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President Emmanuel Macron is facing a crucial test this week as the battle over his unpopular plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is set to reach a peak in the streets and at parliament, deepening a widely shared feeling that he doesn’t hear the grievances of …

Two foreign tourists, German and Swiss nationals, have died after the vehicle they were traveling in veered off the road and overturned in Kenya’s Maasai Mara national reserve, police said Sunday. The crash happened after the vehicle car got stuck in the mud and veered off the road on Saturday, …

Local authorities said Monday that at least five members of a Nicaraguan indigenous group were killed and three others wounded in an attack by suspected settlers over the weekend. Amaru Ruiz, director of the Del Río Foundation, said some of the victims’ bodies were mutilated. Ruiz said the attackers burned …

Archeologists are hopeful that an ancient Roman aristocrat’s remains recently unearthed in northern England will shed light on the region’s transition from Roman rule to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that followed around 1,600 years ago.  Described as a “once-in-a-lifetime find,” the cemetery contains the remains of both late-Roman people, such as …

The killer whale named Kiska at Canada’s Marineland theme park, the country’s last captive orca who swam alone in her tank for more than a decade, has died. Brent Ross, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Solicitor General in Ontario that oversees animal welfare in the province, said Monday …

A group of Iranian teen girls are being sought by police for posting a TiKTok video of themselves dancing to a Selena Gomez song.  The video, being widely shared online, shows five teen girls dancing without headscarves in front of tower blocks in western Tehran to the song “Calm Down” …

The president of Mexico on Monday claimed that his country was safer than the U.S. in response to the criticism he has received over the nation’s security, particularly for tourists.  “Mexico is safer than the United States. There’s no problem with traveling safely around Mexico,” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez …

As war between Russia and Ukraine rages next door, Poland has been ramping up defense spending and modernizing its outdated military equipment.  Worried they could one day be in the crosshairs of the Kremlin, Poland aims to spend 4% of its GDP on defense this year. That’s double the NATO …

Saudi Arabia has executed a Jordanian man whose loved ones said he was tortured into giving a false confession to drug-related charges.  Hussein Abu al-Khair, 57, was arrested in 2014 after being accused of smuggling amphetamines while crossing into Saudi Arabia from Jordan, the BBC reported. He was later sentenced …

The international community and the Syrian government did not act quickly last month to help people in need in the rebel-held northwest after a deadly earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, a U.N. commission said Monday. The Feb. 6 magnitude 7.8 earthquake and strong aftershocks that ravaged southern Turkey and northwestern …