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The final tally confirms that the left has the most seats in the National Assembly, with the far right third. Now, there’s a scramble to figure out a way forward. [...]

Byline: Catherine Porter New Caledonia, a French territory in the Pacific, is on the brink of civil war as pro-independence activists protest a law that would expand voting rights. President [...]

New Caledonia, a French territory in the Pacific, is on the brink of civil war as pro-independence activists protest a law that would expand voting rights. President Emmanuel Macron of [...]

Legislators passed an amendment giving women the ''guaranteed freedom'' to end their pregnancies, which experts called a global first. French legislators on Monday voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion [...]

Legislators passed an amendment giving women the “guaranteed freedom” to end their pregnancies, which experts called a global first. French legislators on Monday voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion [...]

The authorities warned residents to brace for disruptions as farmers converged on the capital to press a wide range of grievances. Irate farmers deployed tractors to block the main roads [...]

Nearly a quarter of lower-house lawmakers in President Emmanuel Macron's coalition abstained or voted against a proposed overhaul. Government leaders denied a revolt was underway. President Emmanuel Macron of France [...]

Nearly a quarter of lower-house lawmakers in President Emmanuel Macron’s coalition abstained or voted against a proposed overhaul. Government leaders denied a revolt was underway. President Emmanuel Macron of France [...]

The French leader was elected twice on a vow to keep populism at bay. But his bill received rare support from the far right, setting off a crisis in his [...]

The almost simultaneous police killing of Nahel Merzouk and a ban on head scarves in soccer were coincidental, but they illuminate France's crisis of identity and inclusion. Mama Diakité is [...]

Byline: Catherine Porter and Andrea Mantovani The ancient wooden doors are adorned with an ornate metal knocker and a small grilled window, for guards to peek through. Once an imposing [...]

The ancient wooden doors are adorned with an ornate metal knocker and a small grilled window, for guards to peek through. Once an imposing part of the elegant facade of [...]

The ancient wooden doors are adorned with an ornate metal knocker and a small grilled window, for guards to peek through. Once an imposing part of the elegant facade of [...]

The tensions started when President Emmanuel Macron raised the retirement age to 64, and the anger shows no sign of abating. Huge street protests and widespread strikes rocked France on [...]

The tensions started when President Emmanuel Macron raised the retirement age to 64, and the anger shows no sign of abating. Huge street protests and widespread strikes rocked France on [...]

Peaceful solidarity alternates with the threat of violence, and all of France waits to see which way the standoff will turn. During the French Revolution, the Place de la Concorde, [...]

Shortly before a parliamentary session on the two no-confidence motions began on Monday, the French National Assembly was a hive of anticipation. Standing in a nest of outstretched microphones in [...]

Parties from the left and right erupted in anger after learning of the government's plans to adopt the measure without a vote. PARIS -- Lawmakers filled the grand chamber of [...]

PARIS — As lawmakers in France’s lower house prepared to vote on the pension overhaul, protesters, like Alain Ouazana, were gathering outside the National Assembly. Mr. Ouazana held a sign [...]

A bill raising the retirement age for most workers by two years, to 64, could become law this week despite widespread protests, including a strike by garbage workers in Paris [...]

A bill raising the retirement age for most workers by two years, to 64, could become law this week despite widespread protests, including a strike by garbage workers in Paris [...]

Resistance to the government's plan to push back the retirement age is not just about working longer. It springs from a deep sense of what defines France as a nation. [...]

Travel, schools and services were disrupted by nationwide strikes and protests for a sixth time as the battle over the retirement age intensified. PARIS -- Idle trains, closed ports, empty [...]

Environmental groups are relying on a law in France requiring large companies to address their environmental footprint. PARIS -- Danone, the French dairy giant, is being taken to court by [...]

A plan to revitalize the town of Callac by bringing in skilled immigrants has divided it and made it an emblem of a nation's anxiety over its identity and decline. [...]

DARIALI, Georgia -- They are bus drivers, programmers, photographers, bankers. They have driven for hours, bribed their way through many police checkpoints -- spending a month's wages in some cases [...]

COUTTS, Alberta -- The village's only restaurant offers smiles and two pamphlets, one denouncing Covid-19 vaccines for children, the other saying the United Nations' mission includes creating a ''microchipped society'' [...]

The Supreme Court ruling is one of the strictest in a recent spate of measures addressing deceptive condom use, as courts try to define consent. TORONTO -- It is a [...]

With opioid deaths skyrocketing in the western province, Canada has temporarily decriminalized the substance and three others for personal use. Facing soaring levels of opioid deaths since the pandemic began [...]

The Ottawa protesters are giddy with their sense of collective purpose. But local residents see the demonstration as an unruly, disrespectful and even dangerous occupation. OTTAWA -- Canada's most important [...]

Haiti migration officials have asked the United States for a ''humanitarian moratorium'' even as they receive the first returnees from Texas. ''Will we have enough to feed these people?'' PORT-AU-PRINCE, [...]

Like many places in Europe -- and in contrast to New York and other big American cities -- school districts in Canada's largest province and many elsewhere are finding in-class [...]

Outbreaks at farms have made Canadians question how well their system is really protecting vulnerable migrant workers. SIMCOE, Ontario -- Three weeks after they began cutting asparagus in the thawing [...]

Canada is poised on the edge of a cultural revolution and dramatic social experiment as it prepares to legalize marijuana on Wednesday. Although the move has been planned since Prime [...]

HAMILTON, Ontario -- Up on the third floor of a commercial building near the city's edge is a vision of Canada's future. To the sound of throbbing music, hundreds of [...]

WASHINGTON -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada appealed to President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico this week to help salvage a three-country North American Free Trade Agreement as [...]

WASHINGTON -- One is a Rhodes scholar, a globe-trotting former journalist and, perhaps one day, a Canadian prime minister. The other is a veteran Republican lawyer who toiled as a [...]

MONTREAL -- For one of Canada's largest legal cannabis companies, the vote in Parliament this week to legalize recreational marijuana use represents a broad opportunity to develop new products, including [...]

TORONTO -- It was yet another slap in the face from the bellicose best friend and neighbor to the south. Of all the countries that could feel the sting of [...]

Saying it was ''shocked at the highest level,'' the government of Haiti has suspended the aid group Oxfam Great Britain for two months while it investigates allegations of sexual misconduct [...]

MONTREAL -- They came to the metro station in scarves and face masks, protesting Quebec's new law requiring people to show their faces before gaining access to public services. Warda [...]

MONTREAL -- They came to the metro station in scarves and face masks, protesting Quebec's new law requiring people to show their faces before gaining access to public services. Warda [...]

Byline: CATHERINE PORTER MONTREAL -- They came to the metro station in scarves and face masks, protesting Quebec's new law requiring people to show their faces before gaining access to [...]

TORONTO -- Canada's idea of a fair trade deal seems very different from President Trump's. Just two days before heading into the first round of negotiations over the North American [...]

TORONTO -- Canada's merit-based immigration system received a loving mention by President Trump this week in his speech to Congress. Mr. Trump, who has railed against illegal immigration and talked [...]