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French farmers are using their tractors to block off motorway A16 by Amblainville toll booth in the region of Oise, an hour north of Paris. Farmers union FDSEA Ile-de-France is announcing five blockades around Paris from 2pm to increase the pressure on Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who is due to announce a first set of measures to try to calm their anger. IMAGES
Police are on the scene near the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand train station in Paris after French police shot and wounded a woman who was making threats, a police source told AFP. According to witnesses the woman, who was completely veiled, shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is Greatest") and "made threats", the source said, adding that "police fired because they feared for their safety". After passengers on a suburban train alerted police, agents managed to "isolate" the woman at the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand station on the capital's south bank, the source said. IMAGES
Paris's most famous street the Champs-Elysees was transformed into an open-air mass "dictation" spellathon Sunday, pitting thousands of France's brainiest bookworms against one another. IMAGES
Rubbish collection began in some areas of Paris following requisitions issued by the police prefecture. But the streets are still overflowing with trash due to a waste workers strike, entering its third week on Monday. IMAGES
Several hundred people opposed to Emmanuel Macron's pension reform bill demonstrate on Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris, surrounded by a large deployment of police. The French government deployed Article 49.3 of the Constitution to push tdhe controversial project through, prompting a backlash from protesting public service workers and criticism of being "undemocratic" by opposition parties. IMAGES
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