French Protesters Want State of Emergency to End

Several thousand people marched in French cities on Saturday to protest against a state of emergency introduced after November's attacks in Paris and a proposed nationality-stripping law that led France's justice minister to quit this week. President Francois Hollande's Socialist government adopted state of emergency legislation following the November 13 Islamist militant attacks that left 130 people dead, and it plans to extend the measures for three months after they expire...

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