Hundreds of mourners flocked to Paris’s venerable Val-de-Grâce church on Thursday to pay their final respects to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the architect of France’s modern far-right movement who was known for his racist and antisemitic remarks. A speaker at the requiem Mass praised Mr. Le Pen, saying he had “perceived, before all others, the dangers […]

More than two years after he was ensnared in a murder conspiracy case, a young man was freed from prison on Wednesday after Britain’s Court of Appeal found that the authorities had misidentified him in a video. The man, Ademola Adedeji, 21, was among 10 young Black men from Manchester whom prosecutors had accused of […]

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founding father of France’s modern political far-right who built a half-century career on rants of barely disguised racism, antisemitism and neo-Nazi propaganda, has died. He was 96. His death was confirmed on X by Jordan Bardella, the current president of the party Mr. Le Pen founded. In a statement to the […]