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On the front page of the press, clashes in Beirut, Lebanon, between anti-government protesters and supporters of two Shiite movements.

The clashes, for two days, between protesters and supporters of the Shiite parties Hezbollah and Amal, worries the Arabic-language daily Al Joumhouria , which believes that these clashes risk sinking Lebanon into "chaos". A concern shared by the UN Security Council, which calls for preserving "the peacefulness of demonstrations". "Nocturnal Rodeos and sectarian impulses to break the revolt": The East The Day fulminates: "All means are good to break the beautiful national unity displayed by the demonstrators". The French-speaking Lebanese daily notes that the clashes of the last few days come at a time when "life is becoming more and more difficult" because of the "increasingly drastic restrictions imposed by the banks and the rising price of the dollar" . The Daily Star Lebanon recalls that the protesters mobilized since October 17, and who protest against the ruling class, still ask for the formation of a technocratic government, that the political class reports to them and that the president Michel Aoun resigns, before the end of his term.

In France, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe still receives the unions today, to try to find an agreement on the pension reform. According to Le Figaro , this meeting aims to "calm the game before the strike of December 5, which stifles the executive". The newspaper explains that the government is trying at all costs to avoid "public opinion supporting the strikers, as in the 1995 strikes", and "winning the battle of opinion," by presenting the strike of the December 5 as "a mobilization to maintain inequalities". A strategy that however puzzles Le Figaro , who wonders, "if the goal is to appease social protest, (s') it is clever to point out the" privileges "special pension" regimes. At 15 days of mobilization, the government seeks to "ignite the counterfeit": according to 20 minutes , the executive "put on the battle of opinion to carry out one of the major reforms of the quinquennium".

This reform comes against the backdrop of a "social crisis", according to nine out of ten French people - this is indicated by a poll commissioned by Liberation , which evokes not only the pension reform, but also the movement affecting the public hospital and the universities, where the unions call for demonstrations today, and also on December 5th. A crisis that 64% of respondents explain by the inability of Emmanuel Macron to understand the reality of social difficulties. The president, he believes that must "assume the confrontation", and insists that he will not give up the pension reform - to finally see with this drawing of Willem, for Liberation , where we see Emmanuel Macron defying the strikers: "the strike does not scare me", even if it means leaving a train on his body.

The government yesterday presented all of its measures to fight against domestic violence. Humanity relays the main criticism addressed to the government: the lack of means. "Violence conjugales: but where is the billion euros expected?", Calls the newspaper, citing "timid advances that lack the budget to materialize." Have the victims of domestic violence finally been heard ?: Midi-Libre notes that "the government's plan is going in the right direction", but that the associations "point to a lack of resources". The most notable advance, no doubt, is that all the measures presented yesterday "attack the roots" of domestic violence. The Cross stresses the strengthening of the preventive component, with announced efforts in the field of education, the realization that "the violent man must be re-educated", and the better understanding of the psychic mechanisms at work behind the violence including the psychological hold on the victims.

We do not leave each other on it. The Washington Post reports the mishap of an American burglar, who had the bad idea of ​​trying to force the home of 82-year-old Willie Murphy. Unfortunately for him, the old lady, a fitness enthusiast, a member of a weightlifting federation, gave her a rather muscular welcome and rectified the portrait, to the point of sending her to the hospital. A robbery attempt has failed miserably. "He chose the wrong house," said the octogenarian soberly ...

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