++Abdel Fattah El-Sissi won the Presidential election with 96.9% of the vote. The electoral commission had to extent the voting for three days because no one was casting a ballot.
++Syria's Assad is running in the first multi-candidate election in 40 years but only those in government-controlled areas can vote.
++Bibi Netanyahu is deeply disappointed that the United States still maintains its relationship with the Palestinian Authority after the unity government between Al Fattah and Hamas was created yesterday.
++There is fierce fighting in Benghazi between the military and the militias.
++The International Atomic Energy Agency says that the Iranians are cooperating in exposing the work they have already done on atomic weapons. The prospects for a deal seem higher than before.
++The Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameni has urged the Iranian government to normalize relations with the rest of the Arab world. This came after his meeting with the Saudi King. John Kerry previously had applauded this move.
++King Carlos abdicated the Spanish throne yesterday. Protestors now are demonstrating for a return to the Republic. King Carlos deserves a great deal of credit for ushering in the period of democracy after Franco. It is only in the later years that he has faced controversy and family scandals.
++John Kerry is in France spending the lead up to D-Day with his French cousin who is a Mayor.
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