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⁠The family of Renee Good, one of two US citizens fatally shot by ⁠federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January, sued the Trump administration on Thursday, saying there had been “no accountability” for her killing during deportation sweeps. Good, 37, was shot dead in her car by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on January 7 when she and her wife joined one of the city’s daily protests against masked and armed federal agents deployed to Minnesota to arrest migrants for...

Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome a high school teacher who agreed to speak with us anonymously as protests intensify at a high school in a northern Paris suburb. The protests are shining a cruel light on major problems that have existed for years. All the while, police are cracking down on students, using teargas and strongarm tactics as students blockade entrances. For this high school teacher, the protests reflect concerns about everyday conditions in which students are expected to learn. Their demands are not abstract political claims. They are asking for an environment that allows them to learn effectively.   

Police have detained hundreds as students protest overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities.

The French government holds a crisis meeting as demonstrations grow and become violent in places.

A protest by French secondary school students over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities deepened on Thursday, with fires set outside schools and blockades in several cities. More than 160 schools were shut down on Thursday, while university students joined the protests in Paris and Marseille. The movement in the lycees, which students aged 15 to 18 attend for their final three years of secondary education in France, has seen hundreds detained. The government said...

French teenagers on Tuesday set fire to rubbish bins and threw projectiles at police who responded with batons and tear gas, as pupils kept up blockades and protests at hundreds of high schools, demanding better conditions. The movement in the lycees, attended by students aged 15 to 18 for their final three years of secondary education in France, has angered the government.

France's prime minister convened a crisis meeting on Thursday and canceled ministers' trips to focus on the nationwide spread of protests, some violent, by high school students venting against under-resourced schools, long hours and other complaints. The demonstrations erupted in Paris-region schools last week and have snowballed, with police making hundreds of arrests in clashes with the young protesters. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Angela Diffley tells us more.

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French teenagers on Tuesday set fire to rubbish bins and threw projectiles at police who responded with batons and tear gas, as pupils kept up blockades and protests at hundreds of high schools, demanding better conditions. The movement in the lycees, attended by students aged 15 to 18 for their final three years of secondary education in France, has angered the government.

French security forces on Wednesday detained over 600 people while dozens of police and gendarmes were wounded as protests that have seen blockades of high schools and violent clashes escalated, the interior minister said. Since last week, students have staged protests outside schools over grievances ranging from timetables, class sizes and a shortage of teachers to overheated classrooms during this year's heatwaves. FRANCE 24's Caroline Baum reports from Paris.

The BBC's Hugh Schofield is in Paris as a wave of school protests over overcrowded classes and teacher shortages spreads across France.

Why is CPI(M) getting distressed over protests against BJP, asks Satheesan

Youth Congress and SFI activists have blamed each other for triggering the violence by throwing stones and bottles

French security forces on Wednesday detained over 600 people while dozens of police and gendarmes were wounded as protests that have seen blockades of high schools and violent clashes escalated, the interior minister said.

More than 600 people, most of them students, have been detained and dozens of police officers have been injured amid increasingly violent school protests in France. The protests began last week, when some secondary school students started mobilising against a shortage of teachers, over-crowded classrooms and what they argued were unreasonable timetables.

French teenagers on Tuesday set fire to rubbish bins and threw projectiles at police who responded with batons and tear gas, with hundreds detained across the country over the blockades and protests demanding better conditions at schools. Since last week, students have staged protests outside hundreds of schools over grievances including timetables, class sizes and a shortage of teachers as well as overheated classrooms during this year's heatwaves. FRANCE 24's Rachel Griffiths reports.

Labour Minister Santhosh Lad has convened a meeting with all stakeholders on Thursday to discuss the issue

As per the order, inspectors of plantations in Munnar, Peerumade, and Udumbanchola were directed to instruct estate owners and labourers to halt all movement and operations inside plantations from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. to prevent wild animal attacks

They alleged that the Chief Minister was making promises during visits to different parts of the State without ensuring the availability of funds for their implementation

Anti-migrant group March and March staged demonstrations against illegal immigration across several South African provinces on Wednesday. The movement had set the date of September 30 as a deadline for undocumented immigrants to leave the country.

The heightened security follows clashes with BJP activists and a string of protests targeting Ministers in retaliation for earlier Youth Congress’ black-flag demonstration during Union Home Monister Amit Shah’s visit to Kollam. Satheesan has reportedly asked police not to add another security vehicle to his convoy.

Residents of a district in the South Korean capital of Seoul are up in arms over plans to build a permanent school for North Korean defectors in their neighbourhood. The dispute escalated to the point where the school’s principal dropped to her knees to beg protesters to “embrace the children”, the Korea JoongAng Daily reported. Yeomyung School, which educates middle and high school students who fled North Korea or are children of North Korean defectors, has been unable to afford its own...

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More than 400 people, mainly minors, were arrested on Tuesday, the country's interior minister says.

Students have been protesting conditions and resources in high schools since last week.

French school students have blocked schools across France, demanding better learning conditions.

The real estate firm backs down and restores her old rent after mass protests over Spain's housing crisis.

Spain’s coalition government said it had agreed on proposals including banning evictions until 2030 to address the country’s housing crisis, as the 87-year-old woman whose forced removal last week triggered protests accepted an offer to return home. Hundreds of ‌people remained camped in one of Madrid’s main squares on Tuesday to protest Maricarmen Abascal’s removal from her home on a stretcher last Wednesday. They are demanding legal reforms including a rent freeze and the automatic renewal of...