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The Palm Sunday bombings of Coptic churches in Egypt last month once again put Islamic terrorism in the spotlight and left officials wondering what can be done to prevent it.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Religious state institutions wanting to address the rhetoric of violence in the name of religion must begin by reforming their relationship with the state.
Macron’s win showed France is internationalist, outward looking, pro-EU and free market-oriented; Le Pen’s rise revealed that it’s also nationalist, protectionist, anti-EU and suspicious of outsiders.
An electoral poster of Emmanuel Macron, France’s centre-left presidential candidate, calling for unity.
Benoit Tessier/Reuters
Migration and asylum issues have come to epitomise France’s political tensions and to reflect the critical decisions that will face its next president.
Quels seront les impacts des élections françaises sur la place de la France dans le monde ?
Guillaime Souvant, Eric Feferberg / AFP
Le premier tour du scrutin présidentiel en France a suscité un vif intérêt à l’étranger. Analyses en provenance de Turquie, d’Inde et d’Italie.
The first round of France’s 2017 presidential contest sent two political outsiders to the second round. What’s next in this key European election?
Emmanuel Foudrot/Reuters
France must now choose between two candidates with strongly opposing visions. The outcome of the May 7 run-off could radically alter France, as well as its position in Europe and in the world.
Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have advanced to the second round in the 2017 French presidential.
Charles Platiau/Reuters
Europe has had a number of important elections over the past year, but for the EU none is as significant – or as potentially grave – as France’s upcoming presidential election.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife Emine greet supporters near Tarabya mansion in Istanbul.
Murad Sezer/Reuters
Experts agree that Turkey is even further polarised after contested unofficial results show President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has won the right to expand his powers.
Is Erdoğan (on the right) projecting himself as the next Atatürk (on the left), modern Turkey’s revered founding father?
Umit Bektas/Reuters
Can deportation ever really be ‘humane and dignified’?
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the May 22 attack at a concert by pop singer Ariana Grande in Manchester, England, killed many teenagers.
Stefan Wermuth/Reuters
Last night’s terrorist attack in Manchester reveals the challenges facing European intelligence and security services in preventing people who use everyday things like cars to cause mayhem.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte saw off far-right challenger Geert Wilders.
Yves Herman/Reuters
Russia has managed to regain, at least in part, its role as a powerful interlocutor in the Middle East, which it lost after the fall of the Soviet Union.