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French government survives no-confidence votes over pensions

Mar. 21, 2023 00:38 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Parliament adopted a divisive pension bill Monday raising the retirement age in France from 62 to 64, after lawmakers in the lower chamber rejected two no-confidence votes against the government. But the bill pushed through by President Emmanuel Macron without...

Macron's leadership at risk amid tensions over pension plan

Mar. 19, 2023 17:28 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — A parody photo appearing on protest signs and online in France shows President Emmanuel Macron sitting on piles of garbage. It's both a reference to the trash going uncollected with Paris sanitation workers on strike — and to what many French people think about their leader. ...

Senegal's ex-prime minister in custody after criticism

Mar. 10, 2023 07:49 AM EST

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's former prime minister has been taken into custody after he publicly suggested that the country's president had funded a French politician during a recent visit. Cheikh Haguibou Soumare was detained Thursday but he has not been told the charges...

French lawmakers debate Macron's controversial pension bill

Feb. 06, 2023 12:58 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — France’s parliament on Monday started debating a deeply controversial pension bill aiming to raise the minimum retirement age that’s touched off a wave of strikes and large street demonstrations, with more protests set to come this week. The lower house, the...