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The ornate city hall of Limoges, France, with its clock tower and a fountain in front, seen under a blue sky and photographed on 10 June 2006, a file photograph of the building and not from Saturday's protests or the fire

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Roughly Half a Million March Across France as Student Anger Over Schools Merges With Fuel Price Fury

A fire gutted much of Limoges' historic city hall, a tourist office burned in Lyon and about 400 people were arrested as unions, students and yellow vests filled French streets on Saturday.

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  1. 30 Aug – 11 DecOn now

    Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Dubai

    The Gulf Exhibition Season Starts in Two Weeks and Runs to December

    Riyadh opens at the end of August, Abu Dhabi takes November, Dubai takes the rest. Four shows account for most of the region's commercial calendar between now and the new year.

  2. 4 Sep – 23 MayOn now

    England

    The Women's Super League Adds Two Clubs and Finds Out What Expansion Costs

    Fourteen teams instead of twelve, a season running from 4 September to 23 May, and twenty-six league games where there were twenty-two. Growing a league is easier than filling it.

  3. 23–26 NovIn 2 weeks

    Dubai World Trade Centre

    Big 5 Global Is Where Next Year's Buildings Get Specified

    Twenty-seven hundred exhibitors at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 23 November, and three co-located shows that have quietly turned a construction fair into an urban development event.

  4. 7–11 DecIn 4 weeks

    Expo City, Dubai

    GITEX Moves to Expo City, and Brings Seven Shows With It

    Six thousand eight hundred exhibitors, two hundred thousand visitors and four hundred government entities across five days in December. The interesting part is what has been bolted onto the side of it.

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What exactly did the three companies agree to?

Per the joint release carried by StockTitan, Rebellions plans to connect its next-generation Rebel R200 neural processing units to Nvidia's platform for…

What is driving China's producer price inflation?

Mining and raw materials led the increase, CNBC said.

When is Starship Flight 15, and what is being caught?

The target date came from SpaceX itself. KeepTrack's SpaceX brief reports that Kiko Dontchev, the company's vice president of launch, gave 13 November on stage…

What happened at the Khor Mor gas field?

Two sources at the Kurdistan electricity ministry told The New Arab that a single drone hit an LPG storage tank, starting a fire that was still burning and…

How did the Lakers win in Detroit without Doncic?

They did it early, then late. Los Angeles outscored Detroit by 24 in the first quarter and led 40-14 in the second, CBS reported. The Pistons clawed back to…

Will the House vote to impeach Pete Hegseth?

Massie's resolution is privileged, which means that once he raises it on the floor, leaders must schedule a vote within two legislative days, ABC News reported.

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