The Muslim Brotherhood's future role worries secular and non-Muslim Egyptians because of its Islamist roots and the organizational advantages it enjoys thanks to its 80-year history. Recent comments by some Brotherhood members calling for a strict implementation of Sharia law have only heightened those concerns. However, the movement has tried to reassure sceptics by describing the new party as a civil not a theocratic one. The new president and his deputy are known moderates, who've stated their commitment to equality for all faiths.
德国抓获3名基地组织嫌疑分子
Prosecutors in Germany say three al-Qaeda suspects arrested on Friday were planning an attack in a crowded area using a shrapnel bomb. Two are originally from Morocco and the other from an Iranian family. They were arrested in Duesseldorf and nearby Bochum.
涉嫌“种族歧视” 法足协高官停职
The French sports minister has suspended the technical director of the national football federation over allegations that officials secretly planned to introduce racial quotas in national training programmes. Here's Hugh Schofield in Paris.
The investigative news site Mediapart has published minutes of a meeting in which senior football figures clearly discussed the issue of ethnic quotas. At one point, the technical director Francois Blaquart says there should be an unofficial policy of keeping down the number of dual nationality, i.e. mainly black and North African, youngsters in French training centres. But defenders of French football's managing body say that the issue under discussion was the high number of players going through the excellent French national training system who defect to other national teams, many in Africa, at senior level.