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FRANCE
Government to close migrant camp
The French government has announced that it will close this week an area of wasteland in the channel port of Calais known as "the Jungle" by the mainly Afghan and Iraqi migrants who have set up home there as they try to get to Great Britain.
INTERNET
The Pirate Bay sailing anew after 24h shutdown
Popular file-sharing platform The Pirate Bay was back online on Tuesday afternoon, a day after a Swedish court had ordered Black Internet to stop providing bandwidth to the disputed website.
INTERNET
Swedish court shuts down filesharing website The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing websites, was off the Internet Tuesday. The day before, a Swedish district court ordered its bandwidth supplier Black Internet to stop providing services to the popular website.
CAMEROON
Endangered primates being sold on Internet
Adverts selling primates on the Internet have become increasingly common in Cameroon over the last three years, putting an already fragile species in further danger.
ROMA
Condemned to wander, Roma seek sedentary lives
Despite Romania’s entry into the European Union, the Roma people are not wanted in several European countries. FRANCE 24’s Sarah Leduc reports from the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis.
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INTERNET
Judge in Pirate Bay case accused of conflict of interest
The Swedish judge who sentenced each of the four founders of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay to a year in prison has been accused of bias in favour of the music industry. According to experts, a retrial could be ordered.
IMMIGRATION
French authorities to close Calais migrant camp
France's immigration minister has announced the closure of a squalid migrant camp in Calais, during a visit to the Channel port. Rights groups are demanding measures to support undocumented workers.
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INTERNET
Swedish court finds The Pirate Bay founders guilty
A Stockholm court has found the four founders of The Pirate Bay - one of the world's top websites for illegal file-sharing - guilty of promoting copyright infringement. The four men were each sentenced to a year in prison.
INTERNET
Swedish court finds The Pirate Bay founders guilty
A Stockholm court has found the four founders of The Pirate Bay - one of the world's top websites for illegal file-sharing - guilty of promoting copyright infringement. The four men were each sentenced to a year in prison.
ITALY - EUTHANASIA
Senate debates mercy killing case
Italy's senate was to convene an emergency session on Monday aimed at preventing the mercy killing of Eluana Englaro, an accident victim who has been in a coma for 17 years and whose family won a court battle to halt her life support.
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