- Senator Panfilo Lacson expressed optimism that PH President Rodrigo Duterte will approve the 2019 General Appropriations Bill, despite the latter’s threat to veto the entire measure should he find it unconstitutional.
- The Department of Interior and Local Government barked at the US States Department for including the Philippines in its list of countries with high kidnapping risk.
- As far as the Philippine National Police is concerned, there is nothing wrong if the United States and any country would issue a travel advisory against the Philippines following reports that the country was included in the list of nations with high kidnapping risks.
- The Trump administration calls for the surveillance of disabled Americans' social media profiles to determine the necessity of their disability benefits.
- India marks the 100th anniversary of the Amritsar massacre, one of the worst atrocities of British colonial rule for which London is still to apologise.
- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended sanctions on Venezuela and said the United States would not “quit the fight” in the socialist-run Latin American nation which is spiraling into deepening economic and political crisis.
- German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen and Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan discussed the need to repatriate Islamic State foreign fighters from Syria or fund detention centers to hold them long-term.
- One of three women allegedly involved in a foiled plot in 2016 to blow up a car packed with gas canisters near the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris was sentenced to eight years in prison by a French court for earlier offences.
- Assetto Corsa Competizione, the official game of the Blancpain GT Series, will be launched this May 29th.
- Duke's Zion Williamson became the third freshman to win the John R. Wooden Award as the US's men's player of the year.
- Actor Iain Glen is set to play Bruce Wayne in the Titans TV series.
- Singer Nikki Gil loses her dog to cancer.
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