London/ AFP Donald Trump’s US election victory heralds the “building of a new world”, France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Sunday in a BBC television interview that sparked immediate criticism in Britain. Le Pen described the Republican’s win as a “victory of the people against the elite” and said she hoped a similar outcome could be achieved in French ...

  Moscow /AFP Suspects detained by Russian authorities were plotting simultaneous “Paris-style” attacks on Moscow and Saint Petersburg, local media reported on Sunday, the first anniversary of the massacre in the French capital. The FSB security service, the KGB’s successor, announced on Saturday it had detained 10 citizens of Central Asian states who planned “high-profile acts of sabotage and terror” ...

  Brussels / AFP The British and French foreign ministers were to miss special talks with their EU counterparts on Sunday to discuss Donald Trump’s stunning US election win in a sign of divisions over how to deal with the new president. European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini summoned the ministers for dinner in Brussels after Republican Trump stormed to ...