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Police fired clouds of tear gas against unruly protesters in Paris and other French cities Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people returned to streets across the country to vent anger against President Emmanuel Macron's contested pension reforms. Macron's drive to raise the national retirement age from 62 to 64 has ignited a months-long firestorm