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• Ranieri tells defence to tighten up after Derby draw

  27-01-2017 23:59
  Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri called on his leaky defence to plug the holes after they rescued a late draw in their FA Cup fourth round clash against second tier Derby County on Friday. The Premier League champions were five minutes from exiting the cup but staved off embarrassment thanks to captain Wes Morgan's late header that rescued a 2-2 draw. It was another awkward evening for Leicester's rearguard, who were the backbone of their stunning title victory last season, but were breach
  
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• Tycoon Slim says Trump not 'Terminator,' sees opportunities for Mexico

  27-01-2017 23:54
  By Christine Murray MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Billionaire Carlos Slim said on Friday Mexico should not fear Donald Trump, seeing opportunities for his country in the U.S. president's economic policies, and praised Mexicans for uniting behind their government in talks with the northern neighbor. In a rare news conference, the telecoms and construction mogul called Trump a negotiator, "not Terminator" and said his repeated attacks on Mexico had united the country, giving President Enrique Pena Nieto
  
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• Trump has 'friendly' call with Mexican leader but he demands change

  27-01-2017 23:46
  By Roberta Rampton and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The presidents of the United States and Mexico spoke by phone on Friday after relations between the neighbouring countries frayed further over Donald Trump's border wall plan, with the U.S. leader calling the talk friendly but still demanding reworked trade and other ties. The call between Trump and Enrique Pena Nieto came a day after the Mexican president scrapped a meeting set for next week at the White House over Trump's demand th
  
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• The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: New Phone, Who This?

  27-01-2017 23:46
  
  Today in 5 Lines In a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May, President Trump emphasized the “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom, and called the country’s decision to leave the European Union a “fantastic thing.” Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Trump spoke by phone amid tensions over the construction of a wall on the southern border. At the Pentagon, Trump signed an executive order implement
  
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• The Latest: Zuckerberg urges Trump to keep borders open

  27-01-2017 23:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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• May to explore trade deal with Turkey

  27-01-2017 23:41
  Arms sales to be a key element of any accord despite concerns over human rights abuse
  
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• PM May to raise trade, security with Turkey's Erdogan

  27-01-2017 23:36
  Prime Minister Theresa May will meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday to discuss trade and security, her spokeswoman said, part of a charm offensive to bolster her hand in negotiations to leave the EU. A day after meeting U.S. President Donald Trump when she won his approval and some assurances on economic cooperation, May heads to Ankara to launch a joint working group to prepare the ground for a new trade relationship after Brexit.
  
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• Captain Morgan rescues Leicester in FA Cup draw with Derby

  27-01-2017 23:33
  (Reuters) - Leicester City's Wes Morgan scored a late header as the Premier League champions rescued a 2-2 FA Cup draw at Derby County having been five minutes from an embarrassing fourth round exit to their second tier opponents on Friday. Leicester took the lead with a comical own goal from Darren Bent after eight minutes, with the former England striker slicing horribly into his own net, but the wheels swiftly came off. Bent gained redemption with a brilliant header to level and Craig Bryson
  
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• New U.S. United Nations envoy warns allies: back us or we'll take names

  27-01-2017 23:31
  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, pledged on Friday to overhaul the world body and warned U.S. allies that if they do not support Washington, then she is "taking names" and will respond. Haley made brief remarks to reporters as she arrived at the world body's headquarters in New York to present her credentials to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. "Our goal with the administration is to show value at the U.N. and the
  
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• Buffett, Gates have hope for America after Trump ascension

  27-01-2017 23:29
  By Jonathan Stempel and Jennifer Ablan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Gates and Warren Buffett on Friday expressed optimism that the United States will move ahead as a nation, even as it works through political differences and gets used to the new Trump administration. The world's two richest people were speaking to students at Columbia University after U.S. President Donald Trump started to unwind the work of his predecessor Barack Obama in a series of executive orders, prompting concern from critic
  
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• Trump says he is only in early stages of considering lifting Russia sanctions

  27-01-2017 23:23
  By Steve Holland and Elizabeth Piper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he is only in the early stages of considering whether to lift U.S. sanctions on Russia, as British Prime Minister Theresa May, other foreign officials and U.S. lawmakers cautioned that such a move would be premature. With Trump expected to speak by phone on Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since taking power a week ago, speculation has been rife that he is close
  
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• Trump signs order for tighter vetting to prevent terrorism

  27-01-2017 23:19
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order he said would impose tighter vetting to prevent foreign terrorists from entering the United States. "I'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America," Trump said at Pentagon ceremony.
  
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• No U.S. review of treaties, U.N. funding at this time - U.S. official

  27-01-2017 23:18
  By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will not issue executive orders calling for a review of international treaties and U.S. funding of the United Nations and other international bodies "at this time," a senior U.S. administration official said on Friday. The Trump administration was preparing executive orders that would review U.S. funding of the United Nations and other international organizations and certain forms of multilateral treaties, the New York Times rep
  
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• In double whammy for Turkey, Fitch cuts to junk after S&P slashes outlook

  27-01-2017 23:04
  By David Dolan and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Ratings agency Fitch downgraded Turkey's sovereign debt to "junk" on Friday, snuffing out its last remaining investment grade and underscoring deepening concern about politics and monetary policy in what was once a star emerging market. The ratings cut, although widely expected by the market, came hours after rival agency Standard & Poor's surprised investors by lowering its outlook for Turkey to "negative" from "stable". Both agencies sou
  
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• Trump says Mexican imports tax one option but others possible

  27-01-2017 22:48
  U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview on Friday that he has the right to impose a tax on imports from Mexico, but there were other options that could be "much more positive" for both countries. It’s something I can impose if I want," Trump said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.
  
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• Trump vows ‘stronger’ special relationship with UK

  27-01-2017 22:43
  UK leader stands firm on Russian sanctions and urges White House to stand by Nato
  
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• Trump hands May promise of ‘stronger’ relationship

  27-01-2017 22:43
  UK leader stands firm on Russian sanctions and urges White House to stand by Nato
  
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• GOP warns Trump about lifting sanctions on Russia

  27-01-2017 22:41
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A day ahead of President Donald Trump's weekend call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the fight within the Republican Party over the direction of U.S. policy toward Moscow intensified.
  
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• Trudeau to end Canada's secret political fundraisers

  27-01-2017 22:39
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will lift the veil of secrecy around cash-for-access fundraisers, a government source said on Friday, bowing to pressure over the events that allowed wealthy donors to meet with top officials away from prying eyes. The move comes after months of media scrutiny and criticism of the meetings between Liberal government leaders and donors, often at elite social events, that had tarnished Trudeau's image as a youthful reformer. The government will introduce legi
  
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• Merkel - Security will be key issue in Germany's 2017 election campaign

  27-01-2017 22:22
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that security would be a major issue in the campaign leading up to a federal election on Sept. 24, in which she is seeking a fourth term. Concern about security is widespread in Germany after more than a million migrants, mostly from the Middle East and Africa, entered the country over the past two years.
  
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• Senegal police arrest former boss of Gambia's notorious prisons

  27-01-2017 22:21
  Senegalese police said on Friday that they had arrested General Bora Colley, the man who ran Gambia's prisons, where human rights groups say perceived opponents were tortured and in some cases died. Colley was made the director of prisons by Gambia's former leader, Yahya Jammeh, who lost an election last month but refused to step down. Jammeh fled into exile in Equatorial Guinea last week as a West African regional military force stood poised to remove him.
  
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• Trump, Putin likely to discuss terrorism, other issues in call - White House aide

  27-01-2017 22:19
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely discuss a range of issues in a reported call, including efforts to combat terrorism, White House senior aide Kellyanne Conway said in television interviews on Friday. Asked about the planned call for Saturday, Conway told CBS' "This Morning" program: "I assume they will discuss, in the interests of their respective countries, how to come together and work together on issues where you can find comm
  
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• The Latest: JPMorgan Chase head meets with Trump adviser

  27-01-2017 22:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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• U.S. Senate Leader McConnell opposes lifting Russia sanctions - Politico

  27-01-2017 22:18
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Friday he opposes lifting any sanctions on Russia, a day before President Donald Trump is to have his first official telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "These sanctions were imposed because of their behaviour in Crimea, eastern Ukraine and now we know they’ve been messing around in our elections as well," McConnell said in an interview with Politico on Friday. "If there&rs
  
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• What it takes to get a Corona from Mexico to a U.S. heartland bar

  27-01-2017 22:15
  Ordering a bottle of Corona beer at a bar in the United States is a simple proposition. Getting it there from its brewery in Mexico involves a complex, cross-border supply network that will likely get more complicated if U.S. president Donald Trump follows through on vows to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or tax imports. Trump has not outlined specific plans for revising NAFTA, but he has made repeated calls for a levy to discourage companies from moving jobs outside
  
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• Trump's unpredictability already troubles U.S. friends

  27-01-2017 22:14
  By Warren Strobel and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. President Donald Trump's "America First" rhetoric and confrontational negotiating style have sparked frantic calls to the White House and Congress from diplomats and lobbyists concerned the United States no longer has their back. When word swirled through Washington on Thursday that Trump might be preparing to ease U.S. sanctions on Russia, worried European diplomats began calling the National Security Council and asking if t
  
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• Donald Trump And Theresa May Hold Hands After Joint Press Conference

  27-01-2017 22:13
  
  As questions hang in the air over how close a post-Brexit Britain and American under Donald Trump will be, the new president held hands with Theresa May held hands after their much-anticipated joint press conference.
  A White House pool report said they held hands “very briefly” and Trump ignored questions as he spoke with May and they walked on the White House Colonnade on Friday.
  A British photographer snapped the moment.It made some think the “special relationship” was
  
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• Snodgrass joins West Ham in 10 million pounds deal

  27-01-2017 22:10
  (Reuters) - West Ham United have completed the signing of Robert Snodgrass from relegation strugglers Hull City in a deal worth 10.2 million pounds, the London club said on Friday. The attacking midfielder has signed a 3-1/2 year contract and is West Ham's second signing of the winter transfer window after defender Jose Fonte joined the club from Southampton. "I'm delighted because this is a massive club with great tradition,” Scotland international Snodgrass said in a club statement.
  
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• House Speaker Ryan says U.S. sanctions against Russia should stay

  27-01-2017 22:05
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Friday the United States should keep its sanctions against Russia, amid speculation that President Donald Trump may lift the punitive measures imposed under former President Barack Obama. "I think Obama was late in putting them in place, so I think they should stay," Ryan said in an interview with Politico. Ryan, the top Republican in the U.S. ...
  
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• Trump '100% behind Nato', says May at joint White House press conference – as it happened

  27-01-2017 21:47
  
  Rolling coverage of Donald Trump and Theresa May’s joint press conference at the White HouseThe Guardian view: Trump and May are playing with fireSummary: Theresa May visits Donald Trump at the White House8.41pm GMTToday we have reaffirmed our unshakeable commitment to this alliance. Mr President, I think you confirmed that you are 100% behind Nato.I am not as brash as you might think. I think we are going to get along very well ... I am a people person - I think you are also Theresa.I can
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: New Trump salvo on voter fraud lacks evidence

  27-01-2017 21:47
  
  President Donald Trump on Friday pressed his widely debunked claims of massive voter fraud by encouraging the work of a Texas man who has offered no evidence to support his claim that millions of people ...
  
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• May survives her first encounter with Trump

  27-01-2017 21:40
  The prime minister still has a difficult line to tread, writes Sebastian Payne
  
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• Donald Trump And Theresa May: Less 'Opposites Attract', More The Odd Couple

  27-01-2017 21:37
  
  Under the ornate chandelier of the White House East Room, the stage had been set like a grand Washington wedding. The bride was on the left-hand side, the groom very much on the Right.
  Theresa May had already told us that “opposites attract”. And as she faced the media alongside President Donald Trump, her agony aunt advice didn’t look so daft after all.
  For cynics, this was a marriage of convenience, a shotgun wedding forced on May by Brexit’s need to forge new trade lin
  
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• Bomber jackets and BBQs

  27-01-2017 21:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Graffiti art, barbeques and DVDs are among the gifts exchanged between UK and US leaders.
  
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• Trump says Syrian Christian refugees will be given priority

  27-01-2017 21:34
  President Donald Trump said on Friday that Syrian Christians will be given priority when it comes to applying for refugee status in the United States. "If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians," Trump said in an excerpt of an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network. Pew Research Cen
  
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• Martin Rowson on the May-Trump meeting – cartoon

  27-01-2017 21:30
  
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• Trump has 'friendly' call with Mexican leader but demands change

  27-01-2017 21:28
  By Roberta Rampton and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he had a friendly phone call with Mexico's president on Friday but asserted he will renegotiate trade deals and other aspects of the countries' ties because Mexico has "beat us to a pulp" in the past. Financial markets took news of the call as a sign that a crisis in U.S-Mexican relations had eased, a day after Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto scrapped a meeting set for Washington next week over T
  
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• Trump hands May promise of ‘stronger’ special relationship

  27-01-2017 21:23
  UK leader stands firm on Russian sanctions and urges White House to stand by Nato
  
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• Tycoon Slim says united Mexico ready for Trump talks

  27-01-2017 21:20
  Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim said on Friday a united Mexico was ready to help the government negotiate with Donald Trump, and tried to calm fears in his country about what the U.S. president's policies would mean for its economy. In a rare news conference by the generally media-shy mogul, Slim said Mexico needed to negotiate from a position of strength, noting that Trump, who he called a "great negotiator," represented a major change in how politics was conducted. Mexican President Enrique Pe
  
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• Theresa May and Trump: PM shows lengths she'll go to for Britain | John Crace

  27-01-2017 21:19
  
  She endured having her hand held by the US president but it could have been worse. She got out with some self-respect intact. Not much, but someThe body language could hardly have been more awkward as Theresa May and Donald Trump posed for their blind date in front of the bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office. The prime minister kept her distance and looked faintly embarrassed, as if it was only just dawning on her that the main reason she was the first foreign leader to meet the US presi
  
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• Colombia and FARC rebels to wage joint fight against coca cultivation

  27-01-2017 21:15
  Colombia's government and Marxist FARC rebels announced a plan on Friday to substitute illegal crops and eradicate vast tracts of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, over the next year as part of a peace deal to end a half-century conflict. Colombia, which according to the United Nations has more than 96,000 hectares (237,000 acres) sown with coca, manually destroyed 17,642 hectares last year and seized a record 378 tonnes of cocaine. Colombia and neighbouring Peru are the world's leading p
  
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• Holocaust Memorial selfie-takers apologise to Israeli shamer

  27-01-2017 21:11
  German-Israeli satirist Shahak Shapira, who set up a website shaming selfie-takers at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial, says he has halted the project for now after a dozen people apologised for their disrespect. Stop doing it," Shapira told Reuters Television. It is often used by visitors for picnics, yoga and other activities that Shapira said he found troubling.
  
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• Trump cabinet's First World problem: omitting a few million here and there

  27-01-2017 20:53
  By Elizabeth Dilts NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's cabinet is worth a combined $14 billion (£11.2 billion), and they are catching flack in recent weeks for confessing an inability to keep track of their vast sums of wealth. "We see it all the time," with new clients, said Chris Walters of GenSpring Family Offices, SunTrust Bank Inc's branch for clients with more than $50 million in assets. On Tuesday, the nominee for head of the budget office, Mick Mulvaney, said he did
  
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• Global stocks slip on earnings, data; dollar advances

  27-01-2017 20:50
  By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - A key index of global equity markets slipped from near record highs on Friday after underwhelming corporate earnings and U.S. economic growth data gave investors reason to pause following the recent sharp rally in equity prices. The dollar shrugged off disappointing U.S. fourth-quarter gross domestic product numbers to extend its rally against a basket of currencies, and U.S. Treasury debt yields slipped as the data spurred buying of U.S. government debt
  
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• Bills targeting protests in U.S. states fuel free speech fears

  27-01-2017 20:46
  Republican lawmakers in several central U.S. states are pushing bills that would crack down on demonstrations, drawing criticism from free speech campaigners and underlining the polarization over protests in the era of President Donald Trump. Bills have been introduced over the past month in states including North Dakota, Indiana and Iowa that would impose measures such as harsher penalties for demonstrators who disrupt traffic, and scrapping punishment for drivers who unintentionally strike pro
  
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• North Korea appears to have restarted plutonium reactor - think tank

  27-01-2017 20:43
  New commercial satellite imagery indicates North Korea has resumed operation of a reactor at its main nuclear site used to produce plutonium for its nuclear weapons programme, a U.S. think tank said on Friday. Washington's 38 North North Korea monitoring project said previous analysis from Jan. 18 showed signs that North Korea was preparing to restart the reactor at Yongbyon, having previously unloaded spent fuel rods for reprocessing to produce additional plutonium for its nuclear weapons stock
  
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• Fox says committed to free trade with U.S., Canada

  27-01-2017 20:23
  Britain is committed to free and open trade with the United States and Canada, UK Trade Minister Liam Fox said on Friday, though he did not elaborate on whether that would mean bilateral trade talks with the two countries. Fox, speaking at the Montreal Council of Foreign Relations, noted that the UK cannot negotiate trade deals while still part of the European Union, though he said discussions were possible. "The UK is committed to free and open trade with the United States, as we are with Canad
  
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• Mexico, U.S. agree not to talk publicly about wall payment

  27-01-2017 20:18
  Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Friday agreed not to talk publicly for now about payment of the wall the American wants to build on the United States' southern border and that he says Mexico should finance. In a statement, Mexico's government said that during a phone call on Friday, the two had held "constructive and productive" talks and broached issues including the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico and the flow of illegal arms and drugs across the b
  
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• Pentagon orders cost reviews of F-35 fighter, Air Force One

  27-01-2017 20:16
  Defense Secretary James Mattis on Friday ordered reviews of two key Air Force aircraft programs that have been criticized by President Donald Trump as too expensive. Mattis asked Deputy Defense Secretary ...
  
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• Pence fires up anti-abortion activists in Washington march

  27-01-2017 20:16
  "Life is winning again in America," Pence told the demonstrators on the National Mall, near where Trump was sworn in a week ago before hundreds of thousands. The March for Life also is taking place in the same area where even more massive crowds flooded Washington a day after Trump's inauguration in favor of women's rights, including abortion rights.[nL1N1FB0BM] Pence, a longtime hero of the anti-abortion movement, is the most senior government official ever to speak in person at the rally, orga
  
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