Students block a school in Paris during a strike called by major trade unions to oppose budget cuts. Photo: AP PHOTO

Teachers, train drivers, pharmacists and hospital staff have gone on strike and teenagers blocked their high schools in France, part of a day of protests against looming budget cuts.

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Unions are calling for the previous government's fiscal plans to be scrapped, for more spending on public services, higher taxes on the wealthy, and for the reversal of an unpopular change making people work longer to get a pension.

In Paris, many metro lines were set to be suspended for

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