WorldFrench cities ‘calm overnight’ after targeted curfews, prime minister says

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said targeted curfews in parts of Paris and other major cities helped bring calm overnight and suggested more could be imposed if needed. A helicopter swept a searchlight over Paris’s Place de la République, while some restrictions in Bordeaux and Nice were to last several days.

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