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Education minister says 24 schools have been burnt or ransacked and 78 staff members injured since student unrest began last week

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More than 400 schools in France will be closed or partly closed on Monday as authorities brace for a second week of student protests.

Lessons will be totally or partly suspended in 400 to 500 schools because security conditions “have not been fulfilled”, the education minister, Édouard Geffray, said on Sunday.

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Reform UK leader was interviewed for half an hour last month over money from crypto billionaire

Nigel Farage has been interviewed by the standards commissioner for an investigation into whether he should have declared a £5m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.

The Reform UK leader spent about half an hour being questioned over the money, the Sunday Times reported. Farage maintains the gift was for his personal security.

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Exclusive: Average of nearly five sexual crimes a day against under-13s were reported to police between 2021 and 2025

• From unwanted touching to rape: the scale of child-on-child abuse in English and Welsh schools

Lawyers and campaigners have condemned the “horrifying” scale of child-on-child sexual abuse in schools after a Guardian investigation revealed thousands of sexual offences against under-13s, including multiple rapes, are reported to police every year.

Close to five sexual crimes against children aged 12 and younger were recorded on average by police every day in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales, according to Guardian analysis of police data for 2021-25.

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Motion calling for single Palestinian state, which is opposed by most Green MPs, passes by 1,022 votes to 813 at party’s conference

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The Greens have formally adopted a policy which equates Zionism with racism and calls for Israel to be replaced by a single Palestinian state.

In a move opposed by the bulk of the party’s MPs, members voted at the party’s annual conference in Brighton to back a motion which calls for Zionism, the movement for a Jewish state, to be “treated as any other form of racism”. It passed by 1,022 votes to 813.

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China heeft een té machtige positie in de Rotterdamse haven. Dat zegt haveneconoom Bart Kuipers bij zijn afscheid van de Erasmus Universiteit. “Veel van onze spullen komen uit China. Ook zijn de Rotterdamse containerterminals op dit moment voor ongeveer 60 procent in Chinese handen. Dat maakt ons kwetsbaar."

De brandweer is zondagmiddag in actie gekomen voor een kat die op het dak van een rij woningen op de Rietgorshoek in Spijkenisse was beland. Het dier liet luid van zich horen en kon uiteindelijk met behulp van een hoogwerker worden gered.

De Amerikaanse inlichtingenchef Jay Clayton wordt de belangrijkste toezichthouder op AI namens het Witte Huis. De Trump-loyalist wil net als de president vooral dat AI-bedrijven vaart blijven maken: „Het risico om niet de eerste te zijn, is hoog.”

Russia's military said it targeted a route Kyiv used to transport troops and military cargo.

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