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"Teachers felt insulted" by France's new Education Minister's comments, a teachers union representative told AFP as they waited for the minister's visit. Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera caused an uproar when she justified withdrawing her eldest son from the Littre state school in Paris to send him to private school Stanislas, complaining about teachers being often absent. COMPLETE (VID34FC8TX_EN) SOUNDBITE
In a show of support for a principal threatened with a knife by a student on Friday, the French Minister of National Education, Nicole Belloubet met with staff at the secondary school, before participating in a round table on school security at Chenove town hall, near Dijon, in eastern France. IMAGES
Some 150 Israelis launch a 4-day protest march from Re'im near the border with Gaza to Jerusalem, calling on the government to reach a deal with Hamas to release the Israeli hostages still held captive in the Palestinian territory. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin awarded medals to the nine police officers who responded to subdue a radicalised young man who had just killed a high school teacher on 13 October 2023, in Arras, northern France. IMAGES
France's new Education Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera calls for and end "to the chapter of personal attacks" amid growing controversy over the enrolment of her children in private schools. Speaking to the media while visiting the Olympic Village in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, Oudea-Castera added that she "believes in public schools". SOUNDBITE