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Students on Thursday barricaded a Parisian high school with garbage bins before police shot tear gas at them as France’s nationwide protests showed little sign of ending. At least a dozen demonstrations supporting the high school students’ movement were planned across the country while 375 schools were fully or partially closed.
France is strengthening its military cooperation with Madagascar. On a visit to Antananarivo, Catherine Vautrin, the French Minister of the Army, announced a drone donation to the Malagasy army, on the background of the rapprochement between the Great Island and Moscow.
Students in France are pledging to keep taking to the streets despite the country's prime minister making a speech on Wednesday in which he said the government would come up with a plan to address their concerns. How have political parties in France been reacting to the movement? Delano D'Souza has been finding out.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday there would be a response to a Russian strike that hit two buses in the frontline city of Kramatorsk, killing 30 people and wounding 18 others. France 24's Andrew Hilliar says it comes a bid a growing number of Russian attacks on civilians in the country, with UN figures showing that more civilians had been killed in Ukraine as of August this year than in all of 2025.
Police fired tear gas at protesters in Paris again as students continue to voice grievances about school conditions across France. The education minister has said 3,000 substitute teachers will reach schools soon.
After eight months aboard the International Space Station, French astronaut Sophie Adenot began her return to Earth. Conditions of return, speed, extreme heat and reunion with Earth gravity: Olivier Sanguy, head of space news at the Cité de l'Espace de Toulouse, was the guest of France 24 to explain what the astronauts were experiencing when they returned to Earth.
Students who have been protesting classroom conditions in France for days are "not looking like they are willing to back down", says France 24 reporter Claire Paccalin, despite promises by the French prime minister to bring in measures to address their grievances.
Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for playful, genre-blending works that fuse the classical and the modern. Artist, podcast host and writer Mia Funk joined France 24 to discuss Carson’s work.
SpaceX brought France's Sophie Adenot and fellow astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway and Andrey Fedyaev back to Earth on Thursday after an eight-month mission on board the International Space Station that saw Adenot become the first French woman to walk in space.
Bally Bagayoko, mayor of the French city of Saint-Denis, in the Parisian suburbs, is standing in front of the police during a demonstration in Paris on Tuesday. Protecting with his body young demonstrators and shouting "stop" at law enforcement forces ready to charge the crowd,
Three years after Hamas attacks on October 7, the eyes are now turning to Gaza. A fragile ceasefire had been in place for a year, but the Gaza Strip was struck every day, remained largely devastated and the population faced extremely difficult living conditions, including food and access to essential services. Analysis with Anne Corpet, international columnist in France 24.
Paris denounced on Wednesday an Iranian "disinformation campaign" about the current high school movement. The Iranian ambassador was even summoned to the Quai d'Orsay. The Iranian media and officials are critical of the French response to the protests. A Tehran offensive that is not without ulterior thoughts.
France is in the international spotlight as massive student protests show no sign of stopping. Demonstrating is something of a rite of passage for young people in France, a moment when teenagers discover politics and their collective voice. How has this "protest culture" manifested itself in recent French history? And why are some student protests effective at bringing about change and others not? We take a closer look in French Connections.
As in 1968, when student protests triggered nationwide strikes, today’s crisis is about generational discontent.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is visiting Berlin to launch a new bilateral treaty and hold talks with Chancellor Friedrich Merz. President Steinmeier is on a state visit to France.
Anglophone Canadian Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature. A specialist in ancient Greek, poetess and university is known for combining scholarship and literature. "She is one of these academics who bring their knowledge to everyone's attention and play in novels that are within everyone's reach," explains Alexis Brocas, editor-in-chief of Lire Magazine, guest of France 24. This approach is particularly similar to that of Umberto Eco.
In Paris, high school students gathered in numbers for Act IV of the high school mobilization. A large and compact crowd formed Place de la Bastille, as reported by Karim Yahiaoui, journalist in France 24. On the spot, young people say they are determined to continue their mobilization to obtain concrete answers to their demands from the government.
#France: high school students continue to protest Thursday in the face of what they say is the government’s failure to respond to their demands. Follow the fourth day of protests on FRANCE 24
Military controls, difficulties in accessing medical facilities and settler violence are marking the pregnancies of some women in the occupied West Bank. Delays in crossing a checkpoint or the impact of an attack can prevent a pregnant woman from receiving medical care on time and, in some cases, end up in a spontaneous abortion. Janira Gómez's report for France 24.
Romane Groisard, representative of the UPEC student union in Commune and student in Créteil, is the guest of France 24 for this act IV of student mobilization. Students joined high school students, with some teachers, to demand concrete measures. She denounces the absence of the minister's replies and also refers to the presence of unsolicited France at their meeting, while stressing the need to avoid any political recovery.
