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Mounds of food waste piled in view of the Eiffel Tower.Small cobblestone streets lined with overflowing garbage bins.The bank of the Seine skirted by heaps of trash.For more than a week now, garbage workers in parts of Paris and other cities across France have been on strike, protesting President Emmanuel Macron's plan to raise the age when most workers begin collecting a government pension to 64, from 62.

Although largely upstaged by former President Donald Trump's federal indictment, the Supreme Court's voting rights decision is likely to have a game-changing impact for many years to come.What the court decided is almost as surprising as who decided it.By a 5-to-4 vote, justices from the conservative and liberal sides came together to reaffirm the court's 1986 ruling on how legislative districts must be drawn under the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, as amended in 1982.

In Traffic, former Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith weaves a cautionary tale about journalism focused on going viral'.In their desperate attempt to go viral, digital media succeeded in disrupting and modernising traditional media outlets.But what has the price been?Has the quality of information been sacrificed for content that will bring clicks and views?

Issued on: 02/05/2023 - 13:15 People attend the traditional May Day labour march, a day of mobilisation against the French pension reform law in Nantes on May 1, 2023 Stephane Mahe, Reuters French trade unions on Tuesday announced a new nationwide day of protests on June 6 against President Emmanuel Macron's decision to increase the retirement age by two years to 64.

French unions have called for a show of force with a final day of strikes and protests in the run-up to a crucial vote on Emmanuel Macron's fiercely contest pensions overhaul in parliament.The call for an eighth day of national mobilisation on Wednesday comes as rubbish piles up in Paris and a number of other French cities after continuing strikes by refuse collectors who oppose the bill that will increase the official retirement age from 62 to 64.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Roads blocked, oil refineries disrupted, planes grounded and trains halted unions are threatening to shut down France's economy this week in what they hope is their toughest riposte yet to President Emmanuel Macron's plan to raise the retirement age.

Among the crowd of tens of thousands of mostly young people, protesters said Macron's defiance and abrasive ruling style had motivated them to hit the streets.Chief among the complaints was his decision last Thursday to ram the pensions legislation through parliament without a vote after it emerged that his minority government did not have enough support among MPs.

Rubbish collectors, utility workers and train drivers are among those taking strike action across France to show their anger at a bill raising the retirement age to 64.
ore than 250 protests are expected in Paris and around the country in what organisers hope is their biggest show of force yet against President Emmanuel Macron's legislation, after nearly two months of demonstrations.

The day would be historic, we were told.France would be blocked or closed down and its economy brought to its knees.Demonstrations against pension reform would be the biggest for decades.Tuesday's day of action the sixth since the protests began in January was impressive enough.The official figure for the number of demonstrators nationwide 1.28 million WAS the biggest for decades but it was only a little higher than the turnout achieved on January 31st (1.27 million).

Labour's frontbench has been invited to Aberdeen to receive a balanced view on the energy transition, after leader Sir Keir Starmer said the party would not invest in new oil and gas if in government.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, the Labour leader called for a clean power alliance, which he described as a reverse Opec, to accelerate climate action and bring down global energy prices.

01:36 Passengers queue during a strike at Gare de Lyon in Paris on December 2, 2022.Stephane de Sakutin, AFP Most trains will be cancelled in France on Thursday, with flights also affected and Paris' subway heavily disrupted, as part of a nationwide strike against the government's plan to make people work longer before they can retire.

Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's prime minister, speaks during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, US, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022.Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov walked out of a UN Security Council meeting where the US and its allies were criticizing President Vladimir Putin's government over the invasion of Ukraine, in a stark demonstration of the divisions opened up by the war.

PHOENIX  A judge has thrown out Republican Kari Lake's challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor's race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, rejecting her claim that problems with ballot printers at some polling places on Election Day were the result of intentional misconduct.In a decision Saturday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson, who was appointed by then-Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, found that the court did not find clear and convincing evidence of the widespread misconduct that Lake had alleged had affected the result of the 2022 general election.

The Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has survived five censure motions in the last week.She has used the emergency clause in the constitution  Article 49.3   to short circuit parliamentary debate on three occasions.Use of Article 49.3 is, theoretically, a last resort.It will become a weekly event, maybe even bi-weekly, in the next couple of months.