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The upper house of the French parliament - the Senate - adopted the controversial pension reform, which caused a wave of protests throughout France and was considered a key measure of Emmanuel Macron's second presidential term, BTA reported.

"An important milestone has been overcome," said French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.

Chair of the Senate's Law Committee, Liberal Iulia Scantei, declared on Tuesday that the YouTube channel administration has warned the Parliament's Upper House that they will take down the page of the institution if messages undercutting the mask mandate continue, a first step being the deletion of this kind of video clips posted by controversial Senator Diana Sosoaca.

The U.S. has passed its peak in new coronavirus cases, the nation's president said on April 15. 

Speaking during a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, Donald Trump said new cases are declining in the New York metropolitan area, the city of Houston, Texas and the city of New Orleans in Louisiana and cases in Detroit and the Denver metro area are flat.

The ministers picked to be part of the Citu Government will be heard for three days, starting on Tuesday, by the joint parliamentary committees.

Parliament's meeting for the investiture of the new Orban Government will take place on Monday, 24 February, at 16:00hrs, according to the decision of the Joint Standing Bureaus. According to the timetable established by the leaderships of the two Chambers of Parliament, the hearing of the proposed ministers in the parliamentary committees will take place on 17, 18 and 19 February.

The U.S. Senate opened the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump with quiet ceremony on Jan. 16 senators standing at their desks to swear an oath of "impartial justice'' as jurors, House prosecutors formally reciting the charges and Chief Justice John Roberts presiding.

On the final day of his official visit to the US and his second day at Washington, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with prominent members of the two congressional legislatures, the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The planned modification of the law on hunting would remove the rare brown bear from the list of species accorded the highest level of protection and place it in the category of those eligible for seasonal hunting.

The change was backed by the Social Democrat-led government and approved last week by the Romanian Senate, the upper house of parliament. 

The U.S. Senate rejected a series of bills to protect “Dreamer” immigrants on Feb. 15, leaving in limbo the future of 1.8 million young adults brought to the United States illegally as children.

Emmanuel Macron's party suffered its first election failure since he was elected president, reports Sega.