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France shaken by ambiguous 'yellow jackets'
Italian gov't stuck between economic and security measures
Ecuador's ex-VP Jorge Glas fights for justice amid right-wing push
Building walls: fear and securitisation in the European Union
Mining conflicts multiply, as critics gather in Johannesburg
Barcelona remembers the International Brigades
At its convention, Portugal's Left Bloc gears up for year of crucial fights
Out-of-control system burns California
How a workers' revolt ended World War I, and opened way to revolution
Trump challenged on trans and gender diverse discrimination

Trans and gender diverse people in the US are preparing to fight for their lives — literally — against a push by the Republican religious right to quash life-saving laws protecting them from discrimination.
US midterms: This is what polarisation, not democracy, looks like

The November 6 midterm elections should have been a ringing repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. And if not for the dismal state of US “democracy” and the two-party system, it would have been.
Spanish law on trial as Catalan leaders face jail