QNA Doha The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) is leading a comprehensive development trajectory aimed at enhancing the quality of education improving the efficiency of educational practices, and building a more inclusive, innovative, and future-responsive educational system, Assis»»»

Ukraine's armed forces have taken into service the Alexa Spatium, the first jet-powered interceptor drone designed and built in the country to shoot down Russian attack drones. The Alexa Spatium, Ukraine's first domestically designed jet-powered interceptor drone, now codified for service. The air»»»

Denmark plans to stop issuing temporary residence permits to Ukrainian refugees from regions least affected by the conflict with Russia, the EU nation’s immigration minister, Morten Bodskov, has said. The announcement follows a wider trend among European nations to cut benefits to those fleeing the»»»

Six EU nations want the bloc to introduce a windfall tax on oil companies’ “excessive profits” linked to price hikes caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, several media outlets reported on Saturday, citing a joint letter from the countries’ finance ministers. Oil prices have repeatedly topped $100 »»»

Munich, Germany: Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane was voted the 2026 player of the year in Germany by an association of sports journalists on Sunday, finishing ahead of teammate Michael Olise. The England captain won the award after a stellar season, winning the Bundesliga and German Cup while Baye»»»

DOHA: Assistant Undersecretary for Educational Affairs at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) Maha Zayed Al Qaqaa Al Ruwaili affirmed that the ministry is leading a comprehensive development trajectory aimed at enhancing the quality of education, improving the efficiency of educa»»»

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKIY, Russia (Sputnik) - The glorification of Nazism in Ukraine is part of the problem and Russia will not put up with this, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "Current Ukrainian authorities have made neo-Nazism the basis of their state ideology. It's horrible. And we canno»»»

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani met on Sunday with HE Jens Plötner, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany, who is currently visiting the country. During the meeting, th»»»

On Aug. 23, 1945, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marcario García became the first Mexican American to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor. 1 of 5 | On August 23, 1945, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marcario García became the first Mexican American to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor. File Photo courtesy of NARA Aug. 23 (U»»»

Sydney, Australia: Organisers of the 2026 Sydney Marathon have sparked online mirth by unveiling a finishers' medal depicting a stadium in far-away Munich, Germany. The two-sided medal is engraved with a Sydney skyline showing course landmarks including the Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge --»»»

Sydney: Organisers of the 2026 Sydney Marathon have sparked online mirth by unveiling a finishers' medal depicting a stadium in far-away Munich, Germany. The two-sided medal is engraved with a Sydney skyline showing course landmarks including the Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge -- and the Al»»»

TEHRAN, Iran: Tehran’s grocery stores are well-stocked, but many families can barely afford the basics. Unemployment is soaring and those with jobs are working more hours for money worth half as much as a year ago, putting food, medicine and everything else — except for heavily subsidized gasoline »»»

China has told Japan not to test its patience over nuclear weapons, in an exchange that has moved an Asian arms race from a strategist’s tabletop war-game to debates on policy priorities that foreign ministries are arguing about in public. Beijing issue Tokyo with a stringent “do not play with fire»»»

China has told Japan not to test its patience over nuclear weapons, in an exchange that has moved an Asian arms race from a strategist’s tabletop war-game to debates on policy priorities that foreign ministries are arguing about in public. Beijing issue Tokyo with a stringent “do not play with fire»»»

Poles spend an average of about EUR 43 per person annually on vitamins and dietary supplements, more than consumers in Germany and France, though still less than in the U.K. and Italy. According to OC&C Strategy Consultants, future market growth will come less from new customers and more from incre»»»

Poland’s pharmaceutical supply chain relies heavily on Europe for finished medicines but remains deeply dependent on Asia for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). A new “Drug Dependency Map” shows that while Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Austria, France, and the Netherlands dominate imports of fi»»»

A teenage boy and a 58-year-old man were shot dead Friday by Israeli settlers and soldiers, respectively, in separate shootings in the occupied West Bank.  Israeli settlers shot dead a 17-year-old Palestinian boy and wounded an elderly man after Palestinians allegedly threw rocks on Friday in »»»

Kinshasa: More than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) late Friday, an AFP journalist saw, as the country faces the deadliest Ebola outbreak in its history. The DRC's 17th Ebola outbreak, which has killed thousands of people, was declared on May 15 »»»

ELSENBORN: The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II that threaten crews responding to the flames. Some of the weapons have exploded in the intense heat. Blasts have»»»

The Russian embassy has been receiving a steady stream of inquiries from Swedish citizens interested in the possibility of moving to Russia using the “traditional values” visa scheme, Russian Ambassador to Stockholm Sergey Belyaev tells Sputnik. The mechanism was introduced by President Vladimir Pu»»»

Capitals, Aug. 21 (SANA) Eight Arab and Muslim countries, along with Spain and Sweden, on Friday condemned Israel’s E1 settlement plan in occupied East Jerusalem, warning that the project threatens to divide the West Bank and undermine the two-state solution. In a joint statement published by Qatar»»»

Paris: Europe saw at least 30,000 excess deaths across a blistering summer of back-to-back heatwaves and drought which scientists have blamed on man-made climate change, according to provisional figures. Between mid-July and mid-August, the continent's EuroMomo monitoring platform estimates that Eu»»»

Police and rescue services on site at Brinellskolan high school after a man with a sword injured several people in Fagersta, Sweden, Friday. Photo by Fredrik Sandberg/EPA Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A man wielding a sword entered a Swedish high school and injured three people Friday before being shot and arre»»»

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt described the suspect tied to a hidden weapons cache in a forest near Berlin as a “low-level agent” of Russian intelligence and added that several more agents have been detained this year. File Photo by Christoph Soeder/EPA-EFE Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Authorities in Ge»»»

LONDON: The EU is preparing sanctions against Israel spanning trade, academic, security and diplomatic ties if construction begins on the controversial E1 settlement project in the occupied West Bank, Israeli media reported. Channel 13, citing two Western diplomats, said Brussels had drawn up an in»»»

Fuel prices in Bulgaria recorded one of the largest annual increases in the European Union in July, with the cost of fuels and lubricants for personal vehicles rising by 22.2 percent compared with the same month last year, according to Eurostat data reported by BTA. Across the EU, fuel and lubrican»»»

The European Commission has staked its credibility on safeguarding the internal border-free Schengen zone – by shoring up its external borders, revamping EU migration laws and paying human-rights busting regimes large sums to prevent people from ever reaching Europe. But its soft-glove approach to »»»

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Polizei Coesfeld (@polizei.nrw.coe) Aug. 20 (UPI) -- An escaped sheep boarded a parked bus in Germany and took a trip through the giant-sized car wash before being reunited with its owner. The Coesfeld Police said on social media that the sheep escaped f»»»

Tehran's grocery stores are well-stocked, but many families can barely afford the basics. Unemployment is soaring and those with jobs are working more hours for money worth half as much as a year ago, putting food, medicine and everything else — except for heavily subsidized gasoline — further out »»»

Norway's reluctance to allow military surveillance aircraft from other NATO members to use airports in the country while flying missions over the Russian sector of the Barents Sea now appears to be a thing of the past. This week, two British aircraft — an RC-135 Rivet Joint and a P-8 Poseidon — too»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines were an act of terrorist sabotage against the EU, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. Earlier this week, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Germany should not prosecute suspects in the sabotage of the Nord Stream ga»»»

President Joseph Aoun is leading an effort, in cooperation with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, to pursue a military cooperation agreement between Lebanon and the European Union with the aim of bringing in a European military force to replace UNIFIL, whose mandate expires at the end of this year, al-Ak»»»

BusinessGermanyWhy Germany's gas storage levels are so lowNik MartinGermany's gas storage facilities are only 50% full as traders bet that wholesale prices will fall if the Iran war ends. With around three months until winter, DW asks whether the country can refill its reserves in time. https://p.d»»»

On September 3, 2026, the international scientific conference «Nomadic Civilizations: Heritage, Paradigms, and Prospects» will be held in Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan as part of the VI World Nomad Games. The conference is one of the key intellectual events of the World Nomad Games and aims to uni»»»

Dubai: Travellers from the UAE will have a new direct option to southern Poland from December, with Air Arabia launching four weekly non-stop flights between Sharjah and Katowice. Get updated faster and for FREE: Download the Gulf News app now - simply click hereThe new service will begin on Decemb»»»

PARIS: France, Italy, Britain and Germany on Thursday piled on mounting international condemnation of a major settlement project in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli authorities opened bidding for more than 1,200 homes in the area. The E1 plan was green-lit by Israel last year and would further»»»

A view of houses in the Ma'ale Adumum in the E1 area, where the Israeli government plans to build Jewish housing units in the E1 settlement project, in the eastern edge of the Judean Desert, West Bank, on Thursday, August 20, 2026. Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI | License Photo Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Foreign g»»»

Paris, Berlin, London and Rome on Thursday condemned Israel's decision to open bidding for a planned settlement project in the occupied West Bank. The sprawling "E1" development, which like all Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is illegal under international law, would furth»»»

WASHINGTON: A US Army unit based in Europe that was specializing in drone warfare has been directed to end its efforts to learn and use the battlefield technology and return to being a traditional infantry battalion, officials said Thursday. For more nearly a year, soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Br»»»

Share: The US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington transits the Strait of Malacca on August 13, 2026. © US Navy via Reuters The USS George Washington aircraft carrier strike group has arrived in the Middle East, the US military announced Thursday. The aircraft carrier will repla»»»

RAMALLAH: The Palestinian presidency on Thursday warned that Israel’s E1 settlement project and wider escalation in the occupied West Bank risk pushing the region “out of control.” Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for President Mahmoud Abbas, condemned Israel’s move to open bidding for construction»»»

LONDON: A letter from T.E. Lawrence in which he complained he was no longer able to travel outside the UK, less than 15 years after his role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, sold at auction on Thursday for more than $14,000. In the letter, written in October 1932, Lawrence expresses h»»»

BusinessGlobal issuesDrought in Germany and Europe are driving up costsAstrid Prange de OliveiraOngoing drought in Europe is causing rivers to dry up and crops to fail. Transport costs are rising and the price of food has exploded. Is inflation due to extreme weather? https://p.dw.com/p/5J9iUThe Rh»»»

waterdrop®, the Austrian hydration brand founded in Vienna in 2016, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with “10 Years of Making Waves”, a global campaign running from 20 August to 30 September 2026 across its international markets, including Romania. A decade after introducing the Microdrink»»»

Central bankers do not usually forecast the weather. The European Central Bank's chief economist has just put one into his. The Climate Crisis has gone beyond a fringe obsession of hippie tree-hugers and entered the studies of central bankers, who have been forced to sit up and take notice of the u»»»

Berlin has recorded roughly 14,000 heat-related deaths this summer, official data showed Thursday. Europe has experienced a spike in heat-related mortality as the worst-hit countries grapple with historically high temperatures exacerbated by human-driven climate change. Germany registered around 14»»»

Central bankers do not usually forecast the weather. The European Central Bank's chief economist has just put one into his. The Climate Crisis has gone beyond a fringe obsession of hippie tree-hugers and entered the studies of central bankers, who have been forced to sit up and take notice of the u»»»

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent gives a press briefing in May. The national debt is rising significantly. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo Aug. 20 (UPI) -- The national debt hit $40 trillion Tuesday, a record high, signaling that the government is borrowing at a record pace. Th»»»

STRABAG Property and Facility Services (STRABAG PFS), a subsidiary of the European construction Group STRABAG, signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Brenneka Install SRL and Samivo Instal SRL, companies within the Brenneka Group, headquartered in Bacău and with an operational office »»»

Frankfurt, Germany: Germany registered around 14,000 heat-related deaths this summer as Europe struggled through a series of punishing heatwaves, worse than a previous record high in 2018, official data showed Thursday. Around 9,600 of those deaths occurred in one week at the end of June when Germa»»»