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Eurovision Song Contest 2018 results: Israel wins Millions around the world watched as Netta of Israel claimed victory at the Eurovision Song Contest. A dynamo in a kimono, she delivered a message that fit the Eurovision theme of diversity. Israelʼs Netta Barzilai won the 63rd Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night in Lisbon, Portugal. After the announcement and before a repeat performance of her winning song "Toy," Netta cried out to a wildly applauding audience, saying: "Thank you for accepting differences between us. Thank you for celebrating diversity!” Performers from 26 countries took the stage for the grand final of the annual music competition, which at one point was interrupted by a stage invasion. An intruder, now in police custody, leapt onstage during the performance and tried to wrest the microphone from singer SuRie of the United Kingdom. The countryʼs delegation was given the option to have her perform again, but they declined.
United States border authorities block Central American migrant caravan US officials have told would-be asylum seekers at the Mexican border that the crossing is too full to process their cases. The migrants have already drawn the wrath of US President Trump during their trek through Mexico.More than a hundred migrants from Central American countries have camped out at the USMexican border after being told by US border inspectors on Sunday that a crossing facility had no capacity for them. It was not immediately clear whether the migrants, who have traveled 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) through Mexico to the border at Tijuana, would be turned back or allowed in later.
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Paris knife attack: Arrest made in Strasbourg The assailant was shot dead by police after killing one person and wounding four
Strasbourg police have detained for questioning a man said by a judicial source to be a friend of Saturdayʼs Paris knife attacker. A friend of a 21-year-old man who attacked passersby with a knife in a central Paris neighborhood was detained in the eastern French city of Strasbourg on Sunday, French authorities said. The attacker, Khamzat A., who was shot dead by police, killed one person and wounded four others in the attack in Parisʼ Opera district on Saturday. Police have also detained Khamzat A.ʼs parents in the northern 18th district of Paris. Both parties were still being questioned by police on Monday, a judicial official said. Khamzat A., was a French citizen of Chechen origin and did not have an arrest record but had been on a counterterrorism watch list for potential radicalism, said French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux. A claim of responsibility from the jihadist militia Islamic State had not been authenticated, said Griveaux. BFM television said the attacker had long lived in Strasbourg before moving to
Paris last year. French President Emmanuel Macron praised police for "neutralizing the terrorist" "We heard gun fire, two gun shots," said waitress Sarah Gousse. "It was scary," said Emma Klibbe, an Australia who was waiting to enter a nearby restaurant. She said she saw a man walk by who had been injured in the attack. The deadliest attacks to hit France over the past three years occurred in Paris in November 2015, when 130 people were killed during a concert. May 12, 2018: Paris knife attack A man wielding a knife attacks bystanders in a central neighborhood in Paris, killing one person and wounding another four. French prosecutors open a terror probe into the attack, citing witness accounts that the assailant shouted "Allahu akbar" (God is greatest). The militant "Islamic State" (IS) group claims responsibility for the attack, calling the knifeman one of their "soldiers."
Famous WWII Remagen bridge towers up for sale Buyers interested in WWII history and who arenʼt afraid of rolling up their sleeves are in luck. German authorities are selling part of the destroyed Ludendorff Bridge or "Bridge at Remagen" to the highest bidder. Two towers on the eastern end of a World War II era bridge — immortalized by the 1969 US film "The Bridge at Remagen" — are up for sale, German authorities confirmed on Monday. The Federal Railway Property Fund (BEV) is selling the ruins located on the side of where the bridge formerly stood across the Rhine from Remagen. "There are already several interested parties," BEV spokesman Jürgen Rothe told news agency dpa. The German newspaper Rhein Zeitung first reported on plans to sell the towers. The listing did not set a price for the bridge towers, rather stating that they will go to the highest bidder. Interested buyers have until May 18 to make their offers.
Catholic cardinal rebukes Bavaria for ordering crosses in state buildings Cardinal Reinhard Marx has said directing all state buildings to hang crosses amounts to "expropriating the cross in the name of the state." Bavarian Premier Markus Söder sparked nationwide criticism for the move. The head of the German Bishopsʼ Conference has sharply criticized the premier of the southern German state of Bavaria for ordering Christian crosses to be hung in all state buildings.
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