Days of unrest have affected more than 1,000 schools across France as high school students push for better standards.

Riot police clashed with teenagers across France as roughly 400 high schools closed and some 2,000 people were arrested amid escalating student unrest.

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Lessons will be 'totally or partly suspended' in some '400-500' high schools, Education Minister Edouard Geffray said today.

Much of the French political establishment took part in the Catholic ceremony, a striking display of reverence from a country that jealously guards its secular identity.

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France has erupted in chaos as masked rioters torched schools, beat up teachers, doused them in petrol, and fought police.

France’s prime minister convened a crisis meeting on Thursday and canceled ministers’ trips to focus on the nationwide spread of protests, some violent, by high school students venting against under-resourced schools,