French unions battle Macron in make-or-break pension protest
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PARIS (Reuters) - French trade unions disrupted rail services, cut power output and brought demonstrators onto the streets in cities across France on Thursday in a make-or-break push to force President Emmanuel Macron to abandon his planned pension reform.Teargas swirled in Paris where riot police charged at demonstrators who hurled projectiles and lobbed insults in cat-and-mouse skirmishes as darkness fell.Some protesters dressed in black and hiding their faces daubed anarchist slogans on..