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In central Paris, near the Invalides, demonstrators launch the second major demonstration against pension reform in France. They will march to Denfert-Rochereau. IMAGES
Marseille, Dec. 5 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Guillaume Horcajuelo).- Thousands of protesters in Marseille joined the general strike called in France against pension reform announced by President Emmanuel Macron.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTESTS IN MARSEILLE, FRANCE.
Hundreds of flights are cancelled at French airports despite the country's main air traffic controllers' union dropping a call for a one-day strike after making a deal for higher pay. IMAGES
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
"They look after farmers when we are protesting, and then they forget about us", Pascal Foucault, vice-president of the French national farmers union FDSEA in the northern department of Oise, bemoans as farmers block access to several motorways in France for the sixth day. The mobilisation of farmers in France continues in the wake of a meeting with Gabriel Attal's cabinet and the opening of a meeting of European ministers in the sector. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden says that US and British military strikes against Yemen's Huthis would continue, because the Iran-backed rebels are still attacking shipping in the Red Sea. "When you say 'working, are they stopping the Huthis?' No. Are they going to continue? Yes," Biden tells reporters at the White House when asked if the strikes were working. SOUNDBITE
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