FRANCE announced plans yesterday to impose curfews on rundown suburbs hit by violence to try to halt almost two weeks of unrest in which one man has been killed, police said yesterday.

France will impose curfews “wherever it is necessary” and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of its suburbs, the prime minister said today, calling a return to order “our No. 1 responsibility”.

Seven European presidents urged Europeans to rebuild their trust in the EU and plugged the benefits of the continent’s integration in a joint opinion piece published in major newspapers across the bloc today.

Russia today denied it illegally annexed the Baltic nations in 1940, rejecting demands from the three former Soviet republics that it admit having illegally occupied them during the Second World War.

CHELSEA last night announced they will not take up their ticket allocation for the Champions League match against Besiktas on December 9 following yesterday’s bombings in Istanbul.

THE biggest ever enlargement of the EU is finally on track after the last of the ten new members, Latvia, voted overwhelmingly in favour of joining this weekend.

THE biggest ever enlargement of the EU is finally on track after the last of the 10 new members, Latvia, voting overwhelmingly in favour of joining the community this weekend.