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French police aim a water cannon at protesters dressed in black in the city of Rennes as President Emmanuel Macron signs a law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. Police were targeted with fireworks and threw tear gas canisters toward protesters. IMAGES
Fire burns the doors of a police station and the former Convent of the Jacobins in Rennes, during demonstrations against the decision of the French Constitutional Council, which validated most of the controversial government pension reform. IMAGES
Protestors invade the streets of Paris after France's constitutional court approved the key elements of President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform. IMAGES
Protesters gather outside Paris city hall, after the French constitutional court approves the key elements of President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reform, while rejecting certain parts of the legislation. IMAGES
"No retirement at 64, not for us, nor for our children": behind the head banner, at least 6,000 people, according to the unions, and 3,100 according to the prefecture, calmly marched under the wind and rain in Vire in French Normandy, where the Prime minister Elisabeth Borne was elected in parliament, to protest against the pension reform. IMAGES
Some two hundred people demonstrate against French President Macron’s proposed pension reform outside the country's embassy in Athens. In France, hundreds of thousands of French workers have massed in a show of anger against the pension reform, with protests turning violent in Paris and other cities. IMAGES