PARIS — Police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters blockading high schools across France on Tuesday, as tens of thousands of students, parents and teachers took to the streets to demand more funding for the public school system.

British courts on Tuesday opened the trial for three men accused of spying for Iran and threatening to harm London-based journalists.

Jonathan Powell, Britain’s national security adviser, visited Israel last week to try to negotiate over the looming closure of his country’s consulate in Jerusalem, according to three officials.

August Hanning is accused of selling state secrets to at least one foreign state. It could be the worst breach at the German foreign intelligence agency since the Cold War’s end.

A cargo ship sank and a second vessel caught fire in a combined aerial and maritime drone attack inside Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea.

Zambia will sign a revised health agreement with the United States that will not include contentious clauses committing the African nation to share patient health data and specimens with the U.S. government.

Kosovo's parliament elected ⁠economist ⁠Justina Shiroka Pula as ⁠the country's largely ceremonial president just before a constitutional ​deadline, avoiding another snap election in one of the poorest countries ‌in Europe.

Trump said the U.S. was willing to help Russia, where the death of a staffer at an anti-plague lab has sparked global public health concerns.