Yahoo News Strikes across France over pension reform disrupt transport & energy production
Workers in many French cities took to the streets Thursday to reject proposed pension changes that would push back the retirement age.
Workers in many French cities took to the streets Thursday to reject proposed pension changes that would push back the retirement age.
Sean Gallup-Pool/Getty ImagesRussia’s top diplomat said the actions of Western nations could soon turn Moldova into the “next Ukraine,” according to TASS.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Moldovan President Maia Sandu of being “eager to join NATO.” Sandu, Lavrov said, is “ready to unite with Romania and in fact, to do almost anything.”Romania is a member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was created to provide collective security against Russia.Lavrov’s comments ap
It comes as Moscows is expected to launch a new offensive to mark one-year since it first invaded Ukraine.
North Korea had planned to send workers to help Russia rebuild occupied parts of eastern Ukraine in November, Daily NK reported.
"Again and again we have to repel the aggression of the collective West," Putin said as Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine continues.
Letter: The decision was made by the Conservative government, not by the people in the Brexit referendum, says Prof Paul Willner
ReutersLess than a week after North Korea promised to “always stand in the same trench” with Russia, it seems even Pyongyang is losing faith in Vladimir Putin’s war machine.After promising last November to help Russia rebuild bombed out parts of occupied eastern Ukraine, North Korean authorities picked out laborers to send and then even recruited some more—but they have now thought better of sending them, according to Daily NK.“This is because they were going to rush the workers over if Russia q
Spencer Platt/GettyPrisoners recruited by Russia’s Wagner Group to fight in Ukraine seem to be increasingly realizing they’ve been duped, and that no one ever counted on bringing them back alive.One inmate recruited by the group back in November has absconded from his team in Ukraine’s Luhansk region and fled to Russia by bus and ride-sharing app, where he says he is now hiding out in fear of revenge.“We thought we’d be equal with the hired fighters, that we wouldn’t be any different, but in rea
Russians who are incensed by Putin's invasion are sending 'significant amounts of money' via unusual and unexpected sources, says Ukraine's deputy digital minister.
ANALYSIS: Senior Italian government officials say that the economic and social turbulence in Britain that has followed the withdrawal from the EU has been eye-opening, writes Kim Sengupta
In an interview with Hugh Hewitt, Trump went on a tirade against news outlets that reported on Russian interference during the 2016 election.
The former British prime minister said it seems like Republicans are "frightened of a guy called Tucker Carlson."
Israel has a complicated relationship with Russia, which is cozying up to Iran but letting Israel freely target Iran-linked operations in Syria.
Shell should invest more of the money in the UK, Downing Street suggest
The United States Department of Defense said on Thursday, February 2, it had detected and was tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon in US airspace.The Pentagon said the balloon was traveling well above commercial air traffic and did not "present a military or physical threat to people on the ground.“Instances of this kind of balloon activity have been observed previously over the past several years,” the Pentagon said. “Once the balloon was detected, the [US] government acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information.”According to an Associated Press report, “One of the places the balloon was spotted was Montana, which is home to one of the nation’s three nuclear missile silo fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base.”Footage taken by Chase Doak in Billings, Montana, captured an unusual object visible in the sky amid reports of sightings and a ground stop in the area.Storyful could not independently verify the object. Credit: Chase Doak via Storyful
‘There’s people that think that I said a phrase called Jewish space lasers – a phrase that I never said’
Trump’s situation is more perilous because of his reluctance to cooperate and his suspected obstruction of justice
By pointing at Keir Starmer and saying ‘you’re just as bad as I am’, Rishi Sunak is only making his position worse
Two House Republicans blurted out what they really thought about Thursday's vote to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar in what they thought was private.
Stratospheric balloons can provide high-resolution photographs of the ground below for a fraction of the cost of a satellite.
Mr Trump’s attorney has already been hit with nearly $1m in sanctions in a separate federal case