The violence started Monday after the selection of the ruling party’s mayoral candidate for Pretoria ahead of local elections on Aug. 3. The French government and unions reached a compromise Wednesday allowing a new labor march in Paris, amid heightened political tensions and security fears after recent protest violence injured dozens and damaged a renowned children’s hospital. The debate about the protest march planned for Thursday had taken on national importance, echoing a larger battle raging for months over a government bill rethinking France’s cherished but costly worker protections. Leftist lawmakers and union members threatened to defy the ban, condemning the move as a violation of the people’s right to protest. 4 Terror trial: A Danish court on Wednesday convicted a 24-year-old Copenhagen pizzeria owner of joining Islamic State militants in Syria, dismissing his claims that he had gone there to work as a cook. The European Union agreed Wednesday to set up a new border and coast guard agency to better manage refugee arrivals after more than a million people came to the EU in search of jobs or sanctuary last year. The Brussels agency would establish a pool of 1,500 border guards and technical equipment that could deploy to areas of extraordinary migration flows within about 10 days in times of need. The EU hopes the scheme will strengthen borders, which have proved porous particularly off the coasts of Italy and Greece, and ensure that Europe’s passport-free travel zone can function correctly.
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