Nine months before the presidential election, the candidates could well be the unpopular incumbent, Francois Hollande, his equally unpopular predecessor, Nicholas Sarkozy, and the far-right’s Marine Le Pen, says Noah Barkin

The race to be the next president of France could come down to voting for whoever will do the least damage, writes Noah Barkin. 

A suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into a line of would-be police officers, killing at least 43 and injuring 45, in Algeria’s deadliest terrorist attack since the 1990s.