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Pope Francis on Friday blasted the adolescent belligerence that brought war back to Europe and said the continent must recover its founding spirit of peaceful unity to confront Russia's war in Ukraine.Francis outlined his vision for the future of Europe as he began a three-day visit to Hungary.In a carefully calibrated speech, he demanded that the European Union approve safe and legal ways for migrants to enter and for the Hungarian government not to hold Europe hostage to populist demands.

Britain on Wednesday defended its decision to supply Ukraine with weapons made with depleted uranium, a day after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia falsely claimed the material had a nuclear component.Britain's government has confirmed that it would provide Ukraine with armor-piercing shells that contain depleted uranium, alongside its Challenger 2 tanks, which use them.

Violence broke out between protesters and security forces for a third night in central Paris on Saturday over the government's ducking of a parliamentary vote on unpopular pension reforms.President Emmanuel Macron's overhaul will raise the standard retirement age by two years to 64, which he says is essential to ensure the system does not go bust.

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Before the Ukraine war, Volodymyr Zelenskyy travelled to western European capitals as a junior partner, one of many leaders of poorer eastern countries looking for aid and attention.

The coronavirus caused by far the biggest disruption in the history of American education, Meira Levinson and Daniel Markovits wrote in The Atlantic last year.Things have not reverted back to normal as COVID has gradually lost its grip on American life.Today's teachers and students are living with a set of altered realities, and they may be for the rest of their lives: Shrinking enrollments.

One of the Edinburgh Fringe festival's most popular venues could be at risk of legal action, lawyers have warned, after staff refused to work at an event with the SNP MP Joanna Cherry.The MP has been outspoken in her opposition to self-identification for transgender people.The Stand Comedy Club said that Cherry's planned appearance during the Fringe Festival in August had been cancelled because key operational staff were unwilling to work with her.

Visitors to Westminster Abbey this summer will be invited to walk in their socks on its medieval Cosmati pavement to mark the coronation of King Charles III.A special programme of events has been announced by the abbey, including a new guided tour, which will take place after the coronation on 6 May.

Visitors to Westminster Abbey are to be allowed to stand in socks for the first time in the exact spot where the King will be crowned.Special guided barefoot tours in celebration of the May 6 coronation will include access to the Cosmati pavement, one of Britain's greatest medieval art treasures, which is usually roped off to the public.

Protesters angry with president Emmanuel Macron and his plan to raise the pension age clashed with police across France on Thursday as demonstrations and strikes threaten to overshadow King Charles' official visit this weekend.In central Paris, police used tear gas after protesters threw projectiles and set fire to uncollected rubbish piled high in the streets.

The protests over pension reform are the gravest challenge to President Macron's authority since 2018 Yellow Vest' demonstrations.Riot police clashed with protesters for a second night in Paris as demonstrations continued against the government's plans to raise the French pension age.The growing unrest since the start of the year, which has resulted in a wave of strikes and rubbish piling up on the streets of the French capital, has left President Emmanuel Macron with the gravest challenge to his authority since the so-called Gilets Jaunes or Yellow Vest protests of December 2018.

By Sylvie Corbet and Barbara Surk | Associated Press PARIS Angry protesters took over the streets in Paris on Friday, trying to pressure lawmakers to bring down French President Emmanuel Macron's government and doom the unpopular retirement age increase he's trying to impose without a vote in the National Assembly.

Paris police said Tuesday that 234 people were arrested overnight in the capital mostly for setting fire to garbage in the streets, after France's parliament adopted a divisive bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 pushed that was through by President Emmanuel Macron.Mostly small, scattered protests were held in cities around France, some degenerating late Monday into violent incidents.

Protests have continued in France after parliament adopted a divisive Bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 which was pushed through by President Emmanuel Macron.n Paris, small groups took to the streets on Tuesday to set fire to piles of rubbish which have formed due to a strike by waste collectors which is in its 16th day.

France was waiting for President Emmanuel Macron's next steps on Tuesday after his government barely survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament, ensuring that his unpopular pension overhaul became law but doing little to quell the swirling political uncertainty about the future of his second term.Despite months of massive street protests and strikes, Mr. Macron has said little publicly about his pension overhaul, which increases the legal retirement age to 64, from 62, and he had mostly left members of his cabinet to defend it.

Oil workers on strike block the access to an oil depot in Foss-sur-Mer, southern France, Tuesday, March 21, 2023.The bill pushed through by President Emmanuel Macron without lawmakers' approval still faces a review by the Constitutional Council before it can be signed into law.Meanwhile, oil shipments in the country were disrupted amid strikes at several refineries in western and southern France.

Protesters disrupted traffic in Paris on Friday as angry critics, political opponents and labor unions around France blasted President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote.Opposition parties were expected to start procedures later Friday for a no-confidence vote on the government led by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.

Protesters have disrupted traffic in Paris as angry critics, political opponents and labour unions around France blast President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force a Bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote.pposition parties are expected to start procedures later on Friday for a confidence vote in the government led by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.

Russia has launched a drone and missile attack on targets in the south and east of Ukraine, according to officials and local residents who reported hearing loud explosions.Air raid sirens sounded in much of the country late on Thursday night.Serhiy Lysak, the military administrator in the Dnipropetrovsk region, said Shahed drones were detected on their way to the area.

We in the in the Alameda Unified School District would like to extend the happiest of Happy New Year greetings to the Alameda community and a genuine thank-you, as always, for the many ways you help our students, staff, and families.School districts cannot thrive without the support of their communities, and just as this district prides itself on being a good neighbor, so too are we ever-grateful for the neighborly way this community treats its district.

The Pentagon will keep several thousand American troops in southeast Romania for at least nine more months, closer to the war in neighboring Ukraine than any other U.S. Army unit, officials said on Saturday.Over the last year, the sprawling Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, just a seven-minute rocket flight across the Black Sea from where Russian forces have settled in Crimea, has become a training hub for NATO forces in southeast Europe.

Testing is a crucial part of software development that helps ensure that an application is functioning correctly and is free of bugs.There are many different types of tests that can be performed on an application, and two of the most important are unit tests and integration tests.Unit tests focus on individual components or small groups of components and check that they function correctly in isolation.