Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko must accept the logic of democracy and quit power, French President Emmanuel Macron told le Journal du Dimanche. Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, has been rocked by street protests since authorities said Lukashenko won an Aug. 9 election by a landslide. More than 12,000 protesters have been arrested since the election that the... 

Firefighters can be seen clashing with police officers in Paris this afternoon during protests against pension reforms. The world’s biggest tyrant has ever seen Emmanuel Macron still refuses to step down even as his terrorist cops are bashing everybody left and right, breaking bones, shooting people’s eyes, etc. and now are in a full war with the firefighters. Had such protests took place... 

France, especially Paris, has been swept by yellow vest protests since mid-November 2018. While they started initially as rallies against fuel tax hikes, the protests have since grown into a full-scale movement, with participants taking to the streets every Saturday. Activists have taken to the streets of Paris for the 62nd week of yellow vests protests. The protesters gathered at Porte de Champerret,... 

Riot police and demonstrators have clashed in France amid the ongoing general strike by labor unions against proposed pension reforms. Dozens have been arrested in Paris alone as over a million people marched across the country. Footage from Paris shows protesters hurling objects at police, and riot-geared officers charging in response. As flares light up the night, stun grenades can be heard exploding.... 

A French journalist recalled the terrifying moment when an explosive tears-gas grenade hit him at the Yellow Vest protest, telling RT that there was no justification for police employing combat tools. The weekend marked one year since the Yellow Vest protests picked up in France, with independent journalist Julien being among the many reporters, covering the anniversary rallies in Paris. It started... 

Yellow Vest protesters were doused with water during clashes with police and rioting in downtown Paris, ahead of the first anniversary of their nationwide anti-government demonstrations. The Place d’Italie circle in the city’s 13th arrondissement descended into chaos as protesters erected makeshift barricades and threw stones at police officers, which responded with tear gas and water cannon. The... 

The French government has deployed thousands of police officers Paris to counter fresh yellow vest demonstrations, which are planned to be held alongside global climate rallies in the capital on Saturday. At least 7,000 officers, along with launchers and armored police units, were deployed in the French capital on Saturday to face those who “obviously want to take revenge” and have already... 

Hundreds of mostly-African migrants invaded the Pantheon monument in Paris demanding legal residence status from the French government. Approximately 200 – 300 migrants calling themselves “Gilets Noirs” (Black Vests) – presumably an effort to copy the ‘Yellow Vests’ protest movement – swarmed the iconic mausoleum in central Paris vowing to occupy it until they were... 

The Schengen agreement and the current migrant-sharing mechanism are deeply flawed and need urgent fixing, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Europe must “have borders” even if it means a smaller Schengen zone, he said. In the first major press conference since the Yellow Vest movement took off in November, Macron unveiled a range of policy measures to placate the protesters, including... 

France’s president Emmanuel Macron drew fire after criticising an elderly “Yellow Vest” protester who was injured during a demonstration in Nice at the weekend. Macron has repeatedly been accused of lacking empathy and harbouring an arrogant, dismissive attitude towards ordinary people who complain about having difficulties making ends meet. Last year he told an unemployed gardener who complained... 

Saturday’s Yellow Vest protests have escalated in intensity as clashes with the police grew increasingly violent. After weeks of more moderate protests, France’s Yellow Vests are back in full swing following the end of President Macron’s unsuccessful ‘great debate’ – during which thousands of town halls were conducted over a two-month period in the hopes of solving national issues through... 

The UN human rights chief called Wednesday for a “full investigation” into the possible excessive use of force by French police during the “Yellow Vest” demonstrations. “The ‘Gilets Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) have been protesting what they see as exclusion from economic rights and participation in public affairs,” rights chief Michelle Bachelet said in her annual address to the United... 

Yellow Vest protesters have taken to the streets of Paris for the 16th consecutive week. While some enjoyed a friendly chat with police officers, others faced tear gas after trying to break off from a pre-approved marching route. Unlike previous demonstrations, Paris officials authorized a designated route for Saturday’s “Act 16” anti-government marchers – a span of road beginning at the Arc... 

France gathered for the 14th week of Gilets Jaunes protests, with the injury toll of the worst civil unrest in decades now resembling that of a small war. Yet despite pleas from victims, Emmanuel Macron is tightening the screws. “This is not normal. We are in France, one of the oldest and best democracies in the world,” says Fiorina Jacob Lignier, who lost her eye at a demonstration in Paris on... 

The father of the Yellow Vest protester who had his hand blown off by a gas grenade in Paris on Saturday says he plans a lawsuit, while his comrade says it is symbolic that the injury took place outside the National Assembly. “He has no hand left below the wrist,” Bernard Maillet, father of Sebastien Maillet, told RT during an interview in its Paris studio, adding that his son also sustained an...