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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Anti-Austerity Protests Rock Europe


Hundreds of thousands of people across Europe have taken to the streets to protest austerity plans, as major EU nations were hit by a wave of strikes.

France has witnessed the most massive demonstrations as protesters in Paris and other large cities rallied to decry French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to increase retirement age from 60 to 62.

The strikes have closed hundreds of schools, refineries and train stations and grounded flights amid concerns that the situation could get worse.'

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