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France's top constitutional court is to rule Friday on whether to approve President Emmanuel Macron's deeply unpopular pensions overhaul after three months of strikes and mass protests.

Two rights groups revealed on Thursday that Iran is using death penalty as an “execution machine” aimed at spreading fear as protests shook the country in 2022. According to Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and France's Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), Iran hanged 75 percent more people in 2022…

Amid the tense political atmosphere gripping France as the pension reform crisis continues, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Wednesday became the latest member of the Macron government to criticise the Human Rights League, one of France’s oldest NGOs, even accusing it of taking an “ambiguous” stance on Islamism in recent…

It has long been known that incomes in Australia are more evenly distributed than in the United States.

The new Netflix series tells the story of a rescue operation formed in 1940s Marseilles to help artists and refugees flee the Nazis

Although the airline sector hasn’t had the best run during the COVID-19 pandemic, its near-term outlook looks bright thanks to the pent-up travel demand. Given this backdrop, fundamentally strong airline stocks, International Consolidated Airlines (ICAGY), Air Canada (ACDVF), and Air France-KLM (AFLYY), might be ideal buys this week. Read on.

A travel ban on Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh was lifted on Thursday by prosecutor Ghada Aoun, the state news agency (NNA) reported. Salameh is part of a political class widely blamed for Lebanon's unprecedented economic crisis. He is the target of a series of judicial investigations both at…

Very low groundwater levels have put France on course for a worse summer drought than last year, mainly in the southern part of the country which had been ravaged by massive wildfires, French geological service BRGM said on Thursday.

The future of France’s contested pension reform is in the hands of the Constitutional Council, which will rule Friday on the constitutionality of a bill that was forced through parliament without a vote. So what is the council? And what are the possible outcomes?