Garbage. Heaps, mounds and piles of it are growing daily — and in some places standing higher than a human being. A strike by Paris garbage collectors, which begins its 16th day on Tuesday, is taking a toll on the renowned aesthetics
Nigel Farage today warned Brexit has still not been completed as his former party announced the “band is reforming”. At a press conference this morning, Reform UK revealed 11 ex-Brexit Party MEPs would be joining. Mr Farage, who is honorary president, said:
The French President has been accused of “deliberately creating a major crisis in the country” after his government used the so-called 49.3 mechanism in the French National Assembly to pass a controversial pension reform. “It is quite incredible that the government should
President Emmanuel Macron is facing a crucial test this week as the battle over his unpopular plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is set to reach a peak in the streets and at parliament, deepening a widely shared
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political allies pressed ahead Monday with their plan to overhaul the judiciary, advancing a bill that would protect the long-serving leader from calls that he be removed from office over his corruption charges. The steps were the
French President Emmanuel Macron insisted on the need for raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 in order to make the French pension system financially sustainable in the coming years, in a letter to workers’ unions released Friday. The move comes
French train and metro drivers, refinery workers, garbage collectors and others were holding further strikes on Wednesday against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64, in efforts to keep up pressure on the government amid the ongoing parliamentary
An alcoholic mother-of-three who drank up to three bottles of wine a day has been handed a four year sentence for “the worst case of controlling and coercive behaviour” the presiding judge in her case had ever seen. Sheree Spencer, 45, spent
Algerian authorities on Thursday dissolved a decades-old pro-democracy group that participated in the peaceful protests which helped force the North African country’s long-time President Abdelaziz Bouteflika from office in 2019. The Youth Action Group, known by its French acronym, RAJ, and the
A fifth day of nationwide strikes and protests in France Thursday tested the government’s resolve on a controversial pension reform, the flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term. This latest in a series of protests that began last month is expected