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DALLAS, Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- UT Southwestern Medical Center and the faculty of health sciences of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, signed a five-year affiliation agreement today to collaborate on faculty and student exchanges, joint research and training activities and other educational opportunities. The agreement, UT Southwestern's first with an African university, is the third international affiliation agreement for the medical center. UT Southwestern...

By Tim Hepher and Dominique Rodriguez PARIS (Reuters) - Riot police stood guard at Paris's Sorbonne university after breaking up a three-day sit-in there on Saturday and a clean-up operation began as France tried to quell student protests over job reforms. Education Minister Gilles de Robien visited ransacked offices and held up torn books at the birthplace of France's May 1968 student protest movement, hours after police in riot gear stormed the building and ejected about 200 students...

By Tim Hepher and Dominique Rodriguez PARIS (Reuters) - French riot police used tear gas to break up a three-day sit-in at Paris's Sorbonne university on Saturday, stirring up memories of May 1968, as angry students threatened a mounting challenge to government labor reforms. Students had occupied the faculty, the center of France's 1968 student riots, since Wednesday to protest against the youth jobs plan, which has sent conservative Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's popularity...