Truckers in France protest high fuel prices

Truck drivers protesting soaring fuel prices have slowed highway traffic outside Paris and other French cities.

Labor union officials say 40 protests nationwide are designed to win reductions in gasoline taxes and other government measures to offset rising world fuel prices.

France’s traffic information center says truckers who were driving at a snail’s pace brought highway traffic to a near-standstill on highways around the French capital.

AP