| Ex-Nusra fighters to be evacuated from Syria's Yarmouk camp: al-Manar TV Posted: 07 May 2017 01:26 PM PDT ![Ex-Nusra fighters to be evacuated from Syria's Yarmouk camp: al-Manar TV]( "Ex-Nusra fighters to be evacuated from Syria's Yarmouk camp: al-Manar TV") Agreement has been reached to evacuate wounded fighters of the hardline Islamist group formerly known as Nusra Front from Yarmouk, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, to rebel-held Idlib province, Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar TV reported on Sunday. The agreement is the second phase of an earlier deal to evacuate people from two towns besieged by rebels, and two towns besieged by pro-government forces, the first phase of which was implemented last month, al-Manar reported. Nusra Front was the official branch of al-Qaeda in Syria until a year ago, when it broke formal allegiance to the global jihadist movement and renamed itself.
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| France votes in closely-watched election between Le Pen and Macron Posted: 07 May 2017 01:09 PM PDT  ABC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent Terry Moran reports from Paris on the French presidential election.
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| Libya rescues 129 migrants stranded at sea Posted: 07 May 2017 12:33 PM PDT  Gunmen mugged 129 migrants on a rubber dinghy headed for Europe and also stole the craft's engine, abandoning them off the Libyan coast, Libya's navy said on Saturday. Navy spokesman General Ayoub Qassem said the gunmen in a speedboat chased the dinghy on Friday, boarded it around five nautical miles off the town of Zuwara and stole the migrants' possessions. The migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, including 27 women and two children, were stranded at sea for several hours before being rescued by Libyan coastguard alerted by a local fisherman, Qassem told AFP.
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| Pakistan, Afghanistan dispute toll after clashes Posted: 07 May 2017 12:17 PM PDT  QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan said Sunday its forces killed at least 50 Afghan troops and destroyed five checkpoints in clashes along the disputed border two days earlier, while Afghanistan dismissed the account, saying only two border police and a civilian were killed.
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| President Trump touts House health care victory, but bill faces uphill battle in Senate Posted: 07 May 2017 11:59 AM PDT  George Stephanopoulos reports the latest about the narrowly-passed Republican health care bill that could replace Obamacare.
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| Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission Posted: 07 May 2017 11:43 AM PDT  By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - The U.S. military's experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years, the Air Force said. The unmanned X-37B, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, touched down at 7:47 a.m. EDT (1147 GMT) on a runway formerly used for landings of the now-mothballed space shuttles, the Air Force said in an email. The Boeing-built space plane blasted off in May 2015 from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an Atlas 5 rocket built by United Launch Alliance, a partnership between Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co .
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| Two Engaged Doctors Found In Penthouse With Throats Slit: 'Why Did This Happen?' Posted: 07 May 2017 11:24 AM PDT  Police believe the suspect knew the couple.
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| Japanese luxury sleeper train a mere $10,000 — one way Posted: 07 May 2017 11:05 AM PDT ![Japanese luxury sleeper train a mere $10,000 — one way]( "Japanese luxury sleeper train a mere $10,000 — one way") A Japanese railway company has launched a new luxury sleeper train with sky views, bathtubs and dark wood interiors, joining the race for well-heeled tourists.
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| Experts meet in Egypt over moving King Tut artifacts Posted: 07 May 2017 10:12 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Archaeologists and conservation experts met in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the safe transportation of King Tutankhamun's throne, chests and bed from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo to a new one being built on the other side of the Egyptian capital.
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| Sanders defends Trump's praise of Australian healthcare system Posted: 07 May 2017 09:55 AM PDT  U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said on Saturday that President Donald Trump was right to call Australia's universal healthcare system better than the U.S. system.Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, also said the Senate should use the Australian system as a model while crafting an alternative to Republican healthcare legislation that Trump endorses. "President Trump is right.
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| Pakistan says inflicted heavy losses on Afghan border forces Posted: 07 May 2017 09:38 AM PDT  Pakistan's military on Sunday said it had killed more than 50 Afghan soldiers in a clash on a major border crossing two days earlier, a claim quickly rejected by Kabul. The skirmish took place Friday at the Chaman border that divides Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province and Afghanistan's southern Kandahar, as Pakistani officials were carrying out a census count. At least eight civilians were killed, according to previously stated tolls by officials -- seven on the Pakistani side, and one on the Afghan side.
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| Eric Trump said 'we have all the funding we need out of Russia', golf writer claims Posted: 07 May 2017 09:20 AM PDT  Eric Trump allegedly revealed in a 2014 interview that Russia funded the family's golf resorts "all the time". Golf writer James Dodson revealed the claims this month in an interview with a Boston radio station, explaining that he had met Donald Trump and his son three years ago when he was invited to play golf at their Trump National Charlotte course. Mr Dodson said he had asked the now-President how he had secured funding for the courses, and Mr Trump "sort of tossed off that he had access to $100 million".
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| In the US, health care a privilege, not a right Posted: 07 May 2017 09:03 AM PDT  Seventy-three years later, despite the passage of many health care reforms, his dream remains as controversial as it was back then. Under former president Barack Obama, more than 20 million previously uninsured Americans gained health care coverage. Health insurance is simply a product like any other, say Republicans who, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, are trying to repeal most of Obamacare, the landmark law signed in 2010.
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| 85-year-old Everest record seeker died of altitude sickness Posted: 07 May 2017 08:29 AM PDT  An 85-year-old ex-Gurkha who was attempting to reclaim his title as the world's oldest person to summit Mount Everest died of altitude sickness, the expedition organiser said Sunday. Min Bahadur Sherchan died at Everest base camp on Saturday and his body was airlifted to Kathmandu. There was water build-up in his lungs because of altitude sickness," Shiv Raj Thapa of Summit Nepal Trekking told AFP after an autopsy.
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| One-on-one with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Posted: 07 May 2017 08:12 AM PDT  Speaker Paul Ryan sits down with George Stephanopoulos for his first interview since the House passed the GOP's health care bill.
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| Philippine blast probe focuses on Shiite imam Posted: 07 May 2017 07:53 AM PDT  Philippine police believe a Shiite Muslim cleric was the likely target of explosions that killed two people in Manila, an official said Sunday, rejecting Islamic State claims of involvement. Six others were injured when two explosions rocked the office of the imam, Nasser Abinal, in the capital's busy Quiapo district on Saturday. Oscar Albayalde, head of police forces in the capital, said the bomb was apparently intended for Abinal who is also government tax officer for the Manila region.
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| Donald Trump says he is staying in New Jersey to save money despite spending millions on Mar-a-Lago weekends Posted: 07 May 2017 07:36 AM PDT  Donald Trump has claimed he is staying at his New Jersey home for the weekend in order to save money. Two days later he reiterated his reasons, writing: "The reason I am staying in Bedminster, N J, a beautiful community, is that staying in NYC is much more expensive and disruptive. Barack Obama's trips cost a total of $97 million (£74.7 million) in eight years.
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| Journalists banned from Kushner's Shanghai event offering Chinese US immigrant visas in exchange for investment Posted: 07 May 2017 07:18 AM PDT  Organisers barred journalists on Sunday 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. The two-tower luxury apartment complex in New Jersey, One Journal Square, is being developed by KABR Group and the Kushner Companies, which until recently was headed by senior White House advisor Jared Kushner, the husband of Trump's daughter Ivanka. "Sorry, this is a private event," said a man stopping journalists from entering a function room on Sunday afternoon at the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai.
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| Health care heads to US Senate, bitter fight expected Posted: 07 May 2017 06:42 AM PDT  With US Republicans relishing a win in the Obamacare repeal process, Democrats Friday girded for battle, warning that despite President Donald Trump's optimism, the health bill's fate is far from certain. Republicans took major political risks by backing a deeply controversial bill, and Democrats hope to make them pay at the polls in midterm elections next year. Wrangling now shifts to the Senate, where Republicans, who hold a slim majority there, say they are readying their own health care measure.
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| The Latest: Rights group warns against 'publicity stunt' Posted: 07 May 2017 06:26 AM PDT  ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Latest on the release of Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped three years ago by Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria (all times local):
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| What are the 'de-escalation zones' agreed for Syria? Posted: 07 May 2017 06:08 AM PDT  After six years of conflict in Syria, government backers Russia and Iran and rebel supporter Turkey have signed a deal to create four "de-escalation zones" in the country. The zones are four areas located across eight of Syria's 14 provinces. The first includes Idlib in the northwest, which is controlled by a coalition of Islamists and jihadists including a former Al-Qaeda affiliate, along with neighbouring Latakia, Hama and Aleppo, each of which have rebel-held areas.
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| Nigeria exchanges 82 Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram for prisoners Posted: 07 May 2017 05:51 AM PDT  By Felix Onuah and Ahmed Kingimi ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok three years ago in exchange for prisoners, the presidency said on Saturday. Around 270 girls were kidnapped in April 2014 by the Islamist militant group, which has killed 15,000 people and displaced more than two million during a seven-year insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic caliphate in northeastern Nigeria. Nigeria thanked Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross for helping secure the release of the 82 girls after "lengthy negotiations", the presidency said in a statement.
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| West Virginia airport reopened after cargo plane crash Posted: 07 May 2017 05:32 AM PDT  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A runway at a West Virginia airport reopened Saturday after a propeller plane carrying UPS cargo crashed, killing the pilot and co-pilot.
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| 50,000 evacuated in Germany over unexploded WWII bombs Posted: 07 May 2017 05:16 AM PDT  German police on Sunday evacuated some 50,000 people from the northern city of Hanover in one of the largest post-war operations to defuse World War II era bombs. Residents in a densely populated part of the city were ordered to leave their homes for the operation, planned since mid-April, to extract five recently discovered unexploded bombs. Seven retirement and nursing homes were affected and some rail traffic through the city was disrupted for the operation, which was expected to last all day.
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| Nina Dobrev Likes Ian Somerhalder’s Baby Announcement Posted: 07 May 2017 04:44 AM PDT  Nina Dobrev seems to be happy that Ian Somerhalder is having a baby.
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