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Tractors continued to block the A6 motorway at Chilly-Mazarin, some ten kilometres (6 miles) from Rungis wholesale food market, Paris' key food supply hub. Farmers union Coordination Rurale who had called for the blockade, now sent out the directive to go "towards the National Assembly" in Paris instead. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he is committed to see "everything we started" while he was Education Minister be carried out by his successor newly appointed Education Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera. "I will always be by your side" added Attal at handover ceremony. SOUNDBITE
Thousands of Indian farmers continue to protest against agricultural reforms by the government that they fear will leave them at the mercy of big corporations. The group aims to march to New Delhi and has clashed with the police.
"The coming weeks will be tough, our hospital services will be put to the test", says French Prime Minister Jean Castex, as France extends the anti-Covid-19 curfew in place in nine cities to large parts of the country, taking to 46 million the number of people forced to stay indoors at night. SOUNDBITE
French Prime Minister Jean Castex asks that "discussions continue" between Veolia and Suez, the day after the decision of the board of directors of Engie to sell its shares in Suez despite the opposition of the State. He was answering a question from Socialist Party MP Valérie Rabault, who described the "shame" of the State's "minority position" at the board meeting as "shameful". SOUNDBITE
Between 300 and 400 people, mostly nurses from Bordeaux University Hospital, demonstrate near the hospital the day after the French government announced an overhaul of the healthcare system, which aims to improve the care of patients and the working conditions of medical staff. IMAGES
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