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French fury

There is anger in France over Nicolas Sarkozy's move to push up the retirement age by two years.

Pension showdown

France: The Sarkozy government's plan to raise the retirement age triggers waves of protests.

Evergreen Winter

in Gandrange, France

Evergreen Winter

in Gandrange, France

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in Madrid on March 9.-ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/REUTERS

Socialists again

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero wins the elections convincingly and emerges, in his second term, as a leader in his own right.

Strike derailed

President Nicolas Sarkozy succeeds in breaking the strike against the abolition of special pension privileges.

Sans mercy

Nicholas Sarkozy's takeover as President has added to the brutality with which the French police treat illegal immigrants.

Hurdles galore

An Argentinean Judge finds enough substance in the case to refuse Quattrocchi bail. But there are other factors too at play.

FEAR AND FURY

The streets of France are reverberating with protests against a new law that, it is feared, will heighten job insecurity.

Troubled voyage

France settled on Alang after failing to find a ship-breaking yard in Europe willing to take Clemenceau.

Inside riot zone

VAIJU NARAVANE in Argenteuil, Aulnay-sous-Bois

Flashpoint in France

The riots draw attention to the way Arab and African immigrants from former French colonies remain unassimilated in French society, unlike earlier wav

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