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Macron wins French presidency, to sighs of relief in Europe
PARIS - Emmanuel Macron is elected president of France with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union (FRANCE-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 11), PIX, TV, GRAPHIC) moving shortly, by Mathieu Rosemain and Matthias Blamont, 1,200 words).
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Macron wins French presidency, to sighs of relief in Europe
PARIS - Emmanuel Macron is elected president of France with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union (FRANCE-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 11), PIX, TV, GRAPHIC) moving shortly, by Mathieu Rosemain and Matthias Blamont, 1,200 words).
Macron banks on de Gaulle's "majority amplifier" to govern
PARIS - Unknown just three years ago, and with a party only 12 months old, Emmanuel Macron has seized the presidency against all the odds. His challenge now is to govern.(FRANCE-ELECTION/MACRON-MAJORITY (ANALYSIS), moved, by Michel Rose, 778 words)
+ See also:
- FRANCE-ELECTION/ECONOMY (ANALYSIS), moved, by Noah Barkin and Leigh Thomas, 1,022 words)
- FRANCE-ELECTION/MACRON-PROFILE (NEWSMAKER), PIX, TV), moved, by Michel Rose, 996 words).
'Welcome our dear girls,' Nigeria's Buhari tells freed Chibok girls
ABUJA - A group of 82 girls held captive for three years by Islamist militants meet Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the capital, Abuja, a day after they were released in exchange for several militant commanders, officials say. (NIGERIA-SECURITY/ (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV), moved, by Felix Onuah, 524 words)
North Korea detains another American citizen, KCNA reports
SEOUL - North Korea says it has detained another U.S. citizen on suspicion of "hostile acts" against the state, which would make him the fourth American to be held by the isolated country amid heightened diplomatic tensions with Washington. (NORTHKOREA-USA/DETAINEE (UPDATE 3), moved, by Ju-min Park, 488 words)
U.S. Democrats criticize Senate's all-male healthcare group
WASHINGTON - U.S. Democrats criticize the lack of women on a working group in the Republican-led Senate that will craft a plan to pass legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare. (USA-HEALTHCARE/ (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved, by John Whitesides and Sarah N. Lynch, 724 words)
MIDDLE EAST
Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan confirmed killed
KABUL - The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, was killed in an operation on April 27 conducted jointly by Afghan and U.S. Special Forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, U.S. and Afghan officials say. (AFGHANISTAN-ISLAMIC STATE/ (UPDATE 2), moved, 422 words)
Iran minister warns Saudi Arabia after 'battle' comments -Tasnim
DUBAI - Iran will hit back at most of Saudi Arabia with the exception of Islam's holiest places if the kingdom does anything "ignorant", Tehran's defence minister is quoted as saying after a Saudi prince threatened to move the "battle" to Iran. (IRAN-SAUDI/MINISTER (UPDATE 1), moved, 269 words)
Bill to declare Israel a Jewish state back on national agenda
JERUSALEM - Israel's Cabinet breathes new life into efforts to anchor in law the country's status as a Jewish state, (ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/LAWMAKING, moved, by Jeffrey Heller, 417 words)
+ See also:
- ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/HAMAS-NETANYAHU (TV), moved, by Ori Lewis, 334 words)
Kidnapped Frenchman freed in rescue mission in Sudan's Darfur
CAIRO - A Frenchman who was kidnapped in Chad in March and taken to the restive Darfur area of Sudan is rescued in a raid organised by France, Chad and Sudan and was handed over to French authorities on Sunday, Sudanese officials say. (FRANCE-CHAD/KIDNAPPING-RELEASE (UPDATE 4), moved, 355 words)
AMERICAS
Father of slain Dallas-area teen sues officer for killing his son
AUSTIN, Texas - The father of a black teenage boy fatally shot in the head while in a car that was driving away from a policeman has sued the Dallas-area officer for excessive force over the incident that has stoked simmering debate about racial bias in U.S. policing. (POLICE-TEXAS/ (PIX), moved, by Jon Herskovitz, 389 words)
Communist-ruled Cuba hosts first transgender Mass
MATANZAS, Cuba - For decades belonging to a religion and being anything but heterosexual was stigmatized in Communist-ruled, macho Cuba, making the Mass held by three transgender pastors in the western Cuban city of Matanzas all the more groundbreaking. (CUBA-LGBT/CHURCH (PIX, TV), moved, by Sarah Marsh and Anett Rios, 513 words)
EUROPE
Merkel's conservatives thump rivals in German regional vote
BERLIN/KIEL, Germany - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives win a decisive victory over their Social Democrat rivals in a vote in Germany's northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, boosting her prospects of winning a national election in September. (GERMANY-ELECTION/SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV),moved, by Paul Carrel and Oliver Denzer, 662 words)
ASIA
Reporters barred from Kushner Companies' visa-for-investment event in China
SHANGHAI - Organisers bar journalists from a publicly advertised event in Shanghai that offered Chinese investors the chance to get U.S. immigrant visas if they put money in a real estate project linked to the family of President Donald Trump's son-in-law. (CHINA-KUSHNER/ (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved, by John Ruwitch, 772 words)
After facing down scandal, Malaysia's Najib vulnerable on rising costs
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's 1.6 million public servants have long been one of the most reliable vote banks for Prime Minister Najib Razak's ruling coalition, but as he prepares to seek re-election he faces warnings that soaring living costs risk eroding that support. (MALAYSIA-POLITICS/ELECTION-COSTS (PIX), moved, by Joseph Sipalan and Praveen Menon, 900 words)
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