France is confronting its most serious domestic unrest in years after Saturday's nationwide cost-of-living protests drew an estimated 800,000 people and descended into widespread violence, looting, an…
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France — France faces its most severe domestic crisis in years as cost-of-living protests turn violent with 800,000 marching and 1,800 arrested nationwide.