Le Pen’s National Rally dropped from first to third place in an election week, but its relative rise remains a worry.

Tensions are rising in France, home to one of Europe’s largest Muslim minorities, ahead of the snap election run-off.

Campus sit-ins upend Sciences Po and Sorbonne in Paris as students decry Israel’s ‘genocide’ against Palestinians.

Even as Morocco liberalises some cannabis laws, the Rif continues to be a centre for illicit production.