Air France strike chaos continues
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More travel chaos is expected at France's main airports as a strike by Air France workers continues.
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French teachers went on strike on  Thursday, the third day of public sector protests over pay,  reforms and job cuts that have sent a sharp warning to  President Jacques Chirac's conservative government.
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Rail workers in France are on strike over the government's policies of economic liberalisation, which they say threaten the public sector.
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A French railway strike began, which will bring chaos for train travellers nationwide, as rail unions joined a rolling campaign of stoppages in the public sector.
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PARIS (BBC News) - Air travellers in France can expect further chaos as a strike by Air France cabin crews is set to continue until late on Monday.  Air France officials said 60% of its flights would take off on Sunday after the strike forced the cancellation of one-third of Saturday's flights.  The strike, over pay and conditions, has mostly hit long-haul flights out of the main Paris airports.
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Air travel over the holiday weekend was thrown into an epic snarl that&#39;s been blamed on everything from crashing computers to employee sick calls to lousy winter weather.
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A pay strike by Air France cabin staff caused dozens of flight cancellations Friday on domestic and European international flights, airport officials said.
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Paris' subways slowed to a halt and rail lines were disrupted Thursday during a massive strike in France that was expected to give President Nicolas Sarkozy his first real test after five months in office.Unions are protesting Sarkozy's plan to trim special retirement packages for some workers, part of his pledges to cut back on costly public services. The strikes began late Wednesday and were to last through Thursday.The first mass-scale problems for travelers and commuters were expected at Thursday morning rush hour. Paris transport authority RATP said traffic would be 'virtually nil' on most of its lines. The national rail network said it would be 'nearly paralyzed.' Read more
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Passengers are facing travel disruption as a result of separate walkouts by Gatwick and Heathrow staff. Workers who refuel aircraft at Heathrow airport have launched a 48-hour strike which began at 4.30am after rejecting a two-year pay offer.
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PARIS - Support for striking transport workers faltered yesterday, with some unions returning to work on the second day of a protest against government plans to scrap some retirement benefits and commuters grumbling about delays and crowded platforms.
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A strike at India's state-run domestic airline that caused two days of flight chaos is over, officials say.
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A third German train drivers' strike in the space of a fortnight caused fresh havoc Thursday although the union ruled out continuing their action on Friday, the national railway Deutsche Bahn said.
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The postal workers union says it will announce further strikes after failing to agree a deal with the Royal Mail.
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French troops clashed with soldiers and angry mobs Saturday after government warplanes killed at least nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian in an airstrike.
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France sent reinforcements to Ivory Coast on Sunday after a bloody and confusing weekend ended with the small Ivorian air force shattered and thousands of angry people attacking French nationals and other foreigners, sometimes pulling them from their
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Hard-liners urged loyalist mobs on to more violence today, after a day of mayhem in which French and Ivory Coast forces battled in the air and on the ground and machete-waving throngs hunted down French citizens in the largest city.
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French rail travellers faced a difficult morning commute as a strike by train workers disrupted service across the country, on day two of a rolling campaign of public sector work stoppages.