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Mad Max in paradise: New Caledonia in turmoil
The Economist· 3 days agoFor more than a week, the poor, indigenous Kanak minority had been protesting against French rule. Now, at the end of a long promenade lined with coconut...
European Election Farmers
Leader-Telegram· 3 days agoThe Flemish Interest Party holds a demonstration for farmers protesting changes in farming policy in Beersel, Belgium, Friday, May 31, 2024. Like other...
A novel about French ennui that sells you American clichés
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAnna, a French psychotherapist, wants things. She wants to sleep with her bisexual and beautiful...
Tractors rumble in streets again ahead of EU polls. Farming is a big issue and the far right pounces
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoThe far-right Flemish Interest party had set up the demonstration in the picture-pretty rolling...
Hardline farmers back in Brussels to protest EU policies
AFP via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHundreds of tractors from across Europe rolled into Brussels on Tuesday in a protest spearheaded by...
A Holocaust museum cut a survivor from its speaker's list — for protesting the war in Gaza
The Forward· 6 days agoHolocaust survivor Rene Lichtman, 86, laid down in the road outside a Detroit-area Holocaust museum...
Public Holidays in France & How the French Celebrate Them
MediaFeed via AOL· 3 days agoFrance celebrates eleven public holidays each year, which is the second highest number of annual...
Meet the climate catastrophe victim filing a criminal case against the bosses of oil firm Total
Euronews via Yahoo News· 7 days agoUnder the French legal system, complaints can be filed “against X”, leaving it open to the...
When Anti-Fur Protesters Are at the Front Door
New York Times· 3 days agoThe designer Marc Jacobs said he was bullied into renouncing fur — which he claims his brand stopped using in 2018 — after activists targeted his...
On This Day in History - June 2nd - Almanac - UPI.com
UPI· 5 days agoOn June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, extending...
