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Thousands of Macedonian protesters call on government to resign

Several thousand Macedonians protested in the capital Skopje on Saturday, calling on the conservative government to step down amid a dire economic crisis in the former Yugoslav republic. The rally, organised by the opposition left-wing SDSM party, came after the government adopted the 2013 budget Monday amid a series of…

Spain angers feminists with plan to tighten abortion law

MADRID — Spain’s conservative government has provoked a storm among women’s groups with plans to tighten the country’s abortion laws to make the procedure illegal in cases where the foetus is deformed. The government announced Friday it would alter an abortion law introduced by its Socialist predecessors in 2010 which…