The Nightshift: 14 May 2017

Press Clippings: 
Good Morning and Happy Mother’s Day. It’s Sunday, 14 May 2017 and this is theMorning Edition of The Nightshift: the world’s overnight news feed.
North Korea, never one to let sleeping dogs lie, fired off another missile test yesterday. This one a short range missile that went 500 miles before dropping into the sea. Defiance is the new obedience in North Korea.
President Trump has his staff vetting possible replacements for fired FBI head James Comey. There will be a loyalty test.  The usual rumors about a Trump staff shakeup are circulating again this  morning along with Trumps highly predictable blasts against the media (old news ) and Comey (new target). It is business as unusual in Washington.
The PGA Players Championship continues, with scorings soaring as the course takes its toll on the world’s best players. J.B. Holmes and Kyle Stanley remain at the top of the leaderboard as the tournament goes into it’s final day but Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter are closing in.
The Golden State Warriors will play the San Antonio Spurs tonight in an NBA semi-finals game. Expect lots of threes.
Now more than ever, catch up on the news in the rest of the world by reading the front pages of the World’s Greatest newspapers.
The International Headlines are all at your fingertips. Have a great weekend.
The Times (London
Financial Times (UK)
The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
The Wall Street Journal (European edition)
Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
New York Times (New York)
The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles)
Daily News Egypt (Cairo)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
The Moscow Times (Moscow)
Le Figaro (Paris)
Bloomberg.com (New York)
The Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem)
The Japanese Times (Tokyo)
Sputnik (Moscow)
The Buenas Aires Herald (Buenas Aires)
The Sidney Morning Herald (Sidney)
Deadline Hollywood (Hollywood)
FiveThirtyEight (New York City)
Politico (Washington, DC)
Lawfareblog (Washington, DC)
The Fine Print:   The Nightshift is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. This post is number 1109 for this site. Thanks for reading. Now–catch up on the world. 

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