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VIENNA (AP) — At the Eurovision Song Contest, performers get three minutes to make a big impression. Grabbing viewers’ attention as one of 25 acts competing in quick succession in Saturday’s grand final in Vienna means pulling out all the stops, both musically and visually. In the case of this year’s favorites to win, the Finnish duo of pop singer Pete Parkkonen and classical violinist Linda Lampenius, that involves jets […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Same fight. New generation. That’s the mantra of a multiracial group of civil rights leaders and activists organizing opposition to a mostly white conservative alliance dismantling the Voting Rights Act and political districts that allowed Black and other nonwhite voters to choose more of their elected leaders for the last half-century. “We have to respond as quickly as possible,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in an interview. […]

By Mohi Narayan NEW DELHI, May 15 (Reuters) – Oil prices gained more than 1% after President Donald Trump said he would not be much more patient with Iran and as concerns persisted over ship attacks and seizures despite Tehran saying about 30 vessels had passed through the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude oil futures rose $1.32, or 1.25%, to $107.04 a barrel by 0425 GMT, while U.S. West Texas […]

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Is the penny finally dropping for investors in stocks? The bond market has been sounding the alarm for weeks – runaway inflation means rate hikes are firmly back in play. The AI-fuelled rally looks like it’s running out of road. Wall Street may have scaled fresh highs, helped along by a 4% pop in Nvidia as […]

SYDNEY, May 15 (Reuters) – Australian citizens who were on a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak returned home on Friday and will isolate for at least three weeks at a quarantine facility. Four Australian citizens, a permanent resident and one resident of New Zealand landed at an Australian air force base near Perth in Western Australia on a government-chartered flight, local media reported. Federal Health […]

BEIJING, May 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he discussed Iran with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that they do not want Iran to have nuclear weapons and “want the straits open”. The two leaders met at the walled-off Zhongnanhai complex in Beijing as Trump wraps up his state visit to China.  “We’ve settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able […]

U.S. President Donald Trump wraps up his visit to Beijing on Friday with a private meeting at Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s official residence before he departs for Washington. During a series of meetings and events on Thursday the two discussed divisive issues such as the Iran war, trade, technology and Taiwan. During those meetings, Trump said Xi told him China wants to help negotiate an end to the war and […]

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Democratic governor on Thursday signed into law a bill that uses a novel approach to reduce the influence of corporations and hard-to-track “dark money” groups that have been able to spend unlimited amounts on politics since a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The law, which takes effect July 1, 2027, redefines corporations in a way that precludes spending on elections. A volunteer group in Montana is […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed against one of the world’s richest people who is accused of duping investors by concealing that his company’s huge solar energy project in India was being facilitated by an alleged bribery scheme, according to court filings published Thursday. In the lawsuit filed in late 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and […]