London: The price of gold dropped below $4,000 an ounce on Wednesday for the first time since November on expectations of higher US interest rates. Gold slipped 3.4 percent to $3,978.67 an ounce, as higher rates make the dollar and US government bonds more attractive as safe-haven assets than the p»»»

WASHINGTON: A US airstrike killed a senior Daesh group leader in northwest Syria last week, the US military announced on Wednesday. The June 19 strike “killed Ali Husayn Al-Ulaywi and is part of ongoing US efforts to disrupt and eliminate terrorists seeking to attack Americans abroad or the US home»»»

Senate Republican leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters on June 4. Thune will attend a luncheon with President Donald Trump Wednesday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo June 24 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump will meet with Republican senators Wednesday at a luncheon designed to hea»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Al-Manar correspondent: Enemy soldiers have cut off the Ain Arab-Wazzani road and are positioned around one of the houses overlooking it 24»»»

London: London's Metropolitan Police force said Wednesday it will expand the use of drones, artificial intelligence and live facial recognition technology, which has been criticised by rights campaigners. The scale-up plan involves rolling out static facial recognition across central London and hav»»»

TYRE, Lebanon: Heavy equipment operator Bassam Khalil’s bulldozers and excavators are in high demand in south Lebanon’s Tyre these days, as the seaside city tries to pick up the pieces from the latest Israel-Hezbollah war. Residents of destroyed buildings are anxious to comb through the rubble in s»»»

Israeli forces have deliberately targeted and killed Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank, according to a UN inquiry, which says the attacks amount to war crimes and point to genocidal intent. Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Oc»»»

Dubai: The US Embassy in Kuwait has announced the resumption of normal operations after a temporary months-long suspension prompted by security concerns linked to Iranian attacks in the region, the US State Department said on Wednesday. The embassy had halted some activities on February 28 amid hei»»»

Heavy equipment operator Bassam Khalil's bulldozers and excavators are in high demand in south Lebanon's Tyre these days, as the seaside city tries to pick up the pieces from the latest Israel-Hezbollah war. Residents of destroyed buildings are anxious to comb through the rubble in search of their »»»

ConflictsAsiaIran after the war — fragile peace, shattered economyShabnam von HeinThe US has temporarily allowed Iran to export oil and indicated it will provide billions to relieve the crisis triggered by the war. With ordinary Iranians at their limit, however, Tehran already fears new protests. h»»»

President Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department to investigate oil companies that he alleges are price gouging. Photo by Samuel Corum/UPI | License Photo June 24 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department to investigate oil companies that he alleges are price gougi»»»

An Israeli strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon killed two people on Wednesday, Lebanese state media reported, a day after Israeli gunfire killed two people which Hezbollah called a "violation" of a truce between the two sides. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said that "two people were »»»

LONDON: Syria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani met his Dutch counterpart, Tom Berendsen, in Damascus on Wednesday. The ministers discussed ways to boost cooperation between the two countries, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported. The visit was Berendsen’s first»»»

ConflictsAsiaIran enters fragile peace with economy near breaking pointShabnam von HeinThe US has temporarily allowed Iran to export oil and indicated it will provide billions to relieve the crisis triggered by the war. With ordinary Iranians at their limit, however, Tehran already fears new protes»»»

Dissatisfactions with life in the Capital are concentrated around mobility and density: after the traffic issue, 68.3% of Bucharest residents complain about congestion, 49.7% about pollution and the lack of green spaces, and 45.4% about the lack of parking spaces. Rest, time spent with a partner an»»»

PARIS: France’s extreme heat has killed hundreds of thousands of poultry, overwhelming carcass collection services and prompting authorities to consider on-farm burial in the country’s top two poultry-producing regions, agricultural bodies said. The losses come as Western Europe is gripped by a dea»»»

THE HAGUE: Diplomats running the International Criminal Court’s oversight body have decided that prosecutor Karim Khan had an inappropriate ​sexual relationship with a junior staff member and should be fired, two copies of its decision showed. It is the first time details of the decision on accusat»»»

RIYADH: Saudi hospitality developer Amsa Hospitality has signed agreements with Radisson Hotel Group and Accor to create almost 400 hospitality units across Riyadh and Qassim. Announced at the Future Hospitality Summit held in the Kingdom’s capital, the deal with Radisson will see a SR400 million (»»»

Student debt relief activists march near the U.S. Capitol on June 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court on blocked President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief plan from taking effect, delivering rulings in a pair of cases challenging the program. File Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI | License »»»

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stand at a protest against the treatment of detainees at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, N.J. in May. On Tuesday, a judge in California ruled that ICE can no longer make arrests at immigration courts. File Photo by Olga Fedorova/EPA June 24 »»»

Dubai: Traffic is building across several of Dubai's major roads on Wednesday evening as commuters make their way home, with the heaviest congestion reported on routes linking Dubai and Sharjah, according to Google Maps. Long queues are forming on Sheikh Zayed Road (E11), where traffic is slow-movi»»»

US President Donald Trump claimed that “all the Jews” are tired of Benjamin Netanyahu and threatened the Israeli prime minister with “divorce” between the close allies during a phone call, according to a new book by New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. The account comes fro»»»

NEW DELHI: An Air India flight from Delhi to Amritsar briefly entered Pakistani airspace while carrying out a go-around manoeuvre at Amritsar airport, the airline said on Wednesday. The incident involved flight AI479 on June 22 and occurred during the aircraft’s approach to Amritsar, close to the I»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index slipped on Wednesday, shedding 27.19 points, or 0.25 percent, to close at 11,006.80. The benchmark index recorded a total trading turnover of SR4.99 billion ($1.33 billion), with 158 listed stocks advancing and 98 declining. The Kingdom’s parallel mark»»»

Gold prices moved lower in early trading on Tuesday as investors responded to a firmer US dollar and reassessed the outlook for US monetary policy, although uncertainty remains over the Federal Reserve’s next policy moves. Regional financial media reported that spot gold was trading near $4,125 per»»»

BELGRADE - Srbijagas CEO Dusan Bajatovic said on Wednesday Serbia's natural gas deal with Russia had been extended for three more months and that he expected it to also be extended until the New Year. "I have not announced this yet although it has already happened - we have now extended the gas arr»»»

With algae-green water and blue peeling paint, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is set to be drained again, despite US President Donald Trump's recent renovation costing over $14 million. Trump has blamed the problems on "vandalism," claiming a 350-foot gash was deliberately cut into the pool, »»»

France on Wednesday announced its first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory, a doctor who had returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The health ministry said the patient has a "very low" viral load and that contacts are "currently being identified". A positive case of »»»

Dubai: Just days after the United States and Iran signed a framework agreement in Switzerland aimed at ending months of tensions, both sides are offering sharply different accounts of what was actually agreed. According to a New York Times analysis of the negotiations, US President Donald Trump and»»»

June 23 (UPI) -- A skateboarder traveled from California to Florida in just 39 days in an attempt to break his own Guinness World Record. Chad Caruso made the journey of more than 3,000 miles from Venice Beach, Calif., to Jacksonville, Fla., between May 1 and June 8, averaging 72 miles a day. Carus»»»

Dubai: The UAE on Wednesday launched a landmark national campaign against drug abuse and trafficking after experts warned that organised criminal networks were deliberately targeting the country's youth. The campaign was announced by Sheikh Zayed bin Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, chairman of the Nati»»»

The Israeli army said an Israeli drone and troops attacked Wednesday morning "two Hezbollah gunmen" on the Ali al-Taher ridge, near the security zone in south Lebanon, after they "posed a threat" to its forces. Earlier, the Israeli army fired gunshots at two cars in the southern town of Nabatieh al»»»

RIYADH: The National Center for Wildlife has documented the largest known mass migration of the Asir Garra fish in the Kingdom, in the Wadi Turabah basin in western Saudi Arabia. The documentation enhances knowledge of the behavior of endemic freshwater fish species and supports efforts to protect »»»

The EU's ban on petroleum products refined from Russian crude oil in third countries has sharply reduced the flow of Russian-linked fuel into Europe, but significant loopholes remain and products derived from Russian oil continue to reach other Western markets, according to a new analysis by the Ky»»»

The EU's ban on petroleum products refined from Russian crude oil in third countries has sharply reduced the flow of Russian-linked fuel into Europe, but significant loopholes remain and products derived from Russian oil continue to reach other Western markets, according to a new analysis by the Ky»»»

The EU's ban on petroleum products refined from Russian crude oil in third countries has sharply reduced the flow of Russian-linked fuel into Europe, but significant loopholes remain and products derived from Russian oil continue to reach other Western markets, according to a new analysis by the Ky»»»

DUBAI: Model Rawdah Mohamed has collaborated with Danish fine jewelry house Kinraden on a new social media advertising campaign. The Somali-Norwegian model, who has become one of the fashion industry’s most recognizable hijab-wearing figures, recently appeared in an Instagram advertisement for the »»»

Dubai: At six-foot-seven, Dyuti Parruck is hard to miss. When we meet at Dubai's Grand Hyatt for an exclusive interview, he towers over almost everyone in sight. But it isn't just his height that makes the setting significant. Long before the flamboyant designer jackets and capes, luxury cars and N»»»

The mystery began with a snake that wasn't supposed to be there. In March last year, residents near a mountain in Taizhou, eastern China, spotted a large python moving through the area and alerted authorities. The sighting immediately raised questions. Get updated faster and for FREE: Download the »»»

Paris, France: "Grand Theft Auto VI" could start breaking records months ahead of the game's November 19 release, as preorders open at midnight on Thursday for the long-awaited new instalment in the rollicking gangster saga. On track to outsell any other cultural product this year -- or in recorded»»»

DUBAI: The Professional Fighters League has added a welterweight bout to its July 31 card in New York, pairing Egyptian PFL MENA champion Omar “God First” El-Dafrawy against Australian veteran David “The Smiling Assassin” Martinez at UBS Arena in Elmont, Long Island. PFL New York is headlined by un»»»

TOKYO: A Tokyo suburb has announced an emergency spending plan to buy 700 anti-bear sprays for schools and community organizations, the local government told AFP on Wednesday, as the animals increasingly encroach into built-up areas around Japan. Japan saw a record 13 people killed by bears last fi»»»

A total of 625 eight-meter buses are expected to arrive in Bishkek by the end of 2026. It was announced at a meeting of the City Council’s Standing Commission on improving newly annexed territories. City officials said the new public transport will be purchased to meet the needs of residential area»»»

RIYADH: Sustainability may be one of today’s most discussed concepts, but the idea of living within environmental limits is far from new. Long before sustainability became part of public discourse, Bedouin communities across the Arabian Peninsula were already living by many of its principles in a l»»»

Do you love Dubai? Are you always on Instagram and TikTok? We want to hear from you. We’re looking for someone who is equally obsessed with Dubai as much as they are social media. We’re after someone who is always on their phone capturing content and knows about the latest trends before anyone else»»»

The Israeli army on Wednesday fired gunshots at two cars in the southern town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, causing no casualties, the state-run National News Agency said. An Israeli drone meanwhile dropped two stun grenades on the southern town of Baraashit in the Bint Jbeil district. The fighting between»»»

Law enforcement officers detained a foreign national in Osh who had been wanted since 2024 on charges of illegal border crossing. According to the press service of the Internal Affairs Department of Osh region, the arrest took place on June 24. Officers from the anti-extremism and illegal migration»»»

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MELBOURNE: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard used two agents who once lived in Australia to direct arson attacks against Jewish targets in Sydney and Melbourne, the head of Australia’s domestic spy agency said on Wednesday. “Iran continues to view Australia as a legitimate target for covertly directed act»»»

Technical discussions between the United States and Iran, which are being mediated by Pakistan, are to resume next week, a spokesman for Pakistan's foreign ministry told journalists in Islamabad on Wednesday. He said that the talks would presumably happen on Tuesday adding next Monday or Wednesday »»»