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“It’s good news out of France,” former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told CBS’ This Morning today about the election of Emmanuel Macron. “No one, I think, who believes in globalization or immigration or free trade would have wanted Marine Le Pen to win.” That’s … an accurate statement, but Rice also worried that rising populist anger had begun to impact the political center in Europe and the US: Obviously it’s good news out of France…no one who believes in globalization would have wanted Marine Le Pen to win. — @CondoleezzaRice pic.twitter.com/3MVA7p5hVG — CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) May 8, 2017

A new video believed to have come from ISIS shows the beheading and shooting executions of seven individuals, all the while calling for more attacks on Paris and the United Kingdom. Heavy reported the video, titled “Kill Them Wherever You Find Them,” was released by Al-Hayat Media, owned by ISIS, and features the eight attackers who waged assaults on Paris on November 13, leaving 130 dead.

One of the guns linked to Islamic militants in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people was exported to the United States in 2013, the head of a Serbian arms factory said Thursday. Milojko Brzakovic of the Zastava arms factory told The Associated Press that the M92 semi-automatic pistol’s serial number matched one his company delivered to an American online arms dealer in May 2013. It was not clear how the gun got back to Europe.

In a new autobiography France's best-known gay politician Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe has delivered a broadside against the country's prevailing homophobia and attacked President Jacques Chirac for failing to fulfil campaign promises to defend gay rights. The 54 year-old Socialist, who in 2001 was elected the capital's first ever left-wing mayor, says that French attitudes have certainly developed in the last 20 years - largely as a result of AIDS - and "in some quarters to be homophobic is seen as a sign of poor taste." But he says the progress is relative. "Outside certain circles homosexuality is still something...