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    TOP STORIES    
     
    GLOBAL
    
    UKRAINE-CRISIS/NATO
    WRAPUP 4-NATO expects Turkey not to hold up Finland, Sweden
membership
    BERLIN/STOCKHOLM, May 15 (Reuters) - NATO and the United
States said on Sunday they were confident Turkey would not hold
up membership of Finland and Sweden in the Western military
alliance, as the two Nordic states took firm steps to join in
response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

    ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/VIOLENCE
    Palestinian militant dies of wounds, days after clashes with
Israeli troops
    JERUSALEM, May 15 (Reuters) - A Palestinian gunmen, brother
of a prominent militant in the occupied West Bank, died in an
Israeli hospital on Sunday, two days after being wounded in
clashes with Israeli forces.
    
    U.S.
    
    NEW YORK-SHOOTING
    NY suspect in racist shooting was detained for mental health
check last year
    BUFFALO, N.Y., May 15 (Reuters) - A white teenager who
fatally shot 10 people in a racist attack at a New York grocery
store in a Black neighborhood had been taken into custody and
given a mental health evaluation a year ago, but was released
after roughly a day, authorities said on Sunday.

    USA-BIDEN/POLICE
    Biden balances anti-crime and reform agendas in message to
police
    WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said
on Sunday that police officers must deliver both effective crime
deterrence and equal justice in a message that balanced two
fraught political priorities as his law-enforcement reforms have
stalled.

    BUSINESS
    
    TURTLE BEACH-DONERAIL
    EXCLUSIVE-Gaming gear provider Turtle Beach nears board deal
with Donerail -sources
    May 15 (Reuters) - Donerail Group is close to reaching a
settlement with Turtle Beach Corp  HEAR.O  that will give the
activist investment firm representatives on the U.S. gaming gear
company's board of directors, people familiar with the matter
said on Sunday.
    HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-AUTOS
    Detroit Three automakers reinstate mask mandate at some
Michigan facilities
    May 15 (Reuters) - General Motors Co  GM.N , Ford Motor Co
 F.N  and Chrysler parent Stellantis NV  STLA.MI  said on Sunday
they are reinstating a requirement that employees wear masks in
southeastern Michigan where there are high levels of COVID-19.

    ENTERTAINMENT
    
    USA-BOXOFFICE
    Box Office: 'Doctor Strange 2' Rules Again as 'Firestarter'
Flames Out
    LOS ANGELES, May 15 (Variety.com) - "Doctor Strange in the
Multiverse of Madness" is again the No. 1 movie at the domestic
box office.

    UKRAINE-CRISIS/EUROVISION-REACTION
    'Stefania Express': Ukraine cheers war-time Eurovision
victory
    KYIV, May 15 (Reuters) - Proud Ukrainians revelled in their
Eurovision Song Contest victory on Sunday, renaming a train
route in its honour as they hoped for victory in their grinding
war with Russia.  
    
    SPORTS    
    
    TENNIS-ROME
    Tennis-Djokovic wins Italian Open to claim first title in
over six months
    ROME, May 15 (Reuters) - World number one Novak Djokovic
claimed his first title in over six months after beating
Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-0 7-6(5) to win the Italian Open on Sunday.

    TENNIS-ROME/
    Tennis-Swiatek retains Italian Open title with 28th straight
win
    May 15 (Reuters) - World number one Iga Swiatek retained her
Italian Open title after overwhelming Ons Jabeur 6-2 6-2 in Rome
on Sunday, clinching her fifth consecutive WTA crown and winning
her 28th match in a row.

    UPCOMING

ARTS / CULTURE / ENTERTAINMENT
    
AWARDS-BILLBOARD/ (PIX) (TV) 
Billboard Music Awards
Music’s hottest celebs hit the annual Billboard Music Awards in
Las Vegas.
15 May 18:00 ET / 22:00 GMT

SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY
    
INDIA-WEATHER/HEATWAVE-WORKER (TV) 
Day in the life of Indian construction worker, working outdoors
during extreme heat
Day in the life of a construction worker in India who has to
work outdoors amid high temperature, as much of South Asia faces
a heatwave.
16 May 

CRIME / LAW / JUSTICE
    
PEOPLE-DEPP/ (PIX) (TV) 
Johnny Depp defamation case against Amber Heard continues
Johnny Depp defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard
continues in Fairfax, Virginia. Depp claims Heard wrongly
accused him of domestic abuse in Washington Post op-ed.
16 May 

USA-CRIME/SUSSMANN 
Clinton campaign lawyer faces trial in test for U.S. Special
Counsel Durham
A jury trial kicks off for Michael Sussmann, a former lawyer for
Hillary Clinton's campaign accused of lying to the FBI during a
meeting where he presented since-discredited evidence of Donald
Trump's ties to a Russian bank. This is the first trial in a
case brought by U.S. Special Counsel John Durham.
16 May 02:00 ET / 06:00 GMT

CENTRALAFRICA-JUSTICE/TRIAL (PIX) 
Central African Republic Special Criminal Court resumes hearing
first war crimes case
A Special Criminal Court set up to try serious war crimes
committed in the Central African Republic since 2003 will resume
hearing its first case. The trial has been postponed twice since
it was slated to start on April 19.
16 May 06:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

BUSINESS / ECONOMICS
    
USA-TRADE/EU (PIX) (TV) 
Top EU-U.S. officials convene for trade and technology
cooperation summit
Top EU officials - Commissioner for Competition Margrethe
Vestager and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis - meet with
U.S. counterparts Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Trade
Representative Katherine Tai in the Paris suburb of Saclay, in a
trade and technology council to discuss future rules for
technologies such as artificial intelligence.
16 May 

GI SURAMERICANA-COLOMBIA/ 
Colombia's Grupo SURA executive on public acquisition offers,
outlook
Ricardo Jaramillo, financial vice-president of Colombian
investment holding company Grupo SURA, will speak to Reuters
about a series of public acquisition offers which have made
magnate Jaime Gilinski the company's largest shareholder and the
outlook for the holding.
16 May 

COLOMBIA-GDP/ 
Colombia to release first quarter GDP growth figures
Colombia's government will release gross domestic product growth
figures for the first quarter.
16 May 

USA-NATURAL GAS/INFLATION 
Rising LNG exports, tight natural gas supply squeezes consumers
and industrials
Natural gas prices in the United States peaked at historic
levels in April as global inventories have been critically
tight. The surging costs coincides with a high inflationary
environment that has reverberated across the industrials and the
broader economy.
16 May 02:00 ET / 06:00 GMT

NIGERIA-INFLATION/ 
Nigeria statistics office expected to release latest inflation
data
Nigeria's statistics office is expected to release latest
 inflation data. Analysts expect inflation to rise for the third
straight month as price pressures build.
16 May 05:00 ET / 09:00 GMT

EGYPT-ECONOMY/ (PIX) 
Egypt faces sharp rise in costs to finance proposed $30 bln
deficit
Higher interest rates, a weak currency and investor wariness of
emerging markets suggest Egypt could pay steeply to finance a
projected $30 billion budget deficit for the financial year
starting in July.
16 May 05:00 ET / 09:00 GMT

USA-FED/DIVERSITY (PIX, GRAPHICS) (PIX) 
Powell's Fed getting more diverse, but big gaps remain
By September, eight of the 18 Federal Reserve officials who
determine monetary policy for the world's biggest economy will
be women and five will be people of color - both records - with
more opportunities to diversify further in the months ahead.
Still, large gaps remain.
16 May 06:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

USA-BIDEN/INFLATION 
Biden team sees few inflation options before November midterms
The Biden administration is increasingly aware that it has
little control over short-term inflation, officials and allies
say, and is looking for ways to offset the political risk from
price hikes in the months leading up to the midterms.
16 May 06:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

UKRAINE-CRISIS/AGRICULTURE (TV) 
US, Polish, Ukrainian agriculture ministers meet in Warsaw
Polish Deputy Prime Minister Henryk Kowalczyk meets US Secretary
of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Minister of Agricultural Policy and
Food of Ukraine Mykola Solski and European commissioner for
agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski.
16 May 08:30 ET / 12:30 GMT

USA-FED/WILLIAMS 
New York Federal Reserve Bank President Williams participates in
Mortgage Bankers Association discussion
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams
participates in in moderated discussion before the Mortgage
Bankers Association Secondary and Capital Markets Conference and
Expo, in New York.
16 May 08:55 ET / 12:55 GMT

USA-TRADE/EU-NEWSER (TV) 
Top EU-U.S. officials hold news conference after trade and
technology talks
News conference after trade and technology summit between top EU
officials - Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager and
Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis - and U.S. counterparts
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Trade Representative
Katherine Tai in the Paris suburb of Saclay.
16 May 09:30 ET / 13:30 GMT

POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
    
US-POLAND/YELLEN (TV) 
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to travel to Poland
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to Warsaw ahead
of a G7 finance ministers' meeting that she will attend in
Germany.
16 May 

EMIRATES-USA/ 
US VP Harris visits UAE to offer condolences on president's
death
Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony
Blinken visit Abu Dhabi to pay respects following the death of
the UAE president.
16 May 

USA-ELECTION/PENNSYLVANIA 
Pennsylvania Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman
stroke shakes final days of campaign
Pennsylvania's Democratic U.S. Senate primary, one President Joe
Biden's party's best hopes of adding to its razor-thin majority,
was shaken on Monday, the day after leading contender Lieutenant
Governor John Fetterman said that he had suffered a stroke but
was "feeling much better."
16 May 

USA-GREECE/ (PIX) (TV) 
Biden welcomes Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Kyriakos
Mitsotakis of Greece at White House.
16 May 

UKRAINE-CRISIS/NATO-FINLAND (TV) 
Finland's parliament to debate NATO membership
Finland's parliament to debate NATO membership after the
country's President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna
Marin said Finland must apply to join the NATO military alliance
"without delay".
16 May 04:00 ET / 08:00 GMT

SOMALIA-POLITICS/ 
Somalis react to the election of a new president
Somali citizens and diplomats react to the election of a new
president by lawmakers. The Horn of Africa nation is suffering
from the worst drought in 40 years, increasing violence from an
Islamist insurgency, and rising food prices further squeezing
the poor in a nation where millions already depend on food aid.
16 May 05:00 ET / 09:00 GMT

USA-ELECTION/VOTERS (PIX) 
cing raft of Trump-inspired new voter limits, Democrats gird for
legal battles
When a Forsyth County, Georgia, man last week challenged the
eligibility of 13,000 voters, a power that a new state law gives
individual citizens, it set Democrats and voting-rights
activists scrambling, calling in a high-powered law firm to
protest. County election officials rejected his request, but
party organizers expect to be doing more of this kind of quick
mobilization as the Nov. 8 midterm elections approach, fearing
Republicans will tap provisions in the state's 2021 election law
to try to suppress the vote.
16 May 06:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

USA-ELECTION/RACES 
FACTBOX-Five U.S. midterm primaries to watch May 17 in
Pennsylvania, North Carolina
Voters in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Idaho, Kentucky and hold
nominating primaries on Tuesday where voters will pick their
parties' candidates for the U.S. Congress and other offices,
helping to shape the field for the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
Here are five contests to watch.
16 May 06:00 ET / 10:00 GMT