France's President Emmanuel Macron faces more nationwide protests on Monday as he seeks to steer the country on from a divisive pension law that has sparked anger, pan-bashing and social unrest.. France has been rocked by a dozen days of nationwide strikes and protests against Macron and his pension changes since mid-January, some of which have turned violent.
The fur of Costa Rican sloths appears to harbor antibiotic-producing bacteria that scientists hope may hold a solution to the growing problem of "superbugs" resistant to humanity's dwindling arsenal of drugs.. However, microbial resistance to antibiotics has been a growing problem, meaning some medicines no longer work to fight the infections they were designed to treat.
The hoax that rape was legal for a day was knocked down by fact-checkers two years ago.. Stopping a wildfire hoax, Duclos said, is down to users "exercising due diligence before resharing misinformation" -- which in this case could be a simple keyword search of "national rape day" that leads to multiple fact-checks from credible outlets.
Paraguayans on Sunday elected a president from the rightwing party in power for nearly eight decades, rejecting a center-left challenger who had railed against endemic institutional corruption.. Sixty-year-old challenger Efrain Alegre of the Concertacion center-left coalition garnered nearly 27.5 percent despite having gone into the vote with a narrow lead in opinion polls.
Quick to smile and described as affable, Paraguay's new President Santiago Pena, 44, is the fresh face of an old institution -- the conservative Colorado Party that has ruled the South American country for nearly eight decades.. Pena served as finance minister under Cartes, who is the leader of the Colorado Party.
Shovels in hand and helmets on heads, Ukrainian soldiers jumped out of a military truck and prepare to dig a trench near Bakhmut, in the conflict-hit east of the country.. The soldiers ran to the vehicle, some with shovels still in hand.
Morocco should investigate alleged failures that led to a football fan's death when a massive crowd filled a Casablanca stadium beyond capacity, a local official told AFP on Sunday.. Local authorities said on Saturday they had launched a probe into the causes of the fan's death, but Glaibi and others are demanding a broader investigation into the deadly incident.
At least 10 people were killed overnight when heavily armed assailants opened fire outside a shop in Guayaquil, Ecuador's main port city and economic hub that is under a state of emergency due to rising drug violence, police said Sunday.. - Washing away the blood - Two weeks ago, in the northwestern province of Esmeraldas, some 30 gunmen opened fire in a fishing port, killing nine people.
Russian fashion designer Viacheslav "Slava" Zaitsev, dubbed the "Soviet Christian Dior", has died at the age of 85, his fashion house told AFP Sunday.. The French press in the 1960s dubbed him the "Soviet Christian Dior".
Christie's auction house will next week launch the sale of hundreds of jewels that belonged to Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten, whose German businessman husband made his fortune under the Nazis.. Four hundred of the Horten lots will be sold at Christie's Geneva auction house from May 10 to 12.
