Péter Szentgyörgyvölgyi, the mayor of the 5th district, wrote an open letter to Dávid Vitézy, Minister of Transport and Investment, and to Gergely Karácsony, Lord Mayor of Budapest, after a proposal emerged that would return several important district public spaces to the management of the capital.»»»

The Prime Minister's Office has filed a criminal complaint in connection with the publication of Viktor Orbán's social media content. Fidesz says the complaint is a politically motivated attack on Fanny Kaminski, the former prime minister's press adviser. The person concerned has also rejected the »»»

The 2025 US strikes on Yemen left more than 150 civilians killed, The Washington Post reported, citing a review conducted by the Pentagon. According to The Washington Post, the US strikes left 153 civilians killed and about 250 injured. This is reportedly the Pentagon's first public confirmation th»»»

Motorists travelling from Sharjah to Dubai this morning should allow extra time for their commute, particularly during the peak morning period. The Sharjah-Dubai corridor is among the UAE’s busiest commuter routes, with traffic regularly building on major roads connecting the two emirates. E311, or»»»

Members of the Hungarian Parliament have elected 73-year-old András Baka as the country’s president, Meduza reports. He was nominated for the post by the ruling Tisza party. The position became vacant after the country’s new Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, forced the resignation of Tamás Sulyok, a pr»»»

President Donald Trump has confirmed that US security officials secretly moved him to a different aircraft after the NATO summit in Turkey last month because of a potential threat linked to Iran. Trump said the decision was made by the Secret Service and the military. The disclosure follows reporti»»»

MONTGOMERY, Alabama: Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma plan to execute inmates Thursday in what would be the first time in nearly 16 years that three people are put to death on the same day in the United States. The executions come as a small number of states, including the three with scheduled letha»»»

SAN ISIDRO, Argentina: Diego Maradona showed “warning signs” that went unheeded during the home hospitalization leading up to his death in 2020, a witness on Tuesday told the trial examining the Argentine football legend’s demise. Seven health care professionals have been on trial since mid-April i»»»

SEOUL, South Korea: North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward the sea on Wednesday, its neighbors said, the second such weapons testing activity in less than a week. The series of launch events were likely a protest of the upcoming Korea-US military drills that North Korea views as an invasio»»»

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday ​the plane he flew on after he secretly took a military flight from Turkiye last month ‌was “at greater ‌risk.” The switch ​involved ‌the ⁠Republican ​president being ⁠moved between aircraft in a catering truck because of worries over reports »»»

TOKYO: Tropical storm Chan-hom moved westward Wednesday after making landfall in the greater Tokyo region the night before, knocking down trees and leaving thousands of homes without power. Five people suffered minor injuries. Chan-hom was significantly weakened after making landfall in southern Ib»»»

Dubai: You do not need an address to get to Pakistani Chowk. You need a taxi and a driver who understands you, and in Sharjah's Al Mujarrah, he will get you there. "When you ask a taxi driver that you want to go to Pakistan Chowk, you don't have to tell him how to get there," says Sohail Khawar. "Y»»»

CAIRO: Firefighters in western Libya battled late on Tuesday to extinguish a massive fire caused by a drone strike on an oil facility the day before, when their town on the Mediterranean coast came under a wave of drone attacks targeting key oil installations. Drone strikes continued on Tuesday, hi»»»

Dubai: Spinneys, the DFM-listed premium grocer, turned to a new road freight corridor linking the UK and Europe with the UAE after disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz caused food shipments to be delayed by weeks and pushed container costs sharply higher, the supermarket chain’s chief executive »»»

North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast towards Japan early on Wednesday, Seoul's military said, days before the planned start of massive US-South Korea joint drills. The 11-day exercises due to begin on Monday are a regular fixture of the summer calendar, designed to steel the Uni»»»

Direct US military aid deliveries to Ukraine plummeted by more than 50% in 2026 as contract fulfillment under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative slowed from an average of $587 million per month in 2025 to $265 million per month this year, Sputnik found after analyzing public records from th»»»

Running a country is not exactly a nine-to-five operation. There are late-night negotiations, early-morning briefings, emergencies that refuse to observe time zones and an endless line-up of meetings, speeches and travel. But just how little sleep can a world leader get away with? That question gai»»»

Dubai: Three minutes. That’s roughly all it took for Usha Uthup to become Usha Uthup. When the legendary Indian singer first logged onto our zoom video call, there had been a small but crucial miscommunication: she had been told it was an audio interview. “I thought this was not a video chat,” she »»»

Abu Dhabi: As the UAE marks International Youth Day, TAQA Transmission is placing youth development at the centre of its workforce strategy, in step with Abu Dhabi's Economic Vision 2030 and the UAE's Net Zero 2050 ambitions. As the company invests in grid resilience, smart networks and next-genera»»»

A former US Marine detained by Russia since 2022 was headed back to the United States on Tuesday after being released on humanitarian grounds, President Donald Trump said. Robert Gilman, a teacher from Massachusetts, had been serving a ten-year prison sentence over disputed charges of assaulting a »»»

Dubai: A Dubai-based Indian expat's journey home for Onam celebration with family ended in heartbreak after he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest at Hyderabad airport, just hours before he was due to reunite with his family in Kerala. The deceased has been identified as Saneesh Babu, 48, who worked as»»»

Mumbai: Actress and talk-show host Drew Barrymore opened up about the emotional toll of divorce, revealing that it took her years to move on. In a video, Barrymore is seen talking to an audience member on her show. In the clip, the actress is heard saying: “Divorce took me years to get over. I know»»»

The Social Security Administration headquarters is seen in Gwynn Oak, Md. The SSA announced Tuesday that it has added 14 conditions to its compassionate allowances list. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The Social Security Administration announced Tuesday that it has a»»»

The United States and some 40 other countries warned Tuesday of the dangers of ballistic missile testing without advance notice, in a joint statement issued a month after China launched a nuclear-capable missile in the Pacific. "Conducting nuclear-capable ballistic missile tests without sufficient »»»

Share: Lebanon President Joseph Aoun revealed Tuesday that the negotiations with Israel and the US are “making progress,” stressing they are the only viable option; “in any case the talks are better than the devastating results of war.” “The scale of Israeli attacks on our country has decreased sin»»»

Iran has hardened its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, with a senior official saying the strategic waterway will remain closed unless its conditions are met: Mohsen Rezaei, the newly-appointed secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said that Tehran would not reopen the»»»

Oil markets are sending a contradictory signal: Brent crude is back around $90 a barrel even as investors continue to price the possibility that the Strait of Hormuz could eventually reopen. The tension reflects a key problem facing the global economy: A diplomatic agreement could restore shipping »»»

MADRID: Spanish police said Tuesday they have dismantled a criminal ring accused of recruiting unaccompanied migrant girls from care centers in Gran Canaria and moving them to mainland Spain and France, where some were sexually exploited. The operation comes as migration debates have returned to th»»»

ZAWIYAH, Libya: Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Tuesday evening that all the fires sparked by drone attacks on the country’s second-largest oil refinery had been contained. On Monday night, a large gasoline reservoir west of the capital caught fire and collapsed after it was “struck »»»

DAMASCUS: Bashar Assad’s 24-year rule of Syria ended abruptly in December 2024 following a lightning advance by rebel forces who struck while the Russian ‌and Iranian allies who had backed him through years of civil war were distracted by conflicts elsewhere. He fled to Moscow, ending more than fiv»»»

WASHINGTON, United States: A secret operation that reportedly smuggled Donald Trump off Air Force One in a catering truck before the plane departed carrying journalists and top aides at apparent risk of an Iranian strike has raised questions over US security practices. The Washington Post reported »»»

LONDON: For almost a quarter of a century, Bashar Assad stood at the apex of a Syrian state in which the president appeared beyond the reach of its courts. On Tuesday, that relationship was dramatically reversed. Syria’s Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus sentenced the ousted president to death in a»»»

Satyendra Pathak Doha Qatar’seconomy demonstrated strong resilience and continued diversification in 2025, despite a challenging global economic environment, according to the Qatar Central Bank’s (QCB) 2025 annual macroeconomic review. The country’s real GDP grew 2.9 percent, while non-hydrocarbon »»»

Tribune News Network Doha Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, has signed an agreement with The View Hospital to offer its umbilical cord blood banking services to expectant families. The partnership expands access to one of Qatar’s most advanced cord blood banking programmes, giving paren»»»

LONDON: The Syrian Arab Republic’s Tartous Port began commercial operations at Quay No. 4 on Tuesday, after the berth received its first vessel, expanding the port’s cargo-handling capacity and aiming to cut wait times for large ships. The vessel docked at the newly opened quay and began unloading »»»

Conakry: At least four people were killed and several others injured early Tuesday after a building under construction collapsed in the Guinean capital of Conakry, authorities said. According to Guinea's Minister of Urban Planning, Housing and Territorial Development Mohamed Lamine Sy Savane, who w»»»

HAVANA: As Cuba marks 100 years since Fidel Castro’s birth, Cubans are questioning the promises of the socialist revolution he led for nearly half a century, and asking whether his successors are up to the job. Cuba’s Communist Party has spent the week celebrating the late revolutionary leader with»»»

DUBAI: Al-Nassr star Cristiano Ronaldo and longtime partner Georgina Rodriguez have tied the knot after a decade together, marrying in an intimate ceremony in Portugal on Tuesday. Ronaldo shared the news on Instagram with a photograph of the couple’s wedding bands captioned: “C❤️G.” The Portuguese »»»

LONDON: Colombia on Monday recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Syrian Arab Republic’s Golan Heights, becoming only the second UN member state to do so after the US recognized Israel’s claim in 2019. The Aug. 10 announcement was among new President Abelardo de la Espriella’s first major foreign »»»

CAIRO: Egypt ‌winger Mahmoud Hassan, better known by his nickname “Trezeguet,” has joined Saudi Pro League club Al-Riyadh on a free transfer after terminating his contract with Egyptian side ‌Al-Ahly last ‌month, the ‌club ⁠announced on Tuesday. “Welcome, ⁠Trezegoal! Mahmoud Trezeguet is officially»»»

A ship waits in the Strait of Hormuz in May. The Houthis have attacked a commercial ship traveling in the Red Sea. By Ismael Mohamad/UPI | License Photo Aug. 11 (UPI) -- At least six people were killed Tuesday when Houthi militia attacked a cargo ship with missiles in the Red Sea, the Yemeni govern»»»

A U.S. Marine waits for U.S. President Donald Trump on June 1 at Joint Base Andrews, Md. Russia has released Robert Gilman, a former U.S. Marine detained in 2022, and Gilman is expected to arrive Tuesday at the base. Photo by Samuel Corum/UPI | License Photo Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Robert Gilman, a former»»»

WASHINGTON: A US helicopter on Tuesday fired missiles into the engine room of a Panama-flagged cargo ship that attempted to break the American blockade of Iran’s ports, the United States military said. The US Navy MH-60 helicopter fired on and disabled the M/V Vela Nova “after the ship’s civilian c»»»

RIYADH: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed that his country’s relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are a “strategic relationship,” revealing that the coming phase will witness steps that would “elevate relations between the two countries to much higher levels.” He stated that the»»»

RIYADH: Al-Ittihad ensured their return to the continental stage with a comfortable 4-1 victory over Al-Jazira in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday that secured their place in the 16-team West Region division of the AFC Champions League Elite. A first-half brace from Steven Bergwijn gave the Tigers a comfortabl»»»

NEW YORK CITY: The West Bank is nearing collapse and Israel is advancing a “de facto annexation” of the territory through the acceleration of settlement construction, mass displacements and record levels of settler violence, senior UN officials told the Security Council on Tuesday. Ramiz Alakbarov,»»»

LUSAKA: Tens of thousands of supporters of Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema thronged the capital Lusaka Tuesday as he made a last-ditch effort to sway undecided voters two days before the election. His main challenger at Thursday’s vote, newcomer Brian Mundubile, meanwhile alleged a pattern of »»»

HARARE: A ferry carrying 95 people capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe Tuesday, police said, with rescue operations under way as reports said several people were feared dead. The boat, which provides transport between the northern town of Kariba and several islands and fishing camps, overturned aft»»»

Salzburg, Austria: Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique says the European champions "want to win everything" this season, ahead of their first chance of silverware in Wednesday's UEFA Super Cup final against Aston Villa. PSG secured their second straight Champions League title last term, as well »»»

RIYADH: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed that his country's relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are a "strategic relationship," revealing that the coming phase will witness steps that would "elevate relations between the two countries to much higher levels." He stated that the»»»