Dubai: For nearly 30 years, Puerto Rico-born artist Solimar Miller has called Dubai home. She remembers visiting the old Dubai Zoo in Jumeirah shortly after she arrived in 1997. Back then, it was one of the city's few attractions, before the Burj Al Arab rose from its scaffold and before Jumeirah b»»»

Budapest: Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday approved anti-corruption measures, part of new Prime Minister Peter Magyar's sweeping reform drive and aimed at helping the country get billions of euros in withheld European Union funds. The EU announced late last month it would unlock more than 16 billion »»»

The rise in the number of insolvencies in Romania reflects a more demanding market and a natural selection of vulnerable companies, rather than the emergence of a generalised economic crisis, according to an analysis by Cătălin Guriță, lawyer and insolvency practitioner, founding partner of GMCID. »»»

TACLOBAN, Philippines: Two teens who allegedly killed three fellow students in a rare Philippine school shooting planned the attack in advance, police said Tuesday, revealing one had trained at a firing range.Determining a motive, however, remained a work in progress, with bullying cited as a facto»»»

Sharjah: Sharjah’s new integrated logistics corridor with Oman has cut cargo transit time from about three months to 35 days, while trucks using approved routes from Oman through Sharjah will be exempt from toll gate fees across the emirate. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Bala»»»

Israeli forces opened fire Tuesday on civilians in Hadatha and Nabatieh al-Fawqa in south Lebanon, killing one person and wounding 2 others. Israeli soldiers also fired stun grenades in Kfartebnit and Barasheet, while drones overflew Beirut’s southern suburbs, Tyre, and multiple areas across southe»»»

London: The man who appears destined to be Britain's next Labour prime minister received a hero's welcome in parliament on Monday, after incumbent Keir Starmer announced his resignation. Veteran politician Andy Burnham, fresh from his UK by-election victory last week, was sworn in as an MP. Afterwa»»»

Consumers are increasingly using artificial intelligence and digital channels to make health decisions and access healthcare services, from requesting tests and prescriptions to self-diagnosis and treatment, according to the EY Global Consumer Health 2026 report. The report is based on a survey of »»»

LOS ANGELES: A ransom note connected to the disappearance of US television host Savannah Guthrie’s mother said she had died, US media reported on Monday. Nancy Guthrie, 84, went missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona in the early hours of February 1. Security camera footage released by authoritie»»»

Another post-Brexit prime minister bites the dust. Keir Starmer has owned up to the obvious: that he's too unpopular to lead the Labour Party into the next general election. After replacing the hard left's Jeremy Corbyn, the same Starmer won a landslide election victory two years ago on the promise»»»

Ten years after Brexit, data shows that the decision to leave the European Union has made people in Britain up to 8 percent poorer. Experts predict the economic damage is set to continue, and YouGov polling now finds nearly 60 percent of Britons say it was wrong to leave the EU.  When the UK v»»»

Romania's parliament rejected prime minister-designate Adrian Vestea on Monday, extending months of political turmoil in the EU and NATO member bordering Ukraine and raising the prospect of a snap election if a second government nominee also fails to secure lawmakers' backing. Romania's parliament »»»

A 36-year-old man died after falling from Sofia’s Lion’s Bridge following an altercation that unfolded in broad daylight at one of the capital’s busiest intersections. Police have detained three men between the ages of 20 and 30 as investigators work to determine the exact circumstances that led to»»»

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has announced a sweeping series of understandings with the United States, including joint mechanisms to safeguard Lebanon’s sovereignty, the establishment of maritime crisis communications for the Strait of Hormuz, and the imminent release of $12 bi»»»

Sofia’s housing market is entering a new phase in which the focus is gradually shifting from the traditionally dominant southern districts to emerging areas in the north of the city, while infrastructure and planning constraints are becoming the key factors shaping future construction. Further read»»»

Ukrainian investor and KYB corporation owner Oleg Nevzorov has rejected allegations of misconduct and political protection in connection with an ongoing investigation related to the “Baba Alino” construction project in Varna. Speaking to Bulgarian National Radio, Nevzorov said he does not consider »»»

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has issued his strongest warning yet to Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, accusing Minsk of directly facilitating Russian drone attacks on Ukraine and giving Belarusian authorities one week to remove communications equipment helping guide strikes or fac»»»

Western companies have seen the value of their assets in Russia almost halve since the start of the war in Ukraine, highlighting the scale of the economic decoupling between Russia and the West after more than four years of war, Vedomosti reports. According to calculations by Russian business daily»»»

Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željka Cvijanović met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during her stay in Israel. She called the meeting the crown of a successful visit. After the meeting, Cvijanović said that there is a mutual willingness to strengthen political, i»»»

LONDON: Andy Burnham, Britain’s newest lawmaker and likely its next prime minister, was meeting Labour colleagues on Tuesday in preparation for a leadership contest in which he may be the only contender. Burnham is the strong front-runner to replace Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who announced Monday»»»

NEW DELHI: Resumed shipping flows through the Strait of Hormuz would ease energy and fertilizer supply bottlenecks, India’s security chief said during a BRICS security meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday.The current state of the crucial waterway for oil and gas transport is uncertain — it reopened last»»»

The State Border Service of the Kyrgyz Republic reported that on June 22, border guards foiled an attempt to illegally transport strong pharmaceutical substances on the Kyrgyz—Uzbek section of the state border. In Doochar area of Kadamdzhai district in Batken region, approximately 100 meters from t»»»

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DUBAI: Iran’s president was traveling to Pakistan on Tuesday for talks with officials who have been mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington on a permanent end to the war in the Middle East. President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to Islamabad comes as technical teams are working on details»»»

More than $140,000 has been raised online on behalf of a Texas woman filmed making anti-Islam comments in a grocery store. The 44-second video which surfaced on Sunday shows a woman in blue medical scrubs confronting two other women who remain off camera. The woman, identified by media reports as m»»»

The Israeli army should continue operations in Lebanon despite pressure from the US, Israel’s hardline national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said on Monday. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has expanded its presence in southern Lebanon since early March, after the militant group Hezbollah fir»»»

Outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has turned the UK into an “authoritarian hellhole,” with more people being jailed and arrested for social media posts than in any other country in the world, former MP George Galloway has told RT. Starmer announced on Monday that he would step down as pr»»»

A British businessman who became known as the country’s ‘first gay father’ has been charged with child sex offenses, according to media reports. Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 57, was already facing a number of criminal allegations alongside his current husband, Scott Drewitt-Barlow, 32. The couple, who bo»»»

In this photo released Tuesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) speaks during a plenary meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang. Kim called for the expansion of Pyongyang's nuclear forces, citing military cooperation between Seoul and Washington. Photo»»»

A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, like the one seen here, crashed in Alaska on Monday with four people on board. File Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Connie Terrell/U.S. Coast Guard/UPI June 23 (UPI) -- All four Coast Guard members aboard a helicopter that crashed in Alaska sustained only mi»»»

Iran on Tuesday said there were no visits scheduled for inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to see nuclear sites bombed by the US. The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman's remarks appeared to undercut those made by US Vice President JD Vance, who said negotiations in »»»

DUBAI: The UAE’s decision to restrict social media access for children under 15 has generated significant discussion among parents, educators and mental health professionals. While much of the public conversation has focused on technology, regulation and enforcement, many families are reflecting on»»»

First published in Respekt. Irregular migration and climate change are receding into the background. Decades after the financial crisis, developments in the European Union were dominated first by the issue of uncontrolled migration and later by climate change. Both dominant topics substantially res»»»

A UN Commission of Inquiry has found that the killing of children and other harm inflicted on them has been central to Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, alongside a systematic pattern of war crimes and crimes against humanity that have affected young people in both Gaza and the West Bank since O»»»

LONDON: Brexit fractured the European Union, and broke British politics. The UK is about to get its seventh prime minister since June 23, 2016, a decade ago Tuesday, when the country voted 52 percent-48 percent to leave the EU after more than four decades of membership. Conservative Prime Minister »»»

A Budapest court has ordered the pre-trial detention of a teenage boy for one month on suspicion of murdering his great-grandmother, the Budapest Metropolitan Court’s press office said on Monday. Hungarian teenage boy gruesomely murdered his great-grandmother Police previously reported that an 85-y»»»

The International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors seen at site of the uranium conversion plant in Isfahan, central Iran, in February 2007. IAEA inspectors left the country in 2025, and Iran said Tuesday that there has been no change in its relationship with the nuclear watchdog agency. File Photo b»»»

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain this week as the Trump administration has stepped up efforts to end the war with Iran while Gulf countries remain uneasy about a proposed deal. The State Department announced Monday that Rubio would visi»»»

The European Commission has announced that EU Member States have endorsed a proposal to mobilise over €56 million from the agricultural reserve. Farmers from Portugal will receive €30 million, Romania €14.8 million, Cyprus €4.6 million, Croatia €4.4 million, and Slovenia €2.8 million. These funds w»»»

Arab Finance: The board of Alexandria Container and Cargo Handling Company initially greenlighted proceeding with the development of an integrated logistics zone project in Alexandria, according to a bourse statement. The preliminary feasibility study has been presented, while the completion of the»»»

Burgenstock: Tehran voiced Tuesday its intent to maintain control over the vital Strait of Hormuz, a crucial question in the Middle East war talks with Washington that just wrapped up in Switzerland. Vice President JD Vance called the negotiations a "very good foundation" for a final deal to end th»»»

After a first round of U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland on ending the Middle East war, mediators Pakistan and Qatar said on Monday that Tehran and Washington had agreed to set up a "de-confliction cell" with Lebanon "to ensure the adherence of the termination of military operations" there. Under U.S.»»»

Washington, USA: Meta has announced that it will make the Instagram for TV app available on Samsung smart TVs, along with a range of new features specifically designed for group viewing indoors. With this step, the Instagram TV application has become available across three major TV platforms connec»»»

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ATLANTA: When Sweden’s Yasin Ayari scored seven minutes into his World Cup debut he raised his arms in apology rather than celebration out of respect for Tunisia, where his father is from. The case of the Brighton midfielder is far from unique at a World Cup awash with players who could play for mu»»»

ATLANTA: When Sweden’s Yasin Ayari scored seven minutes into his World Cup debut he raised his arms in apology rather than celebration out of respect for Tunisia, where his father is from. The case of the Brighton midfielder is far from unique at a World Cup awash with players who could play for mu»»»

SANTA CLARA, California: ‌Jordan coach Jamal Sellami said his players’ inexperience may have cost them in a 2-1 defeat by Algeria at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium on Monday, but he was proud of their World Cup campaign despite their early exit.Jordan bow out of their first World Cup after consecut»»»

BERLIN: Outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his departure on Monday amid plunging approval ratings, but there were warm words from European leaders who had generally found him easier to work with ​than his recent predecessors. Starmer, the first non-Conservative prime minister si»»»

SINGAPORE: Oil prices fell more than 1 percent on Tuesday, extending losses from the previous session, on signs of some progress ​in restoring crude flows through the Strait of Hormuz following US-Iran peace talks. Brent crude ‌futures fell $1.09, or 1.4 percent, to $76.81 a barrel and US West Texa»»»

On June 23, 2018, 12 members of a teenage soccer team and their coach became lost and trapped inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand. 1 of 5 | Members of the Royal Thai Navy along with volunteers from Britain, the United States, Australia, and China, are pictured as they prepare to rescue 12 sc»»»