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Jan 13, 2022

France teachers strike over changing COVID rules

From the BBC World Service: Fed up with inconsistency around COVID rules, French teachers stage the biggest education strike in decades. Plus: Indonesia resumes thermal-coal exports, and a look at how people in Sri Lanka are dealing with an economic crisis pushing up the cost of food and fuel.

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A picture taken at Gounod-Lavoisier school, in Lille, northern France on September 2, 2021 shows school supplies on a table, on the first day of the French school year. - Lille's 12,500 schoolchildren will benefit from free school supplies, financed by the city. (Photo by DENIS CHARLET / AFP) (Photo by DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images)
A picture taken at Gounod-Lavoisier school, in Lille, northern France on September 2, 2021 shows school supplies on a table, on the first day of the French school year. - Lille's 12,500 schoolchildren will benefit from free school supplies, financed by the city. (Photo by DENIS CHARLET / AFP) (Photo by DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images)

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France teachers strike over changing COVID rules