The day’s world news is marked by reckonings, risks and remembrance. At the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV delivered an extraordinary apology for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery, calling the Church’s failure to condemn it for centuries “a wound in Christian memory” and issuing what many see as an unprecedented act of institutional contrition. In Japan, authorities sealed off part of Tokyo’s Ginza district after a man sprayed an unidentified substance inside a luxury mall, sending about 20 people to hospital and prompting a major hazmat response. Japan is also mourning Toshifumi Suzuki, the retail visionary who helped make 7-Eleven and the modern conbini central to daily life, dead at 93. In Australia, tributes are pouring in for Neale Daniher, the former AFL captain turned tireless motor neurone disease advocate, who has died at 65. And in Saudi Arabia, the Hajj begins under punishing heat and the shadow of regional conflict.