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SYDNEY, May 9 (Reuters) – Australian far-right populist party Pauline Hanson’s One Nation won its first seat in the country’s House of Representatives in a byelection on Saturday, a preliminary vote count showed. The result is in line with a surge of electoral support for far-right populist parties globally. Britain’s ruling Labour party this week suffered a widespread loss of seats at council elections. David Farley, a former agribusiness executive, […]

JAKARTA, May 9 (Reuters) – Indonesian police on Saturday arrested 321 foreign nationals, mainly from Vietnam, for alleged involvement in banned online gambling, officials said. • The suspects were arrested in an office building in Central Jakarta as authorities pursue crackdowns on online gambling — which is banned in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation — and on international criminal syndicates. • Those arrested included 228 people from Vietnam, 57 from […]

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s incoming prime minister, Péter Magyar, arrived Saturday at the Parliament building to be sworn into office, ending Viktor Orbán ‘s autocratic 16-year rule. Magyar’s center-right Tisza party defeated Orbán’s nationalist-populist Fidesz in a stunning blow last month, gaining more votes and seats in Parliament than any other party in Hungary’s post-Communist history. The win will allow Tisza to roll back many of the policies that […]

MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Saturday said that the United States was in a hurry to clinch a peace deal to end the Ukraine war but that getting to any sort of agreement was a very long way off because the issues were so complicated and talks were basically on hold. During four years of the deadliest European conflict since World War Two, Russian forces have so […]

By David Hood-Nuño, Evan Garcia and Joseph Ax BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 9 (Reuters) – As a child, Leona Tate was one of the “New Orleans Four,” the first Black students to desegregate a public school in the deep South, enduring racial slurs and death threats as armed U.S. Marshals escorted them to class. On Friday, more than six decades later, Tate told Republican state lawmakers that their proposal to […]

By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON, May 9 (Reuters) – Millions of Americans are unknowingly financing electric grid projects before they get any benefit. Policy-makers, in an urgent bid to overhaul the nation’s aging electric grid, are increasingly letting utilities charge customers for power plants and transmission lines long before they’ve been built, boosting near-term bills in exchange for promised savings decades down the road, according to a Reuters review of regulatory […]

DUBAI, May 9 (Reuters) – Bahrain’s interior ministry said on Saturday it had arrested 41 people it said were linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the state news agency reported. The ministry said security authorities uncovered a group linked to Iran’s IRGC, adding that investigations by the public prosecutor had also involved cases related to sympathy with Iranian attacks. Iran fired ⁠at targets in Bahrain and other Gulf Arab states […]

LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) – British police have charged two men with religiously aggravated harassment offences after they were alleged to have travelled to a Jewish area of north London to film antisemitic social media videos. The two men, Adam Bedoui, 20, and Abdelkader Amir Bousloub, 21, are due to appear at Thames Magistrates’ Court, a statement from the Crown Prosecution Service said on Saturday. (Reporting by Sarah Young; Editing […]

May 9 – A Frontier Airlines passenger jet abandoned its take-off for Los Angeles late on Friday after suffering an engine fire and reportedly striking a pedestrian on the runway at Denver International Airport, the airline and the airport said. • Denver International Airport said that a brief engine fire had been promptly extinguished by the fire department. • Frontier said that smoke was reported in the cabin of the […]