Inflation, rising prices bring out thousands onto Paris streets
PARIS, France: As weeks of strikes for higher wages at oil refineries drove calls for a general strike, thousands of people protested on the streets of Paris this week due to soaring prices.
Marching alongside this year's Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Annie Ernaux, Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of hard-left party La France Insoumise, called for a general strike this week.
Four unions, excluding France's