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By Juliette Jabkhiro

PARIS (Reuters) - Last year, Sihame Denguir enrolled her teenage son and daughter in France's largest Muslim private school, in the northern city of Lille some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from their middle-class suburban Parisian home.

The move meant financial sacrifices. Denguir, 41, now pays fees at the partially state-subsidised Averroes school and rents a flat in Lille for her children and their grandmother, who... (continue reading...)

By Dan Williams and Emily Rose

RAMAT HASHARON, Israel (Reuters) - In dozens of northern Israeli towns and villages, evacuated under fire from Lebanon's Hezbollah group in parallel with the Gaza war, officials hope daily rocket warning sirens will give way to school bells when the academic year starts on Sept 1.

That ticking clock has become a subject of open disagreement within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet, testing its... (continue reading...)

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday there was no place for threats of violence or instability after last week's election cost his African National Congress (ANC) party its majority for the first time.

The result, announced on Sunday, was the worst election showing for the ANC, Africa's oldest liberation movement, once led by Nelson Mandela, since it came to power 30 years ago, ending white minority rule.

(Reuters) - Activity in Russia's manufacturing sector grew marginally faster in May, a business survey showed on Monday, propelled by a sharp rise in employment as demand picked up.

The sector has now recorded expansion for 25 successive months.

The S&P Global Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for Russian manufacturing rose to 54.4 in May from 54.3 in April, staying above the 50 level that marks growth in activity and not far from an... (continue reading...)

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea plans to suspend a military agreement signed with North Korea in 2018 aimed at easing tensions, the presidential office said on Monday, after Seoul warned of a strong response to balloons launched by Pyongyang carrying trash to the South.

North Korea has launched hundreds balloons carried by wind across the border that dropped trash throughout South Korea, which called it a provocation and rejected Pyongyang's claim it... (continue reading...)