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Parisian commuters get out their walking shoes for transit strike

This is about a strike by the train drivers in France over the plans by President Nicholas Sarkozy to reform the retirement ages etc of the train drivers and others in the public sector.

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UPDATE 1-Yahoo settles case over Chinese dissident e-mails

(Adds details, comments, context, byline) By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has settled a lawsuit alleging it aided China’s prosecution of several dissidents, in a case that prompted…

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