French police fire tear gas at protesters amid new strikes over pension reforms

French police fire tear gas at protesters amid new strikes over pension reforms
Riot police officers detain a youth during a demonstration n Paris (Michel Euler/AP)

Protesters have disrupted traffic around Paris’s main airport and police fired clouds of tear gas in other French cities amid the latest round of strikes and demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.

Mr Macron’s drive to raise the national retirement age from 62 to 64 has led to a series of walkouts in recent months.

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