Widodo wins second term

Dita Alangkara, AP
May 21 06:13 PM

Residents take a selfie with incumbent Indonesian President Joko Widodo, center, prior to a speech declaring his victory in the country's presidential election, at a slum in Jakarta, Indonesia on Tuesday. Read more »

Macron’s grand ambitions at stake in European elections

Adam Nossiter, The New York Times
May 21 03:06 PM

Macron has become the far right’s favorite whipping boy, the trim-suited stand-in for the so-called faceless bureaucrats in Brussels, his name spat with contempt by populists from Hungary to Italy and even in France. Read more »

Indonesia bucks strongman trend with Widodo reelection

Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono, The New York Times
May 21 03:00 PM

Widodo’s re-election to a second and final term as president of the world’s fourth most populous nation is a powerful counterweight to the democratic weakening and strongman politics that have recently dominated the global electoral landscape. Read more »

Eiffel Tower evacuated after climber scales monument

Reuters
May 21 02:34 PM

PARIS - Rescuers successfully talked down a man who scaled the upper heights of the Eiffel Tower on Monday, forcing the monument's evacuation, and handed him over to police. Read more »

Trump: US will respond with 'great force' if Iran attacks interests

Mark Hosenball, Reuters
May 21 02:17 PM

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump warned on Monday Iran would be met with "great force" if it attacked U.S. interests in the Middle East, and government sources said Washington strongly suspects Shi'ite militias with ties to Tehran were behind a rocket attack in Baghdad's Green Zone. Read more »

Trump plans official launch of re-election campaign in mid-June - sources

Steve Holland, Reuters
May 21 02:15 PM

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, facing a potentially difficult path to winning a second term in November 2020, plans an official rollout to his re-election campaign in mid-June, the four-year anniversary of his first run, sources said on Monday. Read more »

Pinoy murder suspect deported to PH

ABS-CBN News
May 21 01:16 PM

A Filipino murder suspect who lived in the San Francisco Bay area was recently deported back to the Philippines to face charges against him.    Read more »

In inland Chinese province, property bubble haunts dreams of prosperity

Yawen Chen, Stella Qiu and Philip Wen, Reuters
May 21 10:56 AM

ZHENGZHOU, China - Song Jingyi, a paralegal from a family of modest means in the central Chinese region of Henan, had long dreamed of buying a home of her own in Zhengzhou, the sprawling provincial capital of 10 million where she attended college. Read more »

2 million on dangerous tornadoes' path in Texas, Oklahoma

Manny Fernandez, The New York Times
May 21 08:57 AM

By early Monday evening, scattered tornadoes briefly touched down in largely rural areas in southwest and north-central Oklahoma, causing some damage but no reported injuries or fatalities. Read more »

'This time is real': Taiwan counts down to Asia's first same-sex weddings

Beh Lih Yi, Thomson Reuters Foundation
May 21 08:32 AM

TAIPEI - Lesbians Chu Pei-syuan and Liang Tsung-hui will this week tie the knot for the second time - this time at home, after Taiwan became the first place in Asia to allow same-sex marriage. Read more »

Guatemalan teenage boy dies in U.S. Border Patrol custody

Yeganeh Torbati and Kristina Cooke, Reuters
May 21 08:24 AM

WASHINGTON - A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy died on Monday in U.S. Border Patrol custody in Texas, U.S. officials said, making him the fifth Guatemalan minor to die after being apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border since December. Read more »

Trump loses lawsuit challenging subpoena for financial records

Jan Wolfe, Reuters
May 21 08:12 AM

A U.S. judge on Monday ruled in favor of a U.S. House of Representatives committee seeking President Donald Trump's financial records from his accounting firm, dealing an early setback to the Trump administration in its legal battle with Congress. Read more »

N.Korean women tell of slavery and gang rape in Chinese cybersex dens

Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation
May 21 07:01 AM

LONDON - Tens of thousands of North Korean women and girls - some as young as 9 - are being trafficked into sexual slavery in China as they try to flee poverty and oppression in their homeland, experts on the reclusive state said on Monday. Read more »

Trump tells ex-White House lawyer to ignore subpoena

Agence France-Presse
May 21 06:55 AM

Donald Trump has told his former White House lawyer Don McGahn to ignore a subpoena from Congress to testify about the president's alleged obstruction of justice, Trump spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Monday.  Read more »

Eiffel Tower climber grabbed after sparking evacuation

Agence France-Presse
May 21 06:53 AM

A climber who sparked an evacuation of the Eiffel Tower on Monday was grabbed after clinging to the famous Paris landmark for more than 6 hours, officials said.  Read more »