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Egyptian Presidential Election: WhoWhatWhyWhen?

Reality Check: The Egyptian Presidential Election as it unfolds, the cost of protesting in Russia, Iran's nuclear programme discussed in Baghdad, female sex tourism, and the launch of SpaceX.

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Egyptian presidential candidate hopeful Farghal Abou Def Atteya

Egypt Elects a President

Egypt's 50 million eligible voters are expected to turn out today to determine who will lead the country after the generals who have overseen a transition marred by violence, protests and political deadlock formally hand over power by July 1st.

The election is the cherry on a rollercoaster cake of a transition, marked by political upheaval and bloodshed but which also entailed democratic parliamentary elections that saw Islamist parties score a crushing victory.

Sammy Khamis reports for Reality Check, directly from the streets of Cairo...

Russian Protest Fines

Vladimir Putin is not going to have anybody rain on his third-term-Presidency-parade. You want to protest against his policies? It's going to cost you. Just how high will future 'protest penalties' be Russia? Our Moscow correspondent Charles Maynes lets us know...

Iranian Nuclear Talks

The atmosphere had rarely been so good before yet another round of international talks on Iran's nuclear programme. Today, international diplomats are meeting in Baghdad and . United Nations nuclear agency chief Yukiya Amano announced an agreement with Iran that was expected to deepen inspections and clear up remaining questions about possible weapons-related work – issues that have plagued Iran's nuclear dossier for years. Middle East expert Michael Lüders, has just published a book titled "Iran: der falsche Krieg" and he's more concerned with what all those diplomats and agency chiefs aren't saying...

Female Sex Tourism

Austrian director Ulrich Seidl’s “Love:Paradise” is getting quite a bit of attention at the Cannes Film Festival. The film focuses on an Austrian woman looking for love while on holiday in Kenya. The depiction of the story is so raw that it feels almost like a documentary and the thing is, female sex tourism is an increasingly real issue. Dr. Jacqueline Sanchez-Taylor of the University of Leicester has studied this issue…

SpaceX Is Up and Running

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, topped by an unmanned capsule, blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida yesterday, on a three-day trip to the International Space Station. Eugen Reichl has written several books about space and he is totally qualified to tell us all about the significance of the successful launch...

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