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People unhappy with French President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms continued their protests today amid rail traffic delays, truck queues blocking access to the commercial port of Marseille and debris-strewn streets in Paris after yesterday's mass demonstrations, the Associated Press reported. pres.

More than 450 protesters were arrested in the capital and elsewhere yesterday as more than 1 million people joined nearly 300 demonstrations across France against the unpopular pension reform.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen said 441 police and gendarmerie were injured in the violence that marked some of the protests.

Polls show most French people oppose a bill to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, which Macron says is necessary to keep the system solvent.

Fuel supplies to Paris from the major Gonfréville-l'Orsay refinery in Normandy resumed today after a police intervention, Energy Transition Minister Agniesz Panier-Ryunache said.

At the Fosse-sur-Mer oil terminal near Marseille, however, protesters met to plan future blockades, BTA writes.

Nearly 2 million protested in France, there were clashes and fires

The civil aviation authority, fearing transport disruptions in the coming days, asked for the cancellation of a third of flights at Paris Orly airport on Sunday and a fifth on Monday.

Unions have called for further protests and strikes on Tuesday, when Britain's King Charles III is due to arrive in Bordeaux on the second day of his visit to France.