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Byline: Beril Eski ISTANBUL - At his shelter on the outskirts of Istanbul, Murat Cem Yetkin refers to his dozens of stray dogs as âthe kids.â There is Handsome, the [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia - All she wanted was for her only child to go to school in her native tongue. In 2020, the ethnically Mongolian teacher living in [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon When Russian authorities took away Yan Dvorkin's 10-year-old adopted son last spring, there was nothing he could do but shout in frustration. His crime? He was a [...]

Byline: Adela Suliman France's President Emmanuel Macron was poised to announce measures Friday to address the widespread unrest gripping his country following the police killing of a teenager in the [...]

Byline: Leo Sands and Rael Ombuor Uganda's president signed into law a wide-ranging anti-LGBTQ bill on Monday that imposes life imprisonment for same-sex activity and the death penalty in some [...]

Byline: Frances Vinall Serbians handed in thousands of guns in the first three days of an amnesty aimed at disarming the country following two mass killings last week, including one [...]

Byline: Élie Petit and Sammy Westfall PARIS - France's traditional May Day parade celebrating workers' rights and achievements drew larger crowds than usual this year against the backdrop of fierce [...]

Byline: Claire Parker A top French court on Friday approved controversial legislation to raise the retirement age, clearing the way for the change to become law and securing a victory [...]

Byline: Claire Parker People across France are anxiously awaiting a court ruling Friday on the legality of controversial legislation to raise the retirement age that has sparked the country's most [...]

Byline: Claire Parker A top French court on Friday approved controversial legislation to raise the retirement age, clearing the way for the change to become law and giving a victory [...]

Byline: Claire Parker Protesters briefly invaded the building containing the office of a major global money manager and demonstrators scuffled with police in cities across France on Thursday in a [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis and Claire Parker The French government's plan to make people work two extra years before they can retire with a full pension has drawn such anger that [...]

Byline: Rick Noack, Emily Rauhala and Claire Parker PARIS - France was on a knife-edge Tuesday as thousands of people once again took to the streets in protest - and [...]

Byline: Rick Noack, Emily Rauhala and Claire Parker PARIS - France was on a knife-edge Tuesday as thousands of people once again took to the streets in protest - and [...]

Byline: Rick Noack, Ellen Francis and Annabelle Timsit PARIS - Protesters marched onto the train tracks at Gare du Lyon on Tuesday as France braces for hundreds of thousands of [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis and Claire Parker LONDON - A state visit to France by Britain's King Charles III, meant to be the first official trip of his reign, was postponed [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis and Claire Parker Strikes in France brought trains to a halt as more than a million protesters flooded the streets, clashing with police in some cities on [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis and Claire Parker Strikes brought trains to a halt in French cities and protesters flooded the streets on Thursday after President Emmanuel Macron pledged to implement legislation [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis French President Emmanuel Macron is addressing the nation Wednesday after his move to force through legislation to raise the retirement age ignited angry protests and strikes around [...]

Byline: Niha Masih and Rick Noack French politics remained in a state of upheaval on Friday, after President Emmanuel Macron's government forced through a contentious pension bill without a key [...]

Byline: Niha Masih Large-scale protests erupted across several French cities after President Emmanuel Macron's government forced through a contentious pension bill without a key Parliament vote, escalating a long-brewing crisis. [...]

Byline: Rick Noack PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron faces a key test of his second term on Thursday, as lawmakers vote on his controversial plans to raise the minimum [...]

Byline: Rick Noack PARIS - Although countries across Western Europe have been convulsed by strikes this winter, there have been few expressions of solidarity with the French unions that brought [...]

Byline: Rick Noack PARIS - The French government faced some of the biggest strikes in years on Thursday, which could evolve into weeks of discontent and a key challenge for [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan NEW YORK - Colombia's new leftist leader is proposing steps to decriminalize elements of his country's flourishing narcotics industry, signaling a potential break with a past hard-line [...]

Byline: Kareem Fahim An Iranian woman who slipped into a coma earlier this week after she was detained by so-called 'morality police' died Friday, state media reported, in a case [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt and Diana Durán BOGOTÁ, Colombia - It's the largest producer of cocaine in the world, the source of more than 90% of the drug seized in the [...]

Byline: Bryan Pietsch Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky floated 'civil partnerships' as a potential answer to calls for the legalization of same-sex marriage, a step he said would not be possible [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller and Regine Cabato MANILA - The priest led the widow along the winding cemetery path, past children playing among the tombs and food vendors with radios [...]

Byline: Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Seung Min Kim and Michael Kranish SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who had said during his recent campaign that he wanted [...]

Byline: Nitasha Tiku TikTok will suspend both live-streaming and new content from Russia in response to the country's new 'fake' news law, the video app said Sunday on its official [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan MOSCOW - A Russian court fined Google nearly $100 million Friday for 'systematic failure to remove banned content' - the largest such penalty yet in the country [...]

Byline: Danielle Paquette DAKAR, Senegal - Lawmakers in Senegal have drafted a bill that would double prison time for those convicted of engaging in same-sex relations and 'LGBTQ behaviors,' supporters [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan MOSCOW - More than 400 Iraqis boarded a repatriation flight from Minsk to Iraq on Thursday after unsuccessful attempts to enter the European Union at the Belarus-Poland [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan MOSCOW - Belarus used buses Wednesday to move hundreds of migrants from the Polish border to a nearby warehouse, providing temporary shelter amid freezing temperatures and potentially [...]

Byline: Loveday Morris and Robyn Dixon BERLIN - Polish authorities on Monday vowed to block the entry of hundreds of migrants gathered on its border with Belarus, where the government [...]

Byline: Grace Moon and Andrew Jeong SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea is considering a ban on dog meat consumption, officials said Tuesday, a day after President Moon Jae-in ordered [...]

Byline: Kareem Fahim ISTANBUL - Women marched in Istanbul and other cities late Thursday to protest Turkey's formal exit from a European treaty aimed at preventing violence against women, saying [...]

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a surprise decree early Saturday withdrawing Turkey from a landmark European treaty that women's rights groups said had played a critical role in [...]

Byline: Mary Beth Sheridan MEXICO CITY -- It's been less than seven weeks since Mexico agreed -- under fierce pressure from the Trump administration -- to clamp down on the [...]

Byline: Maya Averbuch;Mary Beth Sheridan MAPASTEPEC, Mexico -- When a huge caravan of migrants reached this southern Mexican town last fall, neighbors poured into the streets to help. A band [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola;Marina Lopes SAO PAULO, Brazil -- In President Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil, boys will be boys, and girls will be girls. And that's an order. Damares Alves, the evangelical [...]

Byline: Max Bearak The leading critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's expansive crackdown on drug dealers is facing an arrest warrant on drug-related charges that she described as 'simply surreal.' [...]

Byline: Mona Eltahawy Mona Eltahawy is a feminist author based in Cairo and New York City. She is the author of 'Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a [...]

Byline: Anna Fifield SEOUL, South Korea - In the 27 years since democracy arrived here, South Korea has become home to rowdy election campaigns, a vibrant protest culture and dozens [...]

The following editorial appeared in Thursday's Washington Post: Following a summit that produced an impressive batch of agreements on climate change, military exchanges, trade and visa liberalization, President Obama and [...]

The following editorial appeared in Thursday's Washington Post: The old trunk weighed more than 81 pounds. It was crammed with handwritten letters sent between 1946 and 1954 that were held [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum MOSCOW - The Russian Justice Ministry has moved to dissolve one of Russia's oldest human rights organizations, in a step that would silence a longtime Kremlin critic [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor WASHINGTON - While Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Russia's Chechen Republic, made his name as a leader during the brutal and chaotic Second Chechen War, nowadays his international [...]

Byline: David Nakamura and Ed O'Keefe WASHINGTON - Central American presidents sharply criticized Washington on Thursday for failing to address the root causes of violence and poverty in their countries [...]