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MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The House of Representatives in the Philippines voted overwhelmingly to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday over alleged unexplained wealth and threats against the president, as the rift between the camps of the country's top two officials escalated. The House, which is dominated by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s allies, voted 257-25 with nine abstentions. The two impeachment complaints against Duterte, which will now be elevated to the Senate for a trial, mark an initial setback to her plan to seek the presidency in 2028. Shortly before the impeachment vote in the House, Senate President Vicente Sotto III, who had vowed to immediately put the vice president to trial, was ousted by 13 of 24 senators, including supporters of the vice president and her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte.

BANGKOK (AP) - Asia's first defenses against energy shocks from the Iran war are running short and a more consequential second wave of impacts is beginning to hit. When the war started, governments scrambled to adapt to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical artery for energy flowing to Asia. They made difficult trade-offs: saving power at the risk of slowing businesses, prioritizing gas for households at the risk of fertilizer production and dipping into energy stockpiles for temporary relief. But these measures were based on the war lasting only a short time, allowing a quick resumption of energy flows.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The International Criminal Court unsealed Monday an arrest warrant for a prominent Philippine senator linked to the deadly "war on drugs" overseen by ex-President Rodrigo Duterte, which allegedly involved the extrajudicial killings of suspects. The warrant, originally issued confidentially in November, charges Ronald Marapon dela Rosa, a former Philippine national police chief and a Duterte ally, with the crime against humanity of murder of "no less than 32 persons" allegedly committed between July 2016 and the end of April 2018. Duterte, dela Rosa and other police officials have denied authorizing the killings of drug suspects, who, they said, were shot dead after allegedly threatening law enforcers.

BANGKOK (AP) - Thailand 's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose 21st-century political odyssey sharply divided Thai society for decades, was released from a Bangkok prison on Monday after serving eight months of a one-year sentence for a corruption-related charge. A crowd of about 300 supporters and political allies gathered outside the Klong Prem Central Prison to greet the 76-year-old billionaire populist. Thaksin was a telecommunications magnate who founded his own political party in 1998 and served as prime minister from 2001 until a military coup ousted him in 2006 while he was abroad. His ouster triggered nearly two decades of deep and sometimes violent political polarization, while his political machine staged several comebacks even as Thaksin himself stayed in self-imposed exile to escape what he said was political persecution through the courts.

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan summoned a senior Afghan diplomat on Monday to lodge a formal protest over a suicide attack in the country's northwest, bordering Afghanistan, that killed 15 police officers. Islamabad has blamed the late Saturday attack on the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. Pakistani authorities have long accused the Taliban government of sheltering the TTP, a separate group but closely allied to the Afghan Taliban. Kabul denies the charge, saying it doesn't allow militants to use Afghan soil to attack other countries. The complaint was handed to the Afghan charge d'affaires, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that "a detailed investigation into the incident, along with evidence collected and technical intelligence" indicated that the attack was "masterminded by terrorists residing in Afghanistan." Kabul was also told that Islamabad "reserves the right to respond decisively against the perpetrators of this barbaric act," the statement said.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A Turkish Airlines jet caught fire while landing at Nepal's main airport on Monday, prompting the crew to deploy slides to evacuate all passengers safely, officials said. The airline said in a statement that smoke was observed from the landing gear while taxiing and passengers were evacuated as a precaution via slides. Emergency crews at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport extinguished the fire. The airport was shut down on Monday morning but reopened nearly two hours later, after the plane was removed to a safer area at the airport. Flights were operating on schedule later on Monday. There were 277 passengers and 11 crew members on board the Airbus A330 from Istanbul.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Long before this week's trip to China, President Donald Trump was already predicting on social media that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, would "give me a big, fat hug when I get there." But Beijing's deep economic ties to Iran, as well as trade tensions over tariff threats stretching back to Trump's first term, could crimp the good feelings when Trump flies to Beijing this week - even though the Republican president has for years effusively praised Xi, making it clear he sees China's leader as a competitor strong enough to warrant his respect and admiration. Trump lately isn't very fond of long plane rides or extended stretches away from the White House or his properties in Florida and New Jersey.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Rescuers on Indonesia 's remote island of Halmahera found the bodies of two Singaporean hikers on Sunday, two days after they were caught in a volcanic eruption on Mount Dukono, officials said. The bodies of the men, aged 30 and 27, were located a few meters (yards) from where the first victim, an Indonesian female hiker, was found dead on Saturday, Abdul Muhari, the National Disaster Management Agency's spokesperson, said. All three had been about 50 meters (165 feet) from the rim of the main crater. The men's bodies were covered by thick layers of volcanic material, Muhari said, adding that the densely packed material had complicated evacuation efforts and significantly slowed progress.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Tariqul Islam lost his savings after setbacks in his clothing business about a year and a half ago and turned to ride-sharing on his motorbike to make ends meet. Until recently, he spent hours in fuel lines as supply disruptions linked to the war in Iran ripple into Bangladesh. The 53-year-old father of four fears the strain will worsen if the war drags on, saying long hours waiting for fuel have sharply cut his income and made it increasingly difficult to support his family in Dhaka, the nation's capital, including a daughter at university and a son in college.

HONG KONG (AP) - China's exports of passenger cars surged in April, an industry group said Monday, as its carmakers push to expand in overseas markets as domestic sales continue to fall. Exports of passenger cars from China last month jumped almost 85% from a year ago to around 796,000 vehicles, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. That's up from the 748,000 vehicles exported in March. Among them, exports of new energy passenger vehicles, including battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, jumped more than 120% last month from the year before, to about 420,000 units. At home, however, sales of passenger cars dropped 25.5% from the year before to 1.3 million vehicles, marking its sixth straight month of year-on-year declines, CAAM data showed.