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Child victims of stabbing attack in France in critical but stable condition, president visits

France’s president has traveled to be at the side of families traumatized by the savage stabbings of four very young children PARIS -- France's president Travel ed Friday to the side of families traumatized by the savage stabbings of four very young children, all said to be in stable condition after emergency surgery, while investigators worked to unravel the motives of a Syrian man taken into custody. President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte traveled together to a hospital treating three of the four children who suffered life-threatening knife wounds in Thursday's still unexplained attack in and around a play park in the Alpine city of Annecy. Macron's prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, said all four children — aged between 22 months and 3 years — underwent surgery and “are under constant medical surveillance.” “Their situation is stable ,” she said. Government spokesman Olivier Veran, a medical doctor by training, said two of the children remain in critical cond...

Mexico's president admits he briefly fainted due to COVID-19

Mexico’s president has acknowledged he did “briefly faint” over the weekend before he was diagnosed with COVID-19, something his spokesman had previously denied MEXICO CITY -- Mexico’s president acknowledged Wednesday he did “briefly faint” over the weekend before he was diagnosed with COVID-19, something his spokesman had previously denied. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his doctors had been concerned enough to administer a liter of rehydration fluids. He said in a videotaped chat from the National Palace in Mexico City — where he lives and is isolating — that doctors wanted to fly him back to the capital in a stretcher. López Obrador had been on a working tour of the Yucatan peninsula Sunday when he tested positive for the coronavirus, his third bout of COVID-19. But he wrote in his social media accounts Sunday that “it isn’t serious.” Reports in the local press that day said López Obrador had felt faint Sunday morning and had to cancel his tour, something his presidentia...