Active termination of life for terminally ill children • Approval for French pension plan? • End of war in Yemen in sight?

News hour Active termination of life children

Scheme for terminating the life of seriously ill children

The cabinet has decided that a scheme will be introduced for the termination of life of seriously ill and untreatable children aged 1 to 12, a scheme that paediatricians have been advocating for years. Until now, something had only been arranged for children from the age of 12 and for babies up to one year old.

Can Macron maintain his retirement plan?

Today all eyes are on the Constitutional Council in France, which will decide on the future of the pension reform. French President Emanuel Macron pushed through his retirement plan and bypassed parliament. With huge protests and strikes as a result. In the plan, the retirement age will gradually increase from 62 to 64 from September.

Yemen: rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran

In Yemen, a large-scale exchange of prisoners of war has begun between the internationally recognized government and the Houthi rebels in power in the north. It is the largest prisoner exchange since 2020, when a thousand prisoners were exchanged. The prisoner exchange coincides with the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the regional superpowers that are facing each other in the Yemeni civil war. Is an end to the war in sight? We speak Arabist and Yemen expert Elisabeth Kendall.

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