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• OPINION: Why Putin and Trump both like Le Pen

  23-04-2017 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  On one hand, Donald Trump's praise of France's far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who appears to have received enough votes in Sunday's election to advance to the May 7 runoff, is not surprising. Le Pen, like Trump, ran a campaign that was anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and traded on white supremacist themes. (It's no coincidence that former Klan leader David Duke has publicly praised both Le Pen and Trump.)
  
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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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• Centrist Macron, populist Le Pen advance in French election that has consequences for Europe

  23-04-2017 23:38 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The top two vote-getters will face off in a second round May 7.
  
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• David Gergen: Trump isn't learning from his mistakes

  23-04-2017 23:25 via cnn.com
  
  As they brace for harsh media attacks on their first 100 days, President Donald Trump's team points out with justification that other presidents have stumbled, too.
  
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• MACRON: The next surprise president?

  23-04-2017 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  He was once the subject of mockery in French political circles -- now it appears that Emmanuel Macron could have the last laugh.
  
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• Poll: Trump, Dems and GOP all unpopular

  23-04-2017 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  A pair of polls released Sunday showed President Donald Trump approaching his 100th day in office with the lowest level of support any modern president.
  
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• US responds to N. Korea threat

  23-04-2017 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  With tensions rising between the US and North Korea, the Pentagon on Sunday called for the isolated communist nation to avoid destabilizing the situation further.
  
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• Fresno Shooter: 'White Supremacy Has to Die'

  23-04-2017 22:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Kori Muhammad admitted to killing three people in Fresno on Tuesday and described the crimes as acts of vengeance against white supremacy.
  
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• Four-year-old falls out of moving bus

  23-04-2017 22:39 via cnn.com
  
  It's a scene that would make any parent shudder -- a 4-year-old girl tumbles out of the back of a moving bus in the middle of a busy highway.
  
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• 6 Israelis charged with hate crimes

  23-04-2017 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  Six Israelis were charged Sunday in a months-long hate crime investigation, and a Palestinian was arrested in the stabbing of four Israelis on Sunday afternoon, a reminder that tensions are always bubbling under the surface, even in relatively quiet times.
  
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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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• 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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• Macron, Le Pen to Face Off for French Presidential Election

  23-04-2017 22:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sunday's vote featured 11 candidates, but now attention will turn to May 7 for a second round of voting.
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• Novice centrist predicted to face far-right leader in final round

  23-04-2017 21:24 via cnn.com
  
  Polls have closed in France's bitterly divisive presidential election. Early projections suggesting who may have made it through to the runoff are expected shortly.
  
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• Danny Cevallos: The best defense against an airline...cell phones

  23-04-2017 21:22 via cnn.com
  
  Video evidence has emerged of an American Airlines incident in which an unidentified male passenger confronts a male flight attendant, warning him "You do that to me, and I'll knock you flat." The flight attendant rushes right back at the passenger and responds with "Hit me. Bring it on." This chest-bumping came shortly after that same flight attendant apparently had a confrontation with a female passenger holding a baby and yanked a baby stroller away from her.
  
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• French election: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen through to second round, estimates show – live

  23-04-2017 21:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Independent Macron projected to have taken around 24% of vote with Front National leader Le Pen on roughly 22%; conservative François Fillon concedes French election: first round results trackerIf you voted in the French election, share your thoughts with us 8.14pm BSTPolice have fired tear gas on the Place de la Bastille in eastern Paris as crowds of young people, some from anarchist and anti-fascist groups, gathered to protest at Marine Le Pen’s second-place finish and her hardlin
  
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• François Fillon: defeat from jaws of victory for candidate tainted by scandal | Jon Henley and Mark Rice-Oxley

  23-04-2017 21:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Former PM bows out after leading centre-right to rare defeat in first round of presidential electionFrench election first round – live updatesFrench election first round results trackerFrançois Fillon’s disappointing ejection from the presidential race completes a humiliating journey from possible president to yesterday’s man for a candidate fatally tarnished by a string of embezzlement allegations.Fillon, the choice of the centre-right Les Républicains party, was
  
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• Analysis: Trump's Nowhere on Half His Presidential Pledges

  23-04-2017 21:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  According to an analysis by MSNBC, out of 35 public pledges Trump made since becoming president, he has made no major effort to follow through on 18.
  
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• Jeff Sessions on Hawaii gaffe: 'Nobody has a sense of humour any more'

  23-04-2017 21:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Attorney general referred to 50th state as ‘an island in the Pacific’Senator Brian Schatz tells Sessions: ‘Have some respect’Jeff Sessions on Sunday declined to apologize for his controversial remarks about Hawaii this week, which the attorney general dismissed as “an island in the Pacific” while criticising a judge’s decision to block Donald Trump’s travel ban on several Muslim-majority nations. Related: Trump push for border wall threatens to cau
  
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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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• Michael Bloomberg to world leaders: ignore Trump on climate change

  23-04-2017 21:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Former New York mayor defends Paris climate deal in new book
  Bloomberg aruges states and markets will ensure US hits emissions goalsThe former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has urged world leaders not to follow Donald Trump’s lead on climate change, and declared his own intention to stave off the “tragedy” that would be the collapse of the Paris climate deal. Related: Trump aides abruptly postpone meeting on whether to stay in Paris climate dealContinue reading...
  
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• American Member of Watchdog Group Killed in Ukraine

  23-04-2017 20:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  A U.S. member of European security watchdog OSCE's monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine was killed after a vehicle he was in drove over a mine.
  
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• North Korea detained a professor who is US citizen; at least 3rd American held

  23-04-2017 20:57 via abcnews.go.com
  
  At least two other U.S. citizens are believed held in North Korea.
  
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• Trump to Host Unusual Meeting With UN Security Council

  23-04-2017 20:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Trump will host the UN Security Council at the White House Monday, a highly unusual meeting made even more startling because of President Trump's harsh criticism of the international institution.
  
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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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• GALLERY: What a French election vote looks like

  23-04-2017 20:52 via cnn.com
  
  France has voted in the first round of balloting for a new president following a divisive and unpredictable campaign that had 11 names on the ballot.
  
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• Far-right populist Le Pen, centrist Macron advance in French election with consequences for Europe

  23-04-2017 20:51 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The top two vote-getters will face off in a second round May 7.
  
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• Manchester’s devolution, funding and ‘urban boosterism’ | Letters

  23-04-2017 20:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Nick Raynsford, former local government minister, and Mike Geddes respond to comments by and about the city’s former chief executive Sir Howard BernsteinSir Howard Bernstein has achieved a great deal in his time as chief executive of Manchester, so it is sad to see him demeaning his standing by factually incorrect and politically tendentious comments on funding and devolution for his city during the lifetime of the last Labour government (Living for the city, G2, 19 April). Contrary to his
  
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• Helping children in Belarusian institutions that aren’t orphanages | Letters

  23-04-2017 20:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Letters from Richard Carter, who says the reasons for institutional placement in former communist bloc countries are complex and varied, Norma Brier of Norwood, and Linda Walker of Chernobyl Children’s Project UKYour report on the condition of children in institutional care in Belarus (Dozens of children on the brink of starvation found in Belarusian orphanages, 21 April) should be more shocking than it is, largely because such conditions are still found all over the former communist
  
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• Democracy and academic freedom in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary | Letters from Michael Ignatieff and others

  23-04-2017 20:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Michael Ignatieff, president of the Central European University, Nigel Swain, Felix Jeschke and Brian Dooley respond to an article by Tibor FischerTibor Fischer can describe the current state of democracy in Hungary any way he wishes, but he should not be allowed to get away with the assertion that the Central European University has failed to “comply with the law” (I just don’t recognise Orbán as a tyrant, 21 April). For 25 years CEU has worked cooperatively with Hungar
  
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• Trump, Dems and GOP all unpopular

  23-04-2017 20:46 via cnn.com
  
  A pair of polls released Sunday showed President Donald Trump approaching his 100th day in office with the lowest level of support any modern president.
  
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• How events in China in the 1990s shaped the world we live in now | Letter from Jonathan Fenby

  23-04-2017 20:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Jonathan Fenby on the roots of China’s economic rise, the western credit bubble, Trump’s fulminations and Beijing’s Marxist-Maoist-market dynastyJonathan Freedland’s account of the sleeping dangers bequeathed by the 1990s (The ‘peaceful’ decade that set up our current turmoil, 22 April) missed out one major development from that era with major consequences for our times. This was the decade when China’s economic rise took shape after Deng Xiaoping presse
  
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• Iranian candidate says nuclear deal failed to lift sanctions

  23-04-2017 20:42 via yahoo.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian presidential candidate said Sunday the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers has failed to lift sanctions or improve the country's economy.
  
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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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• Macron set to face Le Pen after first round of French presidential election

  23-04-2017 20:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Traditional left and right ruling parties kicked out of electoral race for first time since postwar period, with independent centrist and far-right leaders pulling aheadFrench election first round – live updatesFrench election: first round results trackerThe independent centrist Emmanuel Macron has topped the first round of the French presidential election and according to projections will face the far-right Front National’s Marine Le Pen in a standoff marked by anti-establishment an
  
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• Soldier's horror account: Taliban started firing at anyone who came in front of them

  23-04-2017 20:16 via cnn.com
  
  The crowd of soldiers barely had time to finish their prayers before the Taliban came to kill them.
  
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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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