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Over 1 Million Workers Hit French Streets Against Macron's Pension Reform

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President Macron’s retirement and pension reform program has unleashed the expected mass demonstrations, strikes, and likely soon to be riots on the streets of France. The much anticipated reform bill headed through parliament will see the official retirement age rise by two years, from the age of 62 to 64. And just like that, it’s popping off… as French authorities brace for more... 

French Feminist Challenged To Walk Topless In Muslim Ghetto After Claiming It's Her Right

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The French YouTube feminist known as ‘Charlie Danger’ has been called out on her self-righteous demand that every woman has the right to parade around in public topless without being harmed if that’s her choice: Earlier this month, Charlie Danger, who has the YouTube channel ‘Les revues du monde’ with about 587,000 subscribers, was invited to Toulouse in France to give a TED Talk where she... 

France: Nativity play in Toulouse attacked by far-left, anti-Christian mob

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A Nativity play in the French city of Toulouse had to be cut short after a mob of fifty anti-Christian, far-left militants insulted and attacked the event’s participants and spat on a priest. The anti-Christian attack occurred on Saturday, December 14th at the Place Saint-Georges living nativity scene. The performance had been organized to celebrate the traditional spirit of Christmas and to emphasize... 

Wheelchair-bound Yellow Vest protester doused with pepper spray by French police

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A disabled French protester, who was reportedly asking a police officer to give his protective glasses back, was instead pepper-sprayed in the face from close range, an online video shows. The incident happened in Toulouse during the 16th weekend of the so-called “Yellow Vest” protest against the French government’s economic policies, according to the person who published the short clip. The... 

French cities overwhelmed by refugee flow, Mayors ask govt to step in urgently

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The mayors of seven major French cities say they have been “backed up against a wall” by an unending influx of refugees. Paris must address the strain on the areas, which are struggling to accommodate new arrivals, they wrote. The mayors of Lille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Rennes, Toulouse and Nantes have called out the government for inaction, asking it to do more to tackle the refugee... 

Algerian Screaming “Allahu Akbar!” Attacks 7 People, 3 Police Officers in France

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Amid the bustling atmosphere of the Rempart Saint-Etienne area, an unnamed woman found herself at the center of a harrowing incident during lunchtime on Tuesday. The assailant, reportedly of Algerian origin, targeted the officer with a brazen attempt to seize her gun. When his initial effort failed, he resorted to violence, brandishing a knife and ruthlessly stabbing the woman in the throat. The gravity... 

French Soldier Stabbed by ISIS Sympathizers Over Syria Bombings

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The soldier was jogging near this base in the south of France. In a disturbing incident near Toulouse, a 30-year-old French soldier from the 8th regiment of marine parachutists is fighting for his life in a hospital after allegedly being attacked by two men. The soldier, a sergeant, was jogging alone near his army base in the southern town of Saint Julien du Puy around 8:40 pm when the assailants struck. Reports... 

French taxi drivers clash with police in strike against Uber

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Travelers, whose cars were blocked in traffic, walk along a freeway with their baggage while trying to get to Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris, France, on June 25, 2015. Hundreds of French taxi drivers have set tires ablaze, blocked traffic across the country and clashed with police, declaring an indefinite strike to protest the US online ride-sharing service, UberPOP. On Thursday, roads around... 

Harlem Désir, France's first black president?

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France’s ruling Socialist Party has officially appointed Harlem Désir as its new leader, a move that potentially puts the former anti-racism activist on track to becoming the country’s first black president. Members of France’s ruling Socialist Party overwhelmingly picked Harlem Désir as party chief during the group’s congress in the southwest city of Toulouse on Thursday. The vote made... 

French commandos arrest dozens as crackdown in aftermath of Toulouse

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Heavily armed and dressed in black from head to toe, an elite squad of balaclava-clad police commandos storm the homes of suspected Islamic extremists. Officers arrested ten terror suspects in a series of dawn raids across France this morning in a nationwide crackdown a month after seven people were killed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman. The DCRI domestic intelligence service, supported by police... 

French leader likens Toulouse shootings to 9/11, vowing crackdown

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy French President Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to continue cracking down on the so-called suspected Islamists, comparing the recent Toulouse shootings to the September 11, 2001 incidents in the US. “The trauma… is profound for our country, a little, I don’t want to compare the horrors, a little like the trauma that followed in the United States and in... 

Who profits from the shootings in France?

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Voilà, another incident which has come just in time for the current French president to fill the mainstream media news, especially the TV screens of France, with his ubiquitous presence. Tel Aviv and Washington seem to play their cards right. The timing is perfect. After the recent shooting of French parachutists is Montauban, now we have the new crime scene in Toulouse, with French children shot... 

France's gunman shot in head, falls to death in hail of bullets

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Mohamed Merah, the suspect in the killing of 3 paratroopers, 3 children and a rabbi in recent days in France. Mohamed Merah, the man behind the Toulouse killing spree, is dead after a 32 hour siege ended in grenade explosions and gunfire. ­He jumped out of his bathroom window blazing an automatic pistol as police broke through, and was found dead where he fell. Two police commandos were wounded in... 

Jewish school shooting: 3 children among killed in France

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Sarkozy suspended his election campaign on Monday to visit the scene of the killings and announced a minute of silence in all French schools on Tuesday. A teacher and three students were killed when a man opened fire on parents and children waiting outside a school in Toulouse. Two incidents of “striking similarity” left three French soldiers dead last week. Local prosecutor Michael Valet said... 

Sarkozy knocked to ground in public

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is grabbed as he speaks to supporters near the southern city of Toulouse, June 30, 2011. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been grabbed and almost knocked to the ground by a man in the southern French town of Brax. The attacker yanked Sarkozy’s suit by the shoulder and knocked him to the ground while he reached over a metal barricade to greet onlookers, AP... 
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