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Libya. The teachers' strike disrupts school and raises concerns about losing the school year.

As the third month of Libya ' s school year approaches, the public education crisis continues to cast a shadow over thousands of students, with the study stumbling down because of teachers ' strikes and their demands to settle their financial and administrative conditions. While efforts to end the crisis are continuing, there are growing concerns about the implications of school delays for students ' educational attainment, among demands by urgent means to ensure that the study is resumed and that the lessons learned are compensated.

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France: Strike and demonstrations against the cost of living and authorities deploy 70 thousand police and gendarmerie officers

demonstrators waving flags and flags on the streets of French towns, and public sector workers started a Thursday strike, in a new challenge for President Emmanuel McCrone after disturbances over weeks, his Government had shaken five months before the presidential election. This movement, advocated by trade unions, including the General Confederation of Left Labour (CGT) and supported by student-representative groups, is the result of the high cost of living, the deterioration of public services and education demonstrations that have erupted in France for years.

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France: strike and protest movements involving hundreds of thousands in the midst of strict security measures

France, Thursday, is witnessing protest strikes and movements advocated by trade union bodies, in conjunction with new student demonstrations, in which hundreds of thousands of people are expected to participate throughout the country. These moves are in the wake of weeks of protests on conditions of education and cost-of-living, culminating on 17 October with extensive riots. The authorities declared that they had deployed 70 thousand security agents, while trajectories for demonstrations in central Paris had been banned, triggering trade union criticism.

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A public strike and fears of riots during the protests of the Black Thursday in France.

Today, France is witnessing a new wave of protests and strikes, with the participation of public and private officials, students and retirees, in response to the call of professional unions to increase wages, reduce price rises and improve social conditions, in the midst of broad security preparations in anticipation of riots during demonstrations.