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  • An empty street is pictured after curfew in Marseille, southern France, Sat, Oct. 24, 2020. The curfew imposed in eight regions of France last week, including Paris and its suburbs, is being extended to 38 more regions and Polynesia. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

    Europe, U.S. watch COVID-19 case totals grow, debate new restrictions

  • FILE - In this July 6, 2011, file photo, Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, right, greets people from the South Korean delegation in Durban, South Africa, for the 123rd International Olympic Committee (IOC) session that will decide the host city for the 2018 Olympics Winter Games. Lee, the ailing Samsung Electronics chairman who transformed the small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics, has died, a Samsung statement said Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. He was 78. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)

    Lee Kun-Hee, force behind Samsung's rise, dies at 78

  • An Afghan receives treatment at hospital after suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020. The death toll from the suicide attack Saturday in Afghanistan's capital has risen that includes schoolchildren, the interior ministry said.. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

    Attack in Kabul kills 18; al-Qaida leader killed in Ghazni

  • A waiter wearing a mask to curb the spread of the new coronavirus readies a table as he waits for clients outside a restaurant in the Usaquen neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

    Colombia reaches 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases

  • FILE - In this June 23, 2020, file photo Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine COVID-19 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP, File)

    Murkowski's nod gives Barrett extra boost for Supreme Court

  • Police officers stop and search a bus carrying passengers around Lekki toll gate in Lagos Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Resentment lingered with the smell of charred tires Friday as Nigeria's streets were relatively calm after days of protests over police abuses, while authorities gave little acknowledgement to reports of the military killing at least 12 peaceful demonstrators earlier this week. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

    Nigeria's police order massive mobilization after unrest

  • French President Emmanuel Macron chairs a meeting with the medical staff of the Rene Dubos hospital center, in Pontoise, outside Paris, Friday Oct. 23, 2020. (Photo by Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

    France reacts after Turkish President Erdogan questions Macron's mental health

  • People wait in line on the first day of the parliamentary election outside a polling station in Giza, Egypt, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020. Egyptians began voting Saturday in the first stage of a parliamentary election, a vote that is highly likely to produce a toothless House of Representatives packed with supporters of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

    Egypt's parliamentary vote likely to tighten leader's grip

  • FILE - In this April 16, 2020, file photo, a Pacific Gas & Electric sign is displayed on the exterior of a PG&E building in San Francisco. Pacific Gas & Electric will cut power to over 1 million people on Sunday to prevent the chance of sparking wildfires as extreme fire weather returns to the region, the utility announced Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

    1 million could lose power as California winds whip up

  • File—File picture taken June 28, 2020 shows Poland's President Andrzej Duda casting his vote during presidential election in Krakow, Poland. Duda was tested positive on Corona. (AP Photo/Beata Zawrzal, file)

    Poland's President Duda has coronavirus, apologizes to contacts

  • Pro-democracy activists flash three-fingered salutes outside remand prison, in which some of the activists are kept, in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Thailand's government on Thursday canceled a state of emergency it had declared last week for Bangkok in a gesture offered by the embattled prime minister to cool student-led protests seeking democracy reforms. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

    Thai protesters' deadline passes, but PM says he won't quit