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Activists criticize attempts to turn French capital into 'postcard Paris' at expense of people
Human rights groups say that in the approach to the Paris Olympics, police have stepped up evictions and deportations of people living and working on the streets of the capital and surrounding suburbs. They say law enforcement is targeting the city’s most vulnerable, in what some activists describe as social cleansing.
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Can Chile rid itself of 50 years of neo-liberalism?
In 1973, a military junta overthrew Chile’s socialist government in a bloody coup. Then the military installed a radical pro-market program, inspired in part by neo-liberalist Milton Friedman. Fifty years later, this neo-liberal experiment could soon be ending.
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French election: Macron soars in the polls amid division on the right and implosion of the left
In less than a month, France will hold its first-round presidential ballot — and while the war in Ukraine is a mounting concern, the issues at the heart of the presidential election are closer to home: financial security, immigration, crime and public safety.
'It's hell': Teen migrants in Paris risk homelessness if they can't prove they're under 18
French law states that anyone under the age of 18 must have access to shelter and education - whether they're born in France or not. But some aid groups say that young migrants from Africa are being forced to go to unreasonable lengths to prove their age.