Muslim women’s occupation in Shaheen Bagh neighborhood of Delhi began Dec. 15. Millions of people have taken to the streets in India in massive protests to denounce Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies that pose immediate threats to Muslims and their citizenship rights. On Dec. 11, he orchestrated passage of the . . .
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Gonaïves is the city where Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti to be independent Jan. 1, 1804. It has been traditional for the president of Haiti to go to Gonaïves on New Year’s Day for a celebration in its cathedral. Thousands of protesters joyously marched through the streets of Gonaïves on Jan. . . .
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January 5 marks the 32nd day of a strike involving hundreds of thousands of French workers against the Macron government’s plan for pension “reform.” The current retirement systems would be replaced by a single system based on “points” that a worker would accumulate. The over-65 poverty rate in France is . . .
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