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Susan Rice, the U.S.

France has launched a new smartphone app designed to alert users to possible terrorist attacks, amid growing security concerns over the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. The Interior Ministry, which has piloted and introduced the service say the app, which will be free to download in both French and English, will send users a warning “in case of a suspected attack“ The BBC reports: The government said the app was developed after November’s attacks in Paris. which killed 130 people.

One month ago, Donald Trump raised eyebrows and in some cases, tempers, when the "anti-establishment" candidate announced that he had picked Goldman Sachs veteran, and former George Soros trader, Steven Mnuchin, as his finance chairman, who was supposed to help the New York mogul raise as much as $1 billion to fund his presidential campaign. However, it appears Mnuchin's fundraising services will not be as needed as initially thought.

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