The French government ⁠said ⁠on Wednesday it was pausing the use of ⁠stun grenades in its policing of student protests after a 15-year-old boy's hand was blown off during a clash ​with riot police. Rights groups,

Students' blockades and marches spring from real grievances – and from France's habit of settling policy on the street.

Nationwide protests in France have shut down or disrupted more than 500 schools as students demand better learning conditions and changes to the education system. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports on what protesters are demanding from the government.

Police fired tear gas in Paris and across France on Tuesday as more than 250,000 people rallied nationwide in support of students demanding increased education funding, according to government figures.

U.S. officials brought new torture charges against deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

Experts say new torture charges against Maduro and his wife could strengthen the case and raise global stakes.

Prosecutors allege Maduro "presided over this system of repression and torture."

The deposed Venezuelan leader and his wife, already facing narcoterrorism and drug charges, are accused of conspiring to torture American detainees.

Several explosions were heard in Saudi Arabia's capital of Riyadh on Thursday, including a large blast at the city’s international airport, a witness told The Associated Press, a day after the kingdom said an attack on the airport killed one person and wounded others.

Saudi Arabia said three people were killed and dozens injured in Houthi attacks on its airports this week, as the conflict between the kingdom and the Iran-backed rebels continues to escalate. A Sudanese man was killed and seven other people were injured in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in the capital Riyadh on Wednesday,

Smoke rises from Riyadh's King Khalid Airport as Houthis claim attack

A Lufthansa spokesperson told Reuters ​the German group's airlines would suspend flights to Riyadh through October 16 due to "current developments ​in the Middle East". Air In

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will not resume military strikes on Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections

California leaders are condemning President Trump after he suggested that Iran could take out Los Angeles or San Diego as he defended the war.

The president has acknowledged sometimes using public statements about negotiations and military planning to keep adversaries off guard.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States is having productive discussions with Iran and will not launch an attack on the country before the midterm congressional election.

The Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded Thursday by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Last year, Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor,

Canadian author Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday for her bold oeuvre that uses playful dialogue and the classical tradition.

Anne Carson, the Canadian writer and classicist whose work blends verse, prose and essay with influences from classical myths, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature for her “bold and inventive oeuvre.”

The acclaimed poet, classicist and translator was lauded by the Nobel Committee for her “bold and inventive” work.

Thousands of protesters marched in Madrid on Thursday, a day after the death of María del Carmen Abascal, an 87-year-old whose eviction became a symbol of the country’s housing crisis.

A demonstrator emerges from a protest camp shouting “Maricarmen” as news of the death of Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing protests in Spain, reaches the protest camp at Puerta del Sol square in Madrid,

Her case has drawn tens of thousands of people to the streets in outrage and led the prime minister to call for early elections after failing to pass measures to address the country's housing crisis.

Maria del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her Madrid home sparked a government crisis in Spain, has died, the Madrid Tenants’ Union announced on Tuesday.