Renewed pension protests rage throughout France however Macron not backing down

Posted on April 7, 2023 by webadmin

Talks between commerce union leaders and French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne shortly broke up Wednesday with no breakthrough, setting the stage for protesters’ return to the streets. The newly elected basic secretary of the CGT union, Sophie Binet, describes Macron’s authorities as utterly disconnected from the nation. (AP) Protesters have disrupted car site visitors at…

Japan, South Korea pledge renewed ‘shuttle diplomacy’ after ties reset

Posted on March 16, 2023 by webadmin

The Asian neighbours have for years been locked in a bitter dispute over Japan’s use of wartime pressured labour throughout its occupation of Korea. South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol (left) and Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (proper) held a joint information convention on the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo on Thursday. (Reuters) Japan…

Tensions renewed in Transnistria, a possible Russia-West battleground

Posted on February 28, 2023 by webadmin

Harsh rhetoric deployed by Ukraine and Russia has added gasoline to the hearth in Transnistria, a fragile reigon in Moldova. Flags of Moldova’s breakaway area of Transnistria and Russia flutter in central Tiraspol, in Moldova’s unrecognised breakaway area of Transnistria Might 5, 2022. (Reuters Archive) Transnistria, a tiny internationally unrecognised enclave on Moldova’s japanese border…