The leader of a far-left movement who won nearly 20 percent of the vote in the first round of France’s presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, told his seven million voters in a YouTube address on Friday that he would not tell… Read More ›
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Le Pen Promotes Holocaust Denier and Plans to Ban Kosher Butchers and Yarmulkes
France’s Jewish community is watching the second round of this year’s presidential election with profound unease, as Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front has unveiled plans to ban the ritual slaughter of animals for kosher and halal meat… Read More ›
Marine Le Pen Can Win, if She Campaigns “à la Trump,” Her Father Says
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front, was expelled from the party two years ago by his daughter Marine — for spoiling her rebranding campaign by repeating his infamous claim that the gas chambers used to exterminate… Read More ›
U.S. Bombed a Mosque in Syria, Killing Dozens of Civilians, Investigators Conclude
As my colleague Alex Emmons reported last month, Syrian activists and first responders accused the United States of killing dozens of civilians in an airstrike that mistakenly targeted a mosque in the rebel-held village of al-Jinah on the evening of… Read More ›
British Prime Minister Wants Election Now, Before Cost of Brexit Becomes Clear
Prime Minister Theresa May, who was actually against Brexit before she was for it, made another dramatic U-turn on Tuesday, declaring that Britain needs to elect a new Parliament in June, three years ahead of schedule, despite her clear promise… Read More ›
Students at Pakistani University Lynch Classmate Falsely Accused of Blasphemy
The brutal lynching of a journalism student by classmates at a Pakistani university on Thursday, shortly after he was accused of blasphemy by administrators, appalled civil society activists, and provided new evidence of the corrosive effects of the nation’s strict… Read More ›
Assad Suggests Chemical Attack Was “a Play” Staged by Al Qaeda and the U.S.
Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, suggested in an interview broadcast on Thursday that social media evidence of a deadly chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in northern Syria last week was fake. The images that shocked the world, he… Read More ›
Vladimir Putin Doesn’t Know Which Syria Conspiracy Theory to Believe
Even for the president of Russia, the news from Syria is increasingly coming to resemble a choose your own adventure story, in which readers pick a starting point and entirely different narratives are woven from the same facts. For Vladimir… Read More ›
Trump Surrenders Element of Surprise by Warning Russia of Planned Strike on Its Ally Syria
No doubt fearing the grave risk of killing Russian military personnel on the ground in Syria, the United States military gave Russia advance notice before launching cruise missile strikes overnight on a Syrian air base that is used to store… Read More ›
FBI Director James Comey Takes On New Role Fact-Checking the President’s Tweets
In a first for Congressional hearings, James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was asked to say under oath on Monday if the official Twitter feed of the President of the United States was lying about the testimony… Read More ›