PRESIDENT TRUMP MEETS WITH POPE FRANCISAfter a 30-minute meeting with the pope, accompanied only by an interpreter, President Donald Trump tells the pontiff, "I won't forget what you said." U.S. PLANS MILITARY BOOST FOR NATONATO, striving to meet President Donald Trump's demand for more counterterrorism work and greater European defense spending, got a new U.S. pledge of $1.4 billion in military spending for Europe. THE ISLAMIC STATE-LINKED MILITANT FUELING A VIOLENT PHILIPPINE SHOWDOWNAt the center of a gunbattle and hostage standoff between Islamic State-linked militants and government troops in the southern Philippines is a faction leader who is trying to build a caliphate in the troubled region. TAIWAN SETS PATH TO FIRST GAY MARRIAGE LAW IN ASIATaiwan's top court ruled that current law defining marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman was unconstitutional, paving the way for the first same-sex marriage law in Asia. (For continuously updated news from the Wall Street Journal, see WSJ.com at http://wsj.com.)

Source: Wall Street Journal May 24, 2017 21:22 UTC