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France rocked by mass protests amid cost-of-living strike

A major nationwide strike paralyses France, disrupting transport and businesses as growing public anger targets Macron and his government.

Said al-Azhar
Press TV, Paris

France witnessed yet another disruption on Thursday as unions staged one of the biggest strikes of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency.

With talks with the government going nowhere, the mass walkouts by workers across the country shut businesses, halted most rail services, and forced the authorities to put the military on standby.

Many say their anger goes beyond pay and pensions to the president himself.