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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine Senate convened an impeachment court Monday for the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte over criminal charges, in a time of deep divisions that erupted into an exchange of gunfire last week in the chamber. The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to impeach Duterte last Monday over alleged unexplained wealth, misuse of state funds and a public threat to have the president assassinated if […]

By Stephen Nellis ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, May 18 (Reuters) – In a nondescript building on Kirtland Air Force Base on the high desert of New Mexico, liquid-cooled supercomputers gurgle and hum their way through some of the most complex math problems the U.S. government seeks to solve: simulating how hypersonic nuclear weapons would move through the earth’s atmosphere, or what would happen if one nuclear warhead detonated near another. For […]

May 18 (Reuters) – Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok resisted calls from new Prime Minister Peter Magyar to quit in an interview published on Monday, saying there was no justification for his resignation. Magyar’s TISZA party ousted former leader Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party in an election landslide in April, ending its 16-year rule and promising to tackle rule of law issues and other reforms at the heart of disputes between Budapest […]

May 17 (Reuters) – Carmen Navas, the 82-year-old mother who spent nearly a year searching for her detained son in Venezuela, has died just 10 days after the government confirmed he had died in state custody, the NGO that handled his case reported.  Navas became a prominent figure in Venezuela while publicly pleading for information on her 50-year-old son, Victor Quero. Ten days ago authorities revealed Quero died of respiratory […]

TAIPEI, May 18 (Reuters) – Taiwan would welcome a direct call between President Donald Trump and President Lai Ching-te, a senior Taiwanese diplomat said on Monday, as Taipei sought to ease concerns over Trump’s remarks following his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Trump and Xi discussed Chinese-claimed Taiwan at their Beijing summit last week, with Xi warning of conflict if the issue was not properly handled. Trump made a […]

By Timour Azhari RIYADH, May 18 (Reuters) – Syria will take part in a closed-door session with G7 finance ministers and central bank governors in Paris on Monday, a person familiar with the matter said, in a sign of its growing status less than two years after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad. Syrian Finance Minister Yisr Barnieh is expected to attend the meeting, the person said, adding that the discussions […]

By Helen Reid LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) – Inter IKEA, which franchises the Swedish budget home furniture brand in 63 countries, is laying off 850 workers in a cost-cutting drive as consumer demand falls and the blue big-box retailer works to become more efficient and bring down prices. The vast company manages the sourcing of IKEA products from factories around the world and supplies 13 franchisees operating IKEA stores. It […]

ISTANBUL, May 18 (Reuters) – The organisers of a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza said on Monday that Israeli forces had boarded one of their vessels and that contact had been lost with another of the vessels in the eastern Mediterranean.  Earlier on Monday, Israel’s foreign ministry had said on X that it “will not allow any breach of the lawful naval blockade on Gaza”.  Ships from the […]

May 18 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he “should have asked for more” of a stake in Intel on behalf of the U.S. government, in an interview with Fortune magazine published on Monday. (Reporting by Ananya Palyekar in Bengaluru; Editing by Alex Richardson) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com