France hit by more protests against pension reform

France was disrupted by another day of protests on Thursday as unions vowed to defeat President Emmanuel Macron’s pensions reform, though the number of demonstrators dwindled for the second strike day in a row.

The protests descended into clashes with police on the fringes of a large, union-led march in Paris. Groups clad in black lobbed paint and other projectiles — including cobblestones — at police, who responded with tear gas. Some protesters smashed the outside of a bank branch.