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French police using water cannon and tear gas break up a strike picket that was blocking access to a large oil refinery in the southern port area of Marseille. As Ivor Bennett reports, the government versus union showdown is about contested labour law reforms.
Hundreds of flights are cancelled at French airports despite the country's main air traffic controllers' union dropping a call for a one-day strike after making a deal for higher pay. IMAGES
French president Emmanuel Macron is welcomed by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as he arrives at COP28 in Dubai. IMAGES
Climate change campaigners target the UK headquarters of oil giant TotalEnergies with paint, protesting the French firm's alleged human rights violations in the construction of a contentious oil pipeline in Uganda. IMAGES
Anti-Macky Sall demonstrators are pushed back by police officers on the outskirts of the Place de la Bourse in Paris, where an international summit for a "new global finance pact" is being held, in which the Senegalese President is taking part. IMAGES
The first official budget figures since Britain voted to leave the EU show a smaller-than-expected budget surplus. As post-referendum data continues to trickle in, attention is turning to what sort of access Britain will seek with its main trading partners in the EU. Kirsty Basset reports.