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The German Parliament passed a resolution recognizing Turkey's mass murder of Armenians a century ago as a "genocide" - a move that heightens tensions with Turkey at an already contentious time, because the 1.1 million migrants that landed in Germany in the last year and a half transited through Turkey.  Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said it was a "valuable contribution" to the "international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian genocide".  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recalled the ambassador from Berlin.  Germany joins more than 20 other nations and the Vatican in recognizing Turkey's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians in their historic homeland in eastern Turkey.

A court in India convicted 24 people for their roles in the 2002 massacre of Muslims in Gujarat.  Activists and survivors' advocates plan to challenge the verdict because another 36 defendants were acquitted, including a police official critics say failed to stop a Hindu Mob from attacking a Muslim housing complex, hacking and burning to death 69 people.  They have the same accusations of negligence for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was chief minister of Gujarat during the massacre.

Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff is sounding confident at the beginning of her impeachment trial.  "We are going to present witnesses.  We want them to analyze every minute detail of the charges," Rousseff told Al Jazeera, "In the final vote, we need 28 votes to win.  We have 22, so it's not something so impossible to achieve - winning six more votes."  Rousseff was "charged" by conservative legislators with manipulating the budget to cover a deficit.  That's not against the law, but the impeachment effectively shut down actual criminal investigations against most of the lawmakers who impeached her.

Amnesty International is accusing Gambia of a "brutal crackdown" on the opposition, and is urging the government to release dozens of political prisoners.  "Gambia's elections are just six months away and yet opposition members are arrested and beaten, journalists are muzzled and civil society muted," said Amnesty's Alioune Tine.  The rights group is calling on the members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to suspend Gambia if it does not improve its human rights record.

Flooding in Paris is prompting the famous Louvre art museum on Friday so that workers can move treasures in the lower galleries upstairs.  Barriers line the Seine River, which breached its banks in several spots in the French capital on Thursday.  The heavy rain caused flooding across western Europe, leaving ten people dead.

Boxing legend Muhammed Ali is in hospital with a respiratory infection.  Doctors expect a short stay for the 74-year old former heavyweight champion, who has waged a long battle with Parkinson's disease. 

The medical examiner in Carver County, Minnesota says rock and soul singer Prince died from an accidental overdose (.pdf link) of the painkiller fentanyl, a powerful opioid.  Up to 50 times stronger than heroin, the drug is prescribed by doctors for cancer treatment - but it can be illicitly and is blamed for a spike in overdose deaths in the United States.  Prince Rogers Nelson was found unresponsive on an elevator in his Paisley Park home and studio complex on 21 April.  he was 57 years old.

In Massachusetts, they don't have Kangaroos.  So Moose have to run down the streets, instead.