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France declares state of emergency, closes borders after attacks

From thehill.com

France has declared a state of emergency and closed its international borders on Friday evening, in the wake of the most deadly terror attack in the nation’s modern history. French President Francois Hollande announced the unprecedented steps in remarks to the nation roughly two hours after reports first emerged of a string of deadly attacks that had killed dozens of people across Paris. He also called a midnight cabinet meeting, he said, to respond to the string of violence that has rocked the French capital. “What the terrorists want is to make us afraid, to seize us with fear,” Hollande said. “There is something ... (full story)

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