A file image of Toshifumi Suzuki. | Photo Credit: Reuters Toshifumi Suzuki, the founder of Seven-Eleven Japan and widely regarded as the father of Japan’s convenience store industry, died of heart failure on May 18, Seven & i Holdings said on Monday (May 25, 2026). He was 93. Born in Nagano in 1932, Mr. Suzuki…
Policemen talk to workers as they leave their site accommodation at the foot of the nine-storey building that collapsed under construction in Balibago, Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines, May 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The death toll rose to three on Monday (May 25, 2026) in the collapse of a building under construction near the…
Supporters of Colombian lawyer and right-wing presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella attend a campaign event in Medellin, Colombia, May 24, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Colombia’s Presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigns on Sunday (May 24, 2026) with rallies that drew massive crowds, ahead of a May 31 vote that analysts predict will result…
A top White House official has convened a meeting of the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security later this week to review security for U.S. President Donald Trump after the shooting incident at the annual journalists’ dinner on Saturday (April 25, 2026). The foiled attack at the Washington Hilton hotel, the venue…
Russia pounded Kyiv with a large missile and drone attack early on Sunday(May 24, 2026), killing one person and wounding 20, authorities said, after Moscow threatened retaliation for strikes in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine. Multiple rounds of loud explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital throughout the early hours of the morning, according to AFP journalists….
An Indian-origin cancer specialist who was sentenced in his absence to four years’ imprisonment over alleged coercive behaviour has been struck off the U.K.’s medical register following a tribunal hearing. Dr. Shamir Chandran, an oncologist with the National Health Service (NHS) in north-west England, has denied any wrongdoing and has since left Britain. He was…
Police tape is seen as Secret Service and police block streets around the White House, on Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP A person who approached a White House security checkpoint and began firing at officers has died, according to federal officials. The U.S. Secret Service said in a statement late…
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif with U.S. President Donald Trump and Army Chief and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir. File | Photo Credit: AFP Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday (May 24, 2026) praised Donald Trump for his diplomatic efforts aimed at promoting peace and stability in West Asia, underlining that the U.S. President held…
The United States works with many countries at a “tactical” level, but those relations will not disturb the strategic partnership with India, said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New Delhi on Sunday (May 24). Addressing a joint press conference at the Hyderabad House lawns, Mr. Rubio said the idea of a “free and…
Smoke rises after an Iranian drone was intercepted over the Bahrain Financial Harbour towers, which house the Israeli Embassy, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Manama, Bahrain, March 6, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Bahraini court sentenced nine defendants to life in prison and two others to three years in jail for collaborating…