WASHINGTON: An award-winning filmmaker whose work has explored ​conflict in his native Kashmir has been detained by US immigration officials after legally coming to the United States to study and later claiming asylum, his family and friends said on Wednesday. The Department of Homeland Security se»»»

Global lender steps in as Pakistan battles inflation and energy disruptions International Monetary Fund has reached a staff-level agreement with Pakistani authorities, the organization said Wednesday, a step forward in securing a multi-billion dollar bailout deal with the global lender. The agreeme»»»

Trump predicts swift end to Iran war, promises falling oil prices Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (local time) said the war with Iran will end "very quickly" and claimed that oil prices will "come tumbling down", while asserting that the US has taken away Iran's nuclear power. "I»»»

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida: President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he wants to develop one of his Florida golf courses into a presidential retreat where his successors can spend quiet weekends on the greens, describing it as “sort of a Camp David ” that he says would already have many of the securi»»»

RIYADH: The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi militia has destroyed 82 military targets across Yemen in response to recent attacks on civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, including deadly strikes on airports in Riyadh and Abha, coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Malki said Thursda»»»

82 Houthi military targets in 4 Yemeni provinces destroyed after deadly airport assaults The Saudi-led coalition said Wednesday it had destroyed 82 Houthi military targets in four Yemeni provinces following attacks on civilian airports in Saudi Arabia. Coalition spokesman Major-General Turki Al-Mal»»»

LONDON: ‌Britain and Germany will launch a joint partnership to counter ​sabotage and cyberattacks as Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Chancellor Friedrich Merz meet in Berlin on Thursday, shortly after both leaders warned of the hybrid ‌threat from ‌Russia. New ​joint ‌partnership ⁠will ​involve sh»»»

Oil prices fluctuate as Hormuz risks and Gulf export recovery clash Oil markets remained volatile on Thursday, with WTI at $88.83 a barrel, up 0.62%, Brent at $100.20, down 0.38%, and Abu Dhabi’s Murban at $106.69, up 0.47%, as per industry publication OilPrice.com. The mixed performance reflects a»»»

Military representatives from all of NATO's 32 members have gathered in Kiev. Ukraine has been trying to join the expansionist military-bloc for years, but has been consistently rejected. The visit by the members of the so-called Military Committee, takes place just a day after US Secretary of Stat»»»

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday urged Western nations to return to what he called their civilisational roots and ensure the West "maintains its place at the head of the world" in a speech delivered against the backdrop of the Acropolis in Athens. The top US diplomat called on Europe »»»

Thousands of people joined a student march in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to protest against Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of Brazil's October 25 presidential runoff. Bolsonaro led Sunday's first-round vote, prompting demonstrators to rally behind incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and oppose th»»»

The White House has promoted “Trump TV” using an AI-altered photo of passengers apparently watching the president’s new streaming channel. But the image was originally posted online in February 2023, showing passengers watching the NFL Super Bowl, with one watching the film “Hitch”. The original ph»»»

In tonight's edition: Kenya records its first Ebola death after a man travelled there from the DR Congo via Uganda. Also, Comoros is tightening its rules on who can do business. And in South Africa, concerns are growing that xenophobia and hostility toward foreign nationals could be drivi»»»

Maricarmen ​Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing ​protests in Spain, has died, Madrid's tenants' union said on Wednesday. Massive protests following Abascal's eviction spiralled into a political crisis, eventually leading Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to call a snap election»»»

IZMIR, Turkiye: More than 1,000 protesters gathered in Turkish opposition stronghold Izmir on Wednesday, angered by the defection of the city’s mayor to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AKP. The move was a huge symbolic victory for the Turkish leader, who has long wanted to control the secul»»»

BEIJING: The European Union’s top commerce official was due in China on Thursday for talks aimed at bringing both sides back from the brink of a mutually damaging trade war. The EU last year ran a trade deficit of around a billion euros ($1.1 billion) a day with China, caused by what many in the bl»»»

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has praised Iceland for allowing Washington to “project power” from the North Atlantic island nation into the Arctic. Iceland is strategically positioned to help the Pentagon monitor Arctic airspace and conduct missions tracking Russian submarines in the Atlantic, »»»

After shrinking briefly in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks, Israel's GDP is predicted to grow by 4 percent this year. The country's tech sector – specifically its defence startups – has played a big part in this performance but challenges, notably demographic ones, are on the»»»

NEW YORK: US authorities on Wednesday charged a man who allegedly planned a mass shooting at a shopping mall in Minnesota in support of the Daesh group. The FBI arrested Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, after he bought an AK-47 rifle and ammunition from an undercover agent in a sting operation tha»»»

MILAN: Foreign workers building the vast new US consulate compound in Milan signed agreements at a Milan hotel Wednesday securing payouts averaging 45,000 euros ($50,400) each for alleged labor abuses while working for an American construction company. More than 60 laborers, mostly from India, sign»»»

Tunis, Oct. 7 (TAP) - The Executive Board of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT), which met on Wednesday, decided to keep the key interest rate unchanged at 7%, amid persistent inflationary pressures and risks surrounding the price outlook,...»»»

Tribune News Network Doha The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has announced the launch of the National Seasonal Influenza Vaccination and Awareness Campaign, running through March 2027, in collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Primary Healthcare Corporation (PHCC), as well as public,»»»

QNA Dar es Salaam Qatar’s Shura Council is taking part in the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) 153rd Assembly and 218th Governing Council meetings in Arusha, the United Republic of Tanzania. The gatherings are being held under the theme ‘Enhancing good governance and empowering communities through»»»

QNA Doha Officer candidates from Ahmed Bin Mohammed Military College visited the Qatar News Agency (QNA) as part of efforts to strengthen cooperation between government agencies and the country’s official media organisations. During the visit, the candidates watched a presentation outlining QNA’s w»»»

LONDON: The longtime speaker of the Libyan parliament was ousted on Tuesday in a move likely to inject fresh tension into the country’s largely frozen political landscape. Aguila Saleh, a supporter of the Libyan National Army commander, Khalifa Haftar, was removed after 12 years in the post. Al-Sal»»»

WASHINGTON: Former Venezuelan President ​Nicolas Maduro and his wife are ‌expected ‌to ​face ‌new charges ⁠over ​alleged torture ⁠of Americans who were in ⁠the country’s ‌custody in ‌recent ​years, ‌CNN ‌reported on Wednesday, citing multiple ‌people familiar. The announcement could ⁠come as ⁠soon »»»

LONDON: Attacks on tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz hit their highest last week of any week since the Iran war began, according to maritime security sources tracking incidents. Attacks, attempted attacks and harassment activity including drone overflights, surveillance and hailing using»»»

Hero pilot who saved 174 lives honoured at event marking 25 years of PM Modi's service Dubai: More than 200 Indian expats rose as one at the Indian Consulate auditorium in Dubai on Wednesday to give flydubai’s ‘hero’ pilot Captain Smit Machchhar a standing ovation and a loud, heartfelt tribute to t»»»

Pregnant woman, two children among dead after residential building collapses in Seemapuri Dubai: Rescue teams searched through tonnes of rubble for survivors after a multi-storey residential building collapsed in northeast Delhi on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring eight, officials said.»»»

NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, ​showing sunlight bathing jagged crags formed billions of years ago as the car-sized vehicle continues to explore Earth’s planetary ‌neighbor. Curiosity landed in 2012 in Gale Crater near the Martian equ»»»

PRYKUKY, Ukraine: Russian attacks across Ukraine on Wednesday killed at least 28 people, including five children who died when a missile slammed into an apartment block in the north of the country as they slept. Windows shattered in the powerful blast in Pryluky, in the Chernigiv region, reducing h»»»

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has been questioned by the Central Investigating Chief Prosecutor’s Office over a 2024 incident in which he is accused of taking a man’s mobile phone and throwing it into the Danube. Magyar said on Wednesday evening that he had been questioned at a pre-arranged»»»

DENPASAR: An Indonesian court sentenced dozens of Indian nationals to prison on Wednesday for their involvement in an online gambling operation on the resort island of Bali. Gambling is illegal in the Muslim-majority archipelago, with punishments extended to bookmakers, punters, those who promote g»»»

PARIS: Two Russian dissidents said in the French parliament on Wednesday that an EU move to lift sanctions on oligarch Alisher Usmanov was a mistake that showed Europe could be pressured by the Kremlin. Last month France drew ire from a number of EU nations, Ukraine and the Russian opposition by ge»»»

Doha, Qatar: From the legacy of the World Cup to the horizons of the Olympics, Qatar is writing a new chapter in its sporting journey as it pursues its ambition to host the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This bid builds on accumulated experience in organizing major global championships, as well»»»

LAGOS: Nigerian police said Wednesday that 20 people abducted from two buses by gunmen in southeastern Imo state have been rescued after six days in captivity. The passengers were members of Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps, a one-year national service program for university graduates, who we»»»

LONDON: The Syrian Arab Republic said on Wednesday it had foiled a smuggling attempt along the Lebanese border in the Damascus countryside, seizing two vehicles and their cargo after an exchange of gunfire. The smugglers opened fire on a patrol in the Jurd Al-Maarra area of Yabroud, prompting Syria»»»

MANILA: Southeast Asia’s energy ministers gathered in Manila on Wednesday for energy security talks, seeking to lessen the region’s dependence on supply chains upended by the fallout of the US-Israel war with Iran. Since February, US-Israeli attacks on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on Ameri»»»

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday it had approved an 18-month program to help war-ravaged Yemen achieve economic stabilization and strengthen its macroeconomic frameworks, even as its civil war rages on. The IMF’s “Staff-Monitored Program” offers technical assistance but»»»

USS Abraham Lincoln honored for extraordinary service despite hardships at sea Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday hailed the USS Abraham Lincoln's crew while visiting the ship as it returned from a lengthy, difficult Iran war deployment in which multiple service members in the carrier stri»»»

A court on Wednesday ordered the former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service August Hanning to remain in pretrial detention after his arrest on suspicion of espionage and treason, along with a former deputy who allegedly supplied him with secret files. Here's what we know about one o»»»

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: Thousands of people joined a student march Wednesday in downtown Rio de Janeiro to protest presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and a surge of the far-right in Brazil. Wearing stickers declaring “Never Again Bolsonaro” and “No to the father, no to the son,” Brazilians, yo»»»

MADRID: An 87-year-old Madrid woman whose eviction triggered nationwide protests over Spain’s chronic housing crisis and a political debate that culminated in early elections died on Wednesday, a tenants’ union said. “We are sorry to announce that Maricarmen passed away today,” the Madrid Tenants’ »»»

Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov, commenting in an interview for Nova TV on the two merchant ships struck by drones in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea, said that Bulgaria has requested the assistance of international organizations to survey the sunken vessel using an underwater»»»

DAMASCUS: Syria’s state petroleum company said on Wednesday that an oil pipeline in the country’s northeast was damaged in a “sabotage attack,” the third such incident in recent weeks. Years of civil war before the fall of longtime ruler Bashar Assad in late 2024 devastated Syria’s oil, gas and ele»»»

WASHINGTON: Thirteen countries involved in recent G20 trade talks have joined the United States in a statement against excess industrial capacity, Washington said Wednesday, but the group excludes members like Brazil and China. The joint statement, also supported by the European Union, expressed co»»»

Pike would have been the first woman put to death by Tennessee in more than 200 years A convicted US killer who survived a botched execution is shackled to her hospital bed, awake and able to speak a little, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as a court ordered prison authorities to preserve evidence in»»»

Hungary’s Finance Ministry is examining whether changes may be needed to the tax treatment of retail government bonds after the European Commission launched an infringement procedure over their tax advantage compared with securities issued by other EU countries. EU raises concerns over tax advantag»»»

Court finds no reliable proof she received money or sent the disputed messages Ajman: The Ajman Appeal Court has overturned the conviction of an Egyptian woman accused of embezzlement and breach of trust, ruling that doubts over the authenticity of WhatsApp evidence and a lack of proof that money w»»»

Geneva: The World Health Organization said Wednesday it could not produce a full risk assessment as it did not yet have the whole picture from Russia on the suspected plague death of a laboratory technician. The WHO, the United States and the European Union have urged Moscow to provide more informa»»»