Engineering conglomerate Megawide Construction Corp. reported that its real estate business propelled a 22-percent growth in consolidated net income to ₱532 million in the first six months of 2026, equivalent to 80 percent of its full-year 2025 earnings. “Our performance in the first six months...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and negotiator Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East next week to try to advance plans for an end to the conflict in Gaza after a deal recently announced by the Trump administration ran into Israeli opposition . An official...
Story Clashes between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and government forces in Yemen raged overnight and into Thursday, raising fears that the country 's civil war could reignite and open another front in the Middle East. Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the...
QUSRA, West Bank (AP) — For five nights, Israeli settlers surrounded three Palestinian homes on the outskirts of a town in the occupied West Bank , preventing the families from leaving safely as their food and water supplies dwindled. Qusai Abu Rida was holed up inside with his teenage son...
MOKHA, Yemen (AP) — Crew members of a Yemeni commercial ship who survived a deadly attack by Houthi rebels earlier this week said a second missile struck the vessel just as rescue efforts from the initial strike were underway, causing even more chaos and casualties. In all, three ballistic...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pacific-based aircraft carrier USS George Washington has begun heading toward the Middle East as reports have emerged of mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln . The Lincoln has been supporting the U.S. war against Iran , and its...
NAGOYA (Jiji Press) -- Hiroshi Okuda, who served as president and chairman of Toyota Motor Corp. and chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, died at 93, it was learned Wednesday. Born in the city of Tsu, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, Okuda graduated from Hitotsubashi University...
BEIRUT (AP) — Oil leaking from a tanker grounded off the coast of Oman is not only endangering a nearby island but has now also reached beaches on the Gulf Arab country 's mainland, to the north of the island, Oman’s environment authority said Wednesday. Crude oil has been leaking from...
BEIJING (AP) — Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer who helped ignite China’s explosive economic boom by forcing wrenching change on state industry in the 1990s and leading the country into the World Trade Organization, has died of illness, state media...
MEDINACELI, Spain (AP) — Millions of people crowded cloudless cities and towns in Spain on Wednesday in search of the best views of a total solar eclipse, when the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth briefly plunged parts of the planet into darkness. The crowds brought lawn chairs and umbrellas...
WOLPHAARTSDIJK, Netherlands (AP) — A cloud of dust billows behind Maarten Janse’s tractor as he spreads a mixture of compost, straw and manure over a field to nourish the parched soil. Janse 's farm on the fertile land of the Netherlands ' southwestern Zeeland Province is drying out...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is expected to skip a visit to Tokyo 's war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday, the anniversary of the country 's surrender in World War II, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. She is apparently considering the...
