Yellow Vests

French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, both expressed hope on Monday that the election of Volodymyr Zelenskiy as Ukrainian leader had boosted chances of ending a long-running conflict in eastern Ukraine a conflict Macron…

Bormes-les-Mimosas (France) (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday vowed to prevent the emergence of any mass demonstrations in Moscow like the "yellow vest" anti-government protests that erupted in France late last year. "We would not want such …

BORMES-LES-MIMOSAS (FRANCE) - French President Emmanuel Macron and Russia's Vladimir Putin on Monday agreed changes in Ukraine had bolstered the chances of peace in its east but clashed on Syria, as the Russian leader made a rare bilateral visit to a key EU p…

Bormes-les-Mimosas (France) (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron and Russia's Vladimir Putin on Monday agreed changes in Ukraine had bolstered the chances of peace in its east but clashed on Syria, as the Russian leader made a rare bilateral visit to a ke…

MOSCOW (AP) Russia's lower house of parliament on Monday set up a commission to examine alleged cases of foreign interference in connection with a series of protests against the Moscow city council election, while President Vladimir Putin defended the harsh p…

(Bloomberg) -- Macrons quiet summer season could turn to discontent in the fall. President Emmanuel Macron has spent three weeks in the Cote dAzur, south of France, alternating between the beach and preparing for a delicate G-7 summit on Aug. 24. The preside…

French president Emmanuel Macron and MPs of his party La République En Marche (LREM) are not usually prone to vocally opposing police violence. Otherwise, one assumes, they would have spoken out about the yellow vest protesters who have lost eyes and hands to…

Some have lost eyes and hands in the police response. The public has begun to view the smell of tear gas as a normal part of a weekend in Paris. France is 29 miles from the coast of England. Siri just told me that “Hong Kong is about 5,992 miles…

* Moscow has been convulsed by weeks of protests * Protesters want free elections in Russian capital * Police have used force to break up protests * Kremlin backs tough response, plays down demos (Recasts with context, quotes, details) By Andrew Osborn an…

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast PARISFrom Algeria to Hong Kong, Sudan to Puerto Rico, people all over the world have been turning out in the streets this year to confront policies and regimes that previously seemed all but invulnerab…