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Students continued to protest at schools in France, demanding more resources and better learning conditions, while tensions and vandalism were reported around several schools in Rennes.

The US-led force has been operating in Iraq for 12 years to dismantle IS terrorist group networks which had threatened to take over the region and plunge it into instability.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Yaniv Hayun, one of the passengers who helped subdue a pilot after a stabbing on a Flydubai flight bound for Israel.

The measures come as the country’s conservative leader Sanae Takaichi looks to deliver on election promises, which were spearheaded by vast immigration reforms, in her historic supermajority election victory in February.

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Researchers estimate that around 84% of lost body fat is exhaled as carbon dioxide, while the remaining 16% is lost as water.

Pike was 18 when she and her boyfriend beat and killed Colleen Slemmer, 19, at a job training camp for young people.

Passengers on a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight recount the terrifying moments after an altercation erupted in the cockpit. As the plane was diverted to Saudi Arabia, passengers say several people rushed to intervene and helped bring the situation under control.

File footage shows Christa Pike during her murder trial in Tennessee in 1996 and 2012.

Swiss scientists report rapid ice loss at the Rhône Glacier, as heatwaves and a dry winter drive Switzerland’s second-biggest melt on record.

Saudi and UAE authorities have said little publicly beyond confirming that investigations were underway. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the copilot was arrested.