KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two national agencies fighting corruption in Ukraine have named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former chief of staff as an official suspect in a major graft investigation. Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office announced late Monday that Andriy Yermak is suspected in an alleged 460-million-hryvnia ($10.5 million) money-laundering …

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James says he has no idea whether his 24-point performance in the Los Angeles Lakers’ season-ending playoff loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night was the final game of his NBA career. The top scorer in league history stuck to the strategy he has taken into the past …

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SYDNEY, ⁠May ⁠12 (Reuters) – ⁠An Australian ​court ‌on ‌Tuesday ⁠ordered miner ⁠Fortescue to ​pay ​A$150 ⁠million ($108 ⁠million) ⁠in compensation to ​an ​Indigenous ⁠group ⁠for causing “significant damage” ⁠to its cultural heritage. (Reporting ⁠by Alasdair Pal ​in ​Sydney) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel sent Iron Dome anti-missile batteries and personnel to operate them to the United Arab Emirates to defend the country during the Iran war, the U.S. ambassador to the country said Tuesday. Mike Huckabee made the comment on stage at an event in Tel Aviv, Israel. “I’d like to say …

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on Monday filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a Virginia ruling invalidating a ballot measure that would have given their party an additional four winnable U.S. House seats. The move came after the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a constitutional amendment that voters …

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President Donald Trump will sit down this week in Beijing with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a summit overshadowed by the Iran war. Geopolitics aside, the meeting could have major ramifications for everyone from American farmers to shoppers for cars and phones. Trump, who postponed his trip from late March to reckon with the new …

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s attorney general announced a civil investigation Monday into the Southern Poverty Law Center’s fundraising practices in the wake of a federal indictment against the organization. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said he has sent a subpoena to the center seeking information about its donations and payments to informants. He said …

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Members of the Foley family of Green Bay, Wisconsin, are the quintessential visitors that tourism officials and operators hope will push South Dakota to a successful 2026 tourism season. The family of four drove 12 hours from home for a weeklong tour of the Black Hills of South Dakota in late April and refused to …

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By Sergio Queiroz, Fernando Cardoso ⁠and ⁠Isabel Teles SAO PAULO, ⁠May 11 (Reuters) – A fire set off by ​a potential gas explosion killed one person in Brazil’s ‌biggest city Sao Paulo ‌on Monday, while also damaging around 10 ⁠homes ⁠and leaving three people injured, the local fire department ​said. Images from local media showed …

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May 12 (Reuters) – Defence and ⁠cybersecurity ⁠company Thales and ⁠ArianeGroup said they had successfully ​carried out the first firing of a ‌new long-range French ‌rocket launcher, the FLP-t 150, ⁠this ⁠month. • “This first flight test validates the studies and ​underscores the value this first complete system offered,” the companies said in a ​joint …

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