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Protests against pension reform in France continue today.

The Paris ring road was briefly blocked.

Last night, the police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators.

310 people were detained.

The French cabinet is about to push through President Emmanuel Macron's controversial bill using a special constitutional procedure.

It allows rulers to avoid a vote in the lower house.

Macron's centrist bloc does not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly and the outcome of the vote there was unclear.

Pension reform: Scenes of chaos in the French parliament

Previously, the Senate, dominated by the opposition conservatives, gave the green light to a compromise text of the project, the pillar of which is the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

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