French police said they detained 32 people in Paris on Saturday as protesters took to the streets for the yellow vest rallies to demand various economic reforms

The French trade union, UNSA-RATP, on Saturday announced the suspension of anti-pension reform strikes on most metro lines of the Paris transport operator RATP starting Monday

German opposition bashed the government on Friday for yielding to US "blackmail" amid claims that Berlin triggered nuclear dispute process against Iran after being threatened by the White House, media said

The small island nations of the Caribbean, which are most vulnerable to the dangers of climate change, are on track to exceed their Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets under the Paris Agreement, Wilfred Arthur Abrahams, the Barbados minister of energy and water resources, told Sputnik in an interview

The Barbadian minister of energy and water resources, Wilfred Arthur Abrahams, told Sputnik in an interview that the UN-sponsored Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage would be insufficient in helping island nations overcome the challenges posed by climate change

Russian acting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel enjoy substantive and pragmatic relations, regularly hold meetings and communicate by phone