How to Listen to Radio Stations From Around the World - The New York Times

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Americans may not be able to travel the world because of the pandemic, but thousands of foreign radio stations are easily accessible online to bring the world to you.

For Dorothy Parvaz, a radio editor in Washington, D.C., foreign radio was her first introduction to the world beyond Tehran, where she lived until 12. “Listening to radio signals coming in from other countries was just like seeing the world in a way we couldn’t on TV, ” she said. “If I wanted to find music, I went to the apartment downstairs, where one of the kids always got a good signal somehow. We heard Pink Floyd for the first time together.”

Here, some ways to tune into the world on your computer or phone. In some cases these are broadcast stations that also make their programming available on the web. Others are internet-only stations.

Based in Amsterdam, Radio.garden offers the world: Type “Nigeria" into the search bar, for instance, and 20 stations pop up, including one focused on human rights. You can listen in English to programs from Canada, Britain, Ireland or Australia. The home page, titled “Live”, allows users to explore the world’s radio stations in real time, by simply rotating the globe on the site and clicking a spot. (Radio.garden; or via a free app for iOS and Android).

ThreeD radio, a 41-year-old station in Adelaide, Australia, includes aboriginal music in its regular playlists. “Their music is exceptionally soulful, and often talks about the struggles that the Aboriginals have faced,” said William Taylor, a career development manager at VelvetJobs an outplacement company. His favorite musicians: Ziggy, Thelma Plum, Zaine Francis and Steady (threedradio.com).

For fans of Indian music, Hits of Bollywood was founded to serve the Indian diaspora. It plays Hindi songs, gazalas, classical songs, qawwalis and much more (onlineradios.in/hits-of-bollywood). NTS Radio, with studios in Los Angeles, Shanghai and Manchester, England, offers wildly eclectic selections — Japanese psychedelia from 1968 to 1975, a performance by the experimental rap group Clipping, and new World music albums, among other things (nts.live; also available via a free app for iOS and Android). Nostalgie, a French station, plays hits from the 1960s through 1990s, from classic French musicians like Edith Piaf, Johnny Hallyday and Renaud to Seal, Queen and Duran Duran (nostalgie.fr).

From Egypt, Nile FM, primarily plays Top 40 programming, “but between 7 and 8 a.m. (1 to 2 a.m. Eastern) they have a great classic rock hour,” said Ethan Haynes, an author and part-time teacher of students with learning disabilities currently living in Cairo. “The weekends have a syndicated techno/house program while their DJs enjoy their days off.” Nile broadcasts in English, but it is a “good way to hear the Middle Eastern perspective on American politics or to hear Middle Eastern news that might not be featured in American media,” he said (nilefm.com, or through an app for iOS and Android).

The government-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation offers a wide array of shows, from Writers & Company, an award-winning program hosted by the journalist Eleanor Wachtel focused on books and authors, to Cross Country Check-Up, a 51-year-old weekly national open-line radio program, broadcast live simultaneously through six time zones across the country every Sunday afternoon on CBC Radio One. It attracts more than a half million listeners, according to the CBC, with 5,000 to 10,000 people trying to call in and join the discussion (cbc.ca/radio; or via a free app for iOS, cbc.listen).

RFI Monde (Radio France International, World) offers world news and cultural programs exploring literary, poetic and musical aspects of different cultures, especially with an emphasis on Francophone West African countries, in English (rfi.fr/en; or via a free app for iOS/Android).

Listening to radio from Latin America in Spanish offers cultural insight and a chance to hone your Spanish-language skills. Adel Hattem, the founder of D Music Marketing, an artists’ management firm in Miami, grew up in Mexico City and is a huge fan of Aire Libre, a station there she calls “very artsy, all over the map” (airelibre.fm or via a free app for iOS/Android). In Bogotá, Colombia, RadioNica offers an equally eclectic mix (radionica.rocks/en-vivo/radionica). It is a national station focused on indie and electronic music with seven million listeners in the country. She also recommends IBERO 90.9, a station in Mexico City that’s a favorite of college students and indie music lovers, with an audience of 600,000 daily (ibero909.fm; or via a free app for iOS/Android through radio.net).

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Sean Connery: From Tentative Secret Agent to Suave Bond - The New York Times

In 1965, at the height of James Bond mania, Sean Connery told Playboy magazine that he had no problem with another actor assuming his signature role. “Actually, I’d find it interesting to see what someone else does with it,” he said. “Lots of people could play him.”

Strictly speaking, he was right. But by public reckoning, he couldn’t have been more wrong. In the popular imagination, the Scottish-born Thomas Sean Connery, who died Saturday at 90, will always be both the first and the best “Bond … James Bond.”

It’s hard to believe that before Eon Productions perfected its Bond formula, the secret agent’s creator, Ian Fleming, gushed about perhaps casting Richard Burton or David Niven as 007. The former would have brought the necessary guts, the latter the requisite charm.

But for an enduring, vodka martini-soaked franchise built on one man’s tightly wound toughness, womanizing charisma, tongue-in-cheek one-liners and exquisite tastes, Connery was the Fleming word made cinematic flesh.

Critics and superfans endlessly argue the merits of the various Bonds. Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig and even the one-time George Lazenby all have their respective strengths.

Inevitably, they bow to the archetypal Connery. His appeal, wrote John Cork and Bruce Scivally in “James Bond: The Legacy,” “comes not just from good looks, it comes from a particular confidence, a certainty within himself.” They added that he had “a natural, authoritative grace, which was at once seductive and intimidating.”

Connery was not originally made of such stuff. He had done solid work in “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” (1959) and, briefly, “The Longest Day” (1962), playing a British Tommy. However, when it came to personifying the ultrasophisticated lodestar of Her Majesty’s Secret Service, he was still “a pretty rough diamond,” as the production designer Ken Adam put it. Born in the Edinburgh slums, Connery was full of raw material. The producer Albert Broccoli called him “ballsy”; his partner, Harry Saltzman, said that the man moved “like a big jungle cat.”

Bond buffs credit the director of his early films, the Cambridge-educated Terence Young, for rounding Connery into shape. Though neither muscleman nor indiscriminate lover, Young (a.k.a. the “Bond Vivant”) had a taste for high living, big spending, bonhomie and forthrightness. “He was completely ruthless in a gentlemanly sort of way,” said the stuntman George Leech.

Connery’s start as Bond was a tad tentative. In the initial 007 outing, “Dr. No” (1962), his boss, M. (Bernard Lee), asks, “Does ‘toppling’ mean anything to you?” Connery answers diffidently: “A little. It’s throwing the gyroscopic controls of a guided missile off balance with a … a radio beam or something, isn’t it?” He even screws up his eyes briefly, trying to recall what the term means. When he dallies with M.’s secretary, Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell), his flirting is a bit too studied.

Connery improves in “From Russia With Love” (1963). Outwitted by the covert SPECTRE operative Red Grant (Robert Shaw), he sheepishly admits missing a vital clue to his enemy’s identity. “Red wine with fish,” Connery says with a sigh. “Well, that should have told me something.” But within minutes he stabs and garrotes Grant in what Bond fans have called one of cinema’s most brutal family-friendly fights ever. A sweating Connery then adjusts his tie and retrieves a few trinkets, including stolen money from the corpse. The punchline: “You won’t be needing this … old man.”

By “Goldfinger” (1964), Connery and the Bond persona have melded seamlessly in the outsize blueprint for all future classic Bond productions. In the short teaser, our hero blows up a heroin plant with plastic explosives, shucks his scuba suit to reveal a white dinner jacket (with red boutonniere), seduces a traitorous tarantella dancer in her bathtub and, after savage fisticuffs, electrocutes a would-be assassin by knocking him and a space heater into said tub.

Connery utters fewer than 75 words in about four and a half minutes. But the last three (“Shocking … positively shocking,” said with soft reprobation as the assassin slowly simmers), combined with Connery’s self-assured sexuality and knockabout confidence, release a loud laugh from moviegoers and get them hooked.

So second nature is the persona that when the heroin plant explodes, the man who invariably saves the world reacts merely with an expression of bored, silent amusement and removes his just-lit cigarette from his mouth.

Hence Tom Jones, as Bondish a title singer as you can get, could warble in the 1965 outing, “He always runs while others walk / He acts while other men just talk / He looks at this world and wants it all / So he strikes like Thunderball!”

Connery didn’t want to continue to strike like thunder or, for that matter, lightning. Also, he wasn’t crazy about swimming with live sharks. The Bond films, he said, “don’t tax one as an actor. All one really needs is the constitution of a rugby player to get through 18 weeks of swimming, slugging and necking.” After the release of “Thunderball” he griped, “What is needed now is a change of course, more attention to character and better dialogue.”

The dialogue in what he thought was his last Bond film, “You Only Live Twice” (1967), was just fine. “I like sake … especially when it’s served at the correct temperature, 98.4 degrees Fahrenheit, like this is.” But character got short shrift. Stuffed with sumo wrestling; trap doors; an autogiro equipped with flamethrowers and missiles; a piranha pool; and, of course, a rocket base hidden inside a volcano, “You Only Live Twice” wasn’t exactly an actor’s breakthrough.

By this time, Connery’s boredom and even annoyance were obvious. And so he famously quit the series. Except for “The Molly Maguires” (1970), his next few films were unremarkable. Things weren’t going exactly as the freed agent had expected.

So for $1.25 million, 10 percent of the gross, and financing for two films of Connery’s choice, Eon lured him back for “Diamonds Are Forever.” Grayer, wiser and somewhat heavier, Connery nonetheless seems to enjoy himself in this bit of 1971 nonsense, reconciled to his increasingly cartoonish legacy. Stuffing a deadly cassette tape into a startled Jill St. John’s bikini bottom, he quips, “Your problems are all behind you now.” One of the screenwriters, Tom Mankiewicz, said, “There was an old pro’s grace about him.”

A dozen years later he returned yet again, to the non-Eon production “Never Say Never Again.” It was a pallid remake of “Thunderball.” But, Steven Jay Rubin wrote in “The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia,” “When he’s onscreen, the movie works. Fortunately, he’s onscreen a lot.”

Connery once described the part that has now made him immortal as “a cross, a privilege, a joke, a challenge. And as bloody intrusive as a nightmare.” But for those who cannot get enough beluga caviar or Walther PPKs, it remains a dream. Sean Connery as James Bond is forever.

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How to Listen to Radio Stations From Around the World - The New York Times

Americans may not be able to travel the world because of the pandemic, but thousands of foreign radio stations are easily accessible online to bring the world to you.

For Dorothy Parvaz, a radio editor in Washington, D.C., foreign radio was her first introduction to the world beyond Tehran, where she lived until 12. “Listening to radio signals coming in from other countries was just like seeing the world in a way we couldn’t on TV, ” she said. “If I wanted to find music, I went to the apartment downstairs, where one of the kids always got a good signal somehow. We heard Pink Floyd for the first time together.”

Here, some ways to tune into the world on your computer or phone. In some cases these are broadcast stations that also make their programming available on the web. Others are internet-only stations.

Based in Amsterdam, Radio.garden offers the world: Type “Nigeria" into the search bar, for instance, and 20 stations pop up, including one focused on human rights. You can listen in English to programs from Canada, Britain, Ireland or Australia. The home page, titled “Live”, allows users to explore the world’s radio stations in real time, by simply rotating the globe on the site and clicking a spot. (Radio.garden; or via a free app for iOS and Android).

ThreeD radio, a 41-year-old station in Adelaide, Australia, includes aboriginal music in its regular playlists. “Their music is exceptionally soulful, and often talks about the struggles that the Aboriginals have faced,” said William Taylor, a career development manager at VelvetJobs an outplacement company. His favorite musicians: Ziggy, Thelma Plum, Zaine Francis and Steady (threedradio.com).

For fans of Indian music, Hits of Bollywood was founded to serve the Indian diaspora. It plays Hindi songs, gazalas, classical songs, qawwalis and much more (onlineradios.in/hits-of-bollywood). NTS Radio, with studios in Los Angeles, Shanghai and Manchester, England, offers wildly eclectic selections — Japanese psychedelia from 1968 to 1975, a performance by the experimental rap group Clipping, and new World music albums, among other things (nts.live; also available via a free app for iOS and Android). Nostalgie, a French station, plays hits from the 1960s through 1990s, from classic French musicians like Edith Piaf, Johnny Hallyday and Renaud to Seal, Queen and Duran Duran (nostalgie.fr).

From Egypt, Nile FM, primarily plays Top 40 programming, “but between 7 and 8 a.m. (1 to 2 a.m. Eastern) they have a great classic rock hour,” said Ethan Haynes, an author and part-time teacher of students with learning disabilities currently living in Cairo. “The weekends have a syndicated techno/house program while their DJs enjoy their days off.” Nile broadcasts in English, but it is a “good way to hear the Middle Eastern perspective on American politics or to hear Middle Eastern news that might not be featured in American media,” he said (nilefm.com, or through an app for iOS and Android).

The government-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation offers a wide array of shows, from Writers & Company, an award-winning program hosted by the journalist Eleanor Wachtel focused on books and authors, to Cross Country Check-Up, a 51-year-old weekly national open-line radio program, broadcast live simultaneously through six time zones across the country every Sunday afternoon on CBC Radio One. It attracts more than a half million listeners, according to the CBC, with 5,000 to 10,000 people trying to call in and join the discussion (cbc.ca/radio; or via a free app for iOS, cbc.listen).

RFI Monde (Radio France International, World) offers world news and cultural programs exploring literary, poetic and musical aspects of different cultures, especially with an emphasis on Francophone West African countries, in English (rfi.fr/en; or via a free app for iOS/Android).

Listening to radio from Latin America in Spanish offers cultural insight and a chance to hone your Spanish-language skills. Adel Hattem, the founder of D Music Marketing, an artists’ management firm in Miami, grew up in Mexico City and is a huge fan of Aire Libre, a station there she calls “very artsy, all over the map” (airelibre.fm or via a free app for iOS/Android). In Bogotá, Colombia, RadioNica offers an equally eclectic mix (radionica.rocks/en-vivo/radionica). It is a national station focused on indie and electronic music with seven million listeners in the country. She also recommends IBERO 90.9, a station in Mexico City that’s a favorite of college students and indie music lovers, with an audience of 600,000 daily (ibero909.fm; or via a free app for iOS/Android through radio.net).

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Police In N.C. Arrest, Pepper Spray Protesters During March To Polls Event - NPR

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Police in Graham, N.C., moved in on a march and rally to drive voter turnout, using pepper spray and making several arrests on the state's last day of early voting.

According to video, police and participants, deputies with the Alamance County Sheriff's Office and Graham police officers twice used pepper spray on the "I Am Change" march to the polls.

Participants and organizers say they had proper permits for Saturday's event, which marched from Wayman's Chapel AME Church to a rally at the city's Court Square. Following the rally, organizers had then planned to lead the some 200 marchers to a nearby polling place.

Along the way, marchers led by organizer the Rev. Greg Drumwright stopped for a nearly nine minute long silence in memory of George Floyd, the Black man who was killed after a white police officer kept a knee on his neck for that span of time.

It was shortly after that moment of silence that the first confrontation occurred, according to march participant Amy Cooper. Cooper says that police then began ordering marchers to remain on the sidewalk.

"They said they were clearing the downtown area of Graham, it was shut down and people weren't allowed to be in the streets," Cooper told NPR. Cooper says shortly after that police began to pepper spray.

Video streaming from Drumwright's Facebook page shows participants crowded on the sidewalk, with Drumwright leading people to a stage built for the speaker portion of the event.

During that part a man is heard angrily saying "they're pepper spraying children."

Later on, at the stage, Drumwright stops speaking to acknowledge a something happening just out of frame.

Separate video shared by the Raleigh News & Observer shows confrontations between police and participants. Law enforcement are then seen using pepper spray.

Sylvester Allen Jr., an activist in Alamance County, says police had attempted to take a generator being used by people speaking.

"The whole point was to rally and go to the voter polls," Allen told NPR. "They wanted to send a message that we don't have any power."

Reporter Rusty Jacobs with member station WUNC tweeted that at one point, police had said the permitted march was an unlawful assembly and ordered people out of the streets. Jacobs noted that officers began making arrests.

Two men arrested at BLM rally in Graham, NC—one wasn’t told by police why—other man said he was charged with failing to obey command #ncpol pic.twitter.com/o2ZK0YJGUB

— Rusty Jacobs (@rustyjacobsWUNC) October 31, 2020

The Graham Police Department says it arrested eight people. One of those arrested was Drumwright, who says he was charged with failure to disperse on command.

Speaking to NPR's All Things Considered, Drumwright said they had worked with authorities in getting the march together.

"We were to leave that rally in just a few more minutes and head to the polls. This is something that we have worked on for the greater part of this month with the law enforcement agencies," Drumwright told NPR.

In a statement issued Saturday evening, Graham police say organizers hadn't gotten clearance for a temporary road closure.

The also justified the use of pepper spray, saying law enforcement officers issued several warnings to clear the road beforehand.

"As a result of actions that occurred within the rally, on courthouse grounds, the assembly reached a level of conduct that led to the rally being deemed unsafe and unlawful by unified command," the statement said.

The Alamance County Sherriff could not be reached for comment.

Drumwright contends participants were not in the road but on the sidewalk when police began using pepper spray.

When asked if he thought this was an effort to suppress the vote, Drumwright said, "I cannot say that that was what it was, but I can say that's what happened. There are people that did not get to vote today because they ended up in jail."

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'Cats Rack Up Eight Wins to Highlight Day Two of K-State Fall Invite - Kansas State University Athletics - K-StateSports.com

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MANHATTAN, Kan. – Another successful outing at the Mike Goss Tennis Stadium showcased what the Kansas State women's tennis team can do this year, as the group racked up four more singles' victories along with four doubles' wins to cap off day two of the K-State Fall Invite on Saturday (October 31).
 
"We maintained our level of play today," said head coach Jordan Smith. "Our energy was great in singles to start."
 
Singles play featured three efficient outings from juniors Rosanna Maffei and Ioana Gheorghita along with freshman Manami Ukita. The fourth win came from junior Maria Linares, who clawed back from an early deficit to take down Iowa State's Ting-Pei Chang in three sets, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.
 
"When I started the first set, I was not feeling good when hitting the ball, so I was trying to make changes to come back and it worked," said Linares. "I was not feeling good physically and mentally, but I kept telling myself to keep putting the ball in play."
 
"I am happy that in the last set, I attacked more often without giving her that much time to do something."
 
Smith also noted Linares' efforts during her comeback win.

"Gritty is definitely the word to describe Maria's match today," Smith stated. "We told her after the match that this wasn't her best day as a tennis player, but it was definitely one of her best days being a competitor."
 
Maffei and Ukita swiftly defeated their opponents in the early stages of singles competition as Maffei used a 6-2, 6-2 score line to knock off the Cyclones' Ellie Murphy while Ukita continued to display great poise on the court with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Iowa State's Maty Cancini.
 
"Rosy (Rosanna Maffei) took care of business," said Smith. "Was so impressed by how well Manami (Ukita) and Ioana (Gheorghita) played today. They came out on fire and picked up two really good wins for them."
 
Competing on court five today was Gheorghita, who won a tight match with Kansas' Vasiliki Karvouni in the latter part of the singles' play with a 7-5, 6-4 win.
 
The Wildcats now have nine singles' victories through two days of the home tournament.
 
K-State handled its conference foes nicely for doubles play today, as Linares and teammate Karine-Marion Job earned two more wins in the morning session. The duo took down Iowa State's Chie Kezuka and Christen Hsieh in the first match with a score of 7-5, and then kicked things into gear against the Cyclones' Ellie Murphy and Maty Cancini with a 6-2 set win.
 
Job and Linares remain unbeaten in fall play with a 7-0 record in doubles' competition.
 
The paring of Gheorghita and junior Anna Turco gained an advantage against those same Cyclones to capture two victories of their own in doubles play. Both Wildcats locked in and grabbed an early victory against Iowa State's Maty Cancini and Ellie Murphy, 6-3, while earning another win against the Cyclones' Christen Hsieh and Chie Kezuka, 6-2.
 
"Our team has done a great job of understanding what our brand doubles needs to be," said Smith. "We've been switching up our pairings a lot to figure out where we can find good chemistry. Obviously, KJ (Karine-Marion Job) and Maria (Linares) have been dominant since the spring, so absolutely no surprise to their success."
 
"We kept some other pairs together and that was the difference in improving our doubles' performance."
 
In the other matches for singles play, Job and Turco fell in their third sets of the day against Iowa State and Kansas opponents. Turco fell off and could not rebound against Kansas' Julia Deming in three sets, 6-1, 3-6, 3-6. Job started strong with a 6-2 first set victory, but then stumbled in the final two sets, 4-6, 3-6, as she was defeated by Iowa State's Chie Kezuka.
 
Senior Margot Decker had to retire in her match with the Cyclones' Christen Hsieh, as she could not finish the first set and ended her day with a 1-4 loss.
 
The Wildcats will compete in the final day of the K-State Fall Invite tomorrow, Sunday, November 1, at 11 a.m. CT, at the Mike Goss Tennis Stadium before heading to participate in the Big 12 Fall Individuals on November 6-8 in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
 
"We are treating tomorrow like closing out a match," said Smith. "We have to keep our foot on the gas and finish strong. Next weekend is a great way to close out the fall by playing against almost all the teams in the Big 12. I want our team to have as much momentum as possible to start the next event."

"Giving our best tomorrow will surely help with that."
 
K-State Fall Invite
Mike Goss Tennis Stadium
October 31, 2020
 
Doubles Play
 
Maria Linares/Karine-Marion Job (KSU) def. Chie Kezuka/Christen Hsieh, 7-5
Anna Turco/Ioana Gheorghita (KSU) def. Maty Cancini/Ellie Murphy, 6-3
Julia Deming/Vasiliki Karvouni (KU) def. Rosanna Maffei/Manami Ukita, 6-3
Maria Linares/Karine-Marion Job (KSU) def. Maty Cancini/Ellie Murphy, 6-2
Anna Turco/Ioana Gheorghita (KSU) def. Chie Kezuka/Christen Hsieh (ISU), 6-2
Julia Deming/Vasiliki Karvouni (KU) def. Margot Decker/Manami Ukita (KSU), 6-3
 
Singles Play
 
Rosanna Maffei (KSU) def. Ellie Murphy (ISU), 6-2, 6-2
Manami Ukita (KSU) def. Maty Cancini (ISU), 6-3, 6-2
Ioana Gheorghita (KSU) def. Vasiliki Karvouni (KU), 7-5, 6-4
Julia Deming (KU) def. Anna Turco (KSU) 1-6, 6-3, 6-3
Chie Kezuka (ISU) def. Karine-Marion Job (KSU) 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
Christen Hsieh (ISU) def. Margot Decker (KSU) 4-1 (retired)
Maria Linares (KSU) def. Tine-Pei Chang (ISU), 4-6, 7-5, 6-1
 
For the latest on K-State tennis follow @kstatesports and @KStateTEN on Twitter or K-State Women's Tennis on Facebook.
 

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Police used pepper spray to break up a North Carolina march to a polling place - CNN

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According to a statement from the Graham Police Department, officers pepper sprayed the ground to disperse the crowd when the demonstration was deemed "unsafe and unlawful" due to unspecified "actions."

But Scott Huffman, a North Carolina Democratic congressional candidate who attended the march, said demonstrators were only exercising their First Amendment rights when law enforcement used the pepper spray in Graham, about 30 miles east of Greensboro.

"We were peacefully demonstrating, we were exercising our First Amendment rights with Black Lives Matter," Huffman said in a video he shared on Twitter.

The "I Am Change" march was branded as a "march to the polls" where participants were encouraged to march in honor of Black people whose deaths have fueled protests over racial injustice, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Trayvon Martin, among others, according to a flyer for the event.

Attorney Ben Crump, who represents the families of numerous victims of police brutality, was scheduled to speak at the event, the flyer shows, along with Brooke Williams, George Floyd's niece.

Video published by the Raleigh News & Observer appears to show demonstrators and law enforcement scuffling over sound equipment in front of the Graham courthouse. Alamance County Sheriff's deputies wearing gray uniforms soon deploy pepper spray, and at least one deputy is seen spraying a man in the face. Others spray toward demonstrators' feet.

At least eight people were arrested during the rally on various charges, including failure to disperse and one instance of assault on a law enforcement officer, Graham police said.

The Alamance County Sheriff's Office said it made arrests at the demonstration, citing "violations of the permit" the organizer, the Rev. Gregory Drumwright, a pastor and activist, obtained to hold the rally.

"Mr. Drumwright chose not to abide by the agreed upon rules," the sheriff's office said. "As a result, after violations of the permit, along with disorderly conduct by participants leading to arrests, the protest was deemed an unlawful assembly and participants were asked to leave."

March to polling place included stop at courthouse

The rally was scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET starting from Wayman's Chapel AME church, with an expected stop at the Confederate Monument at Court Square, before ending at a polling place on Elm Street, according to the flyer for the event.

But once at Court Square, police decided to disperse the crowd, according to Graham police, after people stopped in the road for about 9 minutes, causing traffic to back up. The police statement said the march organizers were told that blocking a roadway was a "prohibited activity that would be strictly enforced."

Officers with the Graham Police Department told members of the crowd to move back to the designated areas near the Graham courthouse, but when they did not, police "utilized a crowd control measure that consisted of spraying a pepper based vapor on the ground."

The crowd then moved to the designated area. But later, "as a result of actions that occurred within the rally," law enforcement deemed the rally "unsafe and unlawful," police said, without describing demonstrators' "actions."

The crowd was ordered to disperse and was warned several time that pepper spray would be deployed if it failed to do so. After five minutes, several people remained and officers again pepper sprayed the ground, the sheriff's office said.

"At no time during this event did any member of the Graham Police Department directly spray any participant in the march with chemical irritants," police said.

Drumwright told NPR the rally was almost over, and then they planned to lead the marchers to the polling station.

He said he couldn't call it an effort to suppress the vote, but "that's what happened.

"There are people that did not get to vote today because they ended up in jail," he said.

CNN is attempting to reach Drumwright for additional comment.

NC Democratic leader says actions are 'voter suppression'

Huffman, the congressional candidate, said in his video that the demonstrators had obtained proper permits. "Peaceful protests for Souls to the Polls & Black Lives Matter turned violent because law enforcement tried to take the sound equipment," he tweeted.

Rain Bennett, another attendee, told CNN that demonstrators stopped at Court Square for an eight-minute moment of silence for George Floyd following the march, and that "police presence was there and they had no problem with that."

But then Bennett saw what he described as a "commotion" and people began screaming. He saw a woman who was hurt and then smelled pepper spray.

"Everybody is coughing and kind of running away," he said, adding that it was "really confusing because it'd been fine."

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper shared the Raleigh News & Observer's article about the march on Twitter and called the incident "unacceptable."

"Peaceful demonstrators should be able to have their voices heard and voter intimidation in any form cannot be tolerated," the governor said.

North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Goodwin issued a statement condemned the actions of law enforcement, calling them "completely unwarranted police hostility and voter suppression."

"It is egregious that local law enforcement would conduct themselves this way. North Carolinians are no strangers to voter suppression and intimidation -- we know it when we see it," Goodwin said. "The North Carolina Democratic Party calls for swift and clear consequences for the offending officers."

Patrick Gannon, a spokesman for the North Carolina State Board of Elections, said the incident did not impact voting.

"Voting continues and was not interrupted," Gannon said.

But poll greeter Jane Peppler, who was working at the polling station on Elm Street, said that doesn't mean people weren't discouraged by what happened.

"We thought there would be tons of people coming in after this event," Peppler told CNN. "We had extra people come on hand because the idea of this was that this gathering would end at the polls, but they broke it up over there at the courthouse before they ever got here."

CNN's Dianne Gallagher and Pamela Kirkland contributed to this report.

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Stanford Study Seeks to Quantify Infections Stemming From Trump Rallies - The New York Times

WASHINGTON — A group of Stanford University economists who created a statistical model estimate that there have been at least 30,000 coronavirus infections and 700 deaths as a result of 18 campaign rallies President Trump held from June to September.

The numbers, which will surely reignite accusations from Democratic leaders and public health officials that the president is putting voters at risk for political gain, are not based on individual cases traced directly to particular campaign events.

Instead, the Stanford researchers, led by Professor B. Douglas Bernheim, the chairman of the university’s economics department, conducted a regression analysis. They compared the 18 counties where Mr. Trump held rallies with as many as 200 counties with similar demographics and similar trajectories of confirmed Covid-19 cases before the rally date.

The events took place from June 20 to Sept. 12; only the first two — in Tulsa, Okla., and Phoenix — were held indoors. The president has held about three dozen additional rallies since the study ended in September.

Based on their models, the researchers concluded that on average, the 18 events produced increases in confirmed cases of more than 250 per 100,000 residents. Extrapolating that figure to the 18 rallies, they concluded that the gatherings ultimately resulted in more than 30,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and that the rallies had “likely led to more than 700 deaths,” though those deaths would not necessarily have occurred solely among attendees.

The paper, posted on academic websites and on Twitter by its authors days before the presidential election, is likely to be contentious. Public health officials in states and counties where Mr. Trump has held rallies said in interviews this week that it was impossible to tie particular infections or outbreaks to the gatherings for several reasons: Caseloads are rising over all, rally attendees often travel from other locations, contact tracing is not always complete, and contact tracers do not always know where infected people have been.

Judd Deere, a White House spokesman, dismissed the study as “a politically driven model based on flawed assumptions and meant to shame Trump supporters.”

“As the president has said, the cure cannot be worse than the disease,” Mr. Deere said in a statement on Saturday. “This country should be open armed with best practices and freedom of choice to limit the spread of Covid-19.”

The study is a “working paper” and has not yet been submitted for peer review, Professor Bernheim said in an interview on Saturday. He said it was common practice for economists to post their work online before submitting it to an academic journal so that other experts could comment on it. He said politics was not the motivation for it.

“The motivation for this paper,” he said, “is that there is a debate that is raging about the trade-off between the economic consequences of restrictions and the health consequences of transmission, and as an economist, I take that debate to be both important and appropriate.”

Since the president resumed holding political rallies in June, he has faced intense criticism over them. Public health officials in Tulsa, the site of the first rally, have said a subsequent surge in coronavirus cases was most likely tied to it.

A little more than two weeks after the event, Tulsa recorded 206 new confirmed coronavirus cases in a single day, a record high at the time. Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate, died of Covid-19 after attending the rally, though it is impossible to know whether he was infected there.

Mr. Trump continues to have rallies, but they are typically outside.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times

Around the country, state and local public health officials have also wrestled with the question of whether Mr. Trump’s rallies have become so-called superspreader events. With thousands of people gathered together in close quarters, many not wearing masks, the gatherings provide a fertile environment for the virus to spread.

In Minnesota, for example, state officials traced 16 coronavirus infections and two hospitalizations to a Trump rally on Sept. 18 in the city of Bemidji, in Beltrami County. Mr. Trump’s Democratic opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., who wears masks and encourages his supporters to do so, held his own campaign even that same day in Duluth; it resulted in one coronavirus infection, but no hospitalizations.

But Doug Schultz, a spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Health, said that the full extent of the spread that had resulted from those cases was difficult to quantify, because many people who develop Covid-19 are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and do not seek treatment, and even those who test positive may not respond to contact tracing inquiries.

“What we are seeing in Beltrami County are indicators of transmission, and this is likely just the tip of the iceberg,” Mr. Schultz said in an email.

Many Trump supporters have complained that focusing on the risk posed by the president’s rallies ignores the risk posed by other large gatherings, like the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer. But Professor Bernheim said that because the rallies are isolated events with a finite beginning and end, they are “cleaner events to study” than protests, which can occur over several days.

Assessing the risk of campaign rallies is “a noisy process,” Professor Bernheim said, and focusing on a single event is misleading. His paper noted that there had been similar, smaller analyses — including one based on the Tulsa rally that found no significant effect. But, it said, “measuring the average treatment effect over multiple events, as in our study, produces more reliable results.”

Michael D. Shear contributed reporting.

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President Trump’s campaign is raising money for a prolonged political and legal fight long after Nov. 3 and recently began automatically checking a box to withdraw additional weekly contributions from online donors through mid-December — nearly six weeks after Election Day.

Predicting “FRAUD like you’ve never seen,” the language on Mr. Trump’s website opts contributors into making the weekly post-election donations “to ensure we have the resources to protect the results and keep fighting even after Election Day.” Users must proactively click to avoid making multiple contributions.

The unusual post-election revenue stream would help Mr. Trump pay off any bills that his campaign accumulates before Tuesday — a campaign spokesman said no such debts had been incurred — and could help fund a lengthy legal fight if the results are contested.

“This race will be very close, and it is possible that multiple states will require recounts and potential additional spending from our campaign,” said Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s campaign. “The election process this year is under extraordinary circumstances, and we are also anticipating that Silicon Valley will attempt to interfere with our online fund-raising efforts post-election.”

Democrats said automatically opting contributors into post-election giving was a misleading tactic.

“They’re inventing new deceptive tactics to essentially steal money from people,” said Mike Nellis, a Democratic digital strategist with an expertise in fund-raising. “They’re going completely and totally scorched earth on their own supporters. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.”

Mr. Murtaugh said that no one would receive a “recurring charge without their knowledge” and that donors could opt out of recurring contributions both before donating and afterward. “Three days before each recurring charge, donors are emailed a reminder that the charge is about to occur,” he said. “There is a one-click link inside this email for donors to cancel if they wish. Our process is extremely transparent.”

“When the recount or litigation process ends,” Mr. Murtaugh added, “the recurring payments will end."

The extra donations are just the latest hyperaggressive tactic employed by the Trump operation as it struggles to keep up financially with Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign. On Friday, the campaign promised supporters that their contributions would be matched “1000%,” after months of ratcheting up the levels of matches that campaign experts said almost surely do not actually exist. (The Trump campaign declined to say if the matches were real; Mr. Murtaugh said only that it was a “common fund-raising approach” used by both parties)

“Today in record-breaking achievements of grift,” Caitlin Mitchell, a top digital strategist for Mr. Biden, wrote mockingly on Twitter of the purported 1,000 percent match. The Biden campaign said it had never offered donation matches.

The Trump email, which had two flashing light emojis in the subject line, was one of 21 that blitzed supporters’ accounts on Friday — nearly one per hour — almost all of which asked for money. For comparison, the Biden campaign sent eight emails on Friday.

In the final stretch of the 2020 race, Mr. Trump is being dramatically outspent on the airwaves, and as of Oct. 14, his campaign treasury had dwindled to $43.6 million, with $1.2 million in debts. Mr. Biden’s campaign reported $162 million cash on hand that day.

Combined with party funds, Mr. Trump had about $224 million, compared with $335 million for Mr. Biden, but party funds cannot be used to pay for many key costs, including campaign personnel and most advertising costs beyond a strict limit. Since then, Mr. Trump’s campaign canceled a net total of about $19 million in reserved television ads, according to data from Advertising Analytics, and the Republican National Committee stepped in to pay for the ads instead, using the limited funds it can spend in coordination with the campaign.

Mr. Trump has taken to addressing the financial disadvantage directly at his rallies. “I could have been the greatest political fund-raiser,” he said Saturday in Pennsylvania, saying he had avoided shaking down wealthy interests for more money.

“We have plenty,” he said. “You can only buy so many commercials.”

It has been a different message to his supporters online, where his campaign has cranked out more frequent and more intense cash solicitations.

The Twitter account @TrumpEmail, which has cataloged all of Mr. Trump’s email solicitations for nearly three years, provided The New York Times with access to its database, which shows Mr. Trump’s climbing number of monthly emails this year — from January (63) to May (159) to July (239) to September (330) and roughly 400 in October.

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Many messages employ shaming tactics to prod backers into giving. “The President selected YOU to be a part of this exclusive group, so he was really surprised when we told him you STILL hadn’t stepped up,” read one recent email urging people to donate and activate a “2020 Trump Diamond Card.” Gold and platinum cards have also been dangled for donations.

Patrick Ruffini, a Republican pollster who previously worked in digital fund-raising, said the Trump campaign’s digital marketing tactics mirrored Mr. Trump’s personality.

“The president doesn’t have a filter, and there aren’t a lot of restraints on what they’ll say or do from a fund-raising standpoint either,” Mr. Ruffini said. He called the campaign an “optimization machine” designed to maximize revenue above all else.

“The matching inflation is a running joke,” Mr. Ruffini said of the promised phantom matches that have climbed from 500 percent in May to 600 percent in June, 700 percent in July and, occasionally, 900 percent — and now 1,000 percent in October.

Julia Rosen, a Democratic digital fund-raising specialist, compared that tactic to “giving kids candy instead of their Wheaties”: a temporary sugar high followed by a crash. “If you start off offering donors matches, they like that, and it becomes a situation where then they’ll only give if you give them a match,” she said.

“They have optimized themselves into absurdity and parody,” she added of the Trump campaign.

Privately, some Republicans wonder if Mr. Trump’s campaign deployed such tactics far too early, exhausting a supporter list that had been considered one of its strongest assets. At this point, however, most see little downside to the most aggressive marketing tactics, arguing that the risk of turning off supporters was no worse than losing the election.

Mr. Trump’s campaign has used a tool created by WinRed, the donation-processing site, that automatically opts supporters into making additional donations for months, and it has generated millions of dollars, according to people familiar with the matter. As far back as June, the campaign had asked supporters to give a second donation timed to Mr. Trump’s birthday. The campaign announced a record-breaking $14 million online haul that day but did not mention that it had piled up promised contributions in advance.

ActBlue, the Democratic donation-processing site, began removing a feature that automatically opted donors into recurring donations from its platform earlier this year. A representative said that no candidates were now using that tool but declined further comment. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, however, still does use the opt-in tool for automatic monthly donations. The Biden campaign has directed some Facebook ads to existing donors specifically seeking to convert them to weekly and monthly contributors, and the landing pages after people click on those ads have the recurring donation option prechecked.

Mr. Trump’s advisers had once promised that he was building a digital “juggernaut,” but a groundswell of support for Mr. Biden has helped the Democratic challenger lap the incumbent financially since the summer.

The total hauls online via WinRed for Mr. Trump’s campaign itself and the Trump Make America Great Again committee, which he operates jointly with the R.N.C. to raise small donations, rose only marginally from $91.1 million in July to $106.1 million in August to $118.5 million in September. At the same time, Mr. Biden’s online hauls in his equivalent committees exploded from $46 million in July to $191 million in August and $193 million in September.

And in the final stretch, Mr. Trump’s campaign is still spending heavily to raise money.

The Trump Make America Great Again Committee spent $32 million as it raised $36.9 million in the first two weeks of October — a burn rate of nearly 87 percent, according to federal filings. Some of that advertising for donors did double duty mobilizing Mr. Trump’s base.

Mr. Murtaugh said a more “accurate view of fund-raising” would include costs across the campaign, R.N.C. and all their joint committees, which he said was 34 percent from Oct. 1 to Oct. 14, and that had shrunk to 25 percent since Oct. 15.

“It’s clear they are just trying to squeeze every penny out of this thing while they still can,” said Mr. Nellis, the Democratic strategist.

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PUR Purdue	7	10	14	0	31
ILL Illinois	0	10	0	14	24

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Purdue football team improved to 2-0 on the season with a 31-24 victory at Illinois on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois.
 
The Boilermakers improved to 2-0 for the first time since 2007 and are 2-0 in Big Ten action for the first time since 2010.
 
Sophomore wide receiver David Bell had a historic showing in the win, as he set a school record with his fifth consecutive game with 100-plus receiving yards. He finished the day with nine catches for 122 yards with a touchdown.
 
Junior quarterback Aidan O'Connell was 29-for-36 for 376 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions to record his second career 300-plus yard passing performance. On the other side of the ball, the sophomore safety Jalen Graham recovered two fumbles, one returned for a touchdown. The defense also totaled had two interceptions and got a key fourth-down stop in the final two minutes to halt an Illini drive.
 
Purdue jumped out to a 14-0 lead, thanks to a one-yard touchdown run by junior Zander Horvath less than six minutes into the game and a 45-yard touchdown catch by sophomore wide receiver Milton Wright early in the second quarter.
 
Illinois cut its deficit in half with a seven-yard touchdown run with 4:46 left in the first half, and both teams traded field goals in the final 73 seconds to send Purdue to the locker room with a 17-10 halftime advantage.
 
Bell caught a three-yard touchdown pass with 8:47 left in the third quarter to extend Purdue's lead to 24-10, and the Boilermakers made it 31-10 when Graham recovered the fumble in the end zone for the touchdown. It was the second fumble recovery of the day for Graham, who became the first Boilermaker to recover a pair of fumbles in a game since 2011.
 
The defense had Illinois backed up on its own two-yard line before the fumble was forced by redshirt freshman Marvin Grant and Graham recovered it in the end zone. The fumble returned for a touchdown is Purdue's first since 2015.
 
Illinois made it 31-17 with a touchdown pass with 11:44 left in the game, and added another touchdown through the air with 6:36 left to cut the advantage to 31-24. The Illini got the ball back with 2:55 left on their own 48 yard line and advanced the ball to the Purdue 15. However, the Boilermaker defense forced three incompletions before a completed pass on fourth and 10 went for seven yards.
 
The turnover on downs gave Purdue the ball back on its own eight with 1:50 left. On third and 11 from the seven, O'Connell connected with Bell for a 27-yard completion to seal the victory.
 
Purdue, which knotted the all-time series against Illinois at 45-45-6, has won four of the last five meetings between the two clubs and five in a row in Champaign. Since 1994, the Boilermakers are 15-6 against the Illini and 9-2 at Memorial Stadium.
 
Horvath rushed for 11 yards with a touchdown and added six catches for 55 yards, both career-high totals. Wright added seven catches for 85 yards, also both career-best marks.
 
Purdue has had a 200-yard passer (O'Connell), 100-yard receiver (Bell) and a 100-yard rusher (Horvath) in both games this season.
 
Defensively, Graham had two fumble recoveries, while DaMarcus Mitchell had a team-best and career-high 11 total tackles, five solo, with a sack.
 
Up next, Purdue travels to Wisconsin on November 7. Kickoff at Camp Randall Stadium is set for 3:30 p.m. ET, with the contest broadcast on ABC and the Purdue Radio Network.
 

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England to enter second lockdown in days, says Boris Johnson - CNN

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The month-long shutdown will come into effect from Thursday after a parliamentary vote early next week, Johnson said during a news conference on Saturday evening.

"We must act now to contain the autumn surge," he said.

Johnson was forced to make the announcement on Saturday after the government's plans were leaked to numerous national newspapers the previous evening. The plan had been initially to announce the measures on Monday.

The strict lockdown will see the closure of pubs, restaurants and non-essential businesses, including hair salons and gyms. Schools, universities and playgrounds will stay open.

People will only be able to leave their homes for specific reasons: education, work (if they are unable to work from home), to shop for food, for health reasons, or for exercise and recreation outdoors, either with that person's household or with one person from another household.

The government is discouraging all non-essential travel, though people will still be able to travel abroad for work, providing they follow England's quarantine rules upon their return. The measures will only apply to England, as healthcare is handled by the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The new shutdown will remain in place until December 2, at which point Johnson hopes the virus will be sufficiently under control to enable England to tackle the virus, once again, on a region-by-region basis.

The Prime Minister, who spent the afternoon discussing the matter with his cabinet, previously said he wanted to "avoid the misery of another lockdown," but had not ruled it out.

He has been under pressure for weeks as the UK's top scientists warned that a lockdown was needed in England, instead of the current localized system.

The move comes after weeks of sharply rising infections. There have now been more than 1 million confirmed cases in UK, with 21,915 new cases reported on Saturday, taking the total to 1,011,660. There were 326 new deaths, bringing the death toll to 46,555.

The Office for National Statistics now estimates that 1 in 100 people in England have Covid, an average of 568,100 people. That's compared with 1 in 2,300 in July and 1 in 200 at the start of October.

The R number (reproduction number) is above 1 everywhere and it is growing more in areas with lower incidence rates. The decision for more severe restrictions came as Johnson's cabinet was advised that if no action was taken, the National Health Service's bed capacity would be surpassed by the first week of December.

Calum Semple, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and a consultant respiratory pediatrician, said earlier on Saturday that tighter restrictions were needed because the virus was "running riot" across the country.

Europe's second surge

Elsewhere in Europe, other countries continue to battle rising cases.

Germany reported a record number of cases for a fourth day in a row on Saturday with 19,059 new infections in 24 hours, according to the country's disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).

The number of new infections broke Friday's record of 18,681 cases. Germany's total case count now stands at 518,753 and the death toll rose by 103 to 10,452, according to RKI.

Germany will impose wide-ranging lockdown measures from Monday in an attempt to slow down the spread of the coronavirus, its government decided on Wednesday night. Bars, restaurants and cafes will remain shut except for takeout. Theaters and concert halls will be closed, as will amateur and recreational sports facilities.

Belgium, which is to send patients to Germany for treatment as hospital admissions soar, will impose sweeping new lockdown measures for six weeks starting Sunday night.

Belgium has the second highest number of infections per 100,000 people in the European Union and UK, after the Czech Republic.

"We are going back into a strict lockdown, which has only one purpose: to ensure that our healthcare system does not collapse," said Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo as he announced the restrictions on Friday.

The measures include the closure of non-essential stores, hair salons and restaurants; mandatory mask-wearing for outdoor gatherings of up to four people and a ban on mixing indoors except with a "cuddle contact," or person in a support bubble. The rules will be place until December 13. Schools will remain on vacation until November 15.

France entered a second national lockdown on Friday that will last an initial four weeks, until December 1 at "minimum." The rules will be more relaxed than during spring's lockdown, with school and workplaces remaining open.

However, people will only be allowed outside "to work, to go to a medical appointment, to care for a relative, to shop for essential goods and to get some air," said French President Emmanuel Macron.

"The virus is circulating at a speed that even the most pessimistic had not predicted," Macron added.

Greece has also expanded its containment measures from high-risk areas to the whole country. In a televised address on Saturday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined a series of measures for the whole country that will take effect on Tuesday November 3 and last for a month.

There will be a night-time curfew from midnight to 5 a.m., mask use will be mandatory everywhere, and more people will be encouraged to work from home.

The number of coronavirus cases in Europe since the beginning of the pandemic has exceeded the 10 million mark, with more than 1.5 million cases confirmed last week, World Health Organization's Europe director Hans Kluge on Thursday.

During a meeting with European Health Ministers, Kluge said hospitalizations had risen to "levels unseen since the spring," with deaths rising by 32% across the region last week.

"Europe is at the epicenter of this pandemic once again," Kluge said.

"At the risk of sounding alarmist, I must express our very real concern and convey our steadfast commitment to stand beside you and support you as best we can."

Kluge said lockdowns "need not mean what they meant in March or April" and that indirect economic impacts must be considered.

But for much of Europe, this new phase of lockdown looks set to be even harder than what came before.

CNN's Emmet Lyons, Flora Charner, Chris Liakos, Hande Atay Alam, Fred Pleitgen and Tatiana Arias, Amy Cassidy, Gaelle Fournier, Tim Lister, Tatiana Arias, Valentina Di Donato and Zahid Mahmood contributed reporting.

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