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Over half a million march as France paralysed by strike
The strike has revived memories of the three-week-long strikes over pension reforms that crippled France in 1995 (AFP Photo/CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU) A nationwide ...House will draft Trump impeachment articles, Pelosi says
US President Donald Trump is likely to become just the third president in US history to be impeached by the House of ...58 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Scores of migrants who swam through rough Atlantic Ocean waters to safety from a capsized boat were receiving ...Pro-paramilitary demonstrators flood Iraqi protest camp
Mass rallies have rocked the capital and Shiite-majority south since early October, first denouncing government graft and a lack of jobs before ...Khamenei orders Iran unrest victims treated as ‘martyrs’
Iran has given no official figures for the number of people killed during last month’s protests but it has rejected high death ...Jailed Maldives ex-president allowed to travel to UK for surgery
The Maldives\' opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed, who is serving a 13-year jail term following a controversial trial, has been given permission to ...The Case Against Re-Banning Torture Yet Again
Senator Ron Wyden has a petition up at MoveOn.org that ...Nelson Mandela dies at age 95
Former South African President Nelson Mandela died peacefully at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection. He was 95.Central Africa coup leader Michel Djotodia sworn in as president
Former rebel leader Michel Djotodia was sworn in as president of the Central African Republic on Sunday, five months after seizing power ...