Bulgaria needs an independent president who can set the direction and act as a check on those in power, presidential candidate Andrey Gurov said at a meeting with citizens in Razgrad. He noted that the presidency should not only oversee the actions of the executive branch but also propose solutions»»»

VARNA, Bulgaria: Suspected Russian drones struck two cargo ships off Bulgaria Tuesday, sinking one vessel and leaving 11 sailors missing in the latest spillover from the Ukraine war in the Black Sea. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev summoned the Russian ambassador after drones struck a Ukrainia»»»

BELGRADE - Serbian caretaker PM Djuro Macut met on Tuesday with Serbian Orthodox Bishop Heruvim of Osijek-Polje and Baranja and a group of Serb students from Croatia who are studying at Serbian state universities free of charge thanks to the Serbia For Serbs From The Region scholarship programme. M»»»

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday that displaced residents of a Palestinian refugee camp would not be allowed to return to their homes, after the supreme court ordered the government to provide a timetable for their return. In a video statement filmed in the vicinit»»»

By Staff, Agencies The Yemen Petroleum Company’s facility in al-Sabaha, west of Sanaa, contained no petroleum products and had no military value, according to a company source cited by Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree. The statement came after Saudi Arabia threatened t»»»

Low voter turnout calls the legitimacy of the president into question, presidential candidate Ivan Hristanov told journalists in Burgas. He was accompanied by vice-presidential candidate Stoyanka Cherkezova. Hristanov called on the media to provide candidates with greater opportunities to present t»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet on Tuesday commended the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen for its military operations against the Houthis, and warned that the group would face consequences for its repeated attacks on the Kingdom. The Council of Ministers also pledged to protect freedom of na»»»

Two merchant ships were struck by drones in the Black Sea just outside Bulgaria's territorial waters early on Tuesday, leaving one vessel sunk, 11 crew members missing and several sailors injured. Bulgarian authorities launched rescue operations, while Prime Minister Rumen Radev sought support from»»»

STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s Social Democratic party leader Magdalena Andersson said Tuesday she had failed to form a government with the three other parties in the left-wing bloc following last month’s election. “My overall assessment is that progress has been made, but at the same time, the conditions are»»»

BENGALURU: An influential Hindu nationalist group close to India’s ruling party urged the government on Tuesday to block Elon Musk’s Starlink from launching satellite Internet services in the country, citing national security concerns. Starlink’s four-year wait to launch in India has come under ren»»»

By Staff, Agencies Statement by Hezbollah Executive Council Chairman Sheikh Ali Damoush at a press conference announcing the housing assistance program at the Ghobeiry Municipality Center in Beirut’s southern suburbs on October 13, 2026. The Chairman of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Sheikh Ali Dam»»»

MIAMI: A Florida prisoner who claimed he killed his cellmate so he could be moved to death row is set to be executed Tuesday, nearly 18 years after the fatal attack. James Robertson, 63, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and waived all appeals in the 2008 strangling of Frank Hart. Robertson is »»»

BRUSSELS: The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Monday that Palestinian legislative elections should be held “as soon as possible,” after they were delayed to 2027. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday postponed the polls — due to be held on November 28 — to September next year, officia»»»

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s religious affairs minister on Tuesday strongly condemned Houthi attacks hitting civilian infrastructure and Umrah pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, saying Islamabad considers any attack on the Kingdom as an attack on Pakistan under its defense agreements with Saudi Arabia. Religious A»»»

LONDON: Egypt will provide “any kind of support” to Saudi Arabia, the country’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, amid a wave of attacks on the Kingdom by the Houthi militia in Yemen. Asked if his country would offer military support to its Gulf ally, Badr Abdelatty told Bloomberg TV: “Whatever is »»»

CAIRO: In a Cairo cemetery shaded by palms and tangled shrubs, pale graves are packed so tightly that in some places only narrow strips of sand and broken pavement separate one family’s plot from the next. This is the last remaining burial place of Egypt’s Baha’i community, a religious minority lon»»»

LONDON: An Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane bound for Israel returned to Addis Ababa overnight on Sunday after Israeli authorities denied it permission to land because its pilot was an Indonesian citizen, Israeli media reported on Tuesday. The decision followed tighter restrictions on foreign airline»»»

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s religious affairs minister on Tuesday strongly condemned Houthi attacks hitting civilian infrastructure and Umrah pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, saying Islamabad considers any attack on the Kingdom as an attack on Pakistan under its defense agreements with Saudi Arabia. Religious A»»»

RAMALLAH: Israeli army fire wounded two Palestinians on Tuesday during a raid in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry. A hospital in the city received “a young man with a serious gunshot wound to the lower back and a 14-year-old with a live bu»»»

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s religious affairs minister on Tuesday strongly condemned Houthi attacks hitting civilian infrastructure and Umrah pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, saying Islamabad considers any attack on the Kingdom as an attack on Pakistan under its defense agreements with Saudi Arabia. Religious A»»»

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s resources are at Saudi Arabia’s disposal to help protect the Kingdom and Islam’s holy sites, the country’s defense minister said on Tuesday. The statement highighting Islamabad’s commitment to Saudi Arabia’s security followed a series of attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi »»»

Bulgarian MEPs Andrey Novakov and Emil Radev of GERB/EPP are initiating a visit to Sofia and Varna by a delegation of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) over the next two weeks in connection with attacks on commercial vessels in the Black Sea, GERB’s press office said. The delegation will in»»»

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is deliberately prolonging the conflict with Russia to avoid being held accountable for his policies and rampant corruption within his inner circle, Polish MEP Ewa Zajaczkowska-Hernik has said. Zajaczkowska-Hernik’s remarks came after Zelensky demanded a 60-day “total tr»»»

The Warsaw Security Forum has long been a soapbox for Eastern Europe’s most belligerent elites to air their fantasies of inflicting a military defeat upon Russia. This year, with nuclear weapons on the table, the forum has taken on a dangerous new dimension. Running from Monday to Tuesday in the Po»»»

BANGKOK: The United Nations Development Programme on Tuesday announced new initiatives to help attract investors and jobs to developing countries, which are being rocked by crises outside their control amid a sharp drop in official development aid. UNDP Administrator Alexander De Croo said the agen»»»

LONDON: Israel’s military on Tuesday said an unidentified object that triggered air raid sirens in a village near the Lebanese border over the weekend was likely a balloon, not a drone. The object set off sirens on Saturday night in Arab Al-Aramshe, in the Western Galilee, Israeli media reported. A»»»

RIYADH: The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen warned civilians on Tuesday to leave a fuel facility in the Houthi-controlled capital, Sanaa, ahead of a planned precision operation. Coalition spokesman Turki Al-Maliki urged civilians to evacuate the Yemen Petroleum Company’s Al-Sabahah central»»»

CEUTA, Spain: Cheering crowds waving Spanish flags filled Ceuta on Tuesday as King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia made a diplomatically sensitive visit to the city following July’s migrant influx from Morocco. Their trip is the first royal visit since 2007, when a diplomatic crisis erupted with neighb»»»

Ahmed Al Rajhi reassures attendees as emergency alerts sound during his speech in Riyadh Dubai: A video has gone viral on social media showing Saudi Arabia's Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, Ahmed bin Sulaiman Al Rajhi, reassuring an audience after an emergency warning alert soun»»»

A Saudi aggression targeted the oil company in Al-Sabaha, west of Sana’a, after issuing a warning to evacuate it. Brigadier General Yahya Saree stated that “our armed forces are currently confronting the Saudi enemy’s combat formations targeting the capital, Sana’a.” Saree added that a source at th»»»

France's embassy in Saudi Arabia told its citizens to avoid the airports in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam on Tuesday as fighting escalates between a Saudi-led coalition and Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have been attacking Saudi airports and oil facilities since last week. The French embassy i»»»

Haskovo District Court ordered the temporary detention of Russian citizen Anzor Unezhev, 40, for up to 40 days pending extradition proceedings, the court said on Tuesday. Unezhev was arrested on October 10 near the village of Sladun, close to the border with Turkiye, after entering Bulgaria without»»»

THE HAGUE: Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay urged the United States on Tuesday to resume its traditional role of defender of human rights and freedom for the rest of the world as Washington campaigns to undermine the International Criminal Court. “My message is: ‘You have to get back to playing»»»

A 14-year-old pupil suspected of shooting and wounding a headmaster and teacher near Marseille may have been involved in an online network associated with the glorification of mass killers known as the True Crime Community, prompting France’s anti-terror prosecutor to take over the case. The French»»»

Bulgaria will deploy two additional unmanned systems and strengthen monitoring of the Black Sea as attacks on commercial vessels bring the conflict closer to its territorial waters, Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov told journalists at the National Assembly. “Escalation is already underway and cont»»»

Thelyson Orelien was accused of using AI to write his French-language novel A top-selling Haitian-Canadian writer who was accused of using AI to write his breakthrough debut novel denied the allegations Tuesday in his first detailed response to the scandal, while acknowleding past plagiarism "mista»»»

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia are visiting Ceuta months after more than 70,000 migrants arrived from Morocco. While most have returned, thousands remain. The visit has divided residents and risks reigniting diplomatic tensions with Morocco, which claims sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla.»»»

Russia hammered Ukrainian cities and transport links overnight into Tuesday, killing at least four people in the city of Kharkiv, while appearing to spare energy facilities for the first time since US President Donald Trump announced an "energy ceasefire" at the weekend. It was not clear wheth»»»

Police in Dimitrovgrad are investigating the killing of a 67-year-old man whose body was found wrapped in a blanket in the trunk of a crashed car, with his 32-year-old wife and her 14-year-old son detained on suspicion of involvement, the Regional Directorate of the Interior Ministry in Haskovo sai»»»

RAHAT: Under an overcast sky in southern Israel, Bedouin villagers wandered through the rubble of what used to be their homes, the latest to be demolished after being deemed illegal structures by Israeli authorities. The residents of Al-Dahiya in the Negev desert say they have nowhere else to go af»»»

JEDDAH: Egyptians and Qataris offered their homes, cars and food to Saudi citizens affected by flight cancellations and delays, responding to appeals from Saudi diplomatic missions with messages of solidarity. The Saudi Embassy in Cairo urged citizens in Egypt whose flights or onward journeys had b»»»

The Red Cross called Tuesday for urgent de-escalation in the Middle East, warning that further fighting would be disastrous for tens of millions of civilians. Yemen's civil war -- in which a Saudi-led military coalition supports the government against the Iran-backed Houthis -- reignited in July, m»»»

Houthi-linked media Al-Masirah said Tuesday the Saudi-led coalition has carried out airstrikes against oil facilities in west of Sanaa. It didn’t not provide any evidence. The report came shortly after a warning from the Saudi-led coalition spokesman calling on residents in the area to evacuate for»»»

Residents of Budapest’s inner districts say some streets have become places they avoid even during the day, while others feel unsafe after dark. Protesters are demanding hundreds of additional police officers, permanent patrols and tougher measures against drug dealing and public disorder at a demo»»»

Real estate consultancy Colliers is expanding its Office Leasing team, with Simona Urse joining the company as Associate Director | Tenant Services. With 20 years of experience in real estate, including 14 years in the office sector, Simona will work with companies reassessing their space requireme»»»

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron was to host Chadian counterpart Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno in Paris on Tuesday as the two rebuild ties nearly two years after N’Djamena ordered French forces off its soil, officials said. Macron’s office said Monday the leaders were seeking “to relaunch a partn»»»

Execution scheduled for Florida man who waived appeals after killing cellmate A Florida prisoner who claimed he killed his cellmate so he could be moved to death row is set to be executed on Tuesday, nearly 18 years after the fatal attack. James Robertson, 63, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder »»»

WASHINGTON: Trump appointee Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece, has been asked to resign from her post after coming under severe criticism over allegations she has engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct before and during her tenure in Athens, new Trump press secretary Katie Z»»»

SAINT-DENIS, France: Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joined protesters outside a high school in a working-class suburb of Paris on Tuesday as French pupils took to the streets for another day of demonstrations over poor learning conditions. Now in its fourth week, the nationwide protest movement ov»»»

Major investments cover real estate, aviation, transport, utilities, public infrastructure Dubai: Dubai has more than Dh2 trillion worth of projects under way and is preparing for a new phase of growth, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE»»»