Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of a working-class suburb near Paris, has been a regular presence at student demonstrations, prompting both applause and condemnation.

Student demonstrations converged on Saturday with a broader protest movement against rising living costs, heightening a national reckoning.

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Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of a working-class suburb near Paris, has been a regular presence at student demonstrations, prompting both applause and condemnation.

A bitter generational battle over resources is boiling over as economic growth on the continent stalls.

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Nearly a decade after his first election as president, Emmanuel Macron is presiding over a tense country sliding toward the fiscal brink.

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