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World Service,11 Dec 2018,53 mins

Macron Promises Minimum Wage Rise

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The French President, Emmanuel Macron, has taken steps to raise incomes for an estimated fifteen million people in France in response to violent anti-government protests. The European Union has added an unscheduled session about Brexit to a summit due to be held on Thursday following the latest parliamentary setback suffered by the British prime minister, Theresa May. A doctors strike has entered its second week in Sierra Leone and is having a major impact. In most towns and cities only doctors on the payroll of NGOs are working.

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