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A video surfaced Tuesday of French President Emmanuel Macron singing a traditional song in the street after a televised address in which he sought to soothe tensions over his unpopular pension reforms.

World number two Carlos Alcaraz began his belated build-up to the French Open with an emphatic second-round win over Nuno Borges at the Barcelona Open on Tuesday.

Rached Ghannouchi, the head of the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha opposition party arrested on Monday, once towered over Tunisia's politics but many now blame him for the country's ills.

Bayern Munich coach Thomas Tuchel insisted Tuesday that his side need "a miracle" to overturn a three-goal deficit against Manchester City and reach the Champions League semi-finals on Wednesday.

The European Parliament and EU member states reached an agreement Tuesday on a plan to boost the supply of semiconductors in Europe, as the bloc races to reduce its dependence on Asian suppliers.

US reporter Evan Gershkovich was on Tuesday denied bail as he appeared at a Moscow court for alleged espionage in a case that has drawn international condemnation.

A composite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton called Trinity sold for 5.5 million Swiss francs ($6.1 million) in a rare auction on Tuesday.

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who went into cardiac arrest after making a tackle and was resuscitated on the field, has been cleared to resume NFL activities, Bills general manager Brandon Beane said Tuesday.

A few dozen Holocaust survivors on Tuesday led a march in southern Poland to commemorate victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau, on the eve of the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Tuesday, the fourth day of fighting that has claimed nearly 200 lives despite growing international calls for an end to hostilities that have spawned increasing lawlessness.

Strong Chinese economic growth boosted markets in Asia and Europe on Tuesday, but Wall Street stocks sagged on disappointing bank earnings.

Southwest Airlines temporarily grounded all US flights Tuesday due to a technology problem, delaying more than 1,700 departures and hitting its share price.

Despite their 2015 pledge to limit global warming by slashing carbon emissions, big countries' commitments so far still fall short of meeting the targets of the Paris Agreement, monitors say.

The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros is urging France to step back from a looming operation that could see the forced return of illegal migrants from the neighbouring French island of Mayotte.

The number of Afghans in poverty nearly doubled to 34 million as the nation was racked by the collapse of the US-backed government and the Taliban takeover, the United Nations said Tuesday.

The head of Italy's privacy watchdog was hopeful Tuesday that OpenAI would adjust its AI chatbot so it could be back online in the country at the end of April.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Saudi Arabia's top diplomat in Damascus on Tuesday, state media reported, ending more than a decade of diplomatic deep-freeze between the two countries.

Nearly a quarter of South Sudan's population has been affected by years of unprecedented flooding, according to a report Tuesday by the UN Development Programme and the government's relief and rehabilitation commission.

Tunisian authorities closed the offices of Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha on Tuesday, a senior party official and local media said, a day after arresting its leader Rached Ghannouchi.

The European Parliament and EU member states reached an agreement Tuesday on how to boost the supply of semiconductors in Europe, as the bloc races to reduce its dependence on Asian suppliers.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met troops in a frontline town Tuesday, a day after Russian leader Vladimir Putin visited occupied zones as Kyiv builds up to an expected counteroffensive.

Opening arguments begin Tuesday in a major defamation trial against Fox News that tests the extent of free speech rights for media in America -- even when broadcasting election falsehoods.

The US Supreme Court opened debate Tuesday on the rights of a Christian mail carrier who refuses to work on Sundays, in a case that could force employers to do more to accomodate religious beliefs in the workplace.

Iran's sentencing of 10 alleged perpetrators in the downing of a Ukrainian airliner was criticized Tuesday by Canada and other countries whose citizens were aboard the flight, saying the "sham trials" lacked impartiality and transparency.

History-making Iranian snooker player Hossein Vafaei has spiced up his world championship second-round match with seven-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan, saying he hopes the Englishman shows him respect.

HSBC's largest shareholder ramped up pressure on the bank to break up its business on Tuesday, saying it was underperforming and has failed to "address key business model challenges".

Major stock markets mostly rose Tuesday as data showed China's economy grew far more than expected in the first quarter after the country ended three years of painful zero-Covid measures.

Britain cracked down Tuesday on energy suppliers' forced installation of prepaid meters following outrage as some of their most vulnerable customers faced higher bills during a cost-of-living crisis.

A slowdown in corporate transactions and weak trading results weighed on Goldman Sachs' first-quarter results on Tuesday, sending shares lower.

The maker of Sweden's Absolut vodka said Tuesday it was ceasing all exports to Russia after calls to boycott the brand flared up in Sweden and on social media.

Infections with superbugs that are resistant to most drugs have presented a "huge challenge" in treating the devastating injuries of people wounded in the war in Ukraine, doctors in Germany said on Tuesday.

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herders have killed 33 people in an attack on a farming village in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state, where intercommunal herder-farmer violence is common, a local official told AFP Tuesday.