MANILA: The Philippines accused China’s military and coast guard on Sunday of harassing Filipino government aircraft and boats in two areas of the disputed South China Sea. A J-16 fighter interfered with a Filipino Cessna 208 turboprop that was conducting a “routine military patrol” near Scarboroug»»»

Thrill rides, concerts, and culinary delights await at Dubai's Global Village Mark your calendars — Dubai’s favourite seasonal outing is back. Global Village Season 31 opens on October 14, bringing more than 90 cultures together through international food, shopping, live entertainment, cultural exp»»»

Riga, Oct. 4 (SANA) Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs is expected to remain in office and form a pro-Ukraine coalition after his centrist United List emerged as the largest force in Saturday’s parliamentary election, Reuters reported. With 97 percent of votes counted, the United List had secur»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia will use its entire arsenal of weapons in the event of a threat to the Kaliningrad region from foreign states, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday. "They spoke about the fact that this is a Russian region, and in the event of any threat - and we have heard many »»»

Javier Milei is an unlikely champion of Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands. An admirer of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (who fought and won a war against Argentina) and an international ally of Israel (which is working with the British on a nearby oilfield), the libertarian»»»

Damascus, Oct. 4 (SANA) Gold prices were unchanged in the Syrian market on Sunday, with 21-karat gold holding at Saturday’s levels, according to the General Authority for Precious Metals Management. The authority’s latest bulletin put the selling price of 21-karat gold at 16,150 Syrian pounds ($132»»»

Tokyo: A US Marine stationed on Japan's southern island of Okinawa was arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Japanese woman, police said on Sunday. The suspect "killed the 39-year-old woman at a hotel in Naha and stole her wallet on Saturday", a local police spokesman told AFP. Crimes by US pers»»»

The US has expelled two more members of the Iranian delegation that attended the UN General Assembly in New York after they allegedly ignored an order to leave the country, AFP and Axios reported on Saturday, citing a State Department official. US and Iranian negotiators separately met with mediato»»»

Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated across Spain to demand affordable rent and stronger protections for tenants amid a deepening housing crisis. Average rent has almost doubled over the past decade, according to property website Idealista. On Friday, parliament narrowly rejected two emerg»»»

AI’s rapid growth brings new responsibilities, from accuracy, privacy to individual rights The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) has affirmed that artificial intelligence is no longer a technology of the future, but has become an integral part of the present-day government workp»»»

AL-MUKALLA: Yemeni government forces in the southwestern province of Taiz on Saturday repelled what local army officers described as some of the most “aggressive” assaults by the Iran-backed Houthis, as the army also launched strikes on targets in Houthi-controlled Sanaa. Local army commanders said»»»

Dubai: An attack on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz damaged its engine room, a British maritime agency said Sunday, without specifying when the incident occurred. An "unknown projectile" struck the ship but the crew were unharmed, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO) said. N»»»

Two people have ‌died and another was missing after heavy rains and flooding in Spain’s Catalonia region, authorities said on Sunday. Catalan leader Salvador Illa confirmed the death of a man after a wall collapsed in Tordera, a town to the north of Barcelona, in a message on his social media accou»»»

DUBAI: An attack on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz damaged its engine room, a British maritime agency said Sunday, without specifying when the incident occurred. Iran has sought to impose control over the vital shipping lane since the start of its war with the United States and Israel. It has rep»»»

Airplane mode: More than just a routine pre-flight instruction You hear it on almost every flight: please switch your phone to airplane mode. It is one of those routine instructions passengers follow almost automatically. A quick tap, a familiar icon on the screen, and you are ready for take-off. B»»»

Motegi, Japan: Defending world champion Marc Marquez won the Japanese MotoGP on Sunday to slice Jorge Martin's overall championship lead to two points with six events of the season remaining. Marquez pushed pole-sitter Martin into second place in Motegi after overtaking his fellow Spaniard midway t»»»

More than 150 engineers and scientists are working on the 5 billion-kilometre mission Dubai: The spacecraft at the heart of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt has reached flight readiness less than two years after being developed, assembled and tested in the UAE, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed b»»»

Claims by Yemen's Houthis to have attacked Riyadh are "misleading", the Saudi-led coalition battling the group said, after an AFP journalist saw flames at an oil facility near the Saudi capital. Fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis and Yemen's internationally recognised government, which is sup»»»

Houthi rebels accused Saudi forces of launching 26 strikes on Sanaa on Saturday after loud explosions rocked the Yemeni capital. The Iran-backed group said it struck an oil facility south of Riyadh, where flames and a large plume of smoke were seen rising from a plant belonging to oil giant Aramco.»»»

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his main challenger Flavio Bolsonaro wrapped up their campaigns on Saturday in the powerhouse state of Sao Paulo, where a fifth of the nation's vote is based, seeking to rally supporters and convince the undecided on the eve of Sunday's nail-bit»»»

Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democratic favourite, is running for re-election in Georgia in the 2026 US midterms while Abdul El-Sayed is a Senate candidate in the battleground state of Michigan. The two Democrats have very different profiles and platforms, underscoring divergences within the party. They c»»»

Seoul: South Korea's Asian Games football captain apologised on Sunday for boasting that his gold medal meant he did not have to do military service. South Korea defeated hosts Japan 1-0 on Saturday in the men's final in Toyota, near Nagoya, for their fourth Games title in a row. Afterwards, Lee Gi»»»

AI Everything Abu Dhabi brings experts and tech firms together to explore AI in finance The UAE is looking to build and scale AI companies across key sectors, with finance emerging as a major area of opportunity as the technology reshapes how capital is deployed, investment decisions are made and b»»»

Hama, Oct 3 (SANA) Fish farms in Syria’s al-Ghab region are gradually resuming operations after more than 14 years of disruption, but Hama’s fish production has fallen to about 2,000 tons amid damaged ponds, limited resources and high input costs, officials and farmers said. Hussein al-Hussein, dir»»»

For the first time, a video documenting a meeting between Hezbollah’s two martyred secretaries-general, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, has been released. Sayyed Safieddine, who headed Hezbollah’s Executive Council, succeeded Sayyed Nasrallah following his martyrdom on Septembe»»»

The singer from Hermel was building a career spanning traditional, popular Lebanese music Dubai: Lebanese singer Nada Dandash has died in a road accident, bringing an abrupt end to an emerging career in which she had been working to establish herself on the country’s music scene. News of her death »»»

Tokyo: A US Marine stationed on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa was arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Japanese woman, police said on Sunday. The suspect “killed the 39-year-old woman at a hotel in Naha and stole her wallet on Saturday,” a local police spokesman told AFP. US Ambassador Geo»»»

Strait of Hormuz sees elevated maritime threats after vessel strike A crude oil tanker was struck by an unknown projectile about 4 nautical miles east of Oman, the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said. The vessel was hit on its port side. All crew were reported safe, with no environmental impa»»»

MUSCAT: Data from the report "Outward Workers' Remittances from the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, 2025," issued by the Statistical Center for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-Stat), showed that the GCC countries collectively recorded the world's highest total of»»»

Bodies of three Pakistani sailors killed in hijacking returned to Karachi Karachi: Four injured Pakistani crew members and the remains of three sailors killed during the hijacking of the tanker MT Honour 25 have been repatriated to Pakistan from Addis Ababa, the Prime Minister’s Office said. The in»»»

More than 32,000 expatriates are undergoing legal procedures over immigration violations Dubai: Saudi Arabia deported 9,992 people in one week following a nationwide campaign targeting violations of residency, border security and labour laws, the Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday. The remo»»»

DUBAI: The Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until seven Iranian conditions set out in a June interim agreement with the US are met, Nournews reported Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf as saying on Sunday, a few days after Tehran received Washington’s reply to its diplomatic proposal.»»»

Doha, Qatar: Jumbo Electronics, one of Qatar’s leading names in consumer electronics and home appliances, is delighted to announce the return of its highly anticipated Mega Promotion, running from 29th September to 19th October 2026. Bringing together attractive prices, exciting rewards and added s»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has hosted the ShakeSmart Regional Communication Workshop, organized by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), with support from the Japanese Red Cross Society. Held under the title “From Toolkit to Action”, the tw»»»

Pilot reported emergency before flight disappeared near Massachusetts Boston: Searchers found a “debris field” off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, from an air ambulance carrying six people that vanished over the Atlantic on Saturday while flying from Bermuda to Boston, the US Coast Guard sai»»»

EXPLAINERCrash axes are kept for crew use and are not normally accessible to passengers Dubai: An emergency axe carried aboard aircraft has come under scrutiny following revelations from the investigation into flydubai flight FZ1073, prompting questions about why such a tool is kept inside the cock»»»

Ticket gates close two minutes before departure and missed trains require a new booking Abu Dhabi: Etihad Rail has set out a series of rules governing passenger train journeys, including a requirement for travellers to pass through ticket gates before they close two minutes ahead of the scheduled d»»»

Parents should focus on the skills, mindset, resilience kids need to navigate the future Dubai: A university degree can provide a qualification, but it should not be the sole measure of whether a young person is prepared for the world of work. Speaking at a spotlight session on the second day of th»»»

Paris: ParisLongchamp hosted a stellar nine-race card yesterday as the second day of the QREC-sponsored Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe weekend featured three Group 1s and three Group 2s. H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al-Thani was among the distinguished guests at the meeting, which brought furth»»»

Doha, Qatar: Maser Group Chairman and MDR Investments CEO Prateek Suri says deeper cooperation between African economies and the Gulf could define one of the most important economic relationships of the coming decades. The growing economic links between Africa and the Gulf are creating the foundati»»»

DUBAI: The Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until seven Iranian conditions set out in a June interim agreement with the US are met, Nournews reported Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf as saying on Sunday, a few days after Tehran received Washington’s reply to its diplomatic proposal.»»»

Gargash reiterates call for direct talks with Iran or referral to international court Abu Dhabi: Dr Anwar Gargash, Diplomatic Adviser to the UAE President, has rejected criticism by Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati of the UAE’s position on Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa, reaffirming Abu »»»

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Doha, Qatar: Global trade was the driving economic force of the early twenty-first century. Between 2000 and 2024 world trade in goods and services nearly quadrupled, and the ratio of trade to global output climbed to a peak of around 60% in 2008, QNB said in its economic commentary. The global fin»»»

Several Dubai and Abu Dhabi flights face delays as airlines adjust schedules amid tensions Dubai: UAE travellers face another day of flight disruption, with several departures from Dubai International Airport (DXB) and Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi delayed on Sunday as airlines continue »»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar will receive the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Flag today during the Closing Ceremony of the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026, officially marking the beginning of its journey towards hosting the 21st Asian Games in Doha in 2030. The curtain will come down on Aichi-Nagoya 2026 t»»»

NEW YORK: A White House task force on artificial intelligence will assess the technology’s risks and opportunities, while preventing overregulation that stifles innovation, its leader Jay Clayton has told the Wall Street Journal. Clayton, the US director of national intelligence, is widely reported»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar made history on the penultimate day of the Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 as Rashed Nawaf and Mashari Nawaf won the first-ever Asian Games gold medal in padel, which made its debut on the official Games programme. The historic triumph yesterday was followed by another golden momen»»»

As Egypt's population grows and urbanization accelerates, municipal solid waste has become one of the country's most pressing development challenges. Yet what is often viewed as a sanitation problem may, in fact, represent a significant economic opportunity. Consequently, waste should no longer be »»»

2026 Real Estate Outlook: Executive Insights from Arab Finance Throughout 2026, Egypt’s real estate market has reached a critical structural inflection point. On one hand, nominal sales growth and total sector valuations have expanded dramatically, fueled by an influx of Gulf Cooperation Council (G»»»