Junior doctors in England are set to begin 3-day strike action on Monday, as Health Secretary Barclay urges them to have formal pay talks and call off the industrial action.
Public anger has focused on long-running mismanagement of the country's railway network in the wake of the February 28 train crash that killed 57 people, many of them students.
The statement from French union CFDT leader Laurent Berger comes a day after the parliament approved Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reform plans.
Russian forces say they are making progress in their campaign to capture the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, focus of the 382-day conflict's longest ground battle.
The impact on institutionalised children points up the urgency of the need to remove them from institutions and provide support for family and community care, the watchdog said.
British Medical Association, an association and trade union representing doctors, has been campaigning for a pay rise for months in the country that is severely hit by the cost-of-living crisis.
Moscow and Kiev both claim to kill hundreds of each other's troops in the fight for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut as heavy battles continue to rage in the city on the 383rd day of the conflict.
In its latest report, London-based Amnesty International draws attention to miscarriages of police work, urging 'legally-binding global controls on the manufacture and trade in less lethal weapons'.