新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/04/24

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 法国大选火药味弥漫，政坛新秀还是退欧女王？

Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Jingnan.

Coming up:

--The centrist Macron and the far-right Le Pen are marching toward the French presidential run-off. Le Pen:"I am calling on all the true patriots¹ wherever they come from, whatever the origins, whatever their background and their vote in the first round to join me"

--China and the US keep close watch on the developments in the Korean Peninsula

--An international scientific journal has retracted² over 100 articles mostly written by Chinese.

--and  Avocado has become the star fruit in China.

For more on this, CRI's Jingnan is now joined on the line by Dr. Ben Wellings, lecturer in politics and international relations at Monash University; Zhao Hai Research Fellow National Strategy Institute, Tsinghua University

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