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Riot police clash with students as France engulfed by school protests

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Tear gas and water cannon deployed as hundreds of the thousands took to the streets in cities across the country to protest poor education conditions

Associated Press

What the coverage shows

All outlets frame the story as a widening student-led protest over school funding and conditions, with many noting spread across France and the involvement of teachers, parents or unions. AP, Reuters, CBS News and Al Jazeera emphasize the protest scale and the schools or classes affected, while The Hill and Channel 4 foreground violence and police clashes; the Washington Post is alone in highlighting detentions, and AP alone in one extract gives a figure of more than 250,000 rallying.

Written by Crossfiled from the 18 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.

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How it broke

6 Oct 15:18 Channel 4 News Violence erupts at protests in France
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