Today. E seventh installment of the Star Wars Franchise hits movie theaters in france today. First, our top story, the head of the year in parliament has made the European Parliament has made a new of your or a new appealade a new o for a saudi blogger to be released. Raif badawi a sentence to 1000 lashes raif badawi is and 10ed to 1000 lashes years in prison. Badawi could not make it in person, but the jailed saudi blogger was there in person. His wife made the trip to accept the prize on his behalf, a prize recognizing badawis fight for freedom of thought. Raif is not a criminal or he is a freethinker, a free spirit raif is not a criminal. He is a free thinker. A free spirit. Out clearly, and that is what angered religious leaders throughout the arab world. Badawi was arrested in 2012 and entrance sentence to 10 years in prison and sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1000 lashes. The call for pardon was reiterated by the president of the European Parliament. On behalf of all of us, i
Over the course of just ten days, Libya moved through various degrees of state crisis at high speed. It now seems to be back to square one again. From Tripoli, Valerie Stocker takes a closer look at recent chaotic events
"Passionate about the Tuareg" see themselves as cultural ambassadors. The musical project is the result of co-operation between two bands – one from southern Tunisia and the other from the Libyan Sahara. What unites them is a desire to revive the musical heritage of their forefathers through modern re-interpretation. By Valerie Stocker