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France’s students are angry about more than crumbling classrooms and missing teachers

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Mont Blanc the ‘roof of Europe’ loses more than a metre of height in a year
Peak of French mountain now 4,807 metres high and fluctuates year by year due to changes in Alpine climate Europe’s highest peak shrank by more than a metre last year, data has shown. Mont Blanc in France now stands 4,807.47 metres above sea level, a team of surveyors from the Haute-Savoie regional department said on Wednesday, putting “the roof of Europe” 1.29 metres lower than in 2025. Continue reading...
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Burnham says he wants to 'repair bridges' between Ukraine and US
It comes ahead of a meeting between the prime minister and President Zelensky at Downing Street.