PARIS — The French National Assembly rejected a no-confidence motion against the government of President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, ensuring that a fiercely contested bill raising the retirement age to 64 from 62 becomes the law of the land. The first of two motions received 278 votes, nine short of the 287 needed to pass. […]
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Pension Vote Looms in France After Protests: Live Updates
France’s Senate approved President Emmanuel Macron’s widely unpopular plans to raise the retirement age by two years on Thursday, setting the stage for a decisive, if far more unpredictable, vote in the National Assembly, the lower house, later in the day. After waves of protests and rolling strikes that disrupted public transportation and left garbage […]
Support for Tunisian President Slipping After Parliament Vote
Tunisia, the only Arab country to emerge from the Arab Spring protests of more than a decade ago with a democracy, has not had a Parliament since its president suspended the assembly and established one-man rule in July 2021. But when the names of the North African country’s newly elected members of Parliament were finally […]
Iran Ousted From UN Women’s Rights Agency in US-backed Vote
Iran was kicked out of the United Nations women’s agency on Wednesday in a U.S.-led vote that comes months into Tehran’s brutal crackdown on an uprising organized by women and young people demanding the end of the Islamic Republic’s rule. The resolution, backed by 29 members of the U.N. Economic and Social Council, was the […]