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Clashes resume in Lyon amid French labor tensions (AP)

October 21st, 2010

Firefighters put out a fire of a burning truck after clashes between the police and youth, in Lyon, central France, Wednesday Oct. 20, 2010. French authorities forced strike-shuttered fuel depots to reopen to ensure gasoline supplies, and the interior minister threatened Wednesday to send in paramilitary police to stop rioting on the fringes of protests against raising the retirement age to 62. Months of largely peaceful demonstrations against the pension reform have taken a violent turn in recent days. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - Youths have overturned a car and hurled bottles at police in the French city of Lyon amid nationwide tensions over raising the retirement age.


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