More than 140,000 rally across France as cost-of-living protests continue

Around 146,000 people demonstrated nationwide on Saturday against the rising cost of living and fuel prices, according to the interior ministry, days after an estimated 575,000 joined a union-organised rally; unions put Saturday's number at 250,000. The protests, which began in September over school conditions, continued into a fourth consecutive weekend ahead of April's presidential election. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez deployed 70,000 police and gendarmes, who used tear gas in Paris and Lyon.

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