Students in France blocked the entrances to 49 secondary schools in various parts of the country on
· Paris, France
Students in France blocked the entrances to 49 secondary schools in various parts of the country on Tuesday to protest education conditions and demand improvements. The action coincides with a widening wave of student mobilisation that overlaps with broader protests over rising living costs. Students from secondary schools and universities took part in demonstrations in Paris and other French cities, backed by teachers' unions and some labour movements. In the capital, student marches set off from the Place du Panthéon toward the Place d'Italie, aimed at pressing the government to respond to t