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US conducts follow-up strikes against militants in Nigeria's northeast
May 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Africa Command said on Monday it had carried out additional airstrikes against Islamic State targets in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday, in coordination with the Nigerian go...
May 18, 2026
Conservatives win election in Spain's Andalusia, but need far right to govern
By Graham Keeley MADRID, May 18 (Reuters) - The conservative People's Party won the election in Spain's southern Andalusia region but lost its absolute majority, results showed on Monday, forcing it t...
May 18, 2026
U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent: will call on G7 to follow sanctions regime on Iran
PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday that he would call on G7 finance ministers to follow a sanctions regime in order to keep financing away from wha...
May 18, 2026
Ukraine, Hungary to hold consultations on Hungarian minority
May 18 (Reuters) - Kyiv and Budapest will hold talks this week about the rights of Ukraine's ethnic Hungarian minority, the countries' foreign ministers said on Monday, as they look to rebuild ties fo...
May 18, 2026
Uganda's president signs contentious law meant to curb foreign influence
KAMPALA, May 18 (Reuters) - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a contentious measure to curb foreign influence after parliament scaled back provisions that had drawn criticism from fin...
May 18, 2026
Australia's property tax overhaul unpopular with voters, polls show
SYDNEY, May 18 (Reuters) - Australia's centre-left government is facing voter blowback after breaking election promises to roll out the biggest changes to investment taxes in decades in its latest bud...
May 17, 2026
Earthquake hits southwest China; thousands evacuate, buildings collapse
BEIJING, May 18 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.2 earthquake in China's southwest region of Guangxi early on Monday killed two and forced more than 7,000 in the city of Liuzhou to evacuate as search and res...
May 17, 2026
Philippines to convene court for VP impeachment amid political turmoil
By Karen Lema MANILA, May 18 (Reuters) - The Philippine Senate was due to convene as an impeachment court on Monday that could decide the future of Vice President Sara Duterte, with a heated battle be...
May 17, 2026
Russian attacks kill one, injure more than 30 in Ukraine overnight, officials say
May 18 (Reuters) - Russia launched drones, airstrikes and shelling at Ukraine overnight, targeting cities such as Odesa in the south and Dnipro in the southeast, killing one person and injuring more t...
May 17, 2026
Venezuelan mother dies 10 days after state confirms missing son died in custody
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 c...
May 17, 2026
