Far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen obtained a surprising 18% of the vote in the first-round of France’s presidential election Sunday night. But who will those votes go to in the second round?
As the world marks International Women’s Day on Thursday, many Tunisian women fear they are losing the gains obtained before and during the revolution of January 2011. But some of them are not ready to give up.
In a Q&A with France 24, an expert sheds light on the obscure figure and prospective policies of Kim Jong-un, 29, who will likely succeed his father, Kim Jong-il, who died on Saturday.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said he will resign after Parliament passes austerity measures prescribed by the EU. Is this the end of his 20 years in politics? FRANCE 24 spoke to a specialist in Italian media.
The "Arab Spring" and domestic difficulties for both Hamas and the Israeli government were instrumental in negotiating the release of hostage Gilad Shalit, according to one Middle East expert.
The case of Troy Davis, an African-American scheduled to be executed in Georgia Wednesday for killing a white police officer, has added new urgency to arguments that the US justice system is racially discriminatory.
Parisian Muslims escaped a government ban on street prayers Friday when some 5,000 worshippers piled into a makeshift mosque in the north of the capital.
According to the Libyan National Transition Council’s ambassador in France, the rebels’ victory against pro-Gaddafi forces is imminent; are the days of the country’s longtime ruler numbered?
The movement to topple the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh has won over Yemen’s powerful tribes, but their allegiance may ultimately prove to be a threat to real democratic change.
IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a high-profile French politician who has been accused of attempting to rape a hotel maid in New York, faces a tough legal battle in the US. FRANCE 24 takes a look at what lies ahead.
