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French Labor Unrest: Tear Gas, Blocked Roads, President Firm

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Tear gas briefly choked a Left Bank neighborhood and truckers blocked highways in Provence and Normandy in new tensions over a French labor bill Tuesday - but the president insisted that he won't abandon the contested reform. France is facing a tense week of strikes and other union action against the bill, which has met fierce resistance in Parliament and in the streets. A peaceful march Tuesday by union members through Paris was interrupted when masked protesters threw...

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