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Nearly 1000 arrested in new night of protests across France

Meanwhile France's national soccer team – including international star Kylian Mbappé, an idol to many young people in the disadvantaged neighbourhoods where the anger is rooted – has pleaded for an end to the violence.

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Rioting has raged in cities around France for a fourth night despite massive police deployment, with cars and buildings set ablaze and stores looted, as family and friends prepared on Saturday to bury the 17-year-old whose killing by police unleashed the unrest, reports Nine News

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