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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been released from a hospital in Tehran after more than two weeks, her supporters said Monday. They called for Mohammadi, 54, to remain at home to receive follow-up care and daily physiotherapy. Mohammadi was urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran on May 1 after she fell unconscious. She was released on bail […]

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court acquitted Shakira in a tax fraud case, ordering the government to return more than 55 million euros ($64 million) in wrongly imposed fines and interest, a court document seen Monday by The Associated Press said. The decision follows years of tax troubles in Spain for the Colombian superstar. The ruling relates to a dispute over the 2011 tax year in which Spanish tax authorities […]

ISLAMABAD, May 18 (Reuters) – Pakistan has shared with the U.S. a revised proposal from Iran to end the conflict in the Middle East, a Pakistani source told Reuters on Monday, as peace talks appeared to remain stalled. “We don’t have much time,” the source said, when asked if it would take time to close gaps, adding that both countries “keep changing their goalposts”. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei […]

VATICAN CITY, May 18 (Reuters) – Pope Leo will release his first in-depth document, expected to address the rise of artificial intelligence and challenges to workers’ rights, on May 25, the Vatican announced on Monday. The text, known as an encyclical, is also likely to decry the wars roiling the world. It will be titled “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity) and was formally signed by the pope on Friday ahead of […]

By Tom Sims and Alexander Hübner FRANKFURT, May 18 (Reuters) – Commerzbank on Monday formally rejected an offer by Italy’s UniCredit to buy the German lender, digging in its heels in its months-long resistance to the cross-border takeover attempt.  UniCredit has become Commerzbank’s largest shareholder and earlier this month made an offer to buy Commerzbank shares in a deal that values the bank at nearly 39 billion euros ($45.37 billion) […]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Congolese health minister announced the opening of three treatment centers in the Ituri region in eastern Congo on Sunday evening as he visited the region amid the ongoing Ebola outbreak. “We know that the hospitals are already under stress because of the patients,” said Samuel Roger Kamba, the health minister, while visiting Bunia, the capital and largest city in Ituri. “But we are preparing to […]

By Nick Carey LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) – Ford will launch seven new models in Europe by 2029, it said on Monday, as it seeks to revive its flagging passenger car sales, fight off fierce competition from Chinese rivals and maintain an edge in the continent’s commercial vehicle market.  Five of Ford’s new models will be passenger cars, including a small electric car and a small electric SUV. The No. […]

By Shariq Khan, Mohi Narayan and Trixie Yap NEW YORK, May 18 (Reuters) – In India, there is a shortage of cooking gas. In California, motorists are paying $6 a gallon for gasoline. They are both symptoms of the worst-ever energy supply disruption. They are also directly connected, and evidence of the knock-on effects across the global economy of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Iran’s near-closure of the Strait of […]

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) – After eight years of friction with the White House, a global pandemic, and a fight with high inflation, the U.S. Federal Reserve begins a new era with former governor Kevin Warsh soon to be sworn in as chair. It will be a new era for President Donald Trump as well. He soon will no longer have departing Fed Chair Jerome Powell as […]