WASHINGTON: The Treasury Department is due to cut off a major Egyptian bank’s operations in the United Arab Emirates from the US financial system, an official confirmed Friday, as Washington pushes to choke Iran off economically. The move impacts UAE branches of Egypt’s second biggest bank, Banque »»»

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stand by as they check the documentation of a construction worker during a random stop in Minneapolis on Jan. 9 ICE has awarded a $16.7 million no-bid contract to Compliant Technologies for 6,000 shock gloves to be used to detain people by force. File Ph»»»

Emergency services are rushing to find survivors and treat the wounded after a devastating flash flood on the border of Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday killed more than 500 people, with over a thousand still missing. But the remote and rugged terrain, as well as the risk of further flooding from upstr»»»

A glacier broke apart. An ice and rock avalanche followed. Then came an earthquake, before a landslide triggered devastating floods that tore through kilometres of valley. This is what happened along the Nepal-China border, where rescue teams are still trying to recover survivors 48 hours after the»»»

Dubai: The US-Iran standoff still remains uncertain, with US President Donald Trump warning that American military action against Iran may not be over, while Tehran says diplomacy could resume if Washington ends its pressure campaign. For UAE residents, the latest developments are particularly rele»»»

Dubai: What do you do when the life you spent years building no longer exists? For Taiwanese-Filipina expatriate Joanne Tan, the answer was to begin again. Today, Tan uses sound, breathwork, and somatic practices to create spaces where people navigating grief and difficult periods can pause, reconn»»»

WASHINGTON: The United States ​issued more Iran-related sanctions targeting one entity and one ‌individual on Friday ‌after ​Treasury ‌Secretary ⁠Scott ​Bessent earlier ⁠this week threatened further action amid the ⁠ongoing war. The ‌sanctions ‌target ​one ‌entity based ‌in Hong Kong and one person»»»

For the first time in the modern history of the relationship, the European Union sells Russia more goods than it buys from it. The EU used to be one of Russia’s biggest trdae partners but what is left of the turnover folling the imposion of an extreme sanctions regime is a narrow, stubborn residue »»»

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Kevin Warsh speaks at a press conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., on July 29. File Photo by Annabelle Gordon/UPI | License Photo Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Economists and financial markets will be watching closely on Friday when the Federal Reserve Chairman »»»

NUWAKOT, Nepal: Biskila Tamang has not heard from her husband since Wednesday morning. At Maithali Barrack, an army training facility that was turned into a rescue operations center, she stood among more than a thousand people looking to find loved ones who have been missing since a catastrophic fl»»»

Chennai: When Kripa Vaidyanathan’s 27-year-old niece died in an Alaska car crash in 2024, her family in Chennai, India, felt shell-shocked. They questioned why this tragedy would befall them when they had such “immense faith in God.” Vaidyanathan, a yoga instructor, helped her grieving sister get f»»»

Penguin Random House India on Friday issued a statement clarifying that it is not the publisher in India of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love. The clarification came following media reports claiming that the publisher had withdrawn from releasing the memoir in Indi»»»

Geneva: The Beznau nuclear power plant in Switzerland, which was shut down multiple times over the last two months due to summer heatwaves, is fully operational again, Swiss energy company Axpo said Friday. Axpo said the second reactor at the Beznau plant in northern Switzerland, Europe's oldest nu»»»

Phnom Penh: Cambodia said on Friday it had closed more than 700 online scam centres in a crackdown over the past year, detaining nearly 30,000 suspects including a clutch of senior government officials. The Southeast Asian country has emerged as a hub for crime syndicates running fake romantic rela»»»

Hungarian police have arrested a 60-year-old British man who had been wanted internationally for more than two decades over alleged sexual offences committed in the United States. The arrest followed a tip-off from the FBI’s unit based in Hungary, which alerted the Hungarian National Bureau of Inve»»»

LONDON: The Syrian Arab Republic’s Information Ministry has launched an English-language account to “counter disinformation” and present the nation’s position to international audiences. The account, called Syrian Response, went live on Aug. 24 with an introductory message: “There’s a lot of talk a»»»

A portrait of former President Barack Obama is displayed at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington in 2018. It was painted by Kehinde Wiley, another work from whom the United States Embassy in the Dominican Republic has taken down and wants to sell. File Photo by Pat Benic/UPI | »»»

LONDON: The Syrian Arab Republic’s Information Ministry has launched an English-language account to “counter disinformation” and present the nation’s position to international audiences. The account, called Syrian Response, went live on Aug. 24 with an introductory message: “There’s a lot of talk a»»»

Colombian military announced Thursday that a French-Colombian soldier from the French Foreign Legion was kidnapped in early August while travelling in the department of Narino. The kidnappers are believed to be members of the Estado Mayor Central, dissidents from the far-left FARC guerrilla group. »»»

Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in custody in Miami after a federal judge declined to rule on their bail request as they fight extradition to the UK, where they face charges including rape, assault, human trafficking and money laundering. The UK has until mid-September to submit its evidence to»»»

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa appointed Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi as an adviser to the presidency, state media said on Friday. Abdi's appointment comes just days after he dissolved the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as part of an integration agreement with Damascus. Syrian Presiden»»»

In tonight's programme, we speak to a Lagos analyst behind a new report laying out the figures behind abductions. Also, Tanzania's ruling party kicks the vice-president out even after he announces his plans to step down next week. Finally, in Senegal, the first African-manufactured generic drug to »»»

Seven of France's leading candidates locked horns on Thursday in their first debate, eight months ahead of an increasingly tight and crowded election to succeed President Emmanuel Macron. The debate comes less than eight months ahead of the 2027 election to choose France's new leader»»»

Nepalese authorities have resumed rescue operations in the region ‌hit by ‌a devastating flood this week, ‌after a brief suspension due to water breaking through a barrier lake. The devastating flooding in Nepal and Tibet has claimed more than 500 l»»»

Countries including South Korea, India, China, the UK and the EU are ramping up rescue efforts and humanitarian aid after the devastating Nepal-China floods, with hundreds of foreign nationals still missing. Relief operations remain difficult in the Himalayan terrain, while authorities warn that a »»»

At least 472 people have been killed and more than 1,500 remain missing after devastating flash floods hit the Himalayan border between Nepal and China, where over 3,250 people have already been evacuated by helicopter. As rescuers race to find survivors, one of the biggest fears is that the death »»»

At the height of China's controversial one-child policy, children were torn away from their birth families and put up for adoption. FRANCE 24's Yena Lee follows one adoptee, now an adult, who is on a quest to find out more about her background. China opened its doors to international adoption in 19»»»

The death toll continues to rise in the Nepal and Tibet floods as the situation remains fast-moving. The Red Cross says around 93,000 people have been affected. International aid is arriving from several countries, but rescue efforts have been hampered by the difficulty of coordinating operations i»»»

Towards the end of World War II, as US troops advanced across the Pacific, Japan resorted to a desperate strategy: kamikaze attacks. Thousands of Japanese pilots, with an average age of just 21, were ordered to crash their explosive-laden planes into enemy ships. More than 3,800 pilots ga»»»

Survivors of the catastrophic flash floods in Nepal and Tibet, some still missing family members, shared harrowing accounts of their escape from raging floodwaters that brought devastation to the Himalayan border region, leaving more than 550 people dead and some 1,500 missing. Some survivors of th»»»

GENEVA: The UN refugee agency has scaled ​back its budget by 16 percent and lowered its official headcount by around 3,500 as it adapts to new financial constraints at a time when global displacement is forecast to climb to an all-time high next year, according to diplomats and documents seen by Re»»»

MADRID: Spain’s interior minister called for calm on Friday after residents of Ceuta clashed with police during protests against migrants who have remained in the North African enclave following a mass influx. Tensions have been high in the territory of 80,000 people since at least 60,000 people cr»»»

NUWAKOT: Some survivors of the deadly floods on the Nepal-China border ran for their lives, others narrowly missed disaster, but all were eyewitnesses to a major calamity and its aftermath. Rescue crews in helicopters have been plucking survivors from along the valleys ravaged in the tsunami-like f»»»

Former Bulgarian minister and longtime Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) figure Georgi Pirinski has warned that the government of President Rumen Radev is increasingly moving toward a model of concentrated, one-party rule, urging the BSP to adopt a clear political position after the cabinet completes»»»

Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Traffic on a Los Angeles-area freeway faced a salty obstacle when a truck lost a pallet of cheese ball containers into the roadway. The California Highway Patrol confirmed the pickup truck lost about 120 containers of cheese balls on the 105 Freeway in Lynwood shortly after 5 p.m. »»»

Norway's King Haakon VIII automatically succeeded to the throne after his father, King Harald, passed away on Friday. He is the new face of a monarchy long praised for its modernity and modesty, but in recent years it has been beset by woe and scandal, including revelations about the queen's f»»»

King Harald V of Norway, who was Europe's oldest reigning monarch, died at the age of 89, the palace announced on Friday. He is automatically succeeded by his son, King Haakon VIII, the former crown prince. King Harald V of Norway, has died at the age of 89, according to an announcement by the»»»

Following King Harald's death, attention is turning to Crown Prince Haakon, who is set to become Norway's next king after a turbulent year for the royal family. His wife, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, underwent a lung transplant in June and has faced scrutiny over reported past ties to Jeffrey Epstei»»»

Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia" for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, will be given a funeral with “military and state honours”, Serbian Justice Minister Nenad Vujic said Friday. Mladic died Thursday in The Hague where he was serving a life»»»

Almost the entire Villena Treasure, one of Europe's most valuable Bronze Age collections, was stolen from a museum in eastern Spain in a four-minute raid after thieves smashed through a window and bulletproof glass. Police believe several people and vehicles were involved, and suspect the thieves c»»»

Dropping rubbish on a railway platform or leaving waste behind in a train can now cost passengers twice as much, after Indian Railways increased the penalty for violating cleanliness rules from a maximum of Rs500 to Rs1,000. The change has been introduced through an amendment to the Indian Railways»»»

Dubai: There was a time when Rex Bacarra’s biggest concern was not building a career or earning a professional title. It was finding somewhere safe to sleep. The Filipino educator, who now teaches Ethics at Zayed Military University under Rabdan Academy, has once spent almost five years without a p»»»

A federal judge in northern California ruled that the U.S. Defense Department's sanctioning of AI firm Anthropic as a security risk was unlawful. File photo by Adam Vaugham/EPA Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A federal judge in northern California ruled that the U.S. Defense Department's sanctioning of AI firm An»»»

US President Donald Trump has officially renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” as trade-related tensions between Canada and the United States continue to escalate. The premier of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, told Trump to “kiss my a**” this week and threatened to cut electricity supplies»»»

Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova told reporters here on Friday that her Ministry is monitoring the quality of the water in Strumyani to make sure that it is suitable for drinking. After a state of emergency was declared in the village due to a flood caused by an overflowing riv»»»

Nuwakot, Nepal: Rescuers ploughed on with their search Friday for survivors of deadly floods and landslides that struck Nepal and Tibet, with the threat of new torrents complicating their gargantuan task. Emergency teams have recovered 482 bodies after a tsunami-like wall of water and mud crashed d»»»

Founder of Boundary Holding, Rajat Khare, believes Eastern Europe is emerging as one of the world’s most promising ecosystems for deep-technology for innovation, offering access to Artificial Intelligence-driven solutions. He believes Boundary’s exit from Defendec reinstates its long-term convictio»»»

Hussein Mughniyeh Barak Ravid, born on May 22, 1980, in the occupied territories, is hardly a fringe figure wandering around the outskirts of diplomatic journalism. He is one of the most influential correspondents covering US-Israel relations and West Asian geopolitics, serving simultaneously as a »»»

Dubai: Dubai International Airport (DXB) is rolling out more advanced security scanners that will allow passengers to keep laptops, liquids and other items inside their hand luggage, as the airport continues a major technology upgrade aimed at making security checks faster and less intrusive. The d»»»

Hungary’s Parliament has elected Anna Unger Róza as president of the country’s newly established National Asset Protection and Asset Recovery Office (NVVH) in a secret ballot. Unger received 137 votes in favour, seven against and one abstention in Friday’s parliamentary vote. At the same time, MPs »»»