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French students have been marching for over a week over their schools. Follow every clash and every concession here.
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A mayor in a grey suit stood with his arms spread between French riot police and a crowd of teenagers in Paris. Minutes later he was hit in the face with tear gas. The clip has been watched millions of times. Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of Saint-Denis, grew up in the same streets as many of those students. He is also being looked at by prosecutors over something he said a week earlier.
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In the space of one week, young people marched in New Delhi, Paris, Madrid and Santiago. Each crowd had its own fight: Exam leaks and voter rolls, broken schools, rent, education cuts. Underneath sit the same numbers. About one in four young people in Spain and Chile cannot find work, housing is out of reach, and a new Stanford study finds AI is quietly cutting the hiring of workers in their early twenties.
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Riot police fired tear gas and used a water cannon on Place de la Bastille in Paris on Thursday, at the end of another day of high school protests. More than 6,000 people, most of them under 18, have been arrested since the movement began. It started with broken schools and missing teachers. Now it is one of the biggest youth revolts France has seen in years.
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