In the Press: France’s return to lockdown dominated the country’s press on Thursday, with newspaper editorials lambasting President Emmanuel Macron’s handling of the pandemic in the months after the...
US early voting surpasses 70 million, continuing historic pace
More than 70 million Americans have cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election, more than half the total turnout of the 2016 election with one week to go until Election Day, according to a Tuesday tally from the U.S...
US senators grill tech giants over content moderation ahead of election
Under fire from President Donald Trump and his allies, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google rebuffed accusations of anti-conservative bias at a Senate hearing Wednesday and promised to aggressively defend their...
French economy braces for second lockdown
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a second national lockdown, to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Construction projects and factory activity will be allowed to continue, but restaurants and non...
France holds its breath: Can this country withstand another lockdown?
The last lockdown was lifted five months ago but it is still fresh in people’s memories, and ever since September when people went back to school and back to work after the holidays, the COVID-19 situation has...
Three stabbed to death in France ‘terror attack’ – BBC News
Three people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the French city of Nice, police say. Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said there had been a “terrorist attack at the heart of the Notre-Dame...
Deadly stabbing attack in Nice – BBC News
At least one person has died and several others have been wounded in a stabbing attack in Nice, French media report.