|  | | | | | | | | | Top News | | Australia’s conservative coalition secured an outright parliamentary majority following a shock election victory, allowing Prime Minister Scott Morrison to progress his legislative agenda without the support of independents. Morrison’s center-right government now needs to find a fast way out of a worrying slowdown in an economy that has been recession-free since 1991. | | | | The U.S. military said one of its warships sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in the South China Sea, a move likely to anger Beijing at a time of tense ties between the world’s two biggest economies. The busy waterway is one of a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, which include a trade war, U.S. sanctions and Taiwan. | | | | A rocket was fired into the Iraqi capital Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and diplomatic missions, on Sunday night, falling near the U.S. Embassy but causing no casualties, the Iraqi military said. The attack came two weeks after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Iraqi leaders during a surprise visit to Baghdad that if they failed to keep in check Iran-backed militias, which are expanding their power in Iraq and now form part of its security apparatus, the U.S. would respond with force. | | | | The Swedish prosecutor heading an investigation into a rape allegation against Julian Assange filed a request with a local court for him to be detained in absentia. If granted, the court order would be the first step in a process to have the WikiLeaks founder extradited from Britain, where he is serving a 50-week sentence for skipping bail. | | | | | India | | Breakingviews: Modi win will underpin India's market exuberance
Indian voters just gave the country’s stock market some support. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is coasting to a comfortable second term, based on exit polls. If the electorate has indeed looked past employment problems and rural economic distress, the prospect of political continuity will keep valuations stretched for the time being, writes Una Galani.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | World | | Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon praised French far-right politician Marine Le Pen’s political recovery but said he was in France as an observer of the European elections rather than actively playing a role in Le Pen’s campaign. Bannon said Le Pen had done well in terms of managing to come back from her defeat to President Emmanuel Macron in France’s 2017 presidential election. 2 min read | | | | Minutes before Mena Mangal, a prominent Afghan journalist and parliamentary adviser, was shot dead by two men in Kabul, she had slammed the door of her parent’s home after reminding them to pay the neighborhood shopkeeper 15 Afghanis (20 cents). The brazen attack on Mangal has drawn widespread condemnation — including from U.S. officials and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — and highlighted what activists say is the continuing plight of Afghan women, who still suffer high levels of sexual and domestic violence and discrimination. 5 Min Read | | | | Television comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy took the oath of office as Ukraine’s new president, promising that as hard as he had worked in the past to make Ukrainians laugh, he would now work to keep them from crying. 5 min read | | | | Argentine markets, rattled during recent months by rising political uncertainty, could get a reprieve after the populist ex-leader seen as challenger No. 1 in this year’s presidential elections said she would instead run on someone else’s ticket. 4 min read | | | | | | | | | | | | | Top Stories on Reuters TV | | | | | | | |
