Our daily jaunt around the world

🇫🇷 Hundreds of thousands of French residents participated in the 12th nationwide day of protests since mid-January. Union activists stormed the headquarters of French luxury goods maker LVMH yesterday, calling for President Emmanuel Macron to shelve his plan to raise the country’s minimum retirement age and tax the rich more instead. The latest wave of protests occurred one day before France’s highest court is set to rule on the legality of Macron’s retirement-age plan, in a case that represents the last official hurdle before it can be implemented (background).

🇮🇳 The Indian government announced a new state-run fact-checking agency for social media. The new unit has the power to label any piece of information related to the government that’s posted on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as “fake, false or misleading” – upon which the offending post will be removed. Social media companies that fail to comply with the new agency will risk losing protections that safeguard them from legal action against any content posted by users (aka the Indian version of Section 230 in America).

🇷🇺 Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has fallen ill, in what may be a case of poisoning. That’s according to a spokesperson for Navalny, who said an ambulance was called for the jailed politician this past weekend after he experienced abnormally severe stomach pain. Navalny, who’s serving an 11.5-year prison sentence for charges he says were trumped up to silence him, posted on Twitter earlier this week saying he had been moved back into solitary confinement and forced to endure "extremely hellish" conditions.