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France inducts Resistance fighter, soldier, historian Marc Bloch into its Panthéon of greats

Eighty-two years after he was executed by Nazis, Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Panthéon on Tuesday to repose alongside such luminaries as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. A professor in medieval history, Bloch fought for France in World War I and joined the Resistance in…

France 24

Molière Ex Machina: AI used to create ‘new work’ by beloved French playwright

Comedy debuts at Versailles featuring dialogue, music, costumes and scenery created with help of AI tool Le Chat

The Guardian - UK

Can Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez become a Latin American Deng Xiaoping?

Maduro’s Sorbonne-educated successor is talking up an era of ‘reform and opening up’ modelled on China’s post-Mao boom

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France's Sorbonne suspends lecture after antisemitic hate speech remarks

The university said around 100 students and six lecturers were exposed to "explicitly racist remarks and Nazi apologia" during the course.

Euronews

France faces rising terror risk as younger users fall for online jihadism

As France marks 10 years since the 13 November Paris attacks, security experts warn the jihadist threat has shifted to a younger generation drawn in through algorithm-driven feeds. Radicalisation is now happening faster and earlier, with teenagers lured by online propaganda rather than established Islamist networks. RFI spoke with Laurène…

Radio France Internationale

University ranking systems are being rejected. African institutions should take note

The Sorbonne University, founded in Paris in 1253 and known globally as a symbol of education, science and culture, has just announced that, starting in 2026, it will stop submitting data to Times Higher Education (THE) rankings. It is joining a growing movement of universities questioning the value and methodology…

The Conversation

France deploys riot police, cuts funding to quell campus protests over Gaza

Campus sit-ins upend Sciences Po and Sorbonne in Paris as students decry Israel’s ‘genocide’ against Palestinians.

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Are US campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza going global?

From France to Australia, students are part of pro-Palestine protests as Columbia students continue encampments.

Al Jazeera

Maryse Condé obituary

Writer whose novels trace the complexities of a globalised world and the fortunes of families across continents and generations

The Guardian - UK

The New Look on Apple TV+ review: haute couture gets The Crown treatment

This lavish, sweeping drama boasts an all-star cast including Juliette Binoche and Maisie Williams

Evening Standard

Saint Omer director Alice Diop: ‘I make films from the margins because that’s my territory, my history’

Raised in a Paris banlieue, the documentary-maker is now in the spotlight thanks to her Venice prize-winning first feature, based on the true story of a woman accused of killing her baby

The Guardian - UK

Astronomers have a cataclysmic new theory to explain Uranus’ tilt

Scientists have discovered a new potential explanation for Uranus' tilt: A large, erratic moon.

Inverse

Killer cannibal who 'wants to taste human flesh again' is free to roam the streets

Issei Sagawa, also known as Kobe Cannibal, killed and ate a 25-year-old Sorbonne University student in Paris in 1981

Daily Mirror

French students block schools to protest choice between Macron and Le Pen

Hundreds of French university students on Thursday occupied or blocked buildings at the Sorbonne in Paris and other schools to express their anger over France’s presidential election.

France 24

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