French workers launch week of unrest
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France Monday kicked off a week of labor unrest expected to bring thousands of disgruntled workers to the streets.
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One of the biggest motor shows in the world is set to take place in Paris this week -- but not before the city makes another display of its crusade against the car that it hopes will transform the capital into a haven for pedestrians and cyclists.
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French soldiers deployed in Ivory Coast to help evacuate expatriates from violent mob rioting will start pulling back from some positions in the main city Abidjan this week, the Ivorian army said on Sunday.
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French ministers are Tuesday to unveil a blueprint for tackling unemployment and discrimination in hundreds of low-income, high-immigrant suburbs that exploded into rioting in 2005.
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Here's a look at a few major protests planned next week:
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French troops killed about 20 people in Ivory Coast during unrest earlier this month, the Defense Ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, as controversy grew over the French military's handling of the crisis.
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Thousands of striking taxi drivers drove at a snail's pace around France on Wednesday as part of a protest against government plans to open up their business to greater competition.
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Chanting &quot;We want the French!&quot; a crowd of armed and angry young men swept past La Planta, a club owned by an Ivorian. They started to attack the nearby Byblos
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France braces for three days of strikes expected to cause massive disruption in the public sector.
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Thousands of striking French Airbus workers, blowing whistles, exploding firecrackers and waving banners, marched through Toulouse Tuesday to try to force the struggling planemaker to ditch its plans for massive job cuts.
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Police, judges and lawyers fanned out in a troubled Paris suburb Thursday to re-enact events that led to the 2005 electrocution deaths of two teens of African descent and triggered weeks of riots in neglected housing projects nationwide.
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Thousands of Airbus workers went on strike at its French factories on Tuesday, protesting against the European planemaker's restructuring plan that has dominated France's presidential election campaign.Comment
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Opposition supporters began what they said would be three days of nationwide demonstrations Wednesday.
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French workers are urged to protest in numbers against the government's plans to reform the 35-hour week.
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France's conservative government is vowing not to buckle under pressure from the worst strikes for two years, but a tough battle is brewing after a week of protests which have strengthened the unions' resolve.
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Trade unions in France aren't giving up their short work week without a fight. They gathered more than 300,000 people Sunday for marches in cities across France, to protest plans to chip-away at the 35-hour ...
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Rail workers join France's rolling campaign of strikes in the public sector, with massive disruptions expected.