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France’s Macron heckled by crowd angry over pensions

PARIS — In France, when presidents take strolls among the public, they’re described as “taking a crowd bath.” Emmanuel Macron took a very cold one on Wednesday. Braving hecklers who shouted for him to resign, the French leader threw himself…

Madagascar faces ‘catastrophic’ hunger after 3 cyclones

MANANJARY, Madagascar — Battered by three intense cyclones in the space of a year, southeast Madagascar is experiencing the knock-on effect of those climatic disasters: “catastrophic” hunger in remote, inaccessible areas that is gaining little international attention, humanitarian groups say.…

Credit Suisse faulted over probe of Nazi-linked accounts

GENEVA — U.S. lawmakers have accused embattled Swiss bank Credit Suisse of limiting the scope of an internal investigation into Nazi clients and Nazi-linked accounts, including some that were open until just a few years ago. The Senate Budget Committee…