French government holds crisis talks after school protests

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  After a quarter of a million French people take part in the biggest day of school protests yet,

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  the government holds crisis talks and condemns those who've clashed with the police.

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  France's beleaguered government, already struggling with a sluggish economy, political deadlock and ballooning debt,

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  is trying to work out how to contain the country's biggest student protests in decades.

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  What started as a demonstration in a rundown school in one of Paris's...

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  Poorest suburbs last month, has snowballed into a nationwide protest

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  that saw hundreds of thousands take to the streets on Tuesday.

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  The past couple of weeks have seen daily clashes with police firing

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