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BBC News with Roisin Hastie.
Overnight curfews have started in Paris, Lyon, Lille and Nice, as the French authorities tried to crack down on violence and looting, which has scarred the country since Saturday. Restrictions are also in place in a number of other towns. Demonstrations have been banned in Paris, which experienced some of the worst unrest that spilled over from massive protests against high living costs. Our Europe editor Katya Adler has this assessment. The French are well known in Europe for their passion for protesting, voicing anger loudly when they feel the authorities are letting them down. But this weekend's violence has shaken France, and the blame game is in full flow. Did the government here drop the ball from a security point of view? Are the anti-capitalist left responsible for encouraging the public disorder? And can the anti-immigration right use Saturday's riots to push its law and order closed borders message? The Italian government is deploying 500 troops to the northern city of Milan following two days of unrest. A deputy prime minister said the administration was responding firmly to the street violence. Hooded protesters set bins ablaze and looted shops over the weekend after initially peaceful demonstrations over poor public services and rising costs. Donald Trump has said he's open to a trilateral meeting with the presidents of Russia and China after U.S. media reported Vladimir Putin had floated the idea of a summit to decide the fate of Ukraine. The report about Mr. Putin's proposals in the Wall Street Journal has caused alarm in Europe and condemnation in Kyiv. Mr. Trump said, however, that they wouldn't focus that, but on denuclearization. He claimed that Russia had, in his words, "been fine on Ukraine." "Anything I can do to end the war, whether somebody's there or not, whatever I can do to end the war. And they do wanna have a meeting at my suggestion because I'm going to be over in China in November on the denuclearization. And if we can do denuclearization, I will have done the world a big, big favor." (Scientists) say a spacecraft designed for one of Mars' two moons has successfully separated from its rocket. The mission is aiming to become the first to return a sample from Phobos to Earth. The unmanned probe will use a robotic arm to grab some moon dust. Professor Sarah Russell from the Natural History Museum in London was at the launch. "It's one of the great mysteries of planetary science. There are only three moons in the inner solar system, so our moon is one of them, and the other two are around Mars. And those two, we have no idea how they form. And this is the mystery that we're going to solve by this mission that's going to go to these two little moons, Phobos and Deimos, and work out how they got there." World news from the BBC. A Kenyan court has found the doomsday cult leader, Paul McKenzie, and 29 accomplices guilty of the murder of 190 children and one adult. Most of the victims starved to death in the coastal Shakahola forest. The Trump administration has announced it's moving ahead with a deep-sea mining auction off the coast of American Samoa in the Pacific despite widespread opposition from locals and environmental groups. The decision marks the first time Washington has offered such leases. Officials hope the auction will extract valuable critical minerals, but environmentalists warn the sale could open the floodgates to the exploitation of the deep seas. Researchers in the U.S. say they've developed an AI tool which can detect a person's biological age and their chance of surviving cancer with a single photograph. The study suggests people's biological age estimates - how old the body is in terms of health rather than years lived - are closely linked to physical health, which could reflect their ability to survive certain treatments. Olivia Noon reports. Experts say the AI tool has been trained on more than 40 million pictures, with cancer survival estimates checked against real patient data. Researchers said they were surprised by how consistent the study's findings were despite differences in poses, lighting, facial expressions and makeup. Even most plastic surgery procedures didn't affect the predictions. It's hoped the breakthrough could help guide doctors in their decisions about cancer treatment plans, with the tool helping to predict what level of treatment patients can sustain. And Cristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for 30 days by the Portuguese Football Federation after leaving his country's national camp during a dispute with the coach. The 41-year-old team captain walked out in September after he wasn't used during a match against Norway and was told he wouldn't start against Denmark in another game. BBC News. |