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Chicago, Feb 19 (EFE / EPA) .- Donald Trump, pardoned on Tuesday former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who in 2011 was sentenced to 14 years of prison for corruption while trying to profit from the Senate seat that Barack Obama set free when he assumed the Presidency in 2009.(Camera: TANNEN MAURY)FOOTAGE SHOWS FORMER GOVERNOR ROD BLAGOJEVICH SPEAKING ON WEDNESDAY FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HIS RELEASE FROM FEDERAL PRISON AT HIS HOME IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, US.SOUNDBITES: ROD BLAGOJEVICH (IN ENGLISH)
Gov. Bruce Rauner says a second person has died in Northern Illinois after tornadoes ripped through the small town of Fairdale. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
The governor of the US state of Maine confirms that the alleged gunman who killed 18 people in a bloody rampage earlier in the week has been found dead. SOUNDBITE
The number of people known to have died in a devastating wildfire that destroyed a Hawaiian town hit 89 on Saturday, the state's governor said. "There are 89 fatalities that have been measured," Josh Green told reporters. "It's going to continue to rise. We want to brace people for that." IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Papua New Guinea's Governor-General Bob Dadae at his residence, as part of his visit to the country. IMAGES
Darcia Piana, the vice governor of the southern Brazilian state of Parana, visits the site of the C. Vale agroindustrial company where eight people were killed and 11 injured in a series of silo explosions. IMAGES