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3/17/2023 6:21:41 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron's government on Friday faced no-confidence motions in parliament and intensified protests after imposing a contentious pension reform without a vote in the lower house.
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3/17/2023 3:31:59 PM
Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote disrupted traffic, garbage collection, and university campuses in Paris as opponents of the change maintained their resolve to get the government to back down.
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3/17/2023 2:14:35 PM
Hundreds of elite officers in Israel’s military reserves say they will not show up for duty starting on Sunday in protest over the government's plans to overhaul the judicial system.
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3/17/2023 1:34:42 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday faced intensified protests and a no-confidence motion in parliament after pushing through a contentious pension reform without a vote in the lower house.
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3/16/2023 1:53:36 PM
More than 40,000 people in Greece demonstrated nationwide on Thursday to express outrage against last month's train tragedy that killed 57 people, police said, while labor unions went on a general strike grounding flights and extensively disrupting services across the country.
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3/16/2023 11:36:25 AM
France’s standoff over a bill raising the retirement age heads toward a climax Thursday, either via a parliamentary vote or through a special presidential move to force it through the legislature.
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3/15/2023 8:38:07 PM
Iranian activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian walked free Wednesday after over four years behind bars, defiantly shouting slogans against supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling for the release of fellow political prisoners.
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3/13/2023 1:26:13 PM
Iran announced Monday that the country's supreme leader has pardoned 22,000 people arrested in the recent anti-government protests that swept the Islamic Republic.
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3/12/2023 6:56:31 PM
A contentious bill that would raise the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 got a push forward with the Senate’s adoption of the measure amid strikes, protests and uncollected garbage piling higher by the day.
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3/12/2023 1:39:35 PM
Thousands of demonstrators staged fresh protests in Greece on Sunday as anger grows over the country's deadliest rail crash, ratcheting up pressure on the government over the tragedy.
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3/11/2023 9:37:02 PM
When rioters stormed Brazil’s top government buildings in January to dispute the outcome of the presidential election, many soldiers stood by as far-right protesters broke windows, defecated in offices and destroyed valuable art.
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3/11/2023 5:27:57 PM
Demonstrators in France took to the streets Saturday for a seventh day of protest against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plans, with police expecting up to a million people at rallies nationwide.
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3/9/2023 10:46:50 AM
Israeli protesters on Thursday were intensifying their opposition to a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary, with plans to block Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's route to the airport ahead of an official trip overseas and as the U.S. defense secretary was visiting.
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3/8/2023 10:46:32 AM
Women were beginning to hit the streets en masse across the globe on Wednesday to defend rights that are coming under increasing attack.
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3/7/2023 10:29:24 PM
More than a million people marched in France and strikes disrupted transport and schools on Tuesday during mass protests against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to push back the retirement age to 64.
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3/6/2023 7:36:19 PM
Thousands of Nigerian opposition supporters protested Monday against the country’s presidential election results, as calls for a revote intensified.
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3/3/2023 2:52:29 PM
Greek police raided a train station Friday as part of their probe into the rail collision that killed at least 57 people, as the nation braced for new strikes and protests over the disaster.
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3/1/2023 4:24:06 PM
Weeks of anti-government protests in Israel turned violent on Wednesday for the first time as police fired stun grenades and a water cannon at demonstrators who blocked a Tel Aviv highway. The crackdown came shortly after Israel's hard-line security minister urged a tough response to what he said were "anarchists."
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2/27/2023 10:39:49 AM
Turkey said on Monday that NATO accession talks with Sweden and Finland would be held next month, after being postponed in January over a row about protests held in Stockholm.
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2/23/2023 6:08:12 PM
An Israeli parliamentary committee on Thursday approved new funding for Benjamin Netanyahu and his family, giving the prime minister a boost in personal spending at a time when he is facing mass protests over his policies and as the economy is on shaky ground.
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