[attach id=215279 size="large"]Photo: Stephane Mahe/Reuters[/attach]

A French riot gendarme smeared with paint standing guard yesterday after clashes with anti-airport protesters during an evacuation operation on land that will become the new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, western France. The airport, some 30 kilometres from Nantes, is scheduled to be constructed for 2017.

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