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President Donald Trump called for the Pulitzer Board to revoke the prizes awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YFVIBF

Boeing's MCAS anti-stall system, which was implicated in the October crash of a 737 MAX 8 in Indonesia, was also activated shortly before a recent accident in Ethiopia, a source with knowledge of the investigation said Friday. The information is part of preliminary findings from the analysis of black boxes from Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, which crashed southeast of Addis Ababa killing 157 people on March 10, the source told AFP on condition of anonymity. The information was presented Thursday to US authorities, including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the source said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2HMakKo

Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied at the Israel-Gaza border on Saturday, facing off against Israeli tanks and troops on the first anniversary of the 'Great March of Return' demonstrations. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2CKLzKC

Turks began voting on Sunday in local elections that President Tayyip Erdogan has described as a matter of survival for the country. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2UoOyCc

Ukrainians began voting in a presidential election on Sunday in which a comedian with no political experience and who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series is tipped to win the first round. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2TGTNsB

The Eiffel Tower was plunged into darkness late on Saturday as the city of Paris switched off the lights on its best-known tourist attraction to mark this year's Earth Hour. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2TN81bw

Arab heads of state, long divided by regional rivalries, are expected to unite at a summit on Sunday to oppose a U.S. decision to recognize Israel's annexation of Arab lands captured in 1967. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2CNmP4b

Riding a wave of public fury over corruption, liberal lawyer Zuzana Caputova won Slovakia's presidential election on Saturday, bucking a trend that has seen populist, anti-European Union politicians make gains across the continent. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2TJg754

A break-in at the North Korean embassy in Spain last month was "a grave terrorist attack", a representative from North Korea's foreign ministry said on Sunday in the North's first official comment on the incident. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2K1U6im

Thousands of Venezuelan opposition sympathizers protested on Saturday against recurring blackouts that crippled much of the country this month and have aggravated the OPEC nation's economic and social crisis. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2JTbuFL

At a historic market commissioned by Queen Victoria in Pakistan's southern metropolis of Karachi, third-generation spice seller Mohammad Shakeel Abbasi complains that a move to clear illegal encroachments has left poor shopkeepers jobless. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2FNAyKg

The U.S. government cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras on Saturday after President Donald Trump blasted the Central American countries for sending migrants to the United States and threatened to shutter the U.S.-Mexico border. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2FOfO55

Korean Air Lines said on Sunday it has stopped serving peanuts as snacks to customers in response to a recent incident when two teenage brothers were unable to board a flight because of a peanut allergy. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Uiqdya

Algeria's army chief renewed a call for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be declared unfit for office and told opponents not to seek to undermine the military, after weeks of protests demanding an end to the ailing leader's 20-year rule. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2JSOPti