U.S. TO PUSH SANCTION FOR IMPORTING IRANIAN OIL

WASHINGTON» The Trump administration is poised to tell five nations — including allies Japan, South Korea and Turkey — that they will no longer be exempt from U.S. sanctions if they continue to import oil from Iran, officials said Sunday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to announce on Monday that the administration will not renew sanctions waivers for the five countries when they expire on May 2, three U.S. officials said. The others are China and India.

It was not immediately clear if any of the five would be given additional time to wind down their purchases or if they would be subject to U.S. sanctions on May 3 if they do not immediately halt imports of Iranian oil.

The officials were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of Pompeo’s announcement.

Bahrain king reinstates citizenship of 551.

Bahrain’s king on Sunday reinstated the citizenship of 551 people convicted and stripped of their nationality amid a series of mass trials conducted as part of a years-long crackdown on dissent.

The surprise royal order gave no explanation for King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa’s decision, other than to say that he had the final authority in such cases.

Bahrain, faces widespread international criticism over its continuing crackdown.

Runoff likely to have opposing views of Macedonia’s new name.

SKOPJE,

A presidential election in North Macedonia that gave voters another chance to express an opinion on their country’s new name will go to a runoff after turnout in the first round of voting Sunday was too low for a candidate to win outright, election officials said.

The May 5 runoff is inevitable because the small European country’s election law requires a candidate to get 50 percent plus one of registered voters, not just voters who cast ballots for president, to be elected in the first round. The state electoral commission reported the turnout Sunday was 41.9 percent.

Police: Attacker kills 1 woman, injures 2nd.

Police are questioning a man armed with an ax after a woman was hacked to death and a second woman suffered stab wounds inside a Brooklyn apartment.

The carnage was discovered after the surviving victim hailed an Uber outside the Housing Authority’s Bushwick Houses at 1:30 a.m. Saturday and asked to be taken to a hospital. The possible suspect was reportedly her ex-boyfriend.

Some French protesters urge police suicides.

PARIS» With French police suicides on the rise, Paris authorities are investigating yellow vest protesters who encouraged police to kill themselves.

Radical protesters have clashed with police nearly every weekend for five months on the margins of largely peaceful yellow vest demonstrations demanding more help for France’s beleaguered workers, retirees and students. On Saturday, reporters heard some protesters in Paris shouting “Kill yourselves!” at police.