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Google launched a verification platform dubbed 'CrossCheck' at the French Development Agency's headquarters in Paris on Tuesday, aimed at combatting fake news. The partnership between First Draft and the Google News Lab will work in collaboration with 17 newsrooms, including Agence France-Presse (AFP), BuzzFeed News, France Televisions and Le Monde, among others. The CrossCheck launch comes as France prepares to hold presidential elections this summer.
Dozens of protesters marched through Philadelphia on Tuesday in protest against the nomination of Hillary Clinton as the official presidential candidate for the Democrats at the Democratic National Convention. The protesters, many of whom were members of groups such as 'Democracy Spring,' 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Bernie or Bust,' scuffled with police as they marched towards Wells Fargo Center where the DNC was taking place.
Front-runners Clinton and Trump move ahead in presidential race, as the road to the White House knocks out Rubio, and gives a life-line to Kasich. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
France's President Emmanuel Macron and his Indian counterpart President Droupadi Murmu attend a reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential palace in New Delhi as India marks its 75th Republic Day and France eyes lucrative deals with the world's fifth-largest economy. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron is announcing the creation of a Presidential Science Council, which will provide an opportunity "at least once every three months, to exchange views in complete freedom" so as to be able to say "what's not going well". SOUNDBITE
Polling station staff continue to count votes in Asuncion as Paraguayan people went to the polls to choose between right-wing economist Santiago Peña and center-left lawyer Efrain Alegre, both social conservatives, who face off in Paraguay's most closely-run presidential election in many years. IMAGES