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BY HARUMENDHAH HELMY AND STEVEN SPARKMAN

ANCHOR DAVID EARL

 

Here are your top news headlines from Newsy.
 

Al-Qaeda has released a video of Warren Weinstein, the American citizen it captured last year. In the video, the 70-year-old contractor begs President Obama to meet Al-Qaeda’s demands. Here’s CNN with the video.  
 

“If you accept the demands, I live, if you don’t accept the demands, then I die. It’s important that you accept the demands and act quickly and don’t delay...”
 

Vladimir Putin has once again been sworn in as Russia’s president. This only a day after 20,000 took to the streets of Moscow to protest his inauguration. Al Jazeera has more from those protests.
 

“They’re going for people in the crowd, snatching people who they think are ring-leaders and taking them away and arresting them. We’ve seen dozens of people being snatched out of this crowd so far. People don’t want to go home because they don’t think they’ve done what they came to do.”
 

And a historic night for France’s left. After defeating the incumbent, Francois Hollande will be the country’s first left-wing president in 17 years. Here’s euronews .
 

“In his speech in Paris he thanked his supporters and talked of the victory sending a message to other European countries that austerity was not the only way. It was unprecedented, on a night of firsts.”
 

As expected, Greece’s incumbent parties lost support at the ballot box. Pasok, one of the ruling parties, received just 13.5% of the vote — down from 43.9% in 2009. Sky News reports  the big winners were the smaller, left-wing, anti-austerity parties.

 

“Syriza and its leader, Alexis Tsipras, have emerged as the second-largest party. And as this became clear, he described it as a peaceful revolution.”

 

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