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Ukrainian president will hold talks with French president over dinner following rip to Berlin

Yannick Morez, the mayor of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, resigned after death threats and attack on his home

A global credit ratings agency downgraded French debt worthiness a notch on Saturday, citing pension reform protests as a cause. Two weeks after the contested reform passed, persistent social movements threaten to erase the financial gains that the French government expected.

Four months of civil unrest and the implementation of a hugely unpopular retirement reform have left the French President with drastically low approval ratings. Agnès Poirier reports from Paris

France's Constitional Council on Friday sanctioned the controversial core of President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform - the plan to raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64.

Constitutional council’s ruling means government can pass law to increase minimum eligible age as early as next week

Amid the tense political atmosphere gripping France as the pension reform crisis continues, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Wednesday became the latest member of the Macron government to criticise the Human Rights League, one of France’s oldest NGOs, even accusing it of taking an “ambiguous” stance on Islamism in recent…

First meeting between both sides since pension changes were presented in January was over in an hour, and unions emerged calling for more protests

City is cleaner, though not yet entirely clean, after three-week strike ends but union threatens more action

Fury over policing tactics has changed dimension of protests against plan to raise retirement age

Fears of more violent clashes with police as demonstrations against Macron’s unpopular pensions policy to carry on