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www.thelocal.fr
1 year ago
France politics

Rubbish piles up in strike-bound Paris

Senators passed the reforms by 195 votes to 112, bringing the package another step closer to becoming law.A committee will now hammer out a final draft, which will then be submitted to both the Senate and National Assembly for a final vote.An important step was taken this evening with a broad vote on the pension reform text in the Senate, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne told AFP after the vote, adding that she believed the government had a parliamentary majority to get the reforms passed into law.
www.thelocal.fr
1 year ago
France politics

French Senate approves pensions reform as protests appear to lose steam

Senators passed the reforms by 195 votes to 112, bringing the package another step closer to becoming law.A committee will now hammer out a final draft, which will then be submitted to both the Senate and National Assembly for a final vote.An important step was taken this evening with a broad vote on the pension reform text in the Senate, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne told AFP after the vote, adding that she believed the government had a parliamentary majority to get the reforms passed into law.
www.france24.com
1 year ago
France politics

French Senate approves Macron's pension reform as strikes continue

Senators attend a session in the French Senate in Paris, July 16, 2020.Bertrand Guay, AFP France's Senate voted late Saturday to approve a deeply unpopular reform to the country's pension system, hours after demonstrators took to the streets to oppose the cornerstone policy of President Emmanuel Macron's second term in office.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
France news

Macron's pension reforms pass French senate vote

France's senate has voted to approve a deeply unpopular reform to pensions, hours after demonstrators took to the streets again to oppose the cornerstone policy of Emmanuel Macron's second presidential term.Senators passed the reforms by 195 votes to 112, bringing the package another step closer to becoming law.
www.france24.com
1 year ago
France news

French protesters take to the streets to rally against Macron's pension plan

01:51 Protesters hold a banner reading "retirement at 64 years old, it's no" during a demonstration, as part of a nationwide day of strikes and protests called by unions over the proposed pensions overhaul, in Nantes on March 11, 2023.Sebastien Salom-Gomis, AFP Demonstrators in France took to the streets Saturday for a seventh day of protest against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plans, with police expecting up to a million people at rallies nationwide.
www.thelocal.fr
1 year ago
France politics

Hundreds of thousands take to streets against Macron's pension plan

Unions hope they can still force Macron to back down as parliament debates the draft law, with the National Assembly and the Senate moving towards a final vote as early as this month.This is the final stretch, said Marylise Leon, deputy leader of the CFDT union.The endgame is now, she told the franceinfo broadcaster Saturday.
Theregister
1 year ago
DevOps

Amazon Modular Data Center targets US DoD customers

AWS is pitching a Modular Data Center (MDC) at the US government, with the aim of making it easier to deploy makeshift bitbarns managed by AWS in remote locations.Amazon's cloudy business says that AWS MDC is available as a self-contained modular datacenter unit for US Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, which can scale by deploying additional units.
www.aljazeera.com
1 year ago
Environment

Will the World Cup in Qatar be carbon-neutral?

Environmental groups have questioned claims by World Cup organisers that the tournament will be carbon-neutral.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Toronto

Animal rescue groups upset with federal decision to ban dogs from countries at risk of canine rabies | CBC News

Spokespeople for animal rescue and rights groups say they are upset with a Canadian Food Inspection Agency decision to ban the entry of "commercial dogs" into Canada from countries at risk of dog rabies.
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