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French Senate passes pension overhaul (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

French Senator Isabelle Debre, right, votes on a pension reform for members of UMP, at the Senate in Paris, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. The French Senate is to vote on a pension reform, after the government short-circuited a protracted debate. The Senate is near certain to approve the measure, which raises the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 later Friday, despite months of strikes and protests that reached a climax of radical action and scattered clashes this week. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - Under pressure from the government, the French Senate voted Friday to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, a victory for President Nicolas Sarkozy after days of…

French Senate OKs retirement reform in tense vote (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

Demonstrators vote to renew the strike at a logistic center at Carbon Blanc, near Bordeaux, southwestern France, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Protesters blockaded Marseille's airport, Lady Gaga canceled concerts in Paris and rioting youths attacked police in Lyon. ahead of a tense Senate vote on raising the retirement age. A quarter of the nation's gas stations were out of fuel despite President Sarkozy's orders to force open depots barricaded by striking workers. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)AP - The French Senate, pushed into an early vote, approved on Friday a hotly contested bill raising the retirement age to 62, hours after riot police forced the reopening…

French Senate approves upping retirement age to 62 (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

French Labor Minister Eric Woerth, at the Senate, in Paris, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. The French Senate prepared to vote on a pension reform, after the government short-circuited a protracted debate. The Senate is near certain to approve the measure, which raises the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 later Friday, despite months of strikes and protests that reached a climax of radical action and scattered clashes this week. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - France’s Senate has approved a contested pension reform raising the retirement age to 62 despite months of nationwide protests and strikes.


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French gov’t undercuts Senate on retirement bill (AP)

October 21st, 2010

A student shouts slogans during a demonstration in Paris, Thursday Oct.21, 2010. Protesters blockaded Marseille's airport, Lady Gaga canceled concerts in Paris and rioting youths attacked police in Lyon on ahead of a tense Senate vote on raising the retirement age to 62. A quarter of the nation's gas stations were out of fuel despite President Nicolas Sarkozy's orders to force open depots barricaded by striking workers. On her cheek reads: No to the reform. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - The French government is short-circuiting a protracted debate in the Senate on a bill raising the retirement age to 62, brushing aside some 250 amendments.


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French Senate passes ban on full Muslim veils (AP)

September 14th, 2010

France's Kenza Drider , wearing a niqab, drives a car in Avignon, southern France, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. A ban on the burqa-style veil, to be voted on Tuesday in the Senate, would affect only a tiny minority of Muslim women — estimated at less than 2,000 — making it far less controversial than France's 2004 ban on Muslim headscarves in classrooms, which proliferated in heavily immigrant neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)AP - The French Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places, a measure that affects less than 2,000 women…

US Senate hopes to quiz UK witnesses on Lockerbie (AP)

July 30th, 2010

AP - A U.S. Senate committee wants to send members to Britain to question key witnesses on the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

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Argentine Senate considers same-sex marriage law (AP)

July 15th, 2010

Demonstrators wave a gay pride flag outside Congress in support of a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in Buenos Aires, Wednesday July 14, 2010. Argentina's House of Deputies has approved same-sex marriage and sent the legislation to the Senate, which is discussing its consideration Wednesday. President Cristina Fernandez promises not to veto the measure if it reaches her desk. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Argentina’s senators debated in a marathon session early Thursday as they prepared to vote on whether to make their nation the first in Latin America to grant same-sex…

Thai protest leaders say they will negotiate (AP)

May 18th, 2010

Onlookers watch from an overhead bridge as smoke billows during a clash between anti-government protesters and Thai army in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 17, 2010. Thailand's Red Shirts offered peace talks Monday to end raging street battles in Bangkok as a government deadline demanding the demonstrators vacate a protest zone passed without capitulation. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)AP - Thai protest leaders say they will accept an offer by the Senate to mediate talks with the government to end violence in Bangkok that has killed 37 people…

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