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PAKISTAN - SPECIAL REPORT
With women and army uniforms, militants employ new tactics
Islamist militants striking military and civilian institutions across Pakistan are employing a host of deadly new tactics that have rattled the experts as well as ordinary Pakistanis.
PAKISTAN
Senior army officer killed in brazen Islamabad attack
A high-ranking military officer was shot dead in broad daylight in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad Thursday despite tight security clampdowns as the military conducts an anti-Taliban offensive in South Waziristan.
PAKISTAN
Army brigadier killed in Islamabad shooting
A Pakistani army brigadier and his driver were killed on Thursday when gunmen attacked his car as he was on his way to work, police said. October has seen a spate of violent extremist attacks in the country.
PAKISTAN
All schools and colleges closed in wake of university bomb attack
Pakistan ordered the closure of all schools and colleges on Wednesday after a double suicide attack targeting a university killed five people in the capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday as the army waged a renewed offensive against the Taliban.
France - Islam - schools
The future of Muslim schools
With French law on secularity meaning religious symbols such as headscarves are banned in schools, there are growing demands for the education of Muslim children to reflect their religion. FRANCE24 takes a look at the first Muslim school in France.
education - France - schools
School attendance: money to motivate students?
It's a familiar enough problem: how do you persuade teenagers in depressed working-class suburbs that staying in education is worth their while?
French Press Review
French Press Review
In today's French papers, we look at the ongoing Clearstream trial.
EGYPT
Foreign schools ordered shut over flu concerns
Foreign schools and universities in Egypt have been told to close until October 3 over concerns about the H1N1 flu pandemic, the health ministry said. Egypt has already ordered local schools to delay opening until the same date.
anniversary - schools
Frank BROWN, Dean of INSEAD
One of the world's top business school just celebrated its 50th anniversary, in Fontainebleau (France) and Singapore. R. Kahane talked to Frank Brown, Dean of INSEAD, to determine how the recession is affecting the "business" of business schools.
INDIA
Deadly school stampede in New Delhi
At least five girls dies, and many more students were injured, during a stampede in a New Delhi state-run school on Thursday, local police reported. The stampede may have occurred after students were told to leave a classroom over floodwater fears.
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