Yellow Vests

France's largest shutdown in decades turned violent on Thursday, after protesters in Paris and Nantes smashed windows and torched cars and riot police charged crowds and sprayed tear gas in response.  A general strike has paralyzed the country, as workers an…

Paris, France (CNN)The last time France reached for a universal pension system, Jacques Chirac was president, Alain Juppé was his prime minister and, like today, a wave of freezing cold had descended on the country. Juppé, hoping to balance the country's boo…

Just a year after the gilet jaunes (yellow vests) protests, France is preparing for one of the biggest strikes the country has seen in years. A controversial reform in the pension system proposed by President Emmanuel Macron has sparked fury among the worker…

As France begins its Christmas season, it is also steeling itself for what may be the most important general strike since 1995. The strike begins December 5th, and it is supported by 70% of France. That would normally be enough for a government to pull back …

France on Wednesday was preparing for one of its biggest nationwide strikes in years with stoppages by transport workers and teachers expected to paralyze the country in an intensifying showdown between President Emmanuel Macron and unions. Some 90 percent o…

Montpellier, France. On the eve of an unlimited (open-ended) General Strike called for Dec. 5, more and more unions and protest groups are pledging join it. Two things are unusual about this strike. The first is that it is open-ended, rather than the usual…

President Trump has kicked off his visit to London for a key NATO conference by raising questions over the wisdom of France’s President Macron saying the alliance was suffering a “brain death”, calling it insulting and pointing that France was suffering probl…

Asked aboard the papal plane about his telegrams to different Asian heads of state and his opinion on the Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations, the pope said that telegrams are just a formality and nothing should be read into them. Telegrams are sent to al…

This was the second large protest in two weeks organised by the grassroots movement called the Sardines, which held a rally in Bologna last Thursday that drew over 12,000 people. (Image for representational purpose) On Monday, more than 7,000 people gathered…

Paris (AFP) - The French government unveiled Wednesday bonuses for thousands of nurses as part of an emergency investment plan in the nation's hospital system, where anger has been growing in the face of heavy workloads and staffing shortages. Prime Minister…