French election: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen to fight for presidency
Centrist Emmanuel Macron has gone through to the second round of the French election, where he will face far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
Mr Macron, a former banker, is seen as a political newcomer - and ran without the backing of an established party.
After topping Sunday's vote, he is now favourite to win the run-off on 7 May.
It is the first time in six decades that neither of France's main left-wing or right-wing parties has had a candidate in the second round.
How tight is the race?
Mr Macron won 23.8% of votes in the first round, while Ms Le Pen took 21.5%.
Their nearest challengers, centre-right François Fillon and hard-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon, fell behind, with just over 19% each.
Libya's warring sides reach diplomatic breakthrough in Rome
Compromise is brokered between presidents of house of representatives and state council after years of fighting
Rome has brokered a diplomatic breakthrough in Libya that has the potential to bring the two main warring sides together in a new political agreement after years of division, fighting and economic misery.
The scale of the breakthrough will be tested later this week, but Italy is hailing a compromise brokered between the presidents of the house of representatives, Ageela Saleh, and the state council, Abdulrahman Sewehli.
The meeting was overseen by the Italian foreign minister, Angelino Alfano, and the Italian ambassador to Libya.
Many countries yet to return Jewish property stolen by Nazis, study claims
Study alleges Poland and Bosnia-Herzegovina have failed to enact any comprehensive legislation covering property taken from Jews during the Holocaust and Communist eras
A "substantial amount" of property confiscated from European Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust has not been returned, a study claims.
More than 70 years after the end of the Second World War, many states have only partially complied with a law to return or provide compensation for land and businesses confiscated from Jewish communities during the Holocaust.
The Holocaust (Shoah) Immovable Property Restitution Study found several former Communist states in Eastern Europe have not yet fulfilled their obligations under the 2009 Terezin Declaration on Holocaust Era Assets.
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Anzac Day 2017: Mystery of lost Digger's identity solved by military sleuth
Under sombre skies, a lost Digger who lay in an unmarked grave for almost a century has been given a name at last, thanks to the sleuthing of tireless Australian researchers.
Lance-Corporal Vivian George Taylor died in the aftermath of the battle of Le Hamel on July 5, 1918.
It was known as the "textbook victory" – a tactical triumph by Lieutenant-General John Monash, his first as a corps commander. He brought bold new strategies to the battlefield (as well as the new Mark V tank) which were admired and adopted by Australia's allies.The lawyers taking on Duterte over his 'war on drugs'
Efren Morillo's case marks the first significant legal challenge to the deadly crackdown on drugs in the Philippines.
It was the most impressive delivery of justice Joel Butuyan had seen in his more than two decades of being a lawyer.
On January 26, human rights lawyers Gil Aquino and Cristina Antonio filed a petition before the Supreme Court of the Philippines seeking protection for Efren Morillo, the lone survivor of a police ambush that killed four alleged drug users in the name of President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs".
Only five days later, the petition was granted. It provided sweeping protections for Morillo and severely limited police activity near his home and workplace.“FEAR CITY” EXPLORES HOW DONALD TRUMP EXPLOITED THE NEW YORK DEBT CRISIS TO BOOST HIS OWN FORTUNE
Naomi Klein
WHEN I PUBLISHED “The Shock Doctrine” a decade ago, a few people told me that it was missing a key chapter in the evolution of the tactic I was reporting on. That tactic involved using periods of crisis to impose a radical pro-corporate agenda. They said that in the United States that story doesn’t start with Reagan in the 1980s, as I had told it, but rather in New York City in the mid-1970s. That’s when the city’s very near brush with all-out bankruptcy was used to dramatically remake the metropolis. Massive and brutal austerity, sweetheart deals for the rich, privatizations. In classic Shock Doctrine style, under cover of crisis, New York changed from being a place with some of the most generous public services in the country, engaged in some cutting-edge attempts at racial and economic integration, to the temple of nonstop commerce and gentrification that we all know and still love today.
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