The French government ⁠said ⁠on Wednesday it was pausing the use of ⁠stun grenades in its policing of student protests after a 15-year-old boy's hand was blown off during a clash ​with riot police. Rights groups,

Students' blockades and marches spring from real grievances – and from France's habit of settling policy on the street.

Nationwide protests in France have shut down or disrupted more than 500 schools as students demand better learning conditions and changes to the education system. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports on what protesters are demanding from the government.

Police fired tear gas in Paris and across France on Tuesday as more than 250,000 people rallied nationwide in support of students demanding increased education funding, according to government figures.

Oil shipments have slowed in the face of Iranian attacks after President Donald Trump celebrated restored flows. Such a level of violence has not been seen for months.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will not resume military strikes on Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections

California leaders are condemning President Trump after he suggested that Iran could take out Los Angeles or San Diego as he defended the war.

The president has acknowledged sometimes using public statements about negotiations and military planning to keep adversaries off guard.

A London judge says police who searched former Prince Andrew's properties in connection to Jeffrey Epstein agreed the search warrants were unlawful

Today, Thames Valley Police has accepted that the search warrants it used to search Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s homes earlier this year were unlawful. Adam is joined by policing commentator Danny Shaw to discuss why they were unlawful and what this means for the ongoing criminal investigation into alleged misconduct in public office.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sued police over searches during a Jeffrey Epstein-related investigation.

A judge said the search warrants used to raid Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's homes were unlawful. Here's a timeline of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

A ⁠Ukrainian strike ⁠killed two people ​and injured four, ‌including a child, ‌in ⁠Russia's ⁠border region of Belgorod, state news ​agency TASS said on ​Friday, citing local officials. A ⁠drone attack ⁠on the ⁠central region ​of Kaluga also injured ​nine,

Ukraine had anticipated the attack, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warning the previous day that intelligence services had concluded that Russia was building up for a “massive” strike.

Russian ⁠defence ministry ​said on ‌Wednesday ‌its ⁠forces had ⁠carried out a "massive strike" ​on targets ​in Kyiv ⁠and other ⁠Ukrainian ⁠regions. It also ​said it hit ​port ⁠facilities ⁠in the Odesa region,

Russia’s increasing pace of assaults on Ukrainian cities in recent months has been intensified by an expansion and advancements in Russia’s weapons.

The Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded Thursday by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Last year, Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor,

Carson has mind-boggling range and formal audacity, our poetry columnist writes, but however much she toys with obscurity she remains too hilarious to be intimidating.

Anne Carson, a Canadian poet who shared top odds with Can Xue, a Chinese novelist, won the Nobel prize in literature. The committee praised her "bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition,

Canadian author Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday for her bold oeuvre that uses playful dialogue and the classical tradition.

U.S. officials brought new torture charges against deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

Prosecutors allege Maduro "presided over this system of repression and torture."

The deposed Venezuelan leader and his wife, already facing narcoterrorism and drug charges, are accused of conspiring to torture American detainees.

U.S. officials brought new torture charges against ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.