World tags mark cross-border explainers, multilateral crises, and global macro pieces when no single country label captures the spread of actors in the story.
12 Newsorga stories grouped around “World”, published from 2026-05-07 through 2026-05-13. Most pieces are in World and Politics. Newest first below.
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The Philippine House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Monday May 11, 2026 to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte for a second time, with 257 of 318 members voting in favour, 26 against and 9 abstentions — far exceeding the one-third constitutional threshold needed to transmit the four articles of impeachment to the Senate; the articles, endorsed unanimously 53-0 by the House Committee on Justice on May 7 and presented by Judiciary Committee chair Gerville Luistro, charge Duterte with two constitutional violations and betrayal of public trust over misuse of P612.5 million in confidential funds from the Office of the Vice President and the Department of Education during 2022-2024, more than US$110 million in private bank transactions flagged by the Anti-Money Laundering Council, bribery via cash envelopes to DepEd officials, and her November 2024 death threats against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos and former House Speaker Martin Romualdez; conviction now requires a two-thirds Senate majority — 16 of 24 senators — but the Senate elected Duterte ally Senator Alan Peter Cayetano as its new president on the same day, ousting Senate President Vicente Sotto, putting the trial's outcome in serious doubt.
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On day two of the three-day Victory Day truce that U.S. President Donald Trump brokered between Moscow and Kyiv to run from Saturday, May 9, 2026 through Monday, May 11, 2026, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly acknowledged that Russia has stopped large-scale air and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities and that Kyiv has held back its own long-range strikes 'in mirrorlike' restraint, while at the same time accusing the Russian side of 'not even trying' to honour the ceasefire along the front line — where Ukraine's General Staff recorded 147 battlefield clashes in 24 hours and regional governors reported three civilians killed in Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson; in parallel, Russia's Defence Ministry told state media in its Sunday briefing that it had logged 'more than 1,000' Ukrainian ceasefire violations across Crimea, Belgorod, Kursk, Kaluga, Rostov and Krasnodar, shot down 57 Ukrainian drones and 'responded in kind,' as Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov flagged an imminent Moscow visit by U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
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Louis Gaston, a 31-year-old from Lambeth in south London, has been convicted at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court of two counts of assault by beating, one count of smoking in an aircraft and one count of failing to obey the lawful commands of a pilot, after District Judge Kathryn Verghis ruled on May 5, 2026 that Gaston had been vaping in the lavatory of the six-hour overnight British Airways flight BA172 from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow on November 23, 2025 — admitting to having smoked a spliff in New York before boarding and to drinking two or three gin and tonics plus vodka in flight — before threatening American couple Zachary Lowry and Laurel Dillon as the aircraft sat for about an hour awaiting buses on the Heathrow tarmac, ultimately shoving Ms Dillon by the arm and hip into her seat with enough force to leave bruising; sentencing is set for June 2026.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a 30-minute public address on Sunday, May 10, 2026, at Parade Grounds in Secunderabad, Telangana, asked Indians to use petrol and diesel 'sparingly,' revive pandemic-era work-from-home, online meetings and video conferences to cut commuting, postpone non-essential foreign travel and destination weddings abroad for at least a year, and avoid discretionary gold purchases for a year to ease pressure on foreign exchange reserves, framing the choices as 'nationally responsible' and an act of patriotism during elevated global crude prices and the US-Iran war's disruption of West Asian energy and supply chains; he also renewed the 'Vocal for Local' push, quoted the line that 'how can the nation progress if we depend on imports for everything,' urged cutting edible oil consumption, asked farmers to reduce chemical fertiliser use by up to half, and listed metros, car-pooling, rail freight and electric vehicles as transport levers, after virtually inaugurating Telangana projects worth about ₹9,400 crore across roads, rail, petroleum and textiles.
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Iran has informed India that Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi's attendance at the May 14-15, 2026 BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi is 'on his agenda at this stage,' the Times of India reported, although subsequent reporting from The Print on May 7 and the Economic Times on May 11 indicates Araghchi is now considered unlikely to travel — with Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi expected to lead the Iranian delegation instead — as Tehran weighs the fragility of the US-Iran ceasefire from the late-February-to-early-April war, studies a 14-point US peace proposal routed via Pakistan that would freeze its uranium enrichment for at least 12 years, and prepares for the first face-to-face encounter between Iranian, Emirati and Saudi Arabian senior diplomats since the conflict began; the meeting, chaired by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar under India's 2026 BRICS presidency, will see Hormuz safe-passage talks for 40-50 trapped India-bound tankers held on the sidelines and is a key staging post for the 18th BRICS Summit Delhi is expected to host in September 2026.
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Chinese state media reported Monday May 11, 2026 that U.S. President Donald Trump will pay a state visit to China from May 13 to 15 at President Xi Jinping's invitation; ahead of the summit, Beijing's public vocabulary on ties with Washington continues to pair cooperation with difference-management, including Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun's March formulation that economic issues should be settled through consultation on the basis of equality, respect and mutual benefit, and Xi's February phone remark that if both sides work in the spirit of equality, respect and mutual benefit they can find ways to address concerns while enhancing dialogue and expanding practical cooperation.
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Sri Lankan police on Saturday May 9, 2026 arrested the 71-year-old Venerable Pallegama Hemarathana Thera — chief prelate of the Atamasthana, custodian of the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree at Anuradhapura and chief incumbent of eight of the country's most revered Buddhist temples — at a private hospital in Colombo, in what police describe as the highest-profile clergy child-abuse case the country has prosecuted; an additional magistrate visited the hospital, ordered him transferred to a prison or government hospital and remanded until May 12, with the case to be heard in Anuradhapura. The child's mother was arrested separately on aiding and abetting charges and remanded until May 15, after the National Child Protection Authority filed the underlying facts before the Anuradhapura Magistrate's Court on Friday May 8.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters in Moscow on Saturday May 9, 2026 — Victory Day — that the war he launched against Ukraine more than four years ago was 'coming to an end,' even as he reaffirmed in his Red Square address that 'victory has always been and will be ours'; the parade itself was dramatically pared back, with no tanks, no nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles and no heavy weapons of any kind on display, the Kremlin confirmed a Donald-Trump-brokered three-day ceasefire would not be extended despite the US president's preference for a 'big extension,' and Volodymyr Zelensky issued an unusual decree 'permitting' Russia to hold the parade after agreeing Ukrainian forces would not target Red Square during the truce.
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Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded at about 12:45 p.m. on Saturday May 9, 2026 to a possible boat explosion at the fuel dock near the Haulover Sandbar in Biscayne Bay, finding 15 patients on scene and transporting 11 — including at least one child with burns covering 18 percent of their body and one adult with burns over more than 30 percent — to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital; the boat, identified by the Miami Herald as a 40-foot Press Cruiser 400 Express cabin cruiser named Nauti Nabors and registered in Sherman, Texas, was being prepared for a charter shuttle when, according to witness Patrick Lee, the captain 'turned the key and didn't open the hatches' and 'didn't turn on the blowers,' a sequence that boating-safety experts have long flagged as a classic precursor to fuel-vapor ignition in inboard cabin cruisers.
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Politics
A 4 May UK-published statement from the European Political Community summit sketches a seven-pillar plan for irregular migration—surveillance, sanctions on smugglers, and harder returns language.
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Downing Street’s 4 May statement frames drone and missile attacks on the Emirates as a breach of a fragile ceasefire—and ties Gulf stability directly to British economic and security interests.
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