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. 

Brazil’s largest party has abandoned president Dilma Rousseff’s governing coalition, making it tougher for her to survive mounting pressure in congress for her impeachment.

OUTRAGED Georgians yesterday slammed a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a faked report announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country’s president was dead.

FRANCE’S next president, Nicolas Sarkozy, will have to wait until after the parliamentary elections in six weeks’ time before he knows if he can introduce the changes he has promised the country.