Chaos in schools, on the streets and in the markets is rooted in France’s struggles to fund its social welfare state, with a presidential election approaching.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across France amid a wave of protests by high-school pupils.

Not only does it now cost France more to borrow than it does Italy and Greece; a rising number of big French companies enjoy lower market interest rates than does the French state. Of all the G7 nations, it has suffered most from the debt sell-off triggered by the Iran war.

Trump claims France's student protests are about "Islam wanting to take over" as Sébastien Lecornu reports the school system's heaviest toll in decades.

France’s unprecedented wave of student protests has laid bare the country’s growing financial pressures, which will only become more difficult to tackle as Europe’s second-largest economy tries to rein in a ballooning budget deficit.

Inmate conscious after botched execution; France rocked by student-led protests over school conditions; California Democrats slam Trump’s comment on Iran; and more on tonight's broadcast.

French President Emmanuel Macron called American free speech "the opposite of free speech" as student protests and school fires sweep across France.

The Italian writer Vincenzo Latronico’s novel “Perfection” became a sensation when it came out in English translation last year. It tells the story of two millennial expatriates living in Berlin in the 2010s, when low rents and costs made the city a magnet for young people.