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World News on May 7th, 2017
Sunday, May 07, 2017
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Organizers barred journalists on Sunday from a publicly advertised event in Shanghai to attract Chinese investment in a U.S. real estate project linked to the family of President Donald Trump's son-in-law in exchange for immigrant visas (reuters.com)
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World Worries as Trump Set to Dump Paris Climate Deal: Trump has called climate change a "hoax." Tweeted: "This very expensive global warming bullshit has got to stop." (commondreams.org)
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French election: Marine Le Pen's father says she is 'not fit for presidency' as polls put Emmanuel Macron in lead (telegraph.co.uk)
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Marine Le Pen has conceded defeat in the French presidential election after projections suggested she is on course to be heavily defeated by centrist Emmanuel Macron (independent.co.uk)
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The top brass of the German military has ordered an inspection of all of its barracks after discovering Nazi-era memorabilia at two of them (france24.com)
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The number killed in Venezuela amid mounting political unrest reaches 38 — 85 officers, a majority from the military, had been detained for refusing to repress protesters (telegraph.co.uk)
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Holocaust denier David Irving spoke alongside other anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists at a secret meeting of the “neo-Nazi, white supremacist” London Forum, where it was claimed Auschwitz was “like Disneyland” and that the Holocaust was “gossip”, “propaganda” and a “rumour", (independent.co.uk)
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France presidential elections: Louvre evacuated as suspicious package found ahead of Emmanuel Macron speech (independent.co.uk)
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North Korea 'detains US citizen' - US citizen Kim Hak Song detained in North Korea "on suspicion of acts against the state" - state news agency (bbc.co.uk)
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Israeli ministers approved a controversial bill on Sunday that would define the country as the "national home of the Jewish people" while downgrading Arabic as an official language (france24.com)
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In IrelandStephen Fry under police investigation for blasphemy after branding God an 'utter maniac' (independent.co.uk)
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Israel releases footage of Palestinian hunger strike leader Barghouti eating in his prison cell (haaretz.com)
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North Korea: Our "invincible army" is "waiting for an order to wage a final sacred war, with their guns leveled at the detestable targets." The North promised a strike that "will all at once turn into sea of fire, completely destroying enemies and winning a final victory." (kcnawatch.co)
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UK: Tough new internet porn laws could force viewers of adult content to prove their age at the Post Office. (dailymail.co.uk)
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Pope Francis has criticised the naming of the US military's largest non-nuclear explosive ever used in combat as 'the mother of all bombs'. "I was ashamed when I heard the name. A mother gives life and this one gives death, and we call this device a mother. What is going on?" (bbc.com)
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