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Weary, demoralised and increasingly precarious students demonstrate in Paris to demand a return to face-to-face teaching in universities, in spite of the Covid-19 crisis. For the time being, only first-year students will be permitted to attend classroom tutorials, from January 25 but in half-groups. French president Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to speak to students on Thursday at the Paris Saclay faculty. IMAGES
President Emmanuel Macron says that a pro-Hamas group active in France would be dissolved for being "directly implicated" in the murder of a history teacher. SOUNDBITE
French president Emmanuel Macron meets with Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall in Dakar to sign commercial agreements between the two countries, as the presidents prepared to visit the Global Partnership for Education conference being held in the city. IMAGES
Around a hundred people gather in front of Paris secondary school Maurice-Ravel in support of its principal who resigned on Wednesday after receiving death threats following an altercation with a student demanding she remove her Muslim veil. French politicians from across the spectrum Wednesday have expressed dismay at the principal's resignation. IMAGES
French president Emmanuel Macron arrives at the presidential palace in Brasilia where he is received by his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Macron's three-day state visit to Brazil ends on a more political note, with the focus on his disagreement with his counterpart Lula over Ukraine. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in French Guiana for a two-day visit to the suffering South American territory, which is pushing for increased autonomy from Paris and voted overwhelmingly for far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the 2022 election. IMAGES