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The French president believes there are too many but unions say the real issues are a heavy curriculum and term dates.

Soaraway temperatures are affecting large parts of France and were expected to peak at 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in the wine-growing Rhone valley.

Police are working on the assumption of mistaken identity, after the boy was shot while travelling in a car with his uncle through the deprived Pissevin area of Nîmes.

In the south, daytime temperatures are set to soar to between 33 and 37 degrees, reaching 37 to 40 degrees from Occitania to Provence.

Body of former chief of defence staff Jean-Louis Georgelin, 74, found on Mount Valier in Pyrénées.

A convoy of environmental campaigners set off from rural France on Friday to protest over the construction of large-scale reservoirs they say amount to "water grabbing" by the agriculture industry.

Six men died after the vessel they were aboard got into difficulty near Calais on Saturday. 

Speaking particularly about the Crimean peninsula, which Russia claimed to have annexed in 2014, the former French leader said that "any return to the way things were before is an illusion".

France has leapfrogged Britain as well as Japan and Germany with 2.8 million adults sitting on assets totalling more than $1 million (£785,000).

The wildfire, which began Monday in the eastern Pyreneees area popular with tourists and close to the Spanish border, destroyed a campsite and forced the evacuation of more than 2,000 people before some 650 firefighters finally brought it under control on Tuesday.