French protests over 35-hour week
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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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The French already enjoy a 35-hour work week and generous vacation. Now the health minister wants to look into whether workers should be allowed to sleep on the job.
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Franceâs president touched off protests with a plan to have students learn the life stories of children the Nazis killed.
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The French capital endured new commuter disruption Tuesday as civil servants and teachers said they would join train drivers fighting government plans to cut pension benefits and other cost-cutting measures.
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French civil servants and teachers are the latest to go on strike, as protests against public sector job cuts continue.
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French legislators approved a measure championed by President Nicolas Sarkozy that would encourage people to work beyond the 35-hour workweek by cutting taxes on overtime pay.
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France's Prime Minister outlines plans to extend the controversial 35-hour working week.
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PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's first real test after five months in office comes at rush hour today, with a strike disrupting flights and trains around Europe, and stripping Paris of public transport - all because of anger over plans to trim some retirement packages.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 15  - Haitiâs strife-torn capital came to a standstill on Friday in a protest after two weeks of deepening violence that have left about 30 people dead.
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French police arrest more than 30 people in raids near Paris, targeting the instigators of November's riots.
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Thousands of people, many of them women wearing head scarves, marched in France Saturday to protest a law banning the Islamic coverings and other religious apparel in public schools.
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Jewish community leaders in France are dissatisfied with the timing of Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom&#39;s visit to France, just two days following an arson attack at a Jewish community center in arrondissement 11 in Paris.
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Paris 2012 organisers have been accused of breaking Olympic bid rules by using French embassies to promote the city. Madrid 2012 have made an official protest to the International Olympic Committee&#39;s (IOC) ethical commission.
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: French troops fired into the air today to disperse protesters gathered to protect President Laurent Gbagbo, as unrest swept Ivory Coastâs main city Abidjan after weekend clashes between French and Ivorian forces.
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<img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20071024/capt.fc5e5224d7d04d70afc3ea2ce8d0e555.france_environemnt_par101.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=OCqHdDExdgc.WJ6j9o.h5Q--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Cars line up on the highway just outside Paris, Wednesday Oct. 24, 2007. France's government began national talks Wednesday aimed at changing the way the French treat the environment, as part of the president's bid to put the country in the forefront of the fight against global warming. The European Parliament proposed tighter emissions limits for car makers but more time to reach them as part of plans to fight global warming. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) \
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PARIS  - Trade unions took a massive swipe at President Jacques Chirac's conservative government Saturday, gathering more than 300,000 people at marches across France to protest plans to chip away at the country's shortened workweek.
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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.