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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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters 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...
Thomson Reuters May 17, 2026
G7 finance chiefs seek to tackle imbalances in wake of bond selloff
By Leigh Thomas, David Lawder and Makiko Yamazaki PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - G7 finance ministers met in Paris on Monday, looking to find common ground on tackling economic tensions and global imbalanc...
Thomson Reuters May 17, 2026
Hantavirus-hit liner reaches Rotterdam, crew being quarantined and ship disinfected
By Charlotte Van Campenhout ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, May 18 (Reuters) - A luxury liner at the centre of an outbreak of hantavirus docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Monday, where authorities were...
Thomson Reuters May 17, 2026

