Alt: National Geographic: Swimming Octopuses101

Education minister Edouard Geffray makes the offer after another day of sometimes violent demonstrations by high-school students.

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The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

Conservationists say the animal was discovered on a Cornish beach during an event.