After French win, Macron fields congratulations but has little time to bask in glory

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After French win, Macron fields congratulations but has little time to bask in glory

Washington Post
PARIS – Emmanuel Macron received congratulations from around the world – including Moscow – on Monday after French voters made the centrist political neophyte their new president and rejected anti-E.

Hill investigations on Russia run into hurdles

CNN
(CNN) Congressional investigators are running into new challenges with their Russia probes, facing a mountain of records to sift through, uncertainty about the leads they are chasing and partisan disagreement over whether there was any collusion

China pitch by Kushner sister renews controversy over visa program for wealthy

Washington Post
A much-criticized visa program that allows foreigners to win fast-track immigration in return for investing $500,000 in U.S. properties was extended in a bill signed by President Trump just one day before a sister of senior White House adviser Jared

Emmanuel Macron’s irresistible charm

BBC News
The thing about Emmanuel Macron is that, in the end, everyone gives way to the charm. See him on campaign last week: he was talking to hardline CGT union members at a soon-to-close factory in the north.

North Korea detains second US professor working at Pyongyang university

CNN
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) North Korea has detained a US citizen on suspicion of “hostile acts” against the regime, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday.

Afghanistan IS head killed in raid – US and Afghan officials

BBC News
The head of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, has been killed in a military raid, US and Afghan officials have said.

US reviews Syria safe zones but warns ‘devil’s in the details’

Reuters
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks at the opening of the 53rd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, in this file photo dated February 17, 2017.

Did hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Barghouti just eat some cookies? Israel says he did

Washington Post
JERUSALEM – Israel released video footage Sunday purportedly showing Marwan Barghouti, the man Palestinians compare to Nelson Mandela and the leader of an open-ended hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinians incarcerated in Israel, breaking the …

Montreal declares state of emergency over flooding

CNN
(CNN) Montreal’s mayor has declared a state of emergency as rising flood waters threaten dikes and breakwaters and force residents from their homes in parts of Canada’s Quebec province.

Netanyahu Tosses Hamas Policy Paper on Israel Into Trash Can

Newsweek
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday symbolically tossed into a trash can a Hamas policy paper published last week that set out an apparent softening of the Palestinian Islamist group’s stance towards Israel.

Police: 2 dead, 5 hurt in shooting at Brighton Park memorial for earlier rifle slaying

Chicago Tribune
Chicago Police Deputy Superintendent Kevin Navarro, Deputy Chief Kevin Ryan and 15th Ward Ald. Raymond Lopez speak at the scene of a shooting that left two people dead and eight wounded in Brighton Park on May 7, 2017.

President Trump seizes on election rules to push his agenda in new ways

USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – President Trump has headlined four big rallies in the first months of his presidency to tout his agenda and savage his foes.

Nothing to see here, Philippines tells UN Human Rights Council

Reuters
An activist from Amnesty International Thailand holds a banner during a rally to urge the Phillipines to stop ”War on Drugs” in front of Philippines’s embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, April 25, 2017.

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