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• U.S. Senator Warren offers military housing bill to boost inspections, transparency 04/26/2019
  Senator Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic lawmakers on Friday proposed a bill tmsnrt.rs/2Dy5aht that offers new protections for U.S. military families facing unsafe housing, following a series of Reuters reports revealing squalid conditions in privately managed base homes.
• Wall Street dips as technology stocks weigh 04/26/2019
  U.S. stocks dipped on Friday, as technology shares took a hit from Intel's disappointing quarterly report, while investors assessed data that showed domestic growth was boosted by temporary factors in the first quarter.
• Far-right Vox party stirs swing vote talk as Spain's election looms 04/26/2019
  Spain's Vox party, aligned to a broader far-right movement emerging across Europe, has become the focus of speculation about last minute shifts in voting intentions since official polling for Sunday's national election ended four days ago.
• Admitted Russian agent Butina to be sentenced in U.S., faces deportation 04/26/2019
  Admitted Russian agent Maria Butina will be sentenced on Friday by a federal judge after pleading guilty in December to conspiring with a Russian official to infiltrate a gun rights group and influence U.S. conservative activists and Republicans.
• Guarded by soldiers, defiant Sri Lankan Muslims pray for peace 04/26/2019
  As the Islamic call to prayer echoed through the subdued streets of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, crowds of Muslims were greeted with an unusual sight: their golden-domed Mosque flanked by soldiers armed with assault rifles.
• Sri Lankan police hunt 140 people after Easter bombings 04/26/2019
  Sri Lankan police are trying to track down 140 people believed linked to Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday suicide bombings of churches and hotels that killed 253 people, President Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday.
• U.S. measles outbreak triggers quarantine at two Los Angeles universities 04/26/2019
  A nationwide measles outbreak has led health officials to quarantine dozens of people at two Los Angeles universities, officials said on Thursday.
• Russia testing Ukraine's new leader with passport move: Lithuania 04/26/2019
  Russia's decision to make it easier for residents of rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine to obtain a Russian passport is meant to test Ukraine's new leader and the West should not recognize the documents, Lithuania's foreign minister said on Friday.