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What’s next for Tennessee’s expelled Democratic lawmakers?

By Associated Press

Tennessee Republicans have expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control.

Pension protests continue in France

By John Leicester, Thomas Adamson, Oleg Cetinic, Associated Press

Protesters have disrupted vehicle traffic at Paris' main airport and marched in their thousands again in other French cities with strikes and demonstrations to get President Emmanuel Macron to scrap contested pension reforms.

Tennessee House GOP moves to expel 3 Democrats after participation in gun control protest

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press

The extraordinarily rare move resulted in a chaotic and fiery confrontation between lawmakers and supporters opposing the move and has further fractured an already deep political division inside the state's legislature.

French police prepare for protest violence as trash strike ends

By Nicolas Garriga, John Leicester, Associated Press

Tens of thousands marched as protests and strikes against unpopular pension reforms gripped France again Tuesday, with police ramping up security after the government warned that radical demonstrators intended “to destroy, to injure and to kill."…

Protesters in South Africa call on President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign

By Mogomotsi Magome, Associated Press

South African police on Monday monitored protests by the country’s leftist Economic Freedom Fighters party, which is demanding the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa.

France’s Macron shuns parliament to impose unpopular raise in retirement age

By Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron has shunned parliament and imposed a highly unpopular change to the nation's pension system, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.

Autopsy report says ‘Cop City’ protester had hands raised when killed

By R.J. Rico, Associated Press

A slain protester's family says an environmental activist in Georgia was sitting cross-legged with their hands in the air when they were fatally shot by a state trooper.

With stained pants, Kenyan Senator Gloria Orwoba fights menstruation taboo

By Evelyne Musambi, Associated Press

Kenyan senator Gloria Orwoba has said that she attended parliament while wearing a white pantsuit stained by her menstrual blood in order to combat the stigma surrounding women's monthly periods.

35 detained after violence at protest at site of new Atlanta police training center

By Jeff Martin, Jeff Amy, Associated Press

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports protesters dressed in all black threw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails and fireworks at police officers at the construction site.

Senegal police smash car window, forcibly remove opposition leader

By Babacar Dione, Associated Press

Videos recorded by his driver and posted on social media by his supporters showed police physically removing Ousmane Sonko from the back seat of his car after he appeared in a Dakar court on Thursday.