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1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · By Leigh Thomas

   France lowers growth forecast, will miss deficit target (opens the original)

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   PARIS, Sept 11 (Reuters) - France's economy will grow less than expected this year and the government will miss its budget ‌deficit target, Finance Minister Roland Lescure said on Friday. The downgraded outlook ‌complicates the government's task of getting its 2027 budget passed in the coming months in ​a deeply divided parliament, where parties have hardened their positions before an April-May two-round presidential election. Lescure told journalists he was lowering the government's 2026 econom

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2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · By Leigh Thomas

   Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time (opens the original)

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   PARIS, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Teenagers more accustomed to smartphones than Shakespeare are reading at the worst levels seen this century, driving a broader decline in education, a global student ‌assessment found. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's 2025 test of 760,000 15-year-olds across 91 countries ‌showed reading, mathematics and science scores at their lowest levels since data began to be collected in 2000. On average, students were reading at ​a level that had in the

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