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Nearly half of civil fights in Paris airports will be canceled due to impact of general strike on Tuesday, the French Civil Aviation Authorities said Monday [...]

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PARIS — A nationwide strike by major French unions canceled flights and trains and shut the Eiffel Tower Tuesday, disrupting daily life for many and [...]

23 Jun 2010 These days it's more like "Strike Lite" with more public demonstrations than actual freezing of the public services: Paris Transport [...]

14 Jan 2010 Travelers passing through Paris may want to check out the train schedule - half of all flights out of Orly airport were cancelled due to [...]

In 1229, a student riot at the University of Paris resulted in the deaths of a number of students, and the ensuing "dispersion" or student strike in protest [...]

7 Sep 2010 The rallies came as a 24-hour national strike disrupted flight and rail services, leader of the large CGT union, told a rally in Paris. [...]

French airport strike. Paris, CDG Orly. All airlines will be asked to cut back flights entering/exiting French air space by French air traffic controllers. [...]

6 Sep 2010 France strike to disrupt flights and rail services. Around half of metro services in Paris will be cancelled during the strike Photo: ALAMY [...]

22 Sep 2010 There was going to be a strike at London airports before I arrived, there was a tube strike the day after I arrived and Paris was gearing up [...]

7 Sep 2010 Transit workers strike in France to protest proposed change of retirement age from 60 to 62, London workers show anger with planned job [...]

7 Sep 2010 French Strike Slows Transport in Paris. Tuesday September 7, 2010. Public-sector workers in France are striking nationwide today to protest [...]

PUBLIC transport users in Paris are facing severe disruption next week, with unions announcing a rolling strike from Monday night. The CGT, which is the biggest union in the Paris public transport body RATP, has announced that its [...]

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Celebutante Paris Hilton ran into pop singer Brandy at the popular Los Angeles restaurant Katsuya. And of course the two couldn't resist the opportunity to sidle up to one another and flash their prettiest smiles for a photo op. [...]

We were up early today, finished breakfast by 8:00 AM and were in front of the hotel waiting third in line for a taxi. Our first stop would be the Louvre Museum and you have to be there before 9:00 to avoid a long line-up for tickets. Getting a taxi was very slow. Today was the day for a scheduled r [...]

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Nearly half of civil fights in Paris airports will be canceled due to impact of general strike on Tuesday, the French Civil Aviation Authorities said Monday in a statement. [...]

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Stating the condition of travel and transport, the national train operator SNCF informed that across the country, intercity trains to Paris have been running at merely one-third of the normal frequency due to the strike today. [...]

Workers in the SNCF and numerous other sectors were due to vote on Wednesday morning whether to strike for a second day. Strikers in the RATP Paris transport network had already voted on Tuesday to renew their action. [...]

UNSA-Transport, a union representing Paris transit workers, couldn't muster enough support for calls for the open-finished strike, with spokesman Thierry Babec saying Friday that “a particular fatigue” had set in among its rank-and-file [...]

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However, if there's a national strike like there is right now, you're fucked. Paris is a walkable city so for tourists, walking around from place to place may be exhausting, but it's doable. However, if you live on the outskirts and [...]

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(AP:PARIS) A nationwide strike by major French unions canceled flights and trains and shut the Eiffel Tower Tuesday, disrupting daily life for many and putting new pressure on the government to drop a plan to raise the retirement age by two years. [...]

PARIS (AP) - Workers tried to shut down France on Tuesday with strikes affecting transportation, schools and the postal service in a showdown with President Nicolas Sarkozy over his government's attempt to raise the retirement age by two years to save money. Hundreds of tourists visiting the Eiffel Tower were ushered away after workers there voted to join the strike. Refinery workers also walked off the job - leading one union to warn of looming gasoline shortages. [...]

The government and unions are disputing turnout in today's general strike called to protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reforms. It has hit travellers the hardest. 50 percent of flights at Paris' Orly have been cancelled [...]

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PARIS (Dow Jones)--A French labor union warned Monday that power grid supplies may be reduced and in some cases cut on Oct. 12 due to nationwide strike [...]

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Train drivers launched an open-ended strike Monday night, and the work stoppages widened to other sectors Tuesday. High school students were also expected to walk out of hundreds of schools. Lawmaker Jean-Francois Cope, who heads Sarkozy's UMP party in the Around 30 percent of flights were canceled at France's busiest airport, Paris' Charles de Gaulle, while cancellations at the capital's second airport, Orly, reached 50 percent, according to aviation authorities. [...]

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A survey in yesterday's Le Parisien newspaper showed 69 percent of the respondents support today's protest and 61 percent said they favor an open-ended strike. The Paris-based pollster CSA called 1011 adults on Oct. 6-7 and gave no [...]