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French police has stopped a farmers' convoy of hundreds tractors heading towards the Rungis wholesale food market south of Paris. Some 200 to 300 tractors are now sitting in the town of Sully-sur-Loire, 170 km south of Rungis. Setting off from the south-west of France at the call of union Coordination rurale, the group of angry farmers grew as they drove up the nation, with more and more joining along the way. IMAGES
With their tractors and haystack-filled tipper lorries stationed on A6 motorway, French farmers are facing a police roadblock as they near Rungis, the world's second largest wholesale food market, just south of Paris. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says he has instructed police to show "great moderation" toward farmers who have blocked highways as part of a nationwide protest movement against agricultural policies. SOUNDBITE
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
"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
Several tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Nantes, western France, for the 10th day of protests against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform. Tensions broke out between black bloc protesters and police. IMAGES
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