Update: Alain Juppe concedes making Francois Fillon Les Republicans' presidential candidate against Marine Le Pen in next year's presidential election.
#BREAKING Alain Juppe concedes defeat in French presidential primary
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Authored by Ben Norton and Glenn Greenwald, originally posted at TheIntercept.com,
Not content with arresting or firing any potential source of domestic political opposition, Turkey's president Erdogan is targeting foreign journalists. Having previously arrested dozens of Turkish journalists after the failed July "coup" attempt led to a nationwide crackdown on the media, overnight the Turkish government detained reporters working for BBC and Voice of America in southeastern Turkey.
For weeks the Trump campaign has seemingly been agonizing over the Secretary of State position. Media reports, to which we attribute the utmost credibility, have suggested that the decision has divided Trump's transition team into three factions: those who want Romney, those who want Giuliani and those who prefer anyone other than those two frontrunners.
Following last weekend's latest latest "stunning" political outcome, in which French former PM Francois Fillon trounced pollsters' favorite Alain Juppe in the first round of the French conservative primary and which saw the latest political career termination for former president Nicolas Sarkozy, on Sunday the two former prime ministers are going head-to-head in a runoff vote for France's center-right presidential nomination, with the victor expected to face a showdown against a resurgent Marine Le Pen in the May 2017 presidential election.