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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 leaves four injured and two dead including attacker Police in Paris killed a man after he stabbed others in the French capital

Judicial sources said the attacker had been on a police list as a risk to national security. A 29-year-old man was killed and four other people were injured after an attacker began stabbing bystanders in the Opera district of central Paris on Saturday evening at about 9.30 p.m (19.30 UTC), police confirmed. The attacker was shot dead by police. French prosecutors said they were treating the attack as a terrorist incident. The militant "Islamic State" (IS) group claimed responsibility online for the attack. On Sunday, judicial sources identified the attacker as a 21-year-old French citizen born in the Chechnya region of Russia who had been on the "fiche S" list used by security forces to identify people who could pose a risk to national security. His father and mother were held for questioning. The attack took place on the Rue Monsigny, a side street in Parisʼ second arrondissement, located near the cityʼs Opera Garnier.Paris prosecutor Francois Molins opened a terror probe into the attack. He cited witnesses as saying the alleged attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar" or "God is greatest" during the attack.IS claimed that one of its "sol-

diers" carried out the attack, according to the SITE monitoring group. The statement on the groupʼs Aamaq news agency did not provide evidence for its claim.The attacker was a French citizen born in Chechnya in 1997, according to a judicial source. Following the knife attack, French President Emmanuel Macron said that his thoughts were with the victims. "France once again pays the price of blood," but the country will not cede to "enemies of freedom," he wrote on Twitter. French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb denounced the "odious attack" in Paris on Twitter. He also praised the "cool and quick reaction of the police forces who neutralized the attacker." Collomb later told reporters that he met with some of the victims in hospital and that all would survive their injuries. The attack took place in an area containing several restaurants, bars and shops, located between Parisʼ main opera house and the Louvre museum. Witnesses described scenes of panic as people out for a weekend night realized that a potential terror attack was occuring.

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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