Protesters in Bahrain undermined the Formula One grand prix last weekend by holding three "days of rage".
The first round of the French presidential election has revealed a dramatic rise in support for Marine Le Pen’s fascist Front National (FN).
David Cameron brushed off calls to condemn the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix today. "Bahrain is not Syria," he declared. "There is a process of reform underway."
The first round of the French presidential election will take place on Sunday. The Socialist Party candidate François Hollande is set to defeat incumbent right winger Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round on 6 May.
Tens of thousands of Syrians took to the streets on Friday of last week in a mass show of support for the revolution.
Tens of thousands of protesters filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday of last week.
The Formula One grand prix race is due to take place in Bahrain this week despite the continuing government crackdown on protests there.
The first round of the French presidential elections is set to take place on Sunday of this week.
Six Zimbabwean socialists have won a high court appeal against their sentences of community service.
The streets of Toulouse in the south of France were alive with red flags and banners on Thursday of last week.
Mario Monti’s government in Italy is in a deepening crisis. He has watered down his flagship labour reforms, and now business leaders have slammed them.
