BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union reached a unanimous political agreement Monday to issue new sanctions on Hamas leaders and the Israeli settler movement, top European diplomats said, after years of deadlock and growing popular pressure sparked by the carnage in Gaza.

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.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

Today is Monday, May 11, the 131st day of 2026. There are 234 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 11, 1997, the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in the final game of a six-game match in New York, winning 3 ½-2 ½ and marking the first time a computer won a match against a reigning world champion.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – A 37-year-old man accused of a bomb attack on the Dutch premier’s party headquarters is suspected of acting with terrorist intent, prosecutors said Monday as he faced an arraignment hearing where a judge ordered his detention extended by two weeks.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes were essentially flat in April, another lackluster showing for the housing market during what’s traditionally its busiest time of the year.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) – The South African Parliament said Monday it will establish an impeachment committee to reinvestigate four-year-old allegations that President Cyril Ramaphosa committed serious misconduct by hiding the theft of more than half a million dollars in cash, which had been stashed in a sofa at his game ranch.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats on Monday filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a Virginia ruling invalidating a ballot measure that would have given their party an additional four winnable U.S. House seats.