"France is expected to see one of the biggest strikes in recent years today, as trade unions throw a welcome party of sorts for the country's new prime minister, Sebastien Lecornu, in hope of influencing his views on budget cuts set to affect public services and wages. Students block the entrance to their school (lycee Thiers) in central Marseille, south-eastern France."
"Up to 80,000 police officers will be deployed amid warnings about potential unrest. I will keep an eye on this. A teargas canister is thrown as police and demonstrators clash in Paris. Photograph: Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images Elsewhere, the US president, Donald Trump, continues his state visit to the UK, with the political replacing the ceremonial as he meets the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, at Chequers."
France experiences one of its largest nationwide strikes in recent years as trade unions protest budget cuts that will affect public services and wages. About 800,000 people are expected to join roughly 250 marches nationwide, disrupting schools, rail and air transport. Authorities will deploy up to 80,000 police officers amid warnings of potential unrest, and clashes have involved teargas and confrontations in Paris. Students have blocked a school entrance in Marseille. Meanwhile, the US president continues a state visit to the UK, meeting Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Chequers for bilateral talks and business engagements. Germany's Friedrich Merz is set to visit Madrid to meet Pedro Sanchez.
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