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The Elysée Palace said President Macron will address the nation on Sunday at 20:00 local time (Beijing 02:00 next day). Protests over high prices and public services escalated Saturday into violent clashes, leaving one protester dead, hundreds of police injured and nearly 1,800 people arrested.

Multiple civic groups will hold a rally outside the National Diet building in Tokyo on the evening of the 19th local time calling to defend Article 9 and protesting the government's military expansion. Japan's postwar constitution, effective 1947, renounces war, prohibits maintaining armed forces and does not recognize a state's right of belligerency; Article 9 is commonly referred to as the pacifist constitution.