Day: June 18, 2017

The President of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, has died of a heart attack, the Vanuatu Daily Post reported Saturday. He was 67. Lonsdale, who sacked his government two years ago over a massive corruption scandal, passed away in the Pacific island nation’s capital of Port Vila, the AFP reported. “National Flag is at half staff early this morning. His body is reportedly at the Vila Central Hospital,” the newspaper said. Former Vanuatu MP Sela Molisa told Radio New Zealand that “Vanuatu has lost one of its greatest leaders.” Lonsdale, a civil…

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French voters head to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary elections set to hand a landslide victory to the Republic On The Move (REM) party of President Emmanuel Macron. The expected victory would complete Macron’s stunning reset of French  politics, the AFP reported. The new assembly is due to be transformed with a new generation of lawmakers — younger, more female and more ethnically diverse — winning seats in the afterglow of Macron’s success in presidential elections last month. The scale of the change is set to be so significant…

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The U.S. Navy says its divers have accessed a flooded compartment on the USS Fitzgerald and found the bodies of a number of the sailors missing in a collision between the Navy destroyer and a merchant vessel. It is not clear how many bodies were recovered. The search will continue Sunday both on the ship and at sea until all of the missing sailors are found. The USS Dewey and other American and Japanese vessels and aircraft are involved in the search, the U.S. Navy said. Collision at sea The…

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