The United Nations is forecasting slower global economic growth this year and next, pointing to the impact of the surge in U.S. tariffs and increasing trade tensions.

French unions are seeking to reignite resistance to President Emmanuel Macron’s higher retirement age with what may be a final surge of nationwide protests and scattered strikes.

French teachers expressed anger at the way the French government is handling the virus situation in schools, denouncing confusing rules and calling for more protection in a nationwide strike Thursday.

Thousands of people are marching in Paris and other French cities for a fourth straight week of protests against the country's COVID-19 health pass.

The CMA CGM Marco Polo has docked in New Jersey and set a record for the largest container ship to call on the East Coast.

Demonstrators gather during a protest against bill on police images, in Paris, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. Pending legislation in France's parliament would create a new criminal offense for publishing images of police officers with intent to cause them harm. In Paris, several thousand demonstrators gathered on the Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower, chanting “Freedom, freedom” and “Everyone wants to film the police." “We are not here to defend a privilege of our profession, press freedom and journalists' freedom," Edwy Plenel, co-founder and editor of investigative website Mediapart, said. The proposed law is championed by lawmakers from President Emmanuel Macron’s party, which has a majority in the National Assembly.

A man walks in an empty street during a nationwide confinement to counter the Covid-19, in Bayonne, southwestern France Friday, Oct. 30, 2020 . In France, concerns were growing that rising infections would swamp the country's health system, so authorities ordered another four-week lockdown beginning Friday. Many areas of the French capital resembled a regular lazy weekend morning — on what would normally have been a bustling weekday. “The minute the French president gave his speech (announcing a lockdown), the entire national train website went down, was overloaded. “During lockdown, the quality of life in the capital is terrible and so everyone who can do, tries to get away,” he said.

People drink in a bar terrace before the start of a new coronavirus curfew, in Bayonne, southwestern France, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. ,Hours after the prime minister announced the curfews, public health authorities reported that France had recorded more than 41,600 new virus cases, a daily high since the country began widespread testing. Figures showed France nearing 1 million confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, with 999,043 as of Thursday evening. France has increased its ICU beds from 5,100 to 5,800 but can go quickly to 7,700 beds to treat COVID-19 patients. When ready, it will replace the failed StopCovid app, which the prime minister recently admitted he had never downloaded.

Police officers stand in front of the Mosque of Bayonne after two people were injured in a shooting. BAYONNE, France (CNN) - An 84-year-old man has been arrested after two elderly men were seriously injured when shots were fired near a mosque in south-western France, officials said. Pyrenees-Atlantique Police said a man tried to set fire to the door of a mosque in the city of Bayonne, and shot at two men, aged 74 and 78, who startled him. The injured men are being treated in hospital, according to the police statement. He was later arrested at his home in Les Landes, north of Bayonne.