Manila: The Philippines is entering a new phase of investment in power generation, raising hopes for the eventual lowering of power rates. As of June 11, 2026, the Board of Investments (BOI) announced that 13 renewable energy projects worth ₱344.62 billion ($5.63 billion) were certified by the gove»»»

The United States temporarily waived sanctions on Iranian oil exports on Monday, opening the door for Tehran to return to global energy markets as negotiations between the two countries continue. In this edition, we look at the impact this has had on oil prices, while also examining major job cuts »»»

JERUSALEM: Officers from the Moroccan military, whose deployment was announced in February, have arrived in Israel to join a nascent international force for Gaza, US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace said Tuesday. An official from the board separately told AFP on condition of anonymity that t»»»

PARIS: France manager Didier Deschamps will ‌not manage his team’s final group-stage match against Norway on Friday as he flies back to France to attend his mother’s funeral. “Didier Deschamps will not be able to oversee training sessions ahead of the Norway v France match. He will also be absent f»»»

Tunis, June 23 (TAP) - The Municipality of Tunis reviewed on Tuesday the progress of the "Jadid" project, an initiative aimed at creating a sustainable urban neighbourhood in the El Agba 2 area, utilising a participatory design approach that...»»»

TENNESSEE, USA: Spain forward Mikel ‌Oyarzabal has a sore body, a cool head and no appetite for a rest as his side prepare to face Uruguay banking on the mayhem teammate Lamine Yamal can cause at the World Cup. Oyarzabal, who impressed with two goals and an assist for Yamal in Spain’s 4-0 win over »»»

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: The US hit Cuban state companies on Tuesday with new sanctions that analysts say are expected to spook foreign investors and deepen a severe economic crisis. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the sanctions target five Cuban entities, including three linked to Grupo de Ad»»»

Algeria and Namibia have been removed from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) grey list after strengthening anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing controls, a move expected to improve investor confidence and facilitate access to international finance. In a statement, the Paris-»»»

ATLANTA: Paraguay midfielder Miguel Almiron has been given a one-match suspension after he was the first player to be sent off at the World Cup for covering his mouth. FIFA confirmed on Tuesday that Almiron will miss Paraguay’s final group game against Australia on Thursday. World soccer’s governin»»»

TUNIS: A Tunisian court on Tuesday upheld an eight-year prison sentence slapped on anti-racism activist Saadia Mosbah for financial misconduct, two of her lawyers said. Mosbah, the head of the anti-discrimination Mnemty association, was detained in 2024 as part of a wider crackdown on several NGOs »»»

BENGHAZI: Libya’s eastern-based government ‌on Tuesday banned the entry of nationals of four African countries, a decision a government ​source said was due to a “reorganization of foreign nationals’ entry to Libya.” “Citizens of Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia are prohibited from entering Lib»»»

EASTS RUTHERFORD, N.J.: After Lionel Messi scored two goals to set the World Cup record and Kylian Mbappe kept pace in the career chase, Erling Haaland delivered another dazzling performance on a showcase day for the tournament’s top stars. Haaland scored twice for Norway in the first 15 minutes of»»»

GENEVA: More than 13 million Syrians — over half the population — are facing acute food insecurity, the United Nations warned Tuesday, calling for clearing explosive-littered fields to revitalize agriculture in the war-shattered country. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said turning field»»»

Polish rail carriers and logistics companies are facing customs claims linked to alleged fraud in imports from China transported by rail via Poland’s eastern border. According to the ProKolej Foundation, customs authorities are demanding duties from Polish firms under joint liability rules, even th»»»

BENGHAZI: Libya’s eastern-based government ‌on Tuesday banned the entry of nationals of four African countries, a decision a government ​source said was due to a “reorganization of foreign nationals’ entry to Libya.” “Citizens of Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia are prohibited from entering Lib»»»

HOUSTON: World Cup fever has a ‌distinctly international flavor for residents in Houston, where an estimated third of the population was born outside the US and some 145 languages are spoken in one of the country’s most diverse cities. The fourth-largest US city has dialled up full party mode for t»»»

BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Tuesday demanded a scheduled withdrawal of Israeli troops from south Lebanon as authorities said Israeli gunfire killed two people there despite a recent lull in fighting. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun rejected Israel’s occupation of the south and foreign int»»»

RIYADH: The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority won the 2026 UN Public Service Award for its National Data Bank and Estishraf digital platforms, the international organization said on Tuesday. The award followed a broad international competition, with this year’s edition attracting mor»»»

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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s leaders on Tuesday sent their condolences to Qatar following a factory explosion in Ras Laffan Industrial City on Sunday night that left 13 people dead and several injured. King Salman sent a cable to Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, offering his sympathies to t»»»

Two Afghan women wearing burkas buy gold in a jewelry shop in Herat, Afghanistan, in 2010. The European Commission met with Taliban officials Tuesday about deportation. File Photo by Hossein Fatemi/UPI | License Photo June 23 (UPI) -- The European Union and the Taliban met in Brussels on Tuesday to»»»

Tunis, June 23 (TAP) - Tunisia will celebrate, on Wednesday, the 70th anniversary of the creation of the National Army, which was founded on June 24, 1956, nearly three months after the country gained independence. Its initial mission was to...»»»

LOS ANGELES, USA: US President Donald Trump will attend the World Cup final in New Jersey on July 19 and present the trophy to the winners, FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced on Tuesday. “We will be together with the president enjoying the final and handing the trophy to the winner, of cours»»»

Los Angeles, United States: Under-fire Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo silenced his critics as he became the first man to score in six different World Cups on Tuesday as England and Ghana chased a place in the last 32. Ronaldo, 41, had come in for stinging criticism after a lacklustre display »»»

Tunis, June 23 (TAP) - Tunisia will celebrate, on Wednesday, the 70th anniversary of the creation of the National Army, which was founded on June 24, 1956, nearly three months after the country gained independence. Its initial mission was to...»»»

WASHINGTON: The US is easing its restrictions on Iran’s World Cup team, allowing the squad to travel into the country two days before their next match, the US Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. The team will still be required to leave after Friday’s match in Seattle, a department spokesp»»»

LONDON: Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa met Frank Mount, president of corporate business development at Chevron, to discuss the progress of an energy project along the Syrian coast. The US energy giant will begin offshore gas exploration this summer, marking Syria’s first deep-water gas project, a»»»

HOUSTON, USA: Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to score in six different World Cup tournaments on Tuesday by getting two goals in Portugal’s 5-0 win over Uzbekistan. The 41-year-old Ronaldo made history in the sixth minute when João Cancelo crossed it to him and he shot with his right foot»»»

DUBAI: Instagram did not exist. Lionel Scaloni was still pulling on the Argentina shirt rather than coaching from the touchline. And Lionel Messi was a teenager scoring his first FIFA World Cup goal. Twenty years since his World Cup debut at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Messi is still making hist»»»

Author: Stuart J. Green In February 2017, Stuart Green received a devastating phone call. His wife, attorney Mia Green, had been ambushed and shot 29 times in front of their three children. His world burned down completely in an instant. Resilience books proved useless in the aftermath. They all as»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held a telephone call on Tuesday with Prime Minister of the Republic of India HE Narendra Modi. At the beginning of the call, HH the Amir expressed his sincere condolences to the Indian Prime Minister for the victims of the explosion at an in»»»

This Tuesday June 23, Marc Bloch will be inducted into Paris's Panthéon mausoleum. A leading 20th-century historian, he co-founded the French academic journal "Les Annales" and was also a soldier in both World Wars. Bloch, who was Jewish, joined the French Resistance during World War II and wa»»»

The French capital's Eiffel Tower, one of the most visited tourist attractions in the world, has closed early on June 23 because of exceptionally high temperatures. This comes as Paris struggles to cope with a historic heatwave, and residents try to adapt in a city that is not made to withstand suc»»»

A severe heatwave gripping France on Tuesday forced the early closure of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Museum, two of Paris's most visited tourist attractions, as authorities grappled with soaring temperatures that have disrupted daily life across the country. The severe heatwave sweeping France »»»

Much of France remains under severe heat alert on June 23 after the country experienced its hottest afternoon and night since records began in 1947. Temperatures around 40 degrees Celsius were forecast for cities including Bordeaux, Rennes and Toulouse. The extreme heat has already proven deadly - »»»

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Poles are increasingly buying property in southern Europe as a way to diversify assets and lifestyle options, says Agnieszka Marciniak-Kostrzewa, owner of Agnes Inversiones, the oldest Polish real estate agency on the Costa del Sol. Demand grew strongly after the pandemic, which normalized remote w»»»

Nearly half of Poles, 46%, believe the EU should abandon its ambitious climate goals, according to an international E.ON Foundation survey covering 11 countries. Although this is 8 percentage points lower than a year earlier, Poland still has one of the highest shares of climate-goal skeptics in Eu»»»

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Polish industry is urging the government to act on existential challenges linked to high energy prices, CO₂ emission costs, and weakening competitiveness, both globally and within the EU. At the first Congress of Polish Industry in Warsaw, representatives of energy-intensive sectors warned that Pol»»»

In South Korea, the AI frenzy has sent the value of the country's top chipmakers skyrocketing. Korea's Samsung Electronics and its chief rival SK Hynix have been trading places as the world's most valuable producer of memory chips. Following some strident union organizing at the firms, their worker»»»

A gravestone is exposed after a tree fell at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., on Thursday. Photo courtesy Friends of Mt. Hope A falling tree during high winds last week in Rochester, N.Y., exposed a century-old gravestone buried in the dirt. Edna Amelia Goodman Allen, born in 1892, died at the»»»

Rome: Advisor to the Prime Minister and Official Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Majed bin Mohammed Al Ansari met Tuesday with Their Excellencies Members of the Italian Parliament Salvatore Caiata, Beatrice Colombo, Mariangela Matera, Augusta Montaruli, Fabrizio Comba, Cinzia P»»»

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., questions Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on September 14, 2022. On Monday, Paul issued a subpoena to Fauci»»»

Sharjah: His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, approved the promotion of 1,519 military personnel serving across the emirate, including Sharjah Police, the Sharjah Civil Defence Authority, and the Sharjah Police Academy. The promotions al»»»

Abu Dhabi: Their Highnesses the Supreme Council Members and Rulers of the Emirates have dispatched separate messages of condolences to His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, over the victims of the incident at a factory in the Ras Laffan industrial zone, which resulted in a nu»»»

The Indian military is on a long and arduous journey to modernise its capabilities and force structure. Under its new direction, the Indian Ministry of Defence, in all three services is pivoting away from traditional methods of human surveillance and toward autonomous systems across all domain»»»

TEXAS, USA: A demonstrator who shot and wounded a police officer outside a Texas immigration center last July 4 was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison Tuesday, while other protesters accused of having links to antifa were given multiple decades in federal prison. Benjamin Song was convicted o»»»

Share: Photo illustration – “Lebanon’s future should be decided in Beirut—not in Tehran, Damascus, or any other foreign capital.” Washington keeps looking for answers in the wrong places By: The Editorial Board, Opinion The announcement that Washington is considering the formation of a joint U.S.-L»»»