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Police officers walk as they try to disperse protesters with tear gas during a demonstration against police in Marseille, southern France on July 1.

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Hundreds arrested and a mayor's home attacked as protests roil France for a 5th night

1:00pm July 02, 2023

by Willem Marx

Authorities said more than 700 were arrested as protests continued in response to the death of a 17-year-old teenager who was fatally shot by police after being stopped for a traffic violation.

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Over 700 protestors have been arrested in Marseille, France

9:00am July 02, 2023

How protests and unrest in France, following the police shooting of a teenager in a traffic stop outside Paris, is affecting the southern city of Marseille.

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CIA Director William Burns called the short-lived Russian mercenary rebellion "a vivid reminder of the corrosive effect" of Putin's regime. Burns is pictured testifying at a House Select Committee on Intelligence annual open hearing at the U.S. Capitol in March.

CIA Director Burns says the Wagner uprising's fallout 'will play out for some time'

10:04pm July 01, 2023

by Emma Bowman

Burns cast Wagner Group chief Prigozhin's revolt as "an armed challenge to the Russian state," a week after the head of the Russian paramilitary forces led a short-lived rebellion.

Germany's far-right mounts a comeback

5:33pm July 01, 2023

by Rob Schmitz

The victory of a far-right candidate in a local election in Germany is a sign of shifting political winds.

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Putin's retains power after aborted revolt. But for how long?

5:33pm July 01, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, professor of Russian politics at King's College London, about President Putin's current hold on power.

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A crowd gathers in front of the Ibn Badis mosque where mourners gathered to pay respects Saturday in Nanterre, France.

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Hundreds gather to mourn Nahel M., a teenager whose death sparked protests in France

5:33pm July 01, 2023

by Rebecca Rosman

Hundreds gathered in the suburb of Nanterre to pay their final respects to Nahel M., a 17-year-old teenager who was fatally shot by police after being stopped for a traffic violation.

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Dutch King Willem-Alexander lays a wreath at the slavery monument Saturday after apologizing for the royal house's role in slavery in a speech greeted by cheers and whoop.

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Dutch king apologizes for the monarchy's role in global slave trade

1:44pm July 01, 2023

by Willem Marx

"I make this apology myself. And I feel the weight of the words in my heart and my soul," King Willem-Alexander said at a ceremony marking 160 years since the end of slavery in the Netherlands.

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France is engulfed by widespread protests after police fatally shot a teenager

9:40am July 01, 2023

Hundreds are arrested in yet another night of violence in France. It began when a teenager of North African descent was fatally shot by police.

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Northvolt battery plant in Skelleftea, Sweden.

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Sweden's Northvolt wants to rival China's battery dominance to power electric cars

6:00am July 01, 2023

by Jackie Northam

Northvolt's CEO says the key driver behind the startup is to make Europe self-efficient and less reliant on China for supplies.

A protester sits in front of riot police during at Place de la Concorde in Paris on Friday, over the shooting of a teenage driver by French police in a Paris suburb on Tuesday.

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France is roiled by protests after police killed a teenager. Here's why

5:49pm June 30, 2023

by Bill Chappell

Nahel M.'s killing is a rallying call, similar to how George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis sparked intense protests. As in the U.S. case, eyewitness video conflicted with the official narrative.