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President Biden is under intense political pressure, including from within his own party, to address migration before the election. President Biden and the president of Mexico on Monday vowed combined [...]

The Constitutional Council, which reviews laws to ensure that they conform to the Constitution, struck down many measures that President Emmanuel Macron's government had added under right-wing pressure. France's Constitutional [...]

Activists say the designation could put L.G.B.T.Q. people and their organizations under threat of criminal prosecution for something as simple as displaying the rainbow flag. In recent years, L.G.B.T.Q. people [...]

He calls fake news an enemy that threatens democracy. Critics of President Yoon Suk Yeol say he is silencing journalists in the name of fighting disinformation. Allies of President Yoon [...]

China is destroying Arab-style architectural features of mosques, such as domes and minarets. The tightened control on religion has been met with rare resistance. Walking through Nagu, a small town [...]

Protesters are still hoping to force the government to reverse its decision to raise the legal retirement age to 64 from 62. French workers marched across the country on Monday, [...]

But the French president did not yield on the pension change that has roiled the nation. Labor unions declined to meet for talks, and vowed massive protests on May 1. [...]

A constitutional ruling expected on Friday may be the final legal obstacle for President Emmanuel Macron's push to increase the retirement age. But the plan hasn't become any more popular. [...]

When the MS-13 gang ran the neighborhood of Las Margaritas, one of its strongholds in El Salvador, there were rules you had to follow to stay alive. You couldn't wear [...]

On a new day of strikes and marches, President Emmanuel Macron's government rejected a call by labor unions to suspend his pension overhaul. Stuck in a highly charged standoff, France [...]

The tensions started when President Emmanuel Macron raised the retirement age to 64, and the anger shows no sign of abating. Huge street protests and widespread strikes rocked France on [...]

Amid protests in the streets and in Parliament, the French leader shows no sign of scrapping a law that raises the retirement age. PARIS -- President Emmanuel Macron's re-election program [...]

After President Emmanuel Macron pushed his unpopular pension bill through Parliament without a vote, demonstrations about the changes broke out again -- including a violent standoff in Paris. Opposition parties [...]

Lacking parliamentary support, the French president used a special measure to circumvent a vote, a step likely to further enrage opponents. President Emmanuel Macron, worried that France's Parliament would not [...]

Parties from the left and right erupted in anger after learning of the government's plans to adopt the measure without a vote. PARIS -- Lawmakers filled the grand chamber of [...]

Many believe the legislation to raise the retirement age to 64 from 62 will pass Parliament, and they are looking beyond the vote to fight on. PARIS -- Hundreds of [...]

A bill raising the retirement age for most workers by two years, to 64, could become law this week despite widespread protests, including a strike by garbage workers in Paris [...]

As African migrants are swept up in a widening crackdown, critics say President Kais Saied is openly mining a deep vein of discrimination and prejudice against dark-skinned people in Tunisia. [...]

In his first terms as president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expanded the scope of who could get published in the country, and who could access books. His return to [...]

Angry protests over a plan to raise France's retirement age pile uncertainty on small businesses, but most are siding with the demonstrators. Maxime Clausier stood inside the barricaded entrance of [...]

President Emmanuel Macron is forging ahead with plans to raise the legal age of retirement to 64, from 62, despite strikes, street demonstrations and a looming parliamentary battle. Classrooms were [...]

Despite the wave of discontent, President Emmanuel Macron intends to push through plans to raise the retirement age to 64 from 62. PARIS -- More than a million protesters, chanting [...]

President Emmanuel Macron is focusing on cutting costs in France's pension system, but labor unions, which fiercely oppose the measure, have promised a showdown. PARIS -- The French government on [...]

Under pressure from the right, the government of President Emmanuel Macron tries to balance a perceived immigration problem with a need for migrant workers. PARIS -- The issue of immigration [...]

The protests in China against the government's draconian Covid controls have been compared to those in 1989, when students demonstrated for political reforms and democracy. The 1989 pro-democracy movement occurred [...]

Britain has promised France tens of millions of euros to step up coastal patrols, a sign of thawing relations. LONDON -- Britain and France signed a new agreement on Monday [...]

The laws, all but assured of enactment, would intensify a crackdown on L.G.B.T.Q. freedom in Russia, which Vladimir V. Putin has cast as a corrosive Western influence. MOSCOW -- In [...]

The laws, all but assured of enactment, would intensify a crackdown on L.G.B.T.Q. freedom in Russia, which Vladimir V. Putin has cast as a corrosive Western influence. MOSCOW -- In [...]

An Algerian woman who had been ordered to leave the country has been arrested and charged in the killing of a girl who was found in a box in Paris, [...]

The annual gay pride event was to take place in September in Belgrade. President Aleksandar Vucic said the timing was bad, citing ''numerous problems'' currently affecting the country. President Aleksandar [...]

South Korea has three ways of calculating age, often adding a year or two to the international standard. The incoming president wants to change that. SEOUL -- When Lee Jae-hye [...]

President Alejandro Giammattei said he would veto the bill days after his allies pushed it through the legislature, a move that surprised analysts, human rights activists and officials. GUATEMALA CITY [...]

The Russian leader is undoing the social freedoms introduced at the end of the Soviet Union, risking a return to total control and ideological isolation. One of the paradoxical things [...]

A documentary created to celebrate the success of China's anti-corruption campaign instead has aired the dirty laundry of the Communist Party. One by one, the officials spoke candidly on camera [...]

President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, whom the E.U. accuses of engineering a migrant crisis on the border with Poland, could face a serious headache if asylum seekers try to [...]

The replacement of a figure seen as a monument to colonialism touched a nerve as the country debates how it is shaped by race and sex. MEXICO CITY -- Statues [...]

Argentines no longer have to be identified as female or male on their national identity documents, the latest step in President Alberto Fernández's push for gender equality. BUENOS AIRES -- [...]

High-profile business leaders have been detained, sidelined or silenced as the Communist Party moves forcefully to keep companies in line. Today, the best strategy is to lie low. Jack Ma, [...]

The institution had become a symbol of privilege in a society where social mobility has broken down. PARIS -- There are elite schools and then there is ENA, the small [...]

The move is likely to please President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's conservative followers. He also removed the head of the central bank. ISTANBUL -- In two surprise midnight decrees, President Recep [...]

CALAIS, France -- President Emmanuel Macron of France on Tuesday came to Calais, the port city at the center of France's migrant problem, to defend his policies as a mix [...]

ORAN, Algeria -- Who is still waging revolution in the Arab world? Not the Islamists, who have trapped themselves in violence or extremism. Not the left-wing elites, now aging, disarmed [...]