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A Portuguese truck driver was killed while manning a strikers’ road block on Tuesday as a global backlash over high fuel prices escalated on Tuesday.

Europe remained the epicenter of a movement begun by fishermen, with lorry drivers’ pickets at the Spain-France border causing massive disruption to fuel, food and even parts deliveries for industrial output.

However, the global and fluctuating pattern of workers’ action was underlined as a second day of protests by government workers in India left around 20 people injured — police again using batons and water cannon to quell popular anger, with dozens detained.
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French oil group Total said it is to merge its petroleum product operations in Portugal with those of Spanish partner Cia Espanola de Petroleos SA (Cepsa).
No financial terms were disclosed.
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