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By David Hood-Nuño and Julio-Cesar Chavez WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) – A Trump administration-backed celebration of U.S. religious heritage on Sunday is highlighting conservative Christian leaders’ ties to the president as critics say the gathering does not reflect the country’s diverse faith landscape.   The nine-hour program, called “Rededicate 250: National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving,” mostly features speakers from two Christian traditions — evangelical Christianity and conservative Catholicism. […]

By Nate Raymond May 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to preserve mail access to the abortion pill mifepristone marked the latest time that the nation’s top judicial body has reined in an even more right-leaning appeals court, one nestled in the American South. The Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold a May 1 ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that had […]

By Suzanne McGee PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 17 (Reuters) – Investors are warning that lofty U.S. stock markets have not yet priced in the risk of rocketing inflation and are vulnerable to a sharp spike in bond yields. Equity markets have been propelled by robust first-quarter earnings and expectations of boosts from artificial intelligence, overshadowing the risk of high energy prices and the lack of a conclusion to the war […]

BEIJING, May 17 (Reuters) – China sent emergency rescue workers to the rural Guangxi region in the southwest on Sunday after a pickup truck carrying 15 passengers fell into a flooded river the previous evening, state broadcaster CCTV reported. At least one person was found dead while nine passengers remain missing, CCTV reported earlier on Sunday. Heavy rains over the weekend in southern China heightened the risk of flooding, the […]

LONDON (AP) — Wes Streeting’s ambition to head the British government was one of the worst-kept secrets in U.K. politics. But if anyone was unaware, it’s now official — the former health secretary announced on Saturday his intention to oust Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Streeting is the first member of Parliament to say he will take on Starmer in what is likely to be a bruising internal contest for the […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Like many Ukrainians, Maryna Homeniuk fled her homeland after Russia’s full-scale invasion four years ago. She managed to complete her degree in the Czech Republic, adding Vietnamese to her impressive list of languages, before returning home the following year and meeting her beloved, Yurii Orlov. Homeniuk and Orlov, who captained the Kyiv Floorball Club after playing hockey for teams in the Ukrainian capital, were among the […]

BEIJING, May 17 (Reuters) – Police in China, the United States and United Arab Emirates arrested 276 telecom fraud suspects in a joint operation to crack down on scam gangs operating in Dubai, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported Sunday. The operation was the first of its kind between the three countries and “successfully destroyed nine fraud dens”, the report said. Victims were tricked into non-existent cryptocurrency investments, the report added. […]

MILAN, May 17 (Reuters) – Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will travel to Modena on Sunday, a day after several people were injured in a car-ramming incident there, cancelling a meeting in Nicosia with Cyprus’ president in order to make the trip, government sources said. Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella will also travel to the Italian northern city, the sources added. A 30-year-old man, born in Italy and of North African […]

By Karen Lema MANILA, May 17 (Reuters) – Philippine government lawyers have urged the Supreme Court to reject the bid of fugitive Senator Ronald dela Rosa, who is wanted for alleged crimes against humanity linked to his role in a bloody “war on drugs”, to block his arrest and surrender. Dela Rosa, the former police chief who oversaw former President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-narcotics crackdown, had asked the Supreme Court to […]