
“Yellow Vest” protesters are demonstrating for the eighth week in a row in Paris on 5 January. The wave of so-called yellow vest protests — named after the obligatory attribute of French drivers — started in France in mid-November. The French government has scrapped its planned hike in diesel taxes ...

A US official said on Friday his country has no timeline for pulling its troops out of Syria but does not plan to keep troops there indefinitely either. “We have no timeline for our military forces to withdraw from Syria,” a senior State Department official told reporters. This stance came ...