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France's National Assembly adopts a controversial bill against Islamist "separatism",which has been criticised for stigmatising Muslims and giving the state new powers to limit speech and religious groups. IMAGES
France's National Assembly pass a controversial immigration law that has exposed unprecedented divisions in President Emmanuel Macron's young centrist party. IMAGES
Social movements protest outside Argentina's Congress in Buenos Aires as the lower house debates President Javier Milei's mega-bill to reform the economy, politics and even some aspects of private life. Milei's so-called omnibus bill initially contained 664 articles, but has lost almost half of these in tough negotiations with the opposition, which largely outnumbers his party in Congress. IMAGES
Opponents of a French bill on asylum and immigration gather by the Constitutional Council as they await its imminent ruling on the text adopted in December under pressure from the right. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin told French lawmakers that an immigration bill they were to vote on would regularize the situation of double the amount of undocumented workers. SOUNDBITE
The French Senate adopted an immigration bill after it won the support of the far-right under Marine LePen. The bill, a flagship reform for President Macron, will be voted on at the Assembly later in the evening. SOUNDBITE