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'Yellow vest' protests slow French economy, piling pressure on Macron

The anti-government protests convulsing France will slow growth to close to a standstill in the final quarter, the central bank said on Monday, complicating President Emmanuel Macron's task of finding concessions to placate the "yellow vest" movement. Ciara Lee reports