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Pop-punkers Sum 41 canceled two Paris concerts after an explosive device was detonated outside the venue — although event runners insist it was just firecrackers from city-wide protests, according to reports. “During load-in for tonight’s performance in Pari…

The people are angry with their government.  Where? Just about everywhere. So what makes ongoing strikes in France so special?  Nothing, perhaps, except a certain expectation based on history that French uprisings can produce important changes or if not, can …

This is the unnerving moment an injured young man is repeatedly punched by a riot policeman in Paris. Mobile phone footage caught the officer striking the man repeatedly as fellow officers hold back protesters outside the Gare de l'est station, north Paris. …

French police fired teargas under a rain of projectiles and arrested dozens of people on Saturday as thousands of "yellow vest" anti-government protesters returned to the streets of Paris. Demonstrators shouted slogans denouncing the police, President Emmanu…

PARIS: French police fired tear gas under a rain of projectiles and arrested dozens of people on Saturday (Jan 18) as thousands of "yellow vest" anti-government protesters returned to the streets of Paris. Demonstrators shouted slogans denouncing the police,…

One form of collateral damage — to use an odious term — from the recent Mideast assassination and shootdown, is that they undermined a series of popular protests occurring in Iraq and Iran. Iran alone saw protests against corruption and repression that spread…

The nationwide general strike in France, now entering its record seventh week, seems to be approaching its crisis point. Despite savage police repression, about a million people are in the streets protesting President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed neoliberal “reform” of France’s retirement system, established at the end of World War II…

Trump blinked. After threatening to bomb military and cultural sites in Iran, President Donald Trump has apparently backed down on further escalation in his quasi-war with Iran. He tried to spin his decision as a US victory, claiming his administrati…

French President Emmanuel Macron has scrapped plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, as tens of thousands of anti-government activists - many donning yellow vests - returned to the streets of Paris and elsewhere on Saturday to protest the proposed p…