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• Tears of joy and frustration after French election count

  23-04-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Emmanuel Macron's youthful supporters wept tears of joy and shouted themselves hoarse on Sunday as projections from France's presidential election suggested their champion was well on track for power.Similar jubilation played out at the headquarters of the far-right National Front (FN), whose leader Marine Le Pen brought the party to the presidential runoff for just the second time in its history.For supporters of the conservative Republicans and far-left France Insoumise (France Unbowed), there
  
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• Syrian army, allies gain ground against rebels north of Hama

  23-04-2017 23:36 via yahoo.com
  
  The Syrian army and allied forces advanced against rebels in western Syria near Hama city on Sunday, building on recent strategic gains in the area, a military source and a monitoring group said.Government forces captured the town of Halfaya and nearby villages, they said, taking back territory that rebels seized last year from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad."We gained control of Halfaya and several hills in the area," the Syrian military source said.
  
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• Macron: The maverick vowing to 'turn page' in French history

  23-04-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Emmanuel Macron is a centrist pro-European whose sensational political career, unorthodox marriage and promises to modernise France have made him a favourite for the presidency.If he wins, the 39-year-old former banker would be the youngest French leader in modern history, upending tradition that has usually seen voters favour experience in their powerful presidents.Running in his first ever election, Macron was projected to win about 24 percent in the first round of the presidential poll on Sun
  
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• Tight, tense French presidential vote echoes around world

  23-04-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Whatever the result of France's presidential election, the choice will resonate far beyond France's borders, from Syrian battlefields to Hong Kong trading floors and the halls of the U.N. Security Council.
  
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• Al Qaeda chief urges jihadists to use guerrilla tactics in Syria

  23-04-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  
  Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has called on Syrian Sunni jihadists to wage guerrilla war against enemies ranging from Syrian President Bashar al Assad and his Iranian-backed allies to Western powers.In an audio recording posted online on Sunday, Zawahri called for the rebels to be patient, saying they should be prepared for a long battle with the Western-led coalition in Iraq and Syria and Iranian-backed Shi'ites fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar al Assad's government."Our people in
  
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• Bloomberg to world leaders: Ignore Trump on climate

  23-04-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg urged world leaders not to follow President Donald Trump's lead on climate change and declared his intention to help save an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions.
  
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• On Holocaust day, Netanyahu says its lessons guide him

  23-04-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened Israel's annual memorial day for the 6 million Jews systematically killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II by saying the lessons of the Holocaust guide him daily and issuing a warning to Israel's enemies not to test it.
  
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• Beach volleyball medalists, Rafa celebrates win and more: April 23 in photos

  23-04-2017 22:24 via yahoo.com
  
  Fan Wang and Yuan Yue of China, Barbara Seixas De Freitas and Fernanda Alves of Brazil, and Isabel Schneider and Victoria Bieneck of Germany, pose with their medals at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Xiamen Open 2017 in Xiamen, China; Spain’s Rafael Nadal holds up his trophy after winning his men’s finals match against Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas at the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament in Monaco; and Britain’s Prince Harry and his brother Prince William, t
  
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• US counting on French anti-terror ops in Africa: Mattis

  23-04-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  
  US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday urged France to continue its African anti-terror operations under its new presidency, as he visited strategic Djibouti on the day of France's first-round election."I have no doubt that the French will continue to make their own decisions in their own best interest and that the terrorists will not enjoy these decisions," Mattis told reporters in the Horn of Africa nation, which hosts Washington's only permanent military base on the continent.The US backs
  
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• Homeland Security not targeting Dreamers: Kelly

  23-04-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  By Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security will not target immigrants brought to the United States as children for deportation, despite conflicting statements within the Trump administration, its secretary John Kelly said on Sunday.Kelly, asked on Sunday morning talk shows to clarify the department's position on the status of these illegal immigrants protected under an Obama-era program, said the agency is focused on deporting only dangerous criminals.“M
  
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• Man Sends Birthday Cards Every Year to Dog Shared With Estranged Wife

  23-04-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  
  That love may save his marriage.
  
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• Trump pressures Democrats on Obamacare to get border wall deal

  23-04-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump put pressure on Democrats on Sunday as U.S. lawmakers worked to avoid a government shutdown, saying Obamacare would die without a cash infusion the White House has offered in exchange for their agreement to fund his border wall.The escalated push to get Trump's priorities, which Democrats reject, into spending legislation could jeopardize prospects for an agreement to keep the government open.If talks fail, the government would shut down on Saturday, Trump's 100th day in o
  
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• American OSCE monitor killed in rebel east Ukraine

  23-04-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said Sunday that one of its US monitors in Ukraine died after a mission patrol vehicle hit a landmine in the Russian-backed separatist east.It marked the first loss for the security body's Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) since Europe's only current war broke out more than three years ago.The announcement saw Kiev and the insurgents quickly trade blame over who was at fault for one of the most diplomatically sensitive episodes in a conflic
  
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• Nine killed in drug gang shootout in Mexican mountain village: prosecutors

  23-04-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Nine people were killed in what prosecutors said on Sunday was a gun battle between rival drug gangs in the mountains of Mexico's west coast state of Michoacan.The battle took place Saturday and in an isolated village of the municipality of Churumuco, which borders on Guerrero state, where eight bodies were found on the main street and another in the nearby sierra, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement.The region, especially Guerrero state, is the site of the worst violence in Mexico
  
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• 'Anti-fascists' clash with Paris police after vote

  23-04-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Police clashed with leftwingdemonstrators in Paris on Sunday shortly after early projections from the France's presidential elections showed far-right leader Marine Le Pen had made it to a runoff vote.Police moved in on the demonstrators, some of whom threw bottles and firecrackers, an AFP journalist saw.Three people were arrested, according to police.
  
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• Awe-inspiring photos of Earth remind us just what's at stake

  23-04-2017 21:51 via yahoo.com
  
  Millions of people came out this Earth Day to clean up and care for the planet. But space agencies and companies took a different approach, choosing to celebrate our Earth from up above. SpaceX on Saturday shared a breathtaking image captured during the recent launch of its SES-10 communications satellite.  Elon Musk's private spaceflight company made history in late March when it reused a previously flown Falcon 9 booster to launch the satellite over Central and South America.View from the
  
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• Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen advance to France runoff

  23-04-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  
  French centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen are advancing to the presidential runoff, after major opponents conceded defeat.
  
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• Police pick up adorable intruders: A pair of pygmy goats

  23-04-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  BELFAST, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine have picked up some adorable intruders after two miniature goats escaped from their home and wandered the streets.
  
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• Trump: Mexico will pay for the border wall — ‘eventually’ and ‘in some form’

  23-04-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  
  The president says he may not approve a government funding bill this week if it does not include funding for a “badly needed border wall” that he claims Mexico, “in some form,” will “eventually” pay for.
  
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• Le Pen: Far-right heir faces battle to become first female president

  23-04-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Far-right leader Marine Le Pen wept for joy when her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, the bogeyman of French politics, made it to the final of the 2002 presidential election.In Sunday's first round vote, the fiercely anti-EU, anti-immigration Le Pen secured a spot in the May 7 run-off, just behind centrist Emmanuel Macron, according to several polling institutes."Macron is more complicated," one Le Pen supporter said.
  
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• Western Iraq ambush on military convoy kills 10

  23-04-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  
  An ambush by the Islamic State group killed 10 members of the security forces Sunday in western Iraq, where federal and other forces recently ramped up an anti-jihadist offensive.A local commander said the attackers were disguised as military and took advantage of a sandstorm to ambush a convoy near the town of Rutba, a remote outpost on the road to Jordan."Daesh (IS) members armed with assault rifles and rocket launchers attacked civilian and military vehicles carrying soldiers near Rutba," an
  
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• Florida evacuation orders lifted as rain quells wildfires

  23-04-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Florida officials on Sunday lifted evacuation orders for about 2,000 homes threatened by wildfires in drought-stricken central and southwestern parts of the state, after rainfall helped firefighters battle the blazes.As of Sunday morning, a 5,500-acre wildfire in Collier County in southwest Florida that has destroyed nine homes was 50 percent contained, according to officials.In Polk County in central Florida, a wildfire that charred 700 acres was 75 percent contained.
  
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• Melenchon, France's failed hard-left presidential candidate

  23-04-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Jean-Luc Melenchon, who crashed out of France's unpredictable presidential election Sunday, is a fiery Communist-backed eurosceptic who had vowed to return "power to the people".Melenchon had enjoyed a late surge ahead of the first-round vote in an election marked by widespread disillusionment with the political class.Observers said strong debate performances showcasing a more temperate but still quick-witted Melenchon had helped propel him into serious contention.
  
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• McDonald's braces for the apocalypse with chic new uniforms

  23-04-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Hey — if the world's going to end, McDonald's at least wants its employees to look good. The fast food chain has officially chosen some dark, dismal, soul sucking new employee uniforms that really just scream: "Ba da ba ba bah, we're doomed!"  SEE ALSO: Instagram bait: Why Starbucks put a unicorn meme on its menu According to a press release, McDonald's is collaborating with designers Waraire Boswell and Bindu Rivas to develop the new collections, which are set to appear behind counte
  
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• French election exit polls show Le Pen, Macron set to face off

  23-04-2017 21:03
  
  Election is being viewed as a barometer of French voters’ desire to maintain the country's EU membership
  
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• CNN anchor alleges Fox News ex-CEO Roger Ailes also harassed her

  23-04-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - Television journalist Alisyn Camerota said on Sunday she was a target of sexual harassment by Roger Ailes when she worked at Fox News, joining other former colleagues at the cable channel who have accused their ex-boss of inappropriate behavior.Camerota, now co-host of CNN's "New Day," told that network's Brian Stelter in an interview that Ailes suggested they might have to get to "know each other better" at a hotel if she wanted to succeed at Fox News."I remembe
  
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• Brain-Damaged Woman Grins as Future Sister-in-Law Asks Her to Be a Bridesmaid

  23-04-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  
  "There's no reason not to include her," said Nichole Sullivan of her sister-in-law to be, who suffered a traumatic brain injury.
  
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• US officials say pirates have returned to waters off Somalia

  23-04-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  
  DJIBOUTI (AP) — Pirates have returned to the waters off Somalia, but the spike in attacks on commercial shipping does not yet constitute a trend, senior U.S. officials said Sunday.
  
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• Grand Canyon tram project stalls before Navajo council vote

  23-04-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A project to build a 1.6-mile tram that would take visitors into the Grand Canyon is on hold for a few months after failing to gain enough support from Navajo Nation lawmakers.
  
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• Afghan Taliban's brazen attack eclipses Trump's 'mother of all bombs'

  23-04-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  
  By Josh Smith and Hamid ShaliziKABUL (Reuters) - Eight days after the U.S. military dropped its largest ever conventional bomb on suspected Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban militants breached an army base in the north of the country and killed scores of local soldiers.To Afghan and other critics of President Donald Trump's apparent indecision over how to win a seemingly intractable war, Friday's assault - the worse of its kind since the Taliban were ousted in 2001 - was evi
  
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• Member of security watchdog OSCE killed in Ukraine

  23-04-2017 20:22 via yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - A member of European security watchdog OSCE's monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine was killed and two others injured on Sunday after their vehicle drove over a mine near Luhansk, prompting calls for an investigation into the incident.The unarmed, civilian OSCE mission with more than 700 international observers was deployed in 2014.The role of the monitors includes verifying the withdrawal of heavy weapons as agreed under the 2015 ceasefire agreement.
  
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• Even penguins marched (well, waddled) for science

  23-04-2017 20:22 via yahoo.com
  
  What's better than clever protest signs? Protest penguins. On Saturday, as thousands of people joined the March for Science worldwide, a group of penguins waddled in solidarity at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. The aquarium shared the "March of the Penguins for Science" via Facebook Live. The post had nearly 1.7 million views by mid-afternoon on Sunday.The March for Science movement was born in response to President Donald Trump's "clear anti-science actions," organizers said in Januar
  
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• These ‘Married At First Sight’ Couples Are Still Together

  23-04-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  
  See which “Married at First Sight” couples stayed together after the cameras stopped rolling!
  
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• Seven twists in France's rollercoaster election

  23-04-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  
  The first round of France's presidential election came after a rollercoaster campaign with multiple twists and turns.Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right Marine Le Pen emerged as the two leading candidates set to contest a May 7 run-off vote, according to initial projections.The first came in November when 63-year-old former premier Francois Fillon pulled off a come-from-behind victory in the right-wing primary, defying pollsters who had for months predicted a win for Alain Juppe, 71.
  
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• U.S. watching piracy increase off Somalia, sees ties to famine

  23-04-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  
  By Idrees AliDJIBOUTI (Reuters) - The United States is closely watching a recent increase in piracy off the coast of Somalia, a senior U.S. military official said on Sunday as Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited an important military base in Djibouti.The rise in piracy attacks has at least partially been driven by famine and drought in the region, the top U.S. military commander overseeing troops in Africa said during Mattis' visit as part of a week-long trip to the Middle East and Africa.The U
  
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• Liberal Maldives blogger stabbed to death

  23-04-2017 20:16 via yahoo.com
  
  A prominent Maldivian blogger, who was critical of Islamist extremism and government corruption, was stabbed to death on Sunday, police said, and the main opposition party demanded an international probe into the killing.Social media activist Yameen Rasheed was stabbed 14 times in the chest and once each in the neck and face, local media reported."He was stabbed to death early in the morning and we are investigating the matter," police spokesman Ahmed Shifan said.
  
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• CNN’s Camerota: ‘Roger Ailes did sexually harass me’

  23-04-2017 20:14 via yahoo.com
  
  The “New Day” host revealed Sunday that the former Fox News chief propositioned her early in her career at the top-rated cable news network. Ailes, through his attorney, called the claims “unsubstantiated and false.”
  
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• Macron, Le Pen leading French vote: initial projections

  23-04-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen will contest the second round of the French presidential election, initial projections suggested Sunday, after a nailbiting vote seen as vital for the future of the EU.Macron was projected to win between 23 and 24 percent in Sunday's first round, slightly ahead of National Front leader Le Pen with between 21.6 and 23 percent, according to estimates on public television.The outcome capped an extraordinary few months for a deeply divided
  
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• Bill Gates didn’t let his kids use cell phones until they turned 14

  23-04-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  
  While most young kids and teenagers spend hours upon hours glued to tablets and smartphones, Bill Gates' children had a markedly different experience growing up. During a recent interview with the Mirror, the former Microsoft CEO said that when his children were growing up, he limited their exposure to the addicting glow of digital screens.
  "We often set a time after which there is no screen time and in their case that helps them get to sleep at a reasonable hour," Gates said. Also interesting i
  
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• Ms. Frizzle spotted at Science Marches across the globe

  23-04-2017 19:53 via yahoo.com
  
  The Magic School Bus took some very important field trips this Earth Day, making stops at Marches for Science across the world. As science lovers joined together at more than 500 events on Saturday to get their voices heard, everyone's favorite eccentric, fictional science teacher, Ms. Frizzle, became a prominent symbol in the resistance. Dozens of science fans dressed up like The Friz and reppedThe Magic School Bus signs, proving even our most magical childhood dreams can come true if we're wil
  
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• Saudi Arabia restores perks to state employees, boosting markets

  23-04-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Saudi Arabia reinstated financial allowances for civil servants and military personnel on Saturday after better-than-expected budget figures, ending unpopular cuts to a key perk triggered by low oil prices and cheering the stock market.The Saudi share indexgained 1.0 percent on Sunday, buoyed by expectations of a positive impact from higher disposable incomes on consumer sectors like retail and food.In September, Saudi Arabia cut ministers' salaries by 20 percent and scaled back perks for public
  
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• S.Africa VP urges probe into state corruption claims

  23-04-2017 19:16 via yahoo.com
  
  South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa called Sunday for an independent probe into suspected corruption in the upper echelons of power."We must be honest and brave enough to confront state capture," he said, using a term referring to allegations of corruption by President Jacob Zuma and his associates.Tens of thousands of South Africans have staged protests in recent weeks demanding Zuma stand down, and opposition parties, religious groups and civil society activists last week joined for
  
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• Aaron Hernandez Left Multiple Suicide Notes: Report

  23-04-2017 18:57 via yahoo.com
  
  The notes were written to his fiancée, his daughter and a close prison friend.
  
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• Gunmen wound celebrated conservationist Gallmann in Kenya

  23-04-2017 18:56 via yahoo.com
  
  By Katharine HoureldNAIROBI (Reuters) - Gunmen wounded Italian-born conservationist Kuki Gallmann at her conservation park on Sunday in the latest of a string of attacks during land invasions in drought-stricken northern Kenya, which residents say are intensifying as August polls approach.Gallmann, who was played by Kim Basinger in the 2000 film of her book, was going to inspect fresh damage to her property after invaders burned down a retreat there on Saturday.The gunmen shot her, but Gallmann
  
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• North Korea detains third U.S. citizen

  23-04-2017 18:55 via yahoo.com
  
  By James PearsonSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea detained a U.S. citizen on Saturday as he attempted to leave the country, bringing the total number of Americans held by the isolated country to three.Korean-American Tony Kim had spent a month teaching an accounting course at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), the university's chancellor, Chan-Mo Park, told Reuters on Sunday.The arrest took place on Saturday morning local time, a statement by the university said, and was "rel
  
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• This Week Fast Forward 4.23.2017

  23-04-2017 18:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Speed through the highlights from the latest "This Week."
  
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• Trump heads into tough week with budget, health care battles

  23-04-2017 18:46 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is heading into one of the most challenging weeks of his presidency, juggling a renewed health care push and a looming budget deadline. It's all complicated by a potential showdown with Democrats over paying for a border wall.
  
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• Terror charges for suspects in French election plot

  23-04-2017 18:45 via yahoo.com
  
  The two men suspected of plotting an "imminent" attack ahead of France's presidential election were charged Sunday with terror offences, prosecutors said.Elite police and intelligence agents arrested the two Frenchmen -- 23-year-old Clement Baur and Mahiedine Merabet, 29 -- on Tuesday in the Mediterranean port city.Paris prosecutors said the men are accused of participating in a terrorist conspiracy as well as weapons charges.
  
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• French election will be 'major test' for populism

  23-04-2017 18:42 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' Foreign Correspondent Alexander Marquardt reports about the French election.
  
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• Dowd: New poll is 'good news, bad news, really bad news' for Trump

  23-04-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  
  The Powerhouse Roundtable debates President Trump's progress as we approach 100 days in office.
  
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