Tuesday 25 April 2017

Russia is now the world's third largest military spender


Russia is now the world's third largest military spender

CNNMoney-15 hours ago
The country boosted its military spending to $69.2 billion in 2016, according to a new report from the Stockholm International Peace Research ...
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Melting Arctic could cost world trillions

Newshub-3 hours ago
The Arctic's quickening melt could cost the world economy trillions of dollars this century, an international study has found. The region's warmer ...
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Very hungry caterpillar could rid world of plastic bags

Stuff.co.nz-7 hours ago
The global plastic bag crisis could be solved by a waxworm capable of eating through the material at "uniquely high speeds", scientists have ...
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Mixed results for Kiwi tennis players

Stuff.co.nz-3 hours ago
Mixed results for Kiwi tennis players around world ... Mayer was ranked as high as 21 in the world two years ago. Statham is currently ranked at ...
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The Ford Mustang is the best-selling sports car in the world

The Verge-3 hours ago
The Ford Mustang is now the world's best selling sports car, according to a Ford analysis of IHS Markit data. The company has long sold the ...
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World's Biggest Stock Markets Haven't Been This Split Since 2008

Bloomberg-1 hour ago
Chinese officials have mainly kept mainland stocks on a tight rein after routs in mid-2015 and the start of 2016 reverberated through world ...
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Russia plans to build 'world's biggest aircraft carrier'

Daily Mail-14 hours ago
Russia has announced plans to build 'the world's biggest aircraft carrier' to take on America's Nimitz class ships. The new Shtorm craft, known ...
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France elections: Le Pen steps aside as National Front leader

BBC News-11 hours ago
Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has announced that she is stepping aside as leader of her National Front (FN) party.
European leaders cheer Macron victory in first round of French ...






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World breaks through carbon dioxide threshold, putting it higher ...

The Independent-15 hours ago
The planet has more of the gas in its atmosphere than it has for millions of years, after the Mauna Loa Observatory recorded its first reading of ...
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North Korea nuclear: White House calls Senate to briefing

BBC News-11 hours ago
In an unusual move, the entire US Senate is being called to the White House for a briefing on North Korea. Washington has become ...
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Jack Ma to World: Prepare for Decades of Pain

Vanity Fair-18 hours ago
And Silicon Valley, once ridiculed for its utopian babble about making the world a better place, has grown noticeably more apocalyptic in its ...
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As North Korea Speeds Its Nuclear Program, US Fears Time Will ...

New York Times-8 hours ago
... of North Korea's current weapons, particularly the KN-14 and KN-08 missiles, would put most of the world in reach of its nuclear warheads.
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Article 308: Jordan to scrap marriage loophole for rapists

BBC News-16 hours ago
A spokesman for the human rights group, which fights for women and children across the world, told the BBC: "With rape and sexual abuse ...
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Prevent malaria - save lives: WHO push for prevention on World ...

World Health Organization-Apr 24, 2017
Prevent malaria - save lives: WHO push for prevention on World Malaria ... According to the World Malaria Report 2016, the rate of new malaria ...
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India world's fifth largest military spender: Seven weapon systems ...

Hindustan Times-2 hours ago
The deals were finalised days before a report released on Monday put India in fifth place on the list of the world's largest military spenders in ...
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If Any Chinese Car Company Will Take On The World, It's This One

Forbes-16 hours ago
When will Chinese carmakers follow the Japanese, and Korean example, and take over the world? If it happens, who will it be? Sitting at a desk ...
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Leading arts world figures urge Radiohead to cancel Israel gig

The Guardian-13 hours ago
High-profile figures from the arts world, including Ken Loach to Roger Waters, have called on Radiohead to cancel an upcoming gig in Israel as ...
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While the world Marched for Science, Trump promoted polluters

Shareblue Media-Apr 23, 2017
The world rose in resistance, and in support of science, this Earth Day, while Donald Trump issued an statement that openly promoted the 

French elections: Wall Street joins European relief rally

French election: First round reaction

BBC News - ‎13 hours ago‎
... through to the next round so for me this was no surprise. I don't think Le Pen will get through. Macron may be young and new but his experience is not an issue. He's intelligent and has the right ideas." Compiled by Sherie Ryder, UGC and Social ...

French elections: Wall Street joins European relief rally

BBC News - ‎9 hours ago‎
A European stock market rally sparked by the French presidential election spread to Wall Street on Monday. All three main US share markets jumped more than 1%, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq index closing at a record high. Europe's main markets jumped at ...

France elections: Le Pen steps aside as National Front leader

BBC News - ‎11 hours ago‎
Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has announced that she is stepping aside as leader of her National Front (FN) party. The move comes just a day after she reached the second round of the French election, where she will face centrist ...

Marine Le Pen STEPS DOWN as Front National leader hours after election boost

Express.co.uk - ‎11 hours ago‎
The shocking news comes a day after Centrist Emmanuel Macron won the first round of the French presidential elections and Mrs Le Pen came second. The leader of the Front National is stepping down in an attempt to attract more voters and distance ...

Not everyone is so sure the French election polls spell good news for stocks

CNBC - ‎15 hours ago‎
The poll estimates for the French presidential election allow the markets to get some renewed confidence, Chase Chief Economist Anthony Chan said Monday. U.S. stocks opened sharply higher Monday after centrist Emmanuel Macron won a plurality of ...

Calls to boycott French election and Saudis celebrate exam change

BBC News - ‎17 hours ago‎
Screen grab of tweet by @anaphi06 Image copyright Twitter/@Anaphi06 Image caption Some French Twitter users say they will boycott the second round of presidential elections. The graffiti translates as: "Neither fatherland nor boss, neither Le Pen nor ...

BBC News Daily: Monday 24 April

BBC News - ‎Apr 23, 2017‎
"New French revolution," proclaims the Daily Mail, following the news of Emmanuel Macron's success in the first round of the presidential election. The Times declares France's political elite "humiliated" by "outsiders". Meanwhile, the i says former ...

Macron moves France into uncharted waters

BBC News - ‎Apr 23, 2017‎
France is entering uncharted political water - and it is not because Marine Le Pen is in the final round of the presidential election. It is because the next head of state is almost certain to be Emmanuel Macron. Let us remind ourselves how ...

Stocks rise sharply as investors cheer French election results

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Marine Le Pen temporarily steps down as Front National leader to concentrate on presidential bid

The Independent - ‎12 hours ago‎
She has repeatedly said the policy platform on which she has stood is hers and not reflective of the FN. "Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front. I am the presidential candidate," Ms Le Pen said on French public television news. Ms ...

Marine Le Pen is stepping DOWN as party leader

Daily Mail - ‎12 hours ago‎
The news comes as she made it to the second round of the vote. In the first round of voting centrist Emmanuel Macron won 23.9 per cent and Le Pen received 21.4 per cent. Le Pen has said in the past that she is not a candidate of her party, and made ...

French presidential election: Leftist protesters grow violent after results come in

Fox News - ‎17 hours ago‎
Police detained 29 people in Paris on Sunday after “anti-fascist” demonstrators became violent – hurling glass bottles and firecrackers and setting cars ablaze. FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: LE PEN, MACRON WIN FIRST ROUND TO ADVANCE TO ...

Triumph and Tears Mark Night of French Political Theater

U.S. News & World Report - ‎Apr 23, 2017‎
Supporters of Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, react after early results in the first round of 2017 French presidential election, in Paris, France, April ...

Le Pen attacks Macron as France's mainstream rallies behind him

The Guardian - ‎17 hours ago‎
Far-right French presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, has attacked her centrist rival Emmanuel Macron, suggesting he is a “hysterical, radical Europeanist” who is weak on jihadi terror. Her tirade came as the country's demoralised mainstream parties ...

Globe editorial: Macron's win is good news for France

The Globe and Mail - ‎10 hours ago‎
Emmanuel Macron has managed to win in the first round of the French presidential election with the help of a sports slogan, En Marche! – “Let's go!” – rather than a political party. In coming in first in the voting, he surpassed a number of long ...

Stocks in Asia higher after global rally on French polls, shrug off NKorea tension

CNBC - ‎4 hours ago‎
In currency news, the U.S. dollar gained against the loonie, up 0.41 percent to 1.3554 after U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Monday his agency will impose new anti-subsidy tariffs averaging 20 percent on Canadian softwood lumber imports, ...

Russia's Fake News Crusade Is Still Pushing For Le Pen

Vocativ - ‎14 hours ago‎
A day after the tumultuous first round of French presidential elections, the French-language version of the Sputnik news site sarcastically asked: “How could Kremlin agents trained by the best KGB commandos have failed to steal the French vote and let ...

Gold and Bullion Miners Tumble as French Vote Cuts Haven Demand

Bloomberg - ‎20 hours ago‎
Gold futures fell to the lowest in almost two weeks and bullion mining stocks sank as investors favored riskier assets on expectations that Emmanuel Macron will become France's next president. Copper and other industrial metals rose. Gold slipped as ...

France's Le Pen temporarily steps down as leader

SBS - ‎12 hours ago‎
I am the presidential candidate," she said on French public television news. Le Pen has said in the past that she is not a candidate of her party, and made that point when she rolled out her platform in February, saying the measures she was espousing ...

Emmanuel Macron's Israel ties

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎12 hours ago‎
Israeli politicians across the political map boast of friendship with the French presidential candidate, expressing their support ahead of the second round of elections. Zionist Union MK meets French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron at the ...

Marine Le Pen warns French 'survival' at stake ahead of second presidential vote

NEWS.com.au - ‎8 hours ago‎
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Emmanuel Macron kisses teacher who would become his wife

Daily Mail - ‎22 hours ago‎
Moscovici, a former French socialist finance minister and now EU commissioner for financial affairs, told reporters Macron's victory was welcome but there was 'bad news' too. 'Le Pen qualified for the second round; she may have scored less in ...

France's rejected mainstream unites for Macron over Le Pen

CTV News - ‎17 hours ago‎
France's rejected mainstream unites for Macron over Le Pen | CTV News ...

Monday briefing: Macron and Le Pen make history

The Guardian - ‎Apr 23, 2017‎
Common sense prevails – There is good news for the London-born children of an EU couple who were told by the Home Office that their application for permanent residency had been refused. Following a Guardian report on their situation their plight went ...

Euro jumps, Asian shares rally on French election relief

ABS-CBN News - ‎Apr 23, 2017‎
Wall Street on Friday had only a modest lift from news President Donald Trump would announce the broad outline of his proposed tax package on Wednesday. "Markets are skeptical that the real details will be forthcoming," said analysts at ANZ in a note.

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French elections: Wall Street joins European relief rally

BBC News-9 hours ago
Europe's main markets jumped at least 2% and the euro hit a five-month high as fears over the election eased. "Markets are taking the news out ...

AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT

Daily Mail - ‎9 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sure enough, the big trans-Pacific trade deal is toast, climate change action is on the ropes and various regulations from the Obama era have been scrapped. It's also a safe bet President Donald Trump hasn't raced a bicycle since Jan.

Le Pen temporarily steps down from her party

Arutz Sheva - ‎10 hours ago‎
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French election: Can Le Pen finish the job?

Fox News - ‎Apr 23, 2017‎
Did France just plug the dike on the crumbling European Union, or will it now crack wide open? It depends on who you think “won” Sunday's first round of presidential elections. Emmanuel Macron, a former minister in the current Socialist government who ...

French voters choose change – but what type?

CBC.ca - ‎15 hours ago‎
By Michelle Gagnon, CBC News Posted: Apr 24, 2017 11:36 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 24, 2017 11:22 PM ET. Emmanuel Macron, left, and Marine Le Pen emerged the winners in Sunday's first round of voting in the presidential election and will face each ...

News Highlights: Top Global Markets News of the Day

Fox Business - ‎4 hours ago‎
The ascension of centrist Emmanuel Macron as the heavy favorite in France's presidential race spurred investors to set aside the political worries that have long plagued European markets and to make new bets on economic growth. VIX Drops as French ...

Russia is now the world's third largest military spender

Russia is now the  world's  third largest military spender CNNMoney - 15 hours ago The country boosted its military spending to...