Paris airport traffic disrupted as protests continue over pension reforms


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A protester in a firefighter uniform takes part in a demonstration in Paris on the 11th day of action after the French government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote. Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images) Protesters disrupted traffic at Paris’s main airport and gathered again in their thousands in other French cities on Thursday, in another round of demonstrations seeking to get Emmanuel Macron to scrap pension reforms that have ignited a months-long firestorm of public anger. In Paris, rat-catchers set the tone by hurling the corpses of rodents at City Hall. Broadcaster BFM-TV showed the rodents’...