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October 17, 2020

Millions in France face curfew over virus

PARIS: Paris and other French cities readied for their last night out on Friday before the start of a stringent anti-virus curfew, in contrast to neighbouring Germany where a Berlin court overturned nighttime restrictions.Across Europe, governments were frantically trying to ease an alarming second wave of coronavirus cases while avoiding a full-on national lockdown that would batter their struggling economies still further.Millions in England including London were just hours away from...