Protesting pupils blockaded their high schools again Tuesday, a day of planned demonstrations that will test the resilience and energy of a weeks-old nationwide movement demanding more resources for the school system.

Students, parents and trade unions are demonstrating across France, in protest at what they say is under-investment in high schools.

French high school students gather outside the Lycee Turgot high school in Paris as part of nationwide protests voicing anger over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings,

Hundreds of schools are closed and thousands of people were arrested as violent school protests rock France.

Russian air defenses intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, as well as the occupied Crimean Peninsula and the Sea of Azov, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Tuesday.

The deployment of AI-enabled gun turrets comes as Ukraine struggles to defend against Russian jet-powered drones.

A surge in Russian jet-powered drone strikes on Ukrainian data centers has increasingly disrupted mobile phone and Internet services for thousands of people. Now Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other government officials are warning of the need for more air defense capabilities as such telecommunication outages could threaten Ukraine’s digital economy and undermine the country’s ongoing resistance to Russia’s invasion.

In this report, the Kyiv Independent’s Asami Terajima and Nick Allard join a Ukrainian volunteer air defense team defending Kyiv as Russia intensifies its drone attacks on the capital.

According to U.S. and British officials, 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from RAF Fairford air base were withdrawn because of the risk of a drone attack ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford bas

The United States moved all of its long-range bombers stationed in the United Kingdom back to their American home bases on Sunday after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official. It comes days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed.

A statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been "re-deployed to their home stations" in the US.

Belgium-born scientist Francis Halzen awarded prize for pioneering work on how to detect neutrinos in a giant ice cube

Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that offer clues to the universe's evolution. Speaking from Italy, Halzen

"His tenacity and scientific vision has paved the way for a new kind of astronomy", the Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics said in a release.

Belgian-American Particle physicist Francis Halzen ⁠won ⁠the 2026 Nobel Prize in ⁠Physics for "decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the ​discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin",

South Korea said on Monday that ⁠a ⁠recent border blast that seriously ⁠wounded two of its soldiers was caused by mines planted by North ​Korea. North Korea, which has been fortifying its border with South Korea since April 2024,

The announcement came days after North Korea denied responsibility for the Sept. 21 blasts and threatened “merciless” retaliation if provoked over the case.

South Korea is preparing a response to force North Korea to apologise for ​a mine blast in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that seriously wounded ‌two South Korean soldiers, a defence ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Military urges Pyongyang to apologise to injured South Korean soldiers and immediately remove mines it says the North planted in violation of armistice agreement.