French President Emmanuel Macron is set to meet with high school pupils whose protests over school conditions have sparked a broader movement. Details by Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, communication specialist and teacher at Sciences Po.
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Business owners across France fear that this weekend's protests could lead to riots. They are preparing to minimise any potential damage. The government hopes new curfews and restrictions will reassure businesses ahead of the next round of expected protests.
Officials said they are investigating a drive-by shooting in Trappes, outside Paris, as a potential terrorist act and called it a "miracle" that there weren't more casualties.
A multi-story building has collapsed in a busy commercial area of Kenya’s capital, and many people could be trapped beneath the rubble
Switzerland says patient is wife of Swiss diplomat and believed to have contracted virus while travelling in Uganda An Ebola patient in Nigeria is a Swiss woman who has not travelled to the epicentre of the current outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo and is believed to have contracted the virus while travelling with her husband in Uganda, the Swiss foreign ministry has said. The new information contradicts accounts from Uganda, which previously said the woman had travelled to eastern DR Congo, and will raise concerns about the ability of…