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Macron Says Unpopular Pension Reform Necessary, Will Enter Into Force by Year-End 

Macron Says Unpopular Pension Reform Necessary, Will Enter Into Force by Year-End 

President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said a deeply unpopular new law that raises the retirement age was necessary and would...

Ukraine Says Russian Drone Attack Kills 3 in Kyiv Region

Ukraine Says Russian Drone Attack Kills 3 in Kyiv Region

Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday an overnight Russian drone attack killed at least three people in the Kyiv region.  The state...

Putin-Xi Meeting Won’t End Ukraine War, Says White House

Putin-Xi Meeting Won’t End Ukraine War, Says White House

As Xi Jinping wraps up his three-day visit to Moscow, the White House expressed pessimism that the Chinese leader’s talks...

TikTok Updates Rules; CEO on Charm Offensive for US Hearing

TikTok Updates Rules; CEO on Charm Offensive for US Hearing

TikTok went on a counteroffensive Tuesday amid increasing Western pressure over cybersecurity and misinformation concerns, rolling out updated rules and...

Analysts Say Sentencing of Belarus Journalists is Retaliation for Coverage

Analysts Say Sentencing of Belarus Journalists is Retaliation for Coverage

The verdicts handed down last week to two senior members of the independent Belarusian news website TUT.by were condemned by...

Ukrainian Refugees in Israel Stuck in Legal Limbo

Ukrainian Refugees in Israel Stuck in Legal Limbo

While Europe and the United States have welcomed large numbers of Ukrainian refugees, many of them are in Israel, living...

US Says China Should Push Russia to End the War in Ukraine

US Says China Should Push Russia to End the War in Ukraine

U.S. officials are reacting to the joint statement by China and Russia on the Russian war on Ukraine. A statement...

Renewable Energy Sees Record Increase in 2022, Agency Says

Renewable Energy Sees Record Increase in 2022, Agency Says

Renewable energy saw a record increase in 2022 with capacity up almost 10% globally, the International Renewable Energy Agency said...

Quakes Stoke Istanbul’s Fears About Building Safety

Quakes Stoke Istanbul’s Fears About Building Safety

Istanbul, Europe’s largest city, was spared the wrath of Turkey’s February earthquakes, but its mayor warns bad building construction could...

Putin, Xi Call for Ukraine Peace Talks as Russian Leader Says West Not Ready

Putin, Xi Call for Ukraine Peace Talks as Russian Leader Says West Not Ready

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday signed a new strategic partnership between their countries and...

Niger Credited With Negotiating Release of US Aid Worker, French Journalist

Niger Credited With Negotiating Release of US Aid Worker, French Journalist

The government of Niger says it negotiated the release of a U.S. aid worker and a French journalist who were...

Paris’ Notre Dame Comes Closer to Reopening

Paris’ Notre Dame Comes Closer to Reopening

Next month marks an important step in the reconstruction of Paris’ iconic Notre Dame cathedral, heavily damaged by fire four...

UK Hits More Iranian Officials with Sanctions

UK Hits More Iranian Officials with Sanctions

The U.K. on Monday sanctioned more senior officials of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including financiers and commanders, in...

Russia to Hold UN Meeting on Ukrainian Children Taken to Russia

Russia to Hold UN Meeting on Ukrainian Children Taken to Russia

Russia plans to hold an informal meeting of the U.N. Security Council in early April on what it said is...

Putin Hosts Xi for Second Day of Talks After Welcoming China’s Ukraine Peace Plan

Putin Hosts Xi for Second Day of Talks After Welcoming China’s Ukraine Peace Plan

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a second day of talks Tuesday, after Putin welcomed Beijing’s...

Amazon Cuts 9,000 More Jobs, Bringing 2023 Total to 27,000

Amazon Cuts 9,000 More Jobs, Bringing 2023 Total to 27,000

Amazon plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to...

Ukrainian Artists Document Horrors of War in Warsaw Exhibit

Ukrainian Artists Document Horrors of War in Warsaw Exhibit

An art exhibit in Warsaw, Poland, brings together the works of Ukrainian artists who aim to document the brutality of...

US State Department Unveils 2022 Annual Human Rights Report

US State Department Unveils 2022 Annual Human Rights Report

Russia’s armed forces have committed “numerous war crimes and other atrocities” since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on...

China’s Xi Visits Russia’s Putin in Rare Show of Support

China’s Xi Visits Russia’s Putin in Rare Show of Support

Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a three-day visit to Moscow Monday seen as a rare show of support for Russian...

EU Ministers Consider Ammunition Plan for Ukraine

EU Ministers Consider Ammunition Plan for Ukraine

European Union foreign and defense ministers are meeting Monday in Brussels as they work to finalize a multi-prong plan to...

UBS Announces Credit Suisse Buyout to Calm Markets, but Asian Equities Sink

UBS Announces Credit Suisse Buyout to Calm Markets, but Asian Equities Sink

UBS is set to take over its troubled Swiss rival Credit Suisse for $3.25 billion following weekend crunch talks aimed...

Controversial Regasification Unit Arrives in Italy

Controversial Regasification Unit Arrives in Italy

A new floating storage and regasification unit considered crucial to Italy’s energy security arrived in Tuscany on Sunday, sparking local...