WASHINGTON: US authorities arrested a person in Washington state on Tuesday who they accuse of providing advice and offering to live stream a deadly mass shooting carried out last year in Canada. James Cody Bryant, 30, was detained on a charge of conspiracy to murder people in a foreign country in »»»

LILLE, France: French authorities said Tuesday they have arrested four Ukrainians suspected of carrying out daring highway heists that involved them jumping onto moving trucks to rob them of consumer electronics. The suspected gang were arrested last week, the prosecutor for the northern city of Be»»»

RAMALLAH: Israel has barred Palestinian election officials from entering Gaza and Jerusalem to prepare for November’s long-awaited legislative elections, creating a fresh obstacle to the first Palestinian parliamentary vote in two decades. The Palestinian Central Elections Commission was prevented »»»

STOCKHOLM: Swedish police said Tuesday they shot an armed man outside the Royal Palace in central Stockholm after receiving reports of a disruptive individual carrying a weapon. Police said officers responding to the incident opened fire on the man. “The man was hit and taken to hospital,” Stockhol»»»

DAMASCUS: Syrian authorities have arrested a Daesh military commander accused of overseeing and planning a December 2025 bombing at a mosque in Homs that killed eight people and wounded 18 others. Syria’s Interior Ministry said intelligence and security forces detained Khaled Raed Birouni, also kno»»»

France and Germany are pressing Brussels to take a tougher line on China by creating new powers that could rapidly shut foreign countries out of the EU market. The proposal effectively tells Brussels to beef up its position as it prepares for negotiations with Beijing. It also marks a shift for Ger»»»

Hungary and Croatia have agreed to launch a joint natural gas exploration and production project, Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán and Minister for Economic and Energy Affairs István Kapitány announced following talks in Zagreb. The ministers held discussions with Croatian Economy Minister An»»»

The European Commission has formally presented Communication COM(2026) 705 final, titled “Preparing for a Larger Union,” outlining a strategic roadmap for adapting the European Union’s institutions, policies and budget ahead of future enlargement. The document proposes significant changes to the EU»»»

Representatives of the parliamentary Committee on Defence and Committee on Internal Security and Public Order met with a delegation from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance on Tuesday. They discussed the possibility of US experts assisting Bulgaria in dev»»»

RIYADH: Measuring impact and linking funding to results have become an urgent necessity, experts and specialists participating in the Global CSR Forum 2026 told Arab News. Spending levels and the number of beneficiaries are no longer sufficient to assess the success of initiatives, they noted, with»»»

IRKUTSK, Russia: Reports of a plague laboratory worker’s death in Siberia have caused waves of speculation outside Russia, but in the city where she worked, many appeared unfazed. The laboratory worker’s death was first reported on Friday. Several Russian media outlets reported she had died from pn»»»

Residents in Irkutsk questioned whether the laboratory worker had died of plague at all Irkutsk: Reports of a plague laboratory worker's death in Siberia have caused waves of speculation outside Russia, but in the city where she worked, many appeared unfazed. The laboratory worker's death was first»»»

PAPHOS, Cyprus: A British man accidentally let his 3-year-old slip from his hands as he held the child up to look out a hotel window in Cyprus, causing him to fall to his death, a defense lawyer told a court Tuesday. The account was part of evidence that was read out for the first time in court by »»»

Two merchant ships were attacked by naval and aerial drones in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone in the early hours of Tuesday. The first vessel, the Togolese-flagged Alfa Watan, sank east of the Bulgarian coast, and its crew remains unaccounted for. The second, the Palau-flagged Able, caught fire»»»

The European Commission has proposed up to 15 years of post-accession safeguards to punish new member states in case of bad behaviour, in a long-delayed pre-enlargement policy review out on Tuesday (6 October). The reforms were initially requested by the European Council in June 2024 to be ready by»»»

The American “Israel” Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), for decades one of Washington’s most powerful pro-Israeli occupation lobbying groups, is steadily losing influence as it maintains its unconditional support for “Israel” and moves increasingly closer to the Republican Party, even as criticism »»»

Hungary can only be a truly European country if it remains true to itself, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said in Gyula on Tuesday, 6 October, at a commemoration marking the 177th anniversary of the execution of the Martyrs of Arad. Magyar delivered his speech at the memorial to the military officers »»»

Police said officers responding to the incident opened fire on the man Stockholm: Swedish police said Tuesday they shot an armed man outside the Royal Palace in central Stockholm after receiving reports of a disruptive individual carrying a weapon. Police said officers responding to the incident op»»»

London: Stock markets firmed Tuesday as oil prices retreated on easing supply worries, helping to temper concerns about rising government borrowing costs. On Wall Street, the technology-focused Nasdaq index advanced 0.8 percent, coming off a record high set on Monday driven by AI enthusiasm. That b»»»

After 28 years and 29 countries, British adventurer Karl Bushby finally reached UK soil London: A British adventurer on a 50,000-kilometre, 28-year trek home from South America without using any transport has set foot on UK soil after swimming the Channel, his publicists said Tuesday. Karl Bushby, »»»

Speaking on the Bulgarian National Television, Chief of Defence Admiral Emil Eftimov said that the crew of a merchant vessel that sank following Tuesday’s drone attack in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone had only three minutes to react, which explains the lack of rescue actions. He noted that the»»»

MADRID: A Spanish judge on Tuesday lifted an arrest warrant for exiled former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, paving the way for his return to Spain ahead of a general election in November. Puigdemont, who fled to Belgium after Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid, hailed the decis»»»

TEL AVIV: Britain is ​considering expelling Israeli diplomats if Israel carries out its order to shut the British consulate in East Jerusalem this week in a dispute over sanctions targeting Israeli settlements, four sources said. Israel on September 8 ordered Britain to close the East Jerusalem con»»»

PARIS: Embattled FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been accused of a potential abuse of power and conflict of interest after the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) filed formal complaints to two FIFA committees. They revolve around three matters: Infantino’s aborted plan to open up the World Cup»»»

The Bulgarian and Romanian Air Forces conducted a joint air-policing exercise dubbed "Blue Bridge 2026", the Defence Ministry press centre reported on Tuesday. Bulgarian and Romanian aircrews executed procedures for the interception, escort, and forced landing of an "intruder" aircraft in a scenari»»»

OHIO, USA: A former music pastor in Ohio who appeared briefly on ” American Idol ” was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, after a jury convicted him last week of murdering his wife while he was having an affair. The judge said Caleb Flynn, 40, used his Christian f»»»

STOCKHOLM: Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved. “It was a great surprise, and I obviously didn’t expect it,” Halzen»»»

Hamdan Foundation in Dubai, UNESCO launch research project on lessons from past laureates Dubai: Three teacher development initiatives from Türkiye, Ethiopia and Indonesia have shared $300,000 at the ninth edition of the UNESCO–Hamdan Prize for Teacher Development, honoured at a ceremony at UNESCO »»»

ICE has called the gloves “distraction and de-escalation devices" The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures,»»»

TUNIS, Oct 6, 2026 (TAP) - The number of trade transactions carried out by Tunisia under the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has exceeded 400, more than two years after the agreement entered into force,...»»»

WASHINGTON: Kilmar Ábrego Garcia on Tuesday will be back in federal court, where the federal government will continue its attempt to deport him in an 18-month saga that began when he was mistakenly sent to El Salvador last year. The government is moving to vacate a preliminary injunction put in pla»»»

DAMASCUS: Kurdish forces still hold around 2,200 foreign relatives of suspected Daesh group fighters in a northeast Syria camp, an official there told AFP, despite an integration agreement between the Kurds and Damascus. Two government officials also told AFP that transferring the administration of»»»

DOHA: Mediator Qatar on Tuesday said the United States and Iran were still engaged in talks to end the Middle East war, despite an apparent deadlock seven months into the conflict. The indirect negotiations take account of “the concerns of the various parties”, foreign ministry official Ibrahim Al-»»»

UAE's AI initiative targets workforce transformation and global competitiveness Abu Dhabi: The UAE is training about 80,000 government employees to become "super users" of artificial intelligence, capable of building AI agents and working with advanced models, the Minister of State for Artificial I»»»

BERLIN: Ever since the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party won a regional election last month, not a day goes by without Ola Akhras and her husband discussing whether they should go back to Syria. The couple live with their two young daughters in Magdeburg, where Saxony-Anhalt’s»»»

Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin will retire after the current NHL season, he told his teammates in a video shared on social media. In the short clip, which was filmed in the team’s locker room on Monday, the 41-year-old Russian said he was sad to tell his teammates he would soon be l»»»

The Commission is “going a bit too fast” in unlocking €4.2bn and restarting the Erasmus+ student exchange programme in Hungary, according to budget committee MEPs. The EU froze its financial assistance to Hungary in 2022 due to concerns about rule of law breaches and misappropriation of funds by Vi»»»

MADRID: Spain’s government on Tuesday approved two housing decrees whose rejection by parliament last week prompted Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to call a snap election. The measures, which include rent caps, a temporary ban on evictions and limits on corporate purchases of residential property, we»»»

LONDON: A former top UN food agency official has said he was fired last week after highlighting Gaza’s hunger crisis, as he launched an appeal against the dismissal, The Guardian reported. The leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization had refused to renew Benjamin Davis’ contract as chief»»»

Interviewed on bTV on Tuesday, Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov said that wreckage from the drones that attacked the two commercial vessels in the Black Sea needs to be recovered in order to determine who they belonged to. At present, there is no such information, he added. “We cannot confirm whet»»»

Bulgaria's Fiscal Council has called for fiscal consolidation, spending cuts and structural reforms in the 2027 budget, warning that the country faces a growing risk of recession and a potential debt spiral. The recommendations were issued as part of the ongoing 2027 budget procedure and cover the »»»

US lawmakers hail Captain Smit Machchhar and crew for courage aboard flydubai Flight 1073 The heroism of flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar and those aboard Flight 1073 has been recognised in the United States Congress, with a House resolution praising their courage during a terrifying mid-air emergen»»»

STRASBOURG/LYON/PARIS: Police fired tear gas at protesters blockading French high schools on Tuesday as students, teachers and parents took to the streets on the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations against understaffed and dilapidated classrooms. In Marseille and Nantes, protesters he»»»

The euro has stumbled to a 17-month low against the US dollar on concerns about France's ability to bring its public finances in order. The currency has dropped nearly 7 percent from its peak in late January. Meanwhile, global oil prices have fallen despite ongoing tensions around the Arabian Penin»»»

Hungary is officially among the countries in the running to host the 2036 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, with Budapest named as the central location for the proposed Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed that Hungary is one of seven interested parties currently in continuous »»»

Moscow: Russian authorities denied Tuesday that they were imposing anti-plague measures after a laboratory technician reportedly died of the disease, as Washington called on Moscow to be "transparent" about the situation. It was reported last week that a worker at an anti-plague institute in Siberi»»»

KUALA LUMPUR: Myanmar’s coup leader turned president Min Aung Hlaing will head to Malaysia on Wednesday for a two-day visit, officials said, following Kuala Lumpur’s plan to return thousands of Myanmar immigrants. The visit comes after a group of nearly 1,500 returnees reached Myanmar on Sunday, wi»»»

NAIROBI: Kenya confirmed its first Ebola case on Tuesday after a Kenyan citizen who had traveled from the Democratic Republic of Congo died in Nairobi. Kenya is the third country to record a case linked to the Ebola epidemic in eastern Congo, the second largest on record with more than 8,000 cases.»»»

Majid Al Futtaim says THAT’s footprint will support Mall of the Emirates’ next chapter Dubai: THAT Concept Store, the UAE-born retail concept developed by Majid Al Futtaim, is set to close its Mall of the Emirates footprint as the Dubai mall undergoes a Dh5 billion transformation. Sign up for our d»»»

Crash axe attack on captain reportedly caused head and hand injuries and heavy bleeding Abu Dhabi: The Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday issued a health update on flydubai pilot Captain Smit Machchhar, who was seriously injured on September 30 when his co-pilot attacked him in what the UAE Att»»»