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• Get ready for a possible 'second wave' of that massive global cyberattack

  14-05-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft Windows users, brace yourselves. People are worried a second wave of cyberattacks could strike around the world on Monday as employees return to their desks and log onto their computers. Security experts say the unprecedented ransomware attack that on Friday locked up computers across the globe including UK hospital, FedEx, train systems in Germany among other institutions in exchange for payment, could cause even more trouble as the work week begins. On top of that, copycat versions o
  
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• White nationalist Richard Spencer at rally over Confederate statue's removal

  14-05-2017 23:41 via rocketnews.com
  
  Spencer said the torch-wielding protest in Charlottesville, Virginia – which evoked memories of the KKK – was a way to communicate with the deadRichard Spencer. The city of Charlottesville voted to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee, sparking a backlash from the so-called ‘alt-right’ community. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters
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  A small group of torch-wielding protesters, including the white nationalist “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer,
  
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• One dead as mutinous I.Coast soldiers take to streets

  14-05-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Bouaké (Ivory Coast) (AFP) - One person died Sunday after mutinous soldiers took to the streets in Ivory Coast's central second city Bouake as fresh tensions gripped the world's top cocoa grower."(He), Issouf Diawara, finally died from his bullet wounds," his brother Souleymane Diawara told AFP.Diawara was hit on Saturday amid clashes between former rebels, some of whom have now been integrated into the army, and those who have disarmed but not integrated.
  
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• Opposition in Venezuela in desperate plea to military

  14-05-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela's opposition Sunday urged the armed forces to consider dialogue, despite its loyalty to embattled President Nicolas Maduro in the country's deadly political crisis."I am appealing to Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez to open the doors of a sincere debate in the armed forces," said Julio Borges, the speaker of the National Assembly, the only opposition-led government body.Opposition leaders believe Maduro and some of his supporters met this week with Padrino Lopez to rally support
  
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• Gunmen attack, rob journalists in Mexico's Guerrero state

  14-05-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — About 100 armed men attacked a group of journalists and robbed them of their equipment in Mexico's troubled southern state of Guerrero, authorities and media reports said Sunday.
  
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• Macron takes power as French president

  14-05-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Emmanuel Macron became France's youngest ever president on Sunday, promising at his inauguration to restore the country's lost confidence and relaunch the flagging European Union.Macron, a 39-year-old centrist, took the reins of power from Socialist Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace a week after his resounding victory over far-right leader Marine Le Pen in an election that was watched worldwide.After a private meeting with his former mentor Hollande and his first speech as president, Macron
  
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• Family gets kicked off of a JetBlue flight for a birthday cake

  14-05-2017 22:20 via rocketnews.com
  
  View photosFootage of a family getting kicked off of a JetBlue flight over the placement of a birthday cake surfaced on Saturday. 
  Minta and Cameron Burke were heading to Las Vegas from JFK Airport in New York on Flight 611 on May 3 to celebrate Minta’s 40th birthday with their children when an incident between the family and the airline caused the entire family to be kicked off the plane, despite the NYPD admitting to the family that they did nothing wrong.
  According to ABC 7, the in
  
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• School nickname change divides Vermont community

  14-05-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  
  SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A move to change a high school team name to be more inclusive has sparked death threats, a stalking charge and likely contributed to the defeat of the school budget twice in a Vermont community that has long supported education.
  
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• Austria heads for snap election as coalition shatters

  14-05-2017 21:51 via yahoo.com
  
  By Francois MurphyVIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's youthful foreign minister took over as leader of the country's main conservative party on Sunday and called for a snap parliamentary election that center-left Chancellor Christian Kern admitted he could not prevent.Kern's Social Democrats (SPO) and Sebastian Kurz's conservative People's Party (OVP) are coalition partners and have dominated Austrian politics for decades, but are now at daggers drawn.
  
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• Military Wife Finally Finishes Degree on Mother's Day After 15 Years Of Constant Relocation

  14-05-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  She'd been working towards her degree for years.
  
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• Austrian party picks new leader, early elections likely

  14-05-2017 21:19 via rocketnews.com
  
  View photosFILE – In this March 17, 2017 file photo, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz of the Austrian People’s Party poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press in Vienna. Austria’s chancellor Christian Kern says Sunday, May 14, 2017 he expects an early election this fall as his coalition partner mulls its future leadership. Austria is governed by an often bad-tempered alliance of Chancellor Christian Kern’s center-left Social Democrats and the
  
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• Turkey-US: strained relations

  14-05-2017 20:59 via rocketnews.com
  
  View photosThough Turkey and the US are NATO allies, they often have conflicting goals in the Middle East, and with Ankara now cozying up to Moscow and Tehran, their relationship with Washington may become more strained (AFP Photo/ARIS MESSINIS)
  MoreIstanbul (AFP) – From the 2003 US invasion of Iraq to Washington’s latest decision to arm Kurdish groups in Syria, relations between Turkey and the US have been tested repeatedly.
  The two NATO allies often have conflicting goals in the Mi
  
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• Putin Shows Off Musical Talent on Piano in China

  14-05-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Russian state television showed President Vladimir Putin playing the piano in Beijing on Sunday. Putin tried his hand at the anthems of Moscow and his native St. Petersburg, while he waited to hold talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. (May 14)
  
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• Only 29% Of Americans Approve Of Trump's Firing Of Comey

  14-05-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  
  46 percent of those polled said they think Comey was fired to slow down the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
  
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• France's new president vows to fortify EU, revamp politics

  14-05-2017 20:06 via rocketnews.com
  
  View photosNew French President Emmanuel Macron, right, smiles as outgoing President Francois Hollande waves during Macron’s inauguration ceremony as French President, at the Elysee Palace Sunday, May 14, 2017 in Paris. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP)
  MorePARIS (AP) — In ceremonies marked by youthful optimism and old-world Napoleonic pomp, Emmanuel Macron swept into office Sunday as France’s new president pledging to fortify the European Union, redesign French politics and glue toget
  
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• France's new president vows to fortify EU, revamp politics

  14-05-2017 20:06 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — In ceremonies marked by youthful optimism and old-world Napoleonic pomp, Emmanuel Macron swept into office Sunday as France's new president pledging to fortify the European Union, redesign French politics and glue together his divided nation.
  
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• New York eyes 'textalyzer' to combat distracted driving

  14-05-2017 20:01 via yahoo.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Ben Lieberman just wanted to find out what may have caused the head-on collision that killed his 19-year-old son, Evan, on a highway north of New York City. It took a lawsuit and six months in court to get the cellphone records showing the driver of the car his son was in had been texting behind the wheel.
  
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• Broad support for a Trump foreign aid nominee, with a catch

  14-05-2017 19:49 via rocketnews.com
  
  FILE – In this Aug. 7, 2008 file photo, then-US ambassador to Tanzania Mark Green is seen at the US embassy in Tanzania. Green is a rare bird in Washington these days: A nominee of President Donald Trump enjoying broad bipartisan support. But there’s a catch to his potential posting as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The agency faces a starkly uncertain future, including possibly major budget cuts and being folded entirely into a restructured State De
  
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• If Trump’s Comey ‘tapes’ exist, top Democrats want them ‘preserved’

  14-05-2017 19:42 via rocketnews.com
  If President Trump secretly recorded his conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey, the top Democrats in the House and Senate investigations on Russian interference in the 2016 election want those tapes.
  “We have got to make sure that these tapes, if they exist, don’t mysteriously disappear,” Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday. “So I have aske
  
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• Pope says doubts Medjugorje apparitions are authentic

  14-05-2017 19:25 via yahoo.com
  
  By Philip PullellaABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis has voiced serious doubt about the authenticity of alleged continuing apparitions of the Madonna in Medjugorje, a once-obscure village in Bosnia boosted by the pilgrim business."These presumed apparitions don't have a lot of value.Six children first reported visions of the Virgin Mary in 1981 in a scenario reminiscent of famous apparitions in the French town of Lourdes in the 19th century and 100 years ago in Fatima, which Francis
  
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• Experts: Cyberattack havoc could grow as work week begins

  14-05-2017 19:20 via yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — An unprecedented "ransomware" cyberattack that has already hit tens of thousands of victims in 150 countries could wreak even more havoc Monday as people return to their desks and power up their computers at the start of the work week.
  
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• Man Sets Himself On Fire While Recording on Facebook Live, Later Dies

  14-05-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  His ex-girlfriend was present during the entire ordeal that took place at her job.
  
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• No 'clean slate' between the US and Russia, Tillerson says

  14-05-2017 18:40 via rocketnews.com
  
  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R) who met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ion May 10, 2017, said trust between the two nations was “very low” (AFP Photo/MANDEL NGAN)
  MoreWashington (AFP) – Relations between the United States and Russia, at their lowest level since the Cold War, will not restart “with a clean slate,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday.
  The former ExxonMobil CEO, who was decorated in 2013 by Russian President Vladimir P
  
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• No 'clean slate' between the US and Russia, Tillerson says

  14-05-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Relations between the United States and Russia, at their lowest level since the Cold War, will not restart "with a clean slate," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday.The former ExxonMobil CEO, who was decorated in 2013 by Russian President Vladimir Putin, had said previously that the relationship between the two nuclear powers had hit its lowest point since the Soviet collapse in 1991.
  
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• James Clapper: democratic institutions are 'under assault' by Trump

  14-05-2017 18:36 via yahoo.com
  
  James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill, during the Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 election.Former director of national intelligence James Clapper has accused Donald Trump of placing American democratic institutions “under assault” following the sacking of James Comey and cautioned that the former FBI director’s removal is “another victory” for Russia.
  
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• Plan to curb panhandling takes people from begging to work

  14-05-2017 18:29 via yahoo.com
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Cleaning trash and landscaping public parks might not be glamorous work, but Derek Cote says it beats begging for change in a traffic median at rush hour, and he's looking forward to his hometown giving him a chance to do it.
  
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• President Trump's decision to fire FBI Director Comey sends White House into chaos

  14-05-2017 18:22 via yahoo.com
  
  George Stephanopoulos reports on President Trump's surprise decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey on a special edition of "This Week."
  
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• Graham Calls On Trump To Release Taxes; Dems Demand Special Prosecutor

  14-05-2017 18:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Russia probably is looking at James Comey's dismissal as FBI director as a win in its bid to undermine the United States.
  
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• New Jersey governor refuses to ban child marriage because 'it would conflict with religious customs'

  14-05-2017 18:06 via yahoo.com
  
  A high profile Republican governor has declined to sign into law, a measure that would have made his state the first to ban child marriage without exception.Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey and someone who has been a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, said such a ban would conflict with religious customs.
  
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• This online tool lets you check if your iPhone is stolen

  14-05-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  The best way to avoid buying a stolen iPhone is getting it from Apple, an electronics store, or a carrier. But because the iPhone comes with a rather high price tag, some people choose to purchase second-hand iPhone. These are still expensive, but the price is lower than what you’d pay in stores. In many cases, you can score a great iPhone deal, if you know what to look for. But there’s always the risk that seller stole the phone and it’s now looking to flip it. Thankfully, the
  
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• North Korea fires missile that lands in sea near Russia

  14-05-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ju-min Park and Idrees AliSEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea, defying calls to rein in its weapons program, fired a ballistic missile that landed in the sea near Russia on Sunday, days after a new leader came to power in South Koreapledging to engage Pyongyang in dialogue.The U.S. military's Pacific Command said it was assessing the type of missile that was fired but it was "not consistent with an intercontinental ballistic missile".Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said the missil
  
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• Six wounded as mutinous I.Coast soldiers cut off key city

  14-05-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Bouaké (Ivory Coast) (AFP) - Mutinous soldiers wounded six people in Ivory Coast's second city Bouake on Sunday as fresh tensions gripped the world's top cocoa grower.Five men and a mother of three children were brought to hospital in the central city of Bouake after being struck by warning shots fired to keep residents inside their homes, an AFP photographer saw.The soldiers took to the streets Friday in a revolt over bonus payments and blocked access to Bouake, which served as the rebel
  
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• Donald Trump should stop tweeting about Russia investigation, senior Republican senator warns

  14-05-2017 17:31 via rocketnews.com
  
  Donald Trump should stop tweeting about Russia investigation, senior Republican senator warns
  MoreA senior Republican senator has urged Donald Trump to “back off” and stop tweeting about the ongoing investigation into his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia’s purported efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
  Days after Mr Trump fired James Comey as FBI Director, Senator Lindsey Graham said it was essential to get to the bottom of what was said between the Preside
  
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• Quake kills two, injures hundreds in Iran: state media

  14-05-2017 17:23 via yahoo.com
  
  A 5.7 magnitude earthquake near Iran's border with Turkmenistan killed two people, injured hundreds and caused widespread damage, state media reported Sunday, citing the country's seismological centre.The quake, which struck at 1800 GMT Saturday in and around the city of Bojnurd, North Khorasan province, killed a 54-year-old woman and a teenage girl, ISNA news agency reported.The US Geological Survey put the strength of the quake at 5.8 magnitude, and said it occurred at a depth of 12.5 kilometr
  
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• Fifth person dies after Massachusetts auto auction crash

  14-05-2017 16:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Ruben Espaillat, 55, died at a local hospital on Saturday, 10 days after the crash at the Lynnway Auto Auction in Billerica, about 20 miles northwest of Boston, on May 3, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said in a statement."Our thoughts our with his family and friends," said Ryan, whose office is investigating the collision.Elliott Rowlands Jr., 50, died on Wednesday, and was the fourth fatality, Ryan said..
  
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• Christian militias renew attack on U.N. base in Central African Republic

  14-05-2017 16:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Militia fighters from Central African Republic's (CAR) Christian minority attacked a U.N. base for the second consecutive night, a U.N. official said on Sunday, after a week of violence that has killed six peacekeepers at the southeastern border.Access to the town center of Bangassou to recover the wounded and the dead has been impeded by fighting although 24 injured people had been treated at a nearby hospital, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières said.Fighting in and around B
  
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• Donald Trump could be impeached over firing of James Comey, says professor who called election

  14-05-2017 16:22 via yahoo.com
  
  A professor of history who predicted Donald Trump would win the race to the White House, has claimed the firing of James Comey as FBI Director is sufficient to see the President impeached.Allan Lichtman, who has correctly guessed the outcome of every presidential election since 1984, claimed Mr Trump’s firing of Mr Comey was “more serious than Watergate”.“He arguably could be impeached now,” Mr Lichtman told Newsweek.
  
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• Mother Arrested After Allegedly Starving Children To Raise Money For Fake Illnesses

  14-05-2017 16:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Police later determined the children did not have the conditions the mother claimed.
  
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• Sen. Mark Warner on Comey's firing, Russia investigation

  14-05-2017 16:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee weighs in on 'Fox News Sunday'
  
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• Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe: Trump 'regards himself as above the law'

  14-05-2017 16:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Harvard constitutional law Professor Laurence Tribe and former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr weigh in on the fallout of former FBI Director James Comey's firing.
  
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• Warner: 'We would love to have Director Comey appear in an open hearing'

  14-05-2017 15:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Mark Warner, Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is interviewed on "This Week."
  
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• A suicide at age 8? Very rare, but not inconceivable

  14-05-2017 15:31 via rocketnews.com
  
  In this still image from a Jan. 24, 2017, surveillance video provided by Cincinnati Public Schools, the legs and feet of 8-year-old Gabriel Taye can be seen as he lies on the floor of a boys’ bathroom after being knocked unconscious by another boy at Carson Elementary School. Two days later, Taye hanged himself with a necktie in the bedroom of his Cincinnati apartment. (Cincinnati Public Schools via AP)
  MoreNEW YORK (AP) — The death was startling even to the coroner: a boy only 8 ye
  
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• Traffic jams, break-ins could cost Germany's SPD key state vote

  14-05-2017 14:25 via yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph NasrBERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives hoped to unseat the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) in an election on Sunday in Germany's most populous state, the final electoral test for both parties before a federal vote in September.The Christian Democrats (CDU) aimed to seize on anger among the 18 million inhabitants of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) over clogged traffic, rising crime, an underperforming education system and relatively high unemployment to win.The SPD h
  
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• 2 nurses taken hostage during Illinois hospital standoff; suspect fatally shot

  14-05-2017 14:24 via yahoo.com
  
  A 21-year-old Chicago man, who held a nurse hostage for a few hours at a Geneva hospital, was fatally shot Saturday afternoon as SWAT teams moved in on him, according to the Kane County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Pope Francis prays for Yazidis as Iraqi troops advance in Mosul

  14-05-2017 14:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis called attention on Sunday to the plight of people affected by war and conflict in the Middle East as U.S.-backed forces close in on Islamic State militants in Iraq."So many innocent people are being sorely tested, be they Christian, or Muslim, or from minority groups like the Yazidi, who are suffering tragic violence and discrimination," Francis said after his regular Sunday address in the Vatican."I encourage the different communities to follow the path of dialogue and friendship,
  
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• New Details Emerge In Tad Cummins Case

  14-05-2017 14:13 via yahoo.com
  
  The former teacher is facing charges on taking a minor across state lines with intent to engage in sexual activity.
  
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• Consumers Are Losing Confidence In Data Privacy, Health Care, Car Safety

  14-05-2017 14:00 via yahoo.com
  
  A new survey shows Americans are losing faith in the government's ability to protect consumers, including a decline in trust in regulation of the auto industry, data protection and health care access.
  
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• China, Philippines to start South China Sea talks: ambassador

  14-05-2017 13:45 via rocketnews.com
  
  An aerial view of China occupied Subi Reef at Spratly Islands in disputed South China Sea April 21, 2017. REUTERS/Francis Malasig/Pool
  MoreBy Benjamin Kang Lim
  BEIJING (Reuters) – China and the Philippines will start bilateral consultations on the disputed South China Sea this week, the Philippine ambassador to Beijing said, as Manila looks to ease tensions with Asia’s top economic power.
  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is visiting Beijing to attend a summit on China&rsquo
  
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• Russia's Putin plays piano as he awaits talks with Xi

  14-05-2017 13:28 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin played piano while awaiting Chinese leader Xi Jinping for bilateral talks in Beijing on Sunday. Putin spoke earlier on Sunday at a summit on China's new Silk Road plan. He later arrived at state Diaoyutai residence for talks with Xi and other leaders. While waiting for his bilateral with Xi to begin, Putin played several chords. According to TASS news agency and state Russian television, Putin played passages from Soviet-era songs about Moscow
  
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• Pope Francis says he will stand up to Donald Trump on immigration and climate change

  14-05-2017 13:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis has said he will be "sincere" with Donald Trump over their sharp differences on subjects such as immigration and climate change.The Pontiff, who is due to hold his first meeting with the US President at the Vatican later this month, said he would keep an open mind and not pass judgement on Mr Trump until first listening to his views."Even if one thinks differently we have to be very sincere about what each one thinks," Francis said.
  
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