France's far-right and far-left parties have scored major gains in the first round of the presidential vote with incumbent president Emmanuel Macron poised to face Marine Le Pen in a runoff.

France’s far right performed worse than predicted in Sunday’s regional elections, exit polls show.

The recent hate attack that took the lives of four members of a Muslim family and left a fifth one seriously injured has shaken Canada to its core and raised fears of similar attacks triggered by religious or racial bias, in a country known for its big immigrant population and ethnocultural diversity.  

The rate of crimes committed by far-right extremists in Germany registered its highest record in 2020, official statistics show.

Germany's domestic spy agency says it will monitor some anti-lockdown protesters amid concerns they pose a risk of undermining the state.

A data breach from a US-based Christian crowd-funding site GiveSendGo reveals fund raising of millions of dollars on the site for far-right groups -- including the Proud Boys – that are banned from such campaigns on other platforms.

The Australian government is set to formally proscribe the far-right UK-based extremist group the Sonnenkrieg Division as a 'terrorist organization'.