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Both candidates will now be advancing to a runoff scheduled on May 7. During his address, Mr Hollande claimed the purchasing power of the French people would be directly hit if Ms Le Pen wins the run-off vote on 7 May - with "unprecedented price increases" in stores and thousands of jobs being lost.

Trump might have promised throughout the campaign that Mexico was going to pay for a border wall, but everyone in Washington knows that if Trump is actually going to begin construction on the wall, he'll need Congress to appropriate the funds.

In February 2015, Mayor Landrieu signed an ordinance calling for the removal and relocation of the four prominent Confederate monuments displayed on public property in the City of New Orleans . He continued, "The statue was put up to honor the killing of police officers by white supremacists". "Due to the intense level of threats by those who seek to keep these statues standing, we will not be sharing these details now or in the future", Landrieu said .

The ruling nullifies cooperation agreements SA has with the US, Russia and South Korea. The government's nuclear plans have been red-flagged by credit ratings agencies‚ which downgraded South Africa to junk status. South Africa's nuclear investment plans have become a focal point for critics of President Jacob Zuma's policies, with opposition parties and civil-society groups questioning the use of funds even before S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings downgraded the nation's worldwide credit ...

Secretary of defense Jim Mattis and press secretary Sean Spicer will be among the top Trump administration cabinet members in attendance. Washington and Pyongyang have been ratcheting up pressure on each other in recent weeks, with the United States sending a aircraft carrier group and nuclear submarine to the region and North Korea attempting more missile launches in defiance of layers of U.N.

The Trump administration's inter-agency review of policy towards Iran will examine whether the lifting of sanctions against Tehran is in the United States national security interests. The secretary of state earlier acknowledged the Iranians had met the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal. "Many other countries made very hard economic decisions to impose the sanctions on Iran".

The youngest child who died was 2 years old and the oldest victim was 21, according to New York City Fire Department Commissioner Daniel Nigro, but as of Sunday afternoon one victim's age was still unknown. I seen the man on the second floor [landing]. The fire was a few feet away. I was telling him, "You have to jump, get off the roof" because the fire was nearly on his back.

Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine blamed Ukrainian special forces for the death of an American observer killed in an apparent landmine explosion Sunday - saying it part of the " provocation " increasingly deployed by Russian Federation and its proxies engaged in various conflicts.

Nothing the officers said during the interviews could have been used against them in a criminal prosecution because they weren't read their rights beforehand. Cleveland .com first reported on the videos, which were provided to CNN by an attorney for the Rice family. "The inconsistencies among the officers' video-recorded statements, their prewritten and un-cross-examined statements to the grand jury, and the video of the shooting underscore how important it is for the city to finally hold ...

There is a growing possibility on Capitol Hill that lawmakers may need to fall back on a week-long funding bill to avoid a shut down and keep the negotiations moving forward. "If you can make this about better border security, the president's in good shape", Republican Sen. Almost half of Democrats say they're optimistic as well.

The Iraqi government is also at the moment engaged in a six-month-old battle to recapture Mosul, which remains ISIS' biggest stronghold in Iraq. On April 20, the Iraqi forces have liberated Al-Thawra district of western Mosul from Daesh, Iraqi Army's Lt.