Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's far-right National Front, has been convicted repeatedly of racism and anti-Semitism. He also referred to Nazi gas chambers as a "detail" of World War II history.

In France, right-wing populist party National Front continues to garner support, despite critics who say it punishes detractors and silences the press. The party tailors its ideology to fit ...

Although these centrists and leftists had teamed up and agreed to endorse each other’s candidates where necessary, the National Rally — a populist rebranding of France’s old National Front ...

As Marine Le Pen’s far-right movement marks 50 years in French politics, RFI looks back at how the National Rally – formerly the National Front – went from a fringe group to France’s ...

PARIS — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters ...

France has announced a sweeping agreement granting more autonomy to the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger over immigration and globalisation and revelled in minimising the Holocaust, died on ...

PARIS — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded France's far-right National Front party, has died at 96 years old. Le Pen was a controversial and confrontational figure, seen by some as xenophobic.