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1. Police in France use tear gas, water cannons against student protesters

   

   Police have fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters blockading French high schools as students, teachers and parents take to the streets on the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations against understaffed and dilapidated classrooms.

2. Russian officials say no cases of plague in city where lab technician died

   

   The World Health Organization says Russian authorities told it that no cases ‌of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week.

3. Kenya confirms 1st Ebola case imported from Congo

   

   A Kenyan citizen who had been living in Congo before returning to Nairobi over the weekend became Kenya's first confirmed case of Ebola and the country's first death from the disease in the fast-moving outbreak, authorities said Tuesday.

4. Crew of ship missing after drone attacks on 2 commercial vessels in Black Sea near Bulgaria

   

   Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said two commercial vessels were struck by drones on Tuesday in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea.

5. Belgian physicist awarded Nobel Prize for pioneering work tracking neutrino particles at South Pole

   

   Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.