PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron tried to reassert control over a nation wracked by increasingly violent protests with offers of tax relief for struggling workers and pensioners — and an exceptional admission Monday (Tuesday in Manila) that “I might have hurt people with my words.”

It may not be enough.

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