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France’s top constitutional body rejected on Wednesday a last-ditch effort by opposition lawmakers to undo President Emmanuel Macron's law to raise the retirement age to 64, deeming that a proposed bill doesn't meet the needed criteria.

Preparations in France for the 2024 Olympic Games had been going largely smoothly

The French inter-union group has called a new day of mobilisation against the controversial pension reform on 6 June, two days before the presentation of a bill to repeal the text in the National Assembly.

French trade unions announced on Tuesday a new nationwide day of protests on June 6 against President Emmanuel Macron's decision to increase the retirement age by two years to 64.

The Philippines, Japan, Australia and South Korea could all be key players.

People squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to streets across Asia, Europe and the Americas on Monday to mark May Day, in an outpouring of worker discontent not seen since before the worldwide COVID-19 lockdowns.

Thousands marched across Paris and other French cities in what unions hoped would be one of the biggest May Day demonstrations in years. Galvanised by previous protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plans, including raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, protesters marched with a sense of determination.

Protestors set fire to roads in Paris with containers pictured ablaze as police battled to contain the chaos with dozens of officers injured up and down the country

Editorial: A House of Lords report is right to demand action to restore lost possibilities to the under-30s