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Oct 26
French police detain 1,435 after weekend protests over living costs
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez raised the weekend arrest count to 1,435 on Monday, 26 October, up from 1,314 in the ministry's statement the previous evening. Unions and protest groups have called new demonstrations for 31 October and a national strike on 5 November.
Oct 15
Michel Foucault at 100: new books, a Collège de France exhibition and renewed debate on power
Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers on 15 October 1926. For the centenary, two previously unpublished texts appear, the Collège de France opens an exhibition on his work, and commentators link his ideas on surveillance and self-discipline to digital life.