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Police officers in riot gear stand guard in front of protesters during a demonstration by French high school and university students in Paris as part of a nationwide day of protests and blockades supported by teachers and school parents to demand better school conditions in France, on Thursday.
WORLD / Society
Oct 9, 2026
France to fight student unrest by dispatching thousands of teachers
Some 3,000 substitute teachers that currently have no students “because the past assignment processes were inefficient” will be dispatched.
Protesters march from Puerta del Sol square, where they have been camped out for days, to the building where the late Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing protests in Spain, used to live, in Madrid on Thursday.
WORLD / Society
Oct 9, 2026
Madrid mourns evicted retiree, ‘icon’ of Spain housing protests
Maricarmen Abascal, who used a wheelchair, died in hospital two weeks after her eviction from the apartment where she had lived for 70 years.
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, is transported on a stretcher to an ambulance, after she was evicted from her home in Madrid on Sept. 23.
WORLD / Society
Oct 8, 2026
Spanish woman whose eviction sparked mass housing protests dies weeks later
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, had been in hospital for severe anxiety and exhaustion since her eviction on Sept. 23 from her home of more than 70 years.
French high school students gather outside a high school in Paris as part of nationwide protests over education funding shortages.
WORLD / Society
Oct 6, 2026
French student unrest spreads nationwide as teachers walk out
The protests started in the Paris region in September before unexpectedly gaining steam last week with hundreds of blockades.
A razor-wire boundary fence along the Polish-Lithuanian border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad near the village of Grzybina in Suwalki Gap, Poland, on Saturday.
WORLD / Society
Sep 29, 2026
Residents of Polish region key for NATO try to live normally despite threat
The 104-kilometer Suwalki Gap is one of the most strategic points along the military alliance’s eastern flank.
Commuters riding blue taxis wait in a traffic jam in Kabul. Taxi drivers in Afghanistan are defying a Taliban government-imposed ban on music.
WORLD / Society
Sep 25, 2026
Rebellious Afghan taxi drivers defy ban on music
Despite fears of getting caught by the morality police, drivers are still listening to music as a form of protest.
Military police and response vehicles near the site where, according to the Lithuanian national crisis management center, a NATO fighter jet shot down a drone near Pratkunai village, Lithuania, on Sept. 15
WORLD / Society
Sep 22, 2026
Lithuania plans hardened energy substation as grids increasingly targeted
Plans include fencing strong enough to resist an explosives-laden truck, sensors searching for tunnels, and concrete “sarcophagi” for transformers.

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