France announces return to coronavirus lockdowns
Masked commuters sit in a bus in Paris, Oct. 15, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that millions of French citizens in several regions around the country, including in Paris, will have to respect a 9 p.m. curfew starting Saturday.
France will impose a nightly curfew starting on Saturday on almost 20 million of the country’s 67 million people, in an attempt to curb a resurgence of the coronavirus. And, Norway’s foreign minister said that Russia hacked into their country’s parliamentary email system in August. Also, as Nov. 3 approaches, calls by President Donald Trump to declare a winner on election night have raised fears among the biggest, oldest group of mail-in voters: members of the military.
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