South Korea shuts childcare centers and opens elderly facilities as population ages
Seoul, South Korea CNN — South Korea is getting older – and its care facilities are changing to match. The number of child care facilities in the country has shrunk…
Italy’s birth rate is at a record low. Young Italians say they can’t afford to have babies
Rome CNN — Italy, a country once known for its big families gathered around the dinner table, is facing a crisis of unparalleled proportions. For the first time, the number…
France pension protests explained: France is still mad — but can the protests last?
Paris CNN — Clashes erupted in Paris on Monday marking May 1, a traditional day of union-led marches, in the wake of hugely unpopular changes to France’s pension system that…
France pension protests: France braces for ruling on Macron’s plan to raise retirement age
CNN — Heightened security is in place in the French capital Paris as the country braces for a crucial ruling on the constitutionality of divisive changes to France’s pension system.…
France pensions protests: Demonstrators storm luxury giant LVMH
Paris CNN — Hundreds of thousands of people took part in a fresh round of demonstrations across France on Thursday over government plans to raise the retirement age from 62…
Macron: France’s ‘tone deaf’ president faces backlash over Taiwan comments
CNN — French President Emmanuel Macron might have hoped to focus this week on what may prove the biggest domestic test of his leadership, as France’s Constitutional Council prepares to…
King Charles state visit to France postponed amid violent pension protests
CNN — King Charles’s state visit to France has been postponed amid planned protests over the French government’s controversial pension reforms. Both France’s Élysée Palace and Buckingham Palace confirmed the…
France national strike planned by unions after pension reform passed without a vote
Paris CNN — France’s powerful unions are coming out in force for a nationwide strike Thursday in a rejection of a controversial retirement age reform that the government pushed through…
French workers may have to retire at 64. Many are in uproar
Paris CNN — Impromptu protests broke out in Paris and across several French cities Thursday evening following a move by the government to force through reforms of the pension system…
France pensions: Government forces through reforms, sparking parliamentary fury
Paris CNN — The French government has forced through controversial plans to raise the country’s retirement age from 62 to 64, a move likely to inflame the country’s weeks-long protest…