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 Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James (23) celebrates after dunking against the Toronto Raptors as Raptors' Patrick Patterson walks away during the first half of Game 1 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Cleveland.   Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., greets with supporters after speaking at a rally on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Carson, Calif. Bernie Sanders wins Oregon's presidential primary and battles Hillary Clinton to a razor-thin margin in Kentucky, vowing to stay in the race until the end. 2. THOUSANDS OF UNDERAGE MIGRANTS LIVE IN SHADOWS ACROSS EUROPE These unaccompanied and vulnerable minors are selling drugs or sex in Rome, stealing food and sleeping on the streets of Stockholm or trying to jump onto the backs of moving trucks to Britain from France. 3. DEADLY MUDSLIDES STRIKE SRI LANKA The Red Cross says rescuers are searching for...

The U.N. refugee agency is launching an unprecedented appeal to the private sector to help pay for shelters for 2 million refugees worldwide amid a "huge shortfall in funds" for that purpose. pokesman Leo Dobbs says the appeal aims to tap philanthropists, companies, foundations and individuals as a potential source of new money because UNHCR hasn't gotten enough funds from its traditional government sources. A woman hungs on his laundery near her tent in front of the wired fence that separate Greece and Macedonia at a makeshift refugee camp on the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Sunday, May 15, 2016. Thousands of stranded refugees and migrants have camped in Idomeni for months after the border was closed. The "Nobody Left Outside" campaign aims to raise funds to build or improve shelter for 2 million refugees by 2018, or about one-eighth of the people UNHCR was helping in mid-2015. UNHCR says housing operations are expected to cost $724 milli...

Only one party has been participating in the election campaign — the VMRO-DPMNE of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, which currently heads the governing coalition. All others have boycotted proceedings, saying there are no conditions for free and fair elections. Protestors wearing masks use water guns to spray colored paint on the triumph arc "Porta Makedonija", during an anti-government protest in Skopje, Macedonia, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Protests have continued in the Balkan country almost every evening, after the country's president pardoned over a month ago dozens of politicians who were facing criminal proceedings for alleged involvement in a wiretapping scandal. The message on the right reads: "Freedom instead of fear!" The appeal to the Constitutional Court was brought by the junior coalition partner, the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration. The court on Wednesday suspended all election activity pending a decision next week. ...

Firefighters work on a police car set up on fire by counter demonstrators while police forces gather to denounce the almost daily violent clashes at protests against a labor reform, Wednesday, May 18, 2016 in Paris. Several hundred counter demonstrators came chanting slogans like “everybody hates the police” and pushing up against officers until eventually the police deployed dispersal spray. Some counter-protesters set fire to a police car in a street nearby. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says he is offering his "full support" to police following the weekly Cabinet Council meeting. He said the police have instructions to take "firm action" against those who take part in violent clashes. French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that over 350 police officers have been injured in clashes and 60 people have been convicted amid the labor reform protests. "Anti-cop hatred comes from a small porti...

The trial of Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki continued on Wednesday at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. CCT Chairman, Danladi Umar has said he would go ahead with the trial despite a strike action caused by Nigeria’s Labour Unions. Saraki is facing a 16-count charge of false declaration of asset while he was governor of Kwara state. He has since pled not guilty to the charges describing them as false and frivolous, adding that charges were calculated to rubbish him. At the resumed hearing on Wednesday, the CCT Chairman urged the trial to continue until uncertainties over organised labour’s strike are resolved. Saraki is already at the tribunal with his contingent of lawyers and supporters. Journalists have also returned to the courtroom. Cross-examination of prosecution witness, Michael Wetkas also continued today with Paul Usoro, a counsel to Saraki, doing the questioning. On Tuesday, the Tribunal insisted that only the lead counsel could cross-examine the witn...

  A rally on February 25, 2015 in remembrance of 59 secondary school students of Federal Government College massacred by Boko Haram Islamists a year ago in Buni Yadi, Yobe State Yobe state has incurred losses worth over 30 billion naira ($149 million, 131 million euros) from the Boko Haram insurgency," Abdullahi Bego, spokesman for governor Ibrahim Gaidam, told AFP. The estimation includes reconstruction costs, he added. Neighbouring Borno state -- the epicentre of the Islamist violence that has left at least 20,000 dead -- in March estimated its losses at $5.9 billion. More than 2.6 million people have been made homeless by the conflict, with 2.0 million internally displaced to camps and host communities within Nigeria. Bego said there were currently nearly 310,000 registered internally displaced persons in the state, representing some 14 percent of the total number of IDPs. "This number excludes those who moved in with relatives and friends inside and outside...

The withdrawal of the bill, sponsored by Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, representing Kebbi South Senatorial District, followed the presentation and consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, that worked on it. Chairman of the Committee, Senator David Umaru who presented the report, told the Senate that his committee recommended that the bill be withdrawn. Senator Umaru said that the committee observed that the intendment of the bill is to check the upsurge in multiple, anonymous frivolous petitions and publication in the social media, especially, since the emergence of democratic experiment in the country. He informed the Senate that majority of stakeholders at the public hearing on the bill vehemently opposed the passage into law of the bill, as it is perceived as a step that will take the country back, especially now that the world has become a global village. Senator Umaru also said that his committee observed that the u...