WorldPingFrance braced on Tuesday for a day of nationwide high-school blockades and trade union-led street protests in support of students demanding that President Emmanuel Macron's cash-strapped government tackle understaffed and dilapidated schools.
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WorldPingStudents at the prestigious Paris high school Henri IV blockaded the building early in the morning ahead of the "Black Tuesday" protests which authorities say could attract up to 40,000 demonstrators in the French capital.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by France 24
Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith reports from France on the growing student protests across the country.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Al Jazeera
WorldPingUnprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutality Before dawn on Tuesday outside the Lycée Sophie-Germain in central Paris, hundreds of teenagers dragged wheelie bins, metal…
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by The Guardian
WorldPingProtests break out over understaffed, dilapidated schools; teenagers hold up smoke flares, placards…
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by The Hindu
WorldPingFrance student protests trigger school blockades, clashes and arrests -video — full report at Times of India.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Times of India
The patient, who had traveled from Congo via Uganda, died Monday. Kenya is the fourth country to confirm an Ebola case in the outbreak started in May.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Washington Post
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