After largely peaceful marches on Saturday, clashes broke out in the evening. But a large-scale police presence, 1,000 arrests and the rerouting of protest routes kept a lid on wholesale vandalism.

PARIS, Oct 23 (Reuters) - France will deploy 70,000 police at nationwide protests ⁠on ⁠Saturday, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Friday, looking to ⁠prevent a repeat of the violence and looting that shocked the country last weekend.

French unrest pushed bond yields to a 24-year high as investors weigh budget, growth and sectors risks ahead of more protests.

About 70,000 police and security officers, mobilized ahead of mass protests, will try to avert the arson and looting that shocked the country last weekend.

France responds to ICE's criticism of protests with U.S. gun crime statistics as Trump blames unrest on migrants.

France has detected the first human case of the Shamonda virus, according to health authorities. The case involved a severely immunocompromised patient in Lyon who died in early October.

In France and beyond there is widespread disagreement over what led to some of the worst unrest seen in French cities in modern history.

The nationwide unrest in France began with a handful of student demonstrations at high schools in suburban Paris last month.