France braces as 400–500 lycées close amid student protests, with security concerns and calls for government action on school conditions.

France's education minister said lessons would be "totally or partly suspended" at up to 500 high schools on Monday after days of sometimes violent protests against teacher shortages, dilapidated school…

The protests against teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings erupted in the Paris region last month but have turned increasingly violent as they spread nationwide, with dozens injured and police making hundreds of arrests.

Some 400 French schools have been closed and will remain shuttered on Friday as the student protests that began in high schools in the Paris region last week have spread across France and grown increasingly violent.…

French security forces 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.

Student protests have grown in scale and intensity, with violent clashes in some places leading to hundreds of arrests and dozens of injuries.