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Schools ablaze as student protests spread across France
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- Public workers in France strike over pay as student protests turn violent
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- School protests spread as fires, blockades deepen unrest in France
- What’s behind France’s school protests?
- Fires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protests
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