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Hundreds of passengers have been stranded in the French Caribbean island of Martinique after its airport was briefly forced to close because protesters overran the tarmac and tried to break in, airport and local authorities said. The overnight shutdown delayed flights and officials at the airport urged stranded passengers to contact their airlines for information after the facility resumed operations by mid-morning. France’s Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said French authorities had regained control of the airport, which demonstrators targeted in the latest protest against the rising cost …

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