Egyptians go to the polls tomorrow to vote for a new president for the first time since Hosni Mubarak was ousted during the revolution last year. Two of the front-runners in the presidential race with a realistic chance of winning are devout Islamists, which is troubling for Egypt's Coptic Christians. They are Egypt's largest religious minority and many of them don't think any of the candidates are capable of protecting them from the religious violence that has been steadily increasing.
In Morocco, media bosses warn that their freedoms are threatened by new rules that will make state television more overtly religious. Elsewhere in the country, call centre workers say they won't be going back to work until conditions improve. Finally, Libya greases the wheels on plans to get oil production back up to pre-revolution levels.
They say multiculturalism has failed. They say mass immigration is a threat to national identity. They don't trust the European Union or their own elected leaders. This is the modern face of the far-right. Marine Le Pen is the perfect example of how the far-right has moved from the fringe to the mainstream across Western Europe. Laura Baines and her panel discuss how this trend has emerged, and whether it is set to continue.
They say multiculturalism has failed. They say mass immigration is a threat to national identity. They don't trust the European Union or their own elected leaders. This is the modern face of the far-right. Marine Le Pen is the perfect example of how the far-right has moved from the fringe to the mainstream across Western Europe. Laura Baines and her panel discuss how this trend has emerged, and whether it is set to continue.
They were the real story at the Bahrain Grand Prix. As the glitzy race took place in the Gulf kingdom, thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding change. Next, Egypt stops gas exports to Israel. We look at what lies behind this move. Finally, our correspondent meets with hunger striker Khader Adnan, released after months of detention in Israel.
A Tunisian court has sentenced two youths to seven years in jail, one in absentia, for publishing caricatures of the Prophet on Facebook, the justice ministry said Thursday. Rights activists said the sentence was overly harsh.
Egyptian Copts gathered Tuesday at St Mark's Cathedral in Cairo for the funeral of Pope Shenuda III, who died Saturday at age 88 after having led the Christian minority for 40 years. Shenuda will be buried at St Bishoy monastery in the Nile Delta.
Egyptian Copts were on Sunday paying their last respects to their spiritual leader Pope Shenuda III, who died at the weekend aged 88. The pope's body will remain on display in Cairo's St Mark's Cathedral until his burial on Tuesday.
The spiritual leader of Egypt's largest Christian minority, Coptic Pope Shenuda III, died on Saturday aged 88. Shenuda assumed the role in 1971, representing the country's estimated eight million Copts for over four decades.
Do France’s Catholics, Muslim and Jews choose their president depending on their faith? A sociologist tells FRANCE 24 why Catholics flock to conservative Nicolas Sarkozy while Muslims and Jews favour Socialist François Hollande.
