Volunteers transport an injured victim after recovering from an overturned train coach on a railway track at the site of bomb explosion, in Quetta, Pakistan, on Sunday, May 24, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP At least 24 people were killed on Sunday (May 24, 2026) in a blast targeting a train carrying military personnel in…
Police and members of the Secret Service stand near an EMS truck after blocking streets around the White House, in Washington on May 23, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday (May 24, 2026) that the gunman who opened fire on Secret Service officers outside the White House had a…
An aerial view of water being sprayed onto an overheated 34,000-gallon tank at GKN Aerospace on May 23, 2026 in Garden Grove, California. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP Firefighters warned on Saturday (May 23, 2026) that a tank of toxic chemicals in California is heating up, adding to fears of a catastrophic explosion…
Nineteen people are feared trapped after a building under construction near Manila collapsed early on Sunday (May 24), a local government official said. Officials in Angeles City, around 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of the Philippine capital, said they had received a report at about 3:00 am (1900 GMT on Saturday) that an unfinished nine-storey…
Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks during a rally organized by Venezuelans who live in Panama City,on Saturday, May 23, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado announced on Saturday (May 23, 2026) that she plans to run for presidency again and intends to return to her home…
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf met with chief of Defence Forces of Pakistan, Field Marshal Asim Munir, in Tehran, Iran, on May 23, 2026. | Photo Credit: Iranian Parliament Speaker Office/WANA via Reuters Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday (May 24, 2026) that he hoped Pakistan could soon host the next round…
China will send an astronaut to its space station on Sunday (May 24, 2026) for a year, a record length for the country, enabling the study of long-duration human physiology in space as Beijing works towards its ambition of a crewed moon landing by 2030. The Shenzhou-23 vessel is scheduled to launch at 11:08 p.m….
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday (May 23, 2026) a deal with Iran had been “largely negotiated,” with the proposal including opening the crucial Strait of Hormuz, though the agreement was “subject to finalisation.” “An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalisation between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran,…
Earlier this month, after months of strangling life in Cuba by blockading fuel supplies, the Trump administration moved to indict the 94-year-old former President Raul Castro Ruz over the 1996 shootdown of two civilian aircraft over the Florida Straits. Mr. Castro was then the Defence Minister of Cuba. The then President and Raul’s brother, Fidel…
Congolese children read an advocacy poster as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain outbreak, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 20, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters At the heart of the current outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa is a quirky name —Bundibugyo….