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Prime Day Blu-ray Deals Include 50% Discounts on Dozens of Films and Boxed Sets: ‘Boogie Nights, ‘Pulp Fiction,’ ‘The Sopranos’ and More

Streaming may be convenient, but for collectors, cinephiles and anyone tired of watching their favorite shows disappear from platforms without warning, nothing beats owning the disc. Luckily, Amazon’s Prime Big Deals Day includes steep discounts on Blu-rays, 4K UHD releases and complete-series box sets — including several collector-friendly titles that rarely drop this low outside […]

Politics

Hundreds held, dozens wounded as French school protests escalate

French security forces on Wednesday detained over 600 people while dozens of police and gendarmes were wounded as protests that have seen blockades of high schools and violent clashes escalated, the interior minister said. Since last week, students have staged protests outside schools over grievances ranging from timetables, class sizes and a shortage of teachers to overheated classrooms during this year's heatwaves. FRANCE 24's Caroline Baum reports from Paris.

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Transport suspended in some French cities as school protests continue

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu convened a crisis meeting Thursday as students staged new protests against understaffing, onerous schedules and overheated classrooms, with public transport affected in several cities. More than 600 people, most of them students, have been detained and dozens of police injured amid the increasingly violent protests.

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