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Zuma’s S African presidency at risk as ANC debates ouster

Bloomberg Jacob Zuma is fighting to remain South Africa’s president as the top leadership of the ruling African National Congress resumed its debate of a proposal to recommend his removal from office. The debate started on Saturday in the capital, Pretoria, according to five members of the party’s national executive committee who asked not to be identified because they aren’t …

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May pledges body to fight terror, promote British values

Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May said her government would set up a commission to combat non-violent extremism and promote “pluralistic” British values and women’s rights, as the fight against terrorism becomes a focus of the election campaign. The proposed Commission for Countering Extremism, introduced in the Conservative manifesto earlier this month, would have legal status and advise the government on …

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Should the next FBI director be a politician?

Many analysts have argued that the next FBI director shouldn’t be a politician. But try telling that to Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), who has been pressing Senate Democratic leaders to consider former GOP congressman Mike Rogers (Mich.) for the post. Ruppersberger told me that in conversations with Democratic leadership, he had endorsed Rogers’s ‘integrity, competence and patriotism.’ Rogers, a …

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