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French unions said more than 2.5 million protesters took the the streets across the nation on Saturday to keep up the pressure on the government over its deeply unpopular pensions reform.

The 86-year-old novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who also has Spanish citizenship, controversially invited the former monarch to his inauguration ceremony into the Académie Française on Thursday in Paris.

Marina Ovsyannikova, a former Russian TV editor, who was under house arrest, described her journey across Europe last October.

The emperor was forced into exile after his defeat at the 1870 Battle of Sedan and died three years later in Chislehurst.

Situation complicated by fact that Ukraine’s wartime leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has now been bestowed with France’s légion d'honneur.

A doctor by training, the journalist and activist Amira Bouraoui was banned from leaving Algeria pending an appeal trial but was not in detention.

Ukraine leader's comments came in an interview published by the Le Figaro daily just as Mr Zelensky was to arrive in Paris for his first visit to France since the invasion began almost one year ago.

The 28 percent gain would have been much higher save for the nearly $15 billion in charges linked to its leaving the Russian market.

Robert Habeck and Bruno Le Maire are in the US for talks on the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act - the EU argues that some of Washington's green subsidy plans are protectionist and could even risk a trade war.

Authorities say over 750,000 people took part in more than 200 street demonstrations.