Students and other young people protest across France against a new law that allows employers to break two-year contracts with employees younger than 26 at any time.

About 40 of France’s 84 universities saw student occupations to varying degrees on Friday in protest at the new law, according to French news agency AFP. BBC News

The protesters seizing the Sorbonne in Paris have been grappled and evicted by riot police early this morning.

Learn more

• BBC News: Police battle Sorbonne protesters
• Reuters: French police use teargas to end Sorbonne protest
• Flickr: recent photos tagged with sorbonne

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