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BEIJING (AP) — Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic deepened ties with China on Monday during a trip to Beijing as he faced pressure at home from anti-government protests in his Balkan country, including a major rally that prompted clashes over the weekend. After a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the two leaders witnessed the signing of more than 20 cooperation agreements, covering areas such as politics, trade, technology and education, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in the Lone Star State will make their second attempt to nominate a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in a primary runoff election on Tuesday, the electoral version of the Texas two-step. Also on the ballot are primary runoffs in more than a dozen congressional districts, plus state contests for lieutenant governor, attorney general and others. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn was the top vote-getter in the […]

May 25 (Reuters) – Firefighters contending with an overheating tank of hazardous chemicals in southern California on Monday said an overnight operation had eliminated the possibility of the tank exploding. The tank of highly flammable methyl methacrylate began overheating on Thursday at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, a city of about 172,000 people roughly 20 miles (35 km) south of Los Angeles. By Saturday, California Governor Gavin Newsom […]

By Canan Sevgili and Mirac Dereli May 25 (Reuters) – A Turkish court ruling to effectively oust opposition leader Ozgur Ozel has inflamed a political crisis, rattled financial markets and could prolong the 23-year rule of President Tayyip Erdogan. The May 21 decision came against the backdrop of an extended crackdown that has seen the detention or jailing of hundreds of members of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and […]

By Julien Pretot PARIS, May 25 (Reuters) – Elina Svitolina survived a major scare to reach the second round of the French Open, having to come from behind to labour past unheralded Anna Bondar 3-6 6-1 7-6 (10-8) on Monday. A month after she was knocked out of the Madrid Open in straight sets by the Hungarian, Ukrainian seventh seed Svitolina could not find her range on the Suzanne Lenglen […]

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, May 25 (Reuters) – Catholic popes have been urging global leaders to address social justice issues for 135 years across some two dozen major documents that many of the world’s 1.4-billion-faithful can cite by their two- or three-word titles. “Rerum Novarum” from Leo XIII in 1891 called for better conditions for workers in the Industrial Revolution. “Pacem in Terris” from John XXIII in 1963 appealed […]

By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, May 25 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has started preventive radiation treatment after being diagnosed with early-stage skin cancer, doctors treating the 80-year-old leftist leader and his office said on Monday. Lula had a basal cell lesion removed on April 24. “It was decided to proceed with complementary treatment with preventive, superficial radiotherapy on the scalp,” doctors at the Sirio-Libanes Hospital said […]

Unless it’s “great” … unless it’s “meaningful,” President Trump says there will be no deal with Iran. The president’s posting this morning on Truth Social comes amid word that some kind of agreement is taking shape, a so-called Memorandum of Understanding that could take days to come together: President Trump is skewering critics of a proposed deal to end the stand-off with Iran. On social media, the president writes the […]

By Huseyin Hayatsever ANKARA, May 25 (Reuters) – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party condemned on Monday a court ruling that ousted the leadership of the main opposition CHP last week, calling a police operation to evict the leaders from the party’s headquarters a “disgrace to democracy”. Riot police fired tear gas and forced their way into the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) headquarters in Ankara on Sunday, evicting ousted leader Ozgur Ozel, […]