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French President Emmanuel Macron made a national television address after rioting caused widespread damage. Speaking from the Élysée Palace in Paris, the president said "we all feel anger and shame" after a major day of protests turned into rioting and looting across France on Saturday. Some 550,000 demonstrators took to the streets for largely peaceful protests against rising fuel prices, the cost of living and deteriorating public services, including schools.

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At least one person was killed in the strikes, which also hit a data centre used by Russia's equivalent of Facebook. The region's Governor Alexander Beglov said fires were being extinguished at the St Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Ruchyi oil depot following the attack, which also injured at least five. A logistics centre belonging to Ozon - known as Russia's Amazon - and a data centre belonging to Facebook.

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Around 1,800 people were arrested after nationwide protests saw outbreaks of violence and vandalism. Police arrested about 1,800 people on Saturday as some 550,000 demonstrators took to the streets for protests that were largely peaceful. They were demonstrating against rising fuel prices, the cost of living and deteriorating public services, including schools. Groups of rioters, some dressed in black and wearing masks and balaclavas, also came out in Paris, Marseille.

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Style of emceeing based on high-octane, ad-libbed vocals has flourished thanks to its unique way of captivating crowds For the 2015 freshmen cohort of the history degree programme at the University of Lagos, their classmate’s first-semester presentation was so captivating that they began calling him Toby Shang, after the 16th-century Chinese dynasty he had focused on. His crowd engagement that day had been harnessed from his high school days as.

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A girl called Àìná was captured by an African king and later taken to England to become Sarah Forbes Bonetta, protege of the imperial monarch When she was seven years old, Bayo Randle’s great-great-grandmother Sarah Forbes Bonetta was presented to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle as a “diplomatic gift” from an African king. Victoria would go on to pay for Bonetta’s education, approve her marriage to one of west Africa’s.

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BBC News hears from users, dealers, prison and recovery workers as the country battles with a deadly new drug epidemic. The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville joins officers at Cook County as they carry out an early morning raid Warning: This story contains descriptions of drug-taking from the start and discusses suicide The few grains of fentanyl sit in the silver foil as a straw, held between Mike's lips, hovers above a.