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The government is again trying to insert itself into women's childbearing decisions, knocking on doors and making calls with questions some find downright invasive. The first time a government worker [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: OLEG CETINIC, ANGELA CHARLTON; ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS -- French union activists marched on the headquarters of the Paris Olympics and slowed traffic at the capital's Orly Airport with strikes [...]

Byline: RITA ABRAHAMSEN Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa Being gay in Uganda has never been easy. It just got a [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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: Rachelle Chase, Des Moines Register, USA TODAY NETWORK LGBTQ Ugandans are being threatened and beaten as their president weighs signing legislation that would make merely identifying as LGBTQ a [...]

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. [...]

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: TONY KELLER; Staff France is having a pension crisis. On Thursday, in advance of a decision from the country's constitutional court, protesters piled mounds of garbage in front of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]