russia and the USA to experience terror. The terrorists, who speak English in the video, promise that new attacks will take place in... 

FN leader Marine Le Pen (right) with her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen (left), a FN MP which is becoming a powerful pillar of the patriotic party. Marine Le Pen can break out a bottle of champagne to celebrate after her patriotic National Front (FN) earned an unprecedented victory in the first round of French regional elections on Sunday. The FN secured 28 percent of the vote nationally, the Interior... 

France wants to introduce security measures which could outlaw the use of encrypting software for anonymous connections and public Wi-Fi but critics say authorities are using the November 13 Paris attacks to clamp down on internet freedom. The French government is pondering whether to introduce measures which could make the use of Tor, the free anonymizing software, illegal and to make it harder for... 

Shareholders in Finnish telecom group Nokia approved the company’s acquisition of French-American rival Alcatel-Lucent. Shareholders in Finnish telecom group Nokia approved the company’s acquisition of French-American rival Alcatel-Lucent on Wednesday, paving the way for the creation of a mobile phone networks giant, AFP reported. They approved the transaction at an extraordinary general... 

France’s Marine Le Pen makes one of the best and most passionate speeches the EU has seen in years. Dear colleagues, France suffered an absolutely horrendous ordeal on Friday 13 November. I think the first respect we have to pay to the victims is to name what has assassinated them. But neither from French leadership nor in all the speeches which I heard this morning have I heard the name of... 

Security in Paris is tight, with 120,000 police and army personnel patrolling the city as 150 world leaders, including US President Barack Obama, China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin arrive for a global climate change summit. Paris is hosting the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) two weeks after Islamic State gunmen... 

On the eve of a global climate summit in Paris, activists across the US marched in support of new environmental initiatives, calling for meaningful discussions and decisive actions from world leaders at the “last chance” conference. More than 5,000 people flocked to City Hall in New York to take part in an environmental gathering there. “The climate is changing. It’s our fault, and we have... 

During a press conference from the White House which was supposed to be about the French President’s visit following the horrific Paris attacks by ISIS, Obama chose to talk about himself, his wife, and then followed it up with several clangers and further mind boggling statements. Instead of concentrating on the 129+ victims of the attacks, or the French people, or French President Francois Hollande,...