Soldiers patrol by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Anticipating a fifth straight weekend of violent protests, Paris' police chief said that armored vehicles and thousands of officers...
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People wearing yellow vests demonstrate in Peyrorade, southwestern France. French President Emmanuel Macron is calling for "calm" and "order" ahead of promised new protests by the ...
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Police armored vehicles stand ready during clashes in Paris, France. Crowds of protesters angry at President Emmanuel Macron and France's high taxes tried to converge on the presid...
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People run away from a burning car during clashes in Marseille, southern France.
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Riot police officers stand behind a burning trash bin during clashes in Marseille, southern France.
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Police officers clash with demonstrators in Lyon, central France. The grassroots movement began as resistance against a rise in taxes for diesel and gasoline, but quickly expanded ...
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Demonstrators gesture on the blocked highway in Biarritz, southwestern France. The grassroots movement began as resistance against a rise in taxes for diesel and gasoline, but quic...
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A worker clears debris in a bank as a man watches through smashed windows, in Paris.
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A man walks near a coffee shop whose windows are broken in Paris. Paris monuments reopened, cleanup workers cleared debris and shop owners tried to put the city on its feet again, ...
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Yellow vests hang on the rooftop and at windows of an apartment building in Marseille, southern France. Across the country, France is mobilizing some 89,000 police, up from 65,000 ...
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Workers carry a wooden piece to protect shop windows on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris. Many shop owners across the French capital are getting ready for the violence, setting u...
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A group of demonstrators wearing their yellow vest talk to a truck driver as they occupy a traffic circle, outside La Mede oil refinery, near Martigues, southeastern France.
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A group of demonstrators wearing their yellow vest occupy a traffic circle, outside La Mede oil refinery, near Martigues, southeastern France.
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A group of demonstrators wearing their yellow vest occupy a traffic circle, outside La Mede oil refinery, near Martigues, southeastern France.
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A group of demonstrators wearing their yellow vest occupy a traffic circle outside La Mede oil refinery, near Martigues, southeastern France. Trade unions and farmers pledged to jo...
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French riot police officers remove a barricade that was set sup outside the French oil giant Total fuel depot in Gennevilliers, outside Paris. The concessions made by French presid...
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A demonstrators stand in front of a makeshift barricade set up by the so-called yellow jackets to block the entrance of a fuel depot in Le Mans, western France.
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A demonstrator wearing a yellow vest waves the French flag while another one sets up a barrier on a motorway near Aix-en-Provence, southeastern France.
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Demonstrators wearing yellow vests blow into small horns as they open the toll gates on a motorway near Aix-en-Provence, southeastern France.
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Demonstrators, known as the yellow jackets, burn wooden pallets as they block the entrance of a fuel depot in Le Mans, western France.
Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had on Wednesday blamed output cut by oil-producing nations for the rally in international oil prices that have translated into higher retail rates in India.
She accused the government of earning an additional revenue of nearly Rs 2.6 lakh crore through these 'ill-advised' hikes in excise duty and increase in prices of petrol and diesel.
Finance Minister Sitharaman announced a surcharge on individuals having taxable income of Rs 2 crore to Rs 5 crore and for those above Rs 5 crore which will hike their effective tax rate by 3 percent and 7 percent respectively.
The violence has caused deep concern in the French business community which claims it has already lost billions of euros, and representatives are set to attend a meeting at the economy ministry on Monday.