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Tens of thousands stage anti-France rally in Bangladesh

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Tens of thousands of protesters march through Dhaka calling for a boycott of French products while burning an effigy of President Emmanuel Macron after he defended cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. The French president has been the target of protests in several countries over his comments, made after a teacher in a Paris suburb was decapitated for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to his pupils.

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