Nepal held general elections in 2026 to choose members of its Parliament.
A newer political party called Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) won the election by a large number of seats. Their leader, Balendra Shah, a former rapper and mayor, was sworn in as Prime Minister.
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The Nepal General Elections 2026 were "snap" (early) elections held as a direct result of a massive youth-led uprising in September 2025 that toppled the previous government.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi visited
Tehran from May 16-18, 2026 to meet with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian
and prevent ongoing ceasefire negotiations from collapsing.
Field Marshal Asim Munir also led a high-level
delegation to Tehran on May 22, 2026, where he held extensive talks with
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and other senior officials regarding a
framework to end the conflict.
On 22 May 2026, a deadly coal mine explosion that killed dozens of people occurred in Shanxi province.
The gas explosion took place at the Liushenyu coal mine
The blast trapped hundreds of miners underground and resulted in at least 90 fatalities, making it one of China's deadliest mining disasters in recent years.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the
May 2026 Ebola outbreak a 'Public Health Emergency of International Concern'
based on an epidemic centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
which subsequently spread across the border into Uganda.
The International Booker Prize is a major literary award that recognizes the best works of fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.
