A search operation was underway by the Fire Department in northern Greece on Tuesday to locate two 20-year-old men who went missing while hiking near the village of Litochoro, at the base of Mount Olympus. Authorities were alerted by the mother of one of the men who told them she had been unable to»»»

Six students were injured on Tuesday when a group of self-styled anti-authoritarians attacked a group of left-wing students inside the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a local news outlet reported. The serious incident occurred at the Polytechnic School, the Law School and the Sc»»»

TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Iran may consider enriching uranium to 90% in case of a repeated attack by the United States, Ebrahim Rezaei, a representative of the Commission on National Security and Foreign Policy of the Iranian parliament, said on Tuesday. "One of Iran's options in the event of another atta»»»

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has announced a major strategic expansion of Iran’s defensive perimeter in the Strait of Hormuz, warning that it will not allow any violation of the country’s territorial waters or national interests. Rear Admiral Mohammad Akbarzadeh, the political de»»»

A disorder that ‌affects 170 million women worldwide and is the leading cause of infertility known as polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, is being renamed ​to improve diagnosis and care, researchers announced on Tuesday at a medical meeting. The new name, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, o»»»

GENEVA: The United Nations decried Tuesday the toll from “escalating” Israel military operations in the occupied West Bank on children, with 70 Palestinian children killed since the start of 2025. “Children are paying an intolerable price for escalating military operations and attacks across the oc»»»

TOKYO: Japan’s leading potato chip maker is feeling the crunch from shortages linked to the Iran war, swapping its signature orange-and-yellow packets for black and white.A household name in Japan, Calbee is known for its savoury potato chips with an array of flavours from seaweed salt to soy sauce»»»

The Israeli military said Tuesday that its troops have crossed the Litani river from the border town of Deir al-Seryan toward Zawtar al-Sharkiya, north of the river. Hezbollah said it targeted troops near the river of Deir al-Seryan, and a Merkava tank in the border town of al-Bayyada near Naqoura.»»»

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said Tuesday that his group will not stop fighting and will turn the battlefield into "hell" for Israel. "We will keep fighting, we will respond to all violations, and we will not return to how things were before March 2," Qassem said. Before March 2, Israel kept »»»

Japan's leading potato chip maker is feeling the crunch from shortages linked to the Iran war, swapping its signature orange-and-yellow packets for black and white. A household name in Japan, Calbee is known for its savory potato chips with an array of flavors from seaweed salt to soy sauce and but»»»

Prime Minister Keir Starmer defied calls to resign on Tuesday, telling ministers he would "get on with governing" despite a "destabilizing" 48 hours of growing calls to set out a timetable for his departure after an election drubbing. At a meeting of his cabinet team of ministers, ‌Starmer, in the »»»

Bahrain’s High Criminal Court has sentenced three people to life imprisonment in two separate cases involving alleged links to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Bahrain News Agency quoted the head of the Terror Crimes Prosecution as saying that two defendants were convicted of co»»»

Dubai: Aster DM Healthcare has announced the top 10 finalists for the fifth edition of the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2026, after receiving more than 134,000 registrations from 214 countries and economies worldwide. The announcement has been made on International Nurses Day, highlighting »»»

Dubai: Dubai Land Department has launched the second phase of its Emirati Real Estate Business Incubator Programme, aiming to attract 25 additional UAE nationals seeking to establish locally owned real estate brokerage firms. Get updated faster and for FREE: Download the Gulf News app now - simply »»»

Labour and Social Policy Minister Nataliya Efremova has instructed teams from the Social Assistance Agency to remain on full alert to provide support to people affected by heavy rainfall and hailstorms across the country, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy said on Tuesday. Under Bulgarian law»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) plans to hold military exercises in the United States in June with representatives from nearly a dozen Central and South Asian nations, CENTCOM said. "CENTCOM is scheduled to host Exercise Regional Cooperation 2026 next month with inter»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Lebanese movement Hezbollah said on Tuesday that it had carried out 20 military operations against the Israeli army in southern Lebanon on Monday. "In defense of Lebanon and its people, in response to the Israeli enemy's violation of the ceasefire, attacks on civilians, and t»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The impending energy crisis that will soon hit the European Union and the United Kingdom will make negotiations between Europe and Russia inevitable, Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and special presidential envoy for economic cooperation with fo»»»

TEL AVIV: Israel sent Iron Dome anti-missile batteries and personnel to operate them to the United Arab Emirates to defend the country during the Iran war, the U.S. ambassador to the country said Tuesday. The comments by Mike Huckabee underline the growing defense relationship between Israel and th»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Sheikh Qassem: A powerful and brutal force confronts a much smaller group with limited resources and support, yet backed by God, the Most H»»»

A meeting chaired by Adilet Orozbekov, Secretary of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan, was held with the heads of government agencies authorized to combat the financing of criminal activity and money laundering. The head of the Security Council noted that, given the Kyrgyz Republic’s international»»»

Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Karim Badawi discussed on Monday, May 11, 2026, with Secretary-General of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) Farid Ghazali means to support Egyptian-African integration efforts in the energy industry. During the meeting, the minister propose»»»

How worried should we be about hantavirus? 9 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleMichelle RobertsDigital health editor Watch: Hantavirus evacuees land in Amsterdam and are escorted to hospital Passengers from the cruise ship struck by a hantavirus outbreak have been evacuated and sent to th»»»

How are countries responding to hantavirus? 11 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleSam Hancock ReutersBritons were taken to a hospital in Merseyside on Sunday, having been flown from Tenerife on a chartered flight The last passengers and some crew members have now left a Dutch cruise ship a»»»

Trump ally Kari Lake tapped to be US ambassador to Jamaica 6 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleSareen Habeshian Getty Images President Donald Trump has nominated longtime ally Kari Lake to be the next US ambassador to Jamaica. Lake most recently led the Trump administration's efforts to d»»»

LONDON: Last week, the world watched as Paris Saint-Germain edged Bayern Munich in a dramatic UEFA Champions League semifinal. Then at the weekend, global attention turned to Arsenal taking a huge step toward the English Premier League title after beating West Ham United in a tense game. On Tuesday»»»

Copenhagen: The European Union should explore limiting children’s access to social media with possible new rules proposed within months, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday. The European Commission president has tasked an expert panel to report back by July on what steps the EU should tak»»»

BRUSSELS: The European ‌Union is planning to invite officials from Afghanistan’s Taliban government to Brussels for their first known official visit, to discuss ways to deport some Afghan migrants back to Afghanistan. Western countries have declined to recognize the Taliban since the Islamist fight»»»

DUBAI: Israeli media has reported that the Israeli army has conducted a military operation - lasting approximately a week - north of the Litani River in southern Lebanon, and that its forces have reached the outskirts of the town of Zawtar al-Sharqiya, about 10 kilometers from the Israeli border. “»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Hezbollah’s Sheikh Qassem to resistance fighters: You do not die; you either persist in the battlefield or are counted among the martyrs, a»»»

The U.S. Treasury under Secretary Scott Bessent issued sanctions Monday targeting 12 individuals and entities accused of facilitating Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp's sale of oil to China. File Photo by Shawn Thew./UPI | License Photo May 12 (UPI) -- The United States has sanctioned »»»

GERB–UDF will support all three bills revising the Judicial System Act, MP and Parliament Deputy Chair Raya Nazaryan (GERB-UDF) announced before an extraordinary meeting of an ad hoc parliamentary committee on legal affairs. Speaking to journalists at the National Assembly, Nazaryan said her group »»»

Doha, Qatar: Spanish football star Lamine Yamal was spotted waving the Palestinian flag during Barcelona's celebrations on winning the La Liga title. In video shared across social media, the 18-year-old Yamal can be seen waving a Palestinian flag from an open-top bus to the cheers of excited fans c»»»

Dubai: The United Arab Emirates' main gas-processing complex, one of the world's largest, will not resume full capacity until next year, its operator said Tuesday, after it was targeted in the Middle East war. ADNOC Gas said the Habshan site in the capital Abu Dhabi, which supplies gas across the U»»»

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government has increased the number of buses in Makkah to transport Hajj pilgrims from the country, the religious affairs ministry said on Tuesday, with over 65,000 arriving in the Kingdom since last month. Pakistan launched its pre-Hajj flight operations last month, with so f»»»

The deadliest animals are not lions, spiders or snakes, but the tiny mosquitoes that suck our blood, make us itchy and infect us with disease. Mosquitoes kill around 760,000 people every year, according to research site Our World in Data, with humans ourselves coming a distant second. This is becau»»»

President Donald Trump is scheduled to see doctors for a medical and dental checkup this month — his fourth publicized visit to medical experts since returning to office — in what the White House describes as an annual physical and regular preventive care. Trump, who turns 80 next month and was the»»»

Israeli lawmakers approved a bill on Monday setting up a special tribunal that would try and have the authority to sentence to death Palestinians convicted of taking part in the 2023 Hamas-led attack that triggered the war in Gaza. The measure passed 93-0 in the 120-seat Knesset, or parliament, ref»»»

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has signed a contract for over $20 million with companies from Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan to mine gold at the Qala-e-Zal deposit in Qala-e-Zal district of Kunduz Province, RIA Novosti reported. «The five-year contract was signed by the Minister of Mines »»»

Dubai: A reinsurance broker working in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) has been banned from working in financial services in the centre after Dubai’s financial regulator found he engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct over several years. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, C»»»

Dubai: Supermarket giant Spinneys crossed the Dh 1 billion revenue mark in the first quarter of 2026, even as regional conflict disrupted freight routes and slowed consumer activity in March. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.The DFM-listed company reported revenue of ov»»»

Ukrainian assault troops crossed the Psel River unarmed and ended up in territory controlled by the Russian Battlegroup Sever in the Sumy region, a source in Russia’s security forces told Sputnik. These troops were then deliberately targeted and killed by Ukrainian FPV drone operators, the source p»»»

US consumer prices likely rose at a solid pace for a second straight month in April, which would result in the largest annual increase in inflation in more than 2-1/2 years and further bolster expectations the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates unchanged for a while. The Consumer Price Index»»»

What happens when the country that imports the most energy thinks that future energy crises are inevitable rather than exceptional? China’s answer has been clear: prepare for every possible scenario. From record investments in solar and wind energy to expanding nuclear power, importing massive volu»»»

Dubai: Abu Dhabi sovereign investor Mubadala said on Tuesday it would invest $325 million in Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the United Kingdom, joining a consortium led by funds managed by Apollo Global Management. Get updated faster and for FREE: Download the Gulf News app now - simply c»»»

Ship operators rely on a sludgelike substance known as bunker fuel to keep vessels running. The Iran war 's closure of the Strait of Hormuz has choked off the supply of this fuel that powers the global maritime industry and its largest refueling hub in Asia. Bunker fuel is a literal bottom of the b»»»

Police on Monday arrested a 38-year-old man in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, who is wanted in Germany for a series of alleged financial crimes. The judicial authorities of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg are accusing him of violations of insurance legislation, fraud, forgery, embezzlement a»»»

Dubai: As the UAE marks International Nurses Day, nurses across the country are reflecting on the experiences that shaped their careers and the moments that continue to inspire them on the frontline of healthcare. From supporting anxious first-time mothers to helping critically ill patients recover»»»

The Ministry of Information and UNESCO in collaboration with Tele Liban, have announced the launch of the national media campaign "Share Responsibly: Be Part of the Truth, Not Misinformation". Funded by UNIFIL, this nationwide initiative aims at addressing the growing challenge of misinformation an»»»

Climate change has driven record-breaking outbreaks of fire in Africa, Asia and elsewhere this year, with conditions expected to get worse as the northern hemisphere's summer approaches and El Nino weather patterns kick in, scientists warned on Tuesday. Fires from January to April have already caus»»»