Syria's army said it had completed a "security sweep" on Saturday of a neighborhood in Aleppo where it clashed with Kurdish forces, though shelling could still be heard following calls for fighters to surrender themselves and their weapons. Government forces began striking the Sheikh Maqsud distric»»»

By Mohammad Kamal KUWAIT, Jan 10 (KUNA) -- Listed companies on Boursa Kuwait are witnessing a qualitative shift in their operating practices and disclosure methodologies with sustainability reports becoming mandatory as of the start of 2026.This step reflects the growing trend toward enhancing tran»»»

A rare copy of the comic book that introduced the world to Superman and also was once stolen from the home of actor Nicolas Cage has been sold for a record $15 million. The private deal for "Action Comics No. 1" was announced Friday. It eclipses the previous record price for a comic book, set last »»»

President Donald Trump on Friday called on oil executives to rush back into Venezuela as the White House tries to quickly secure $100 billion in investments to fix the country's neglected infrastructure and fully tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum. Since the US military raid to capture fo»»»

Early-morning walks feel harder, gym bags are already gathering dust, and the weighing scale isn’t cooperating. If your New Year health resolutions are wobbling, Dubai-based experts say you’re not alone – and you’re not failing. Mental health and medical specialists point out that the issue isn’t w»»»

Mexico City: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her government is working to strengthen security coordination with the United States, a day after US President Donald Trump said he wanted to launch ground strikes against drug cartels, particularly Mexican ones. Sheinbaum said that she ins»»»

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North Korea's military accused South Korea of flying drones across the border between the nations this week, warning Saturday that South Korea will face consequences for its “unpardonable hysteria.” South Korea quickly denied the accusation. But the development is likely to further dim prospects fo»»»

China's annual consumer price inflation accelerated to a 34-month high in December, but the full-year rate slumped to the lowest in 16 years while producer deflation persisted, backing market expectations for more stimulus to shore up soft demand. Imbalances in the $19 trillion economy have worsene»»»

The Syrian army said Saturday that it had completed a "security sweep" of a neighborhood in Aleppo where its forces have clashed with Kurdish fighters. "We announce the completion of a full security sweep of the Sheikh Maqsud neighborhood in Aleppo," the army said in a statement carried by state me»»»

Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed US support for the people of Iran on Saturday, ‌after Iranian authorities ‌blacked ‌out ⁠the internet ‌and they sought to curb anti-government protests raging across the ⁠country, Reuters said. "The United States ‌supports the ‍brave ‍people of ‍Iran," Rubio»»»

Dubai: A Dubai misdemeanours court has fined a 24-year-old Asian driver Dh5,000 after convicting him in absentia of causing injuries to several people and damaging multiple vehicles in a traffic accident in the Jebel Ali area. According to the court’s findings, the defendant was driving a private v»»»

Washington, United States: France has changed the dates of the upcoming G7 summit to accommodate US President Donald Trump's schedule, a senior US official told AFP on Friday. "Our partners believed that President Trump's attendance at the G7 summit was essential," the official, said referring to a»»»

DOHA: GCC Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed AlBudawi expressed his deep regret regarding the damage to the State of Qatar's embassy in Ukraine as a result of shelling. The GCC Secretary-General stressed in a statement the importance of respecting the laws guiding diplomatic relations, which ensure th»»»

A tragic accident in Jaipur on Friday night left one person dead and 14 others injured when a speeding Audi car went out of control and struck pedestrians and roadside stalls, police said on Saturday. According to media reports, the luxury car first struck a divider before ploughing through food ca»»»

Milan, Italy: The Winter Olympics main ice hockey rink will be ready for the start of competition next month, the IOC's sport director said on Friday, ahead of a key test event for the arena. Asked whether there was any possibility that the Santa Giulia venue would not be ready for the Milan-Cortin»»»

US President Donald Trump wants to own Greenland. He has repeatedly said the United States must take control of the strategically located and mineral-rich island, which is a semiautonomous region that's part of NATO ally Denmark. Officials from Denmark, Greenland and the United States met Thursday »»»

Dubai: A Dubai misdemeanours court has fined a 24-year-old Asian driver Dh5,000 after convicting him in absentia of causing injuries to several people and damaging multiple vehicles in a traffic accident in the Jebel Ali area. According to the court’s findings, the defendant was driving a private v»»»

WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (KUNA) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said that his country would make a deal to take Greenland the "easy way or hard way" due to alleged national security considerations." "I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way, but if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do»»»

Authorities in Nicaragua have arrested at least 60 people for reportedly celebrating or expressing support for the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, a human rights watchdog group and local media outlets said Friday. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo»»»

Nickolay Mladenov, the man chosen to serve as the director-general for US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace in Gaza, discussed arrangements for the second phase of the ceasefire agreement with Palestinian Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh. The meeting, which took place a day after Mladenov met»»»

Doha, Qatar: QNB affirmed that the US economy is reaching an inflection point following a long period of weak productivity caused by chronic structural constraints, particularly following the rapid progress achieved in artificial intelligence applications, which have opened the way for a new growth»»»

It may still be premature to say Iran’s ruling system is nearing collapse. Yet the unrest that has gripped the country in recent weeks has pushed Tehran into its most severe internal crisis in years. Protests triggered by economic freefall and the collapse of the national currency have rapidly spre»»»

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Qatari driver Nasser Al Attiyah, a five-time champion, secured his first victory in the 48th edition of the Dakar Rally, held in Saudi Arabia, after winning Stage 6 and taking the lead in the provisional overall standings. Al Attiyah, driving for the Dacia team, along with his»»»

The Ministry of Economy and Commerce has proposed extending the temporary ban on the export of ferrous metal scrap and waste from Kyrgyzstan. A draft document has been submitted for public discussion. According to the proposed Cabinet of Ministers’ resolution on the temporary ban on the export of f»»»

In the wake of the devastating fire at a bar in Crans-Montana, many Swiss citizens are asking themselves if their political system is fit for purpose. Switzerland, often praised for its efficiency, has a very devolved system of government, in which villages and towns are run by local officials elec»»»

WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (KUNA) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said that Syria is on the path to success, calling for putting an end to the crisis between Kurdish people and the Syrian government."I believe Syria is on the path to success, the crisis has just begun, and we want to see it end," Trump said»»»

CARACAS (Sputnik) - Qatar helped obtain the first evidence that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, who were kidnapped during the US attack, were alive, Acting President of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez said. "I want to highlight and express my gratitude to Qatari Emir [Tamim bin Hamad bi»»»

The EU’s persistent portrayal of Russia as a looming threat – complete with warnings of a possible conflict by 2030 – serves to justify an ever tighter European Union, says Karel Vereycken, Vice President of the French Solidarity and Progrès party, which cooperates with the LaRouche Organization. I»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom has allocated about $270 million to prepare for the possible deployment of troops to Ukraine, the UK Defense Ministry said. "The Defence Secretary [John Healey] confirms today that £200 million [around $270 million] has been allocated for this year and will spe»»»

Minneapolis: Local officials in Minneapolis slammed federal agencies Friday for excluding them from the probe into an immigration officer's fatal shooting of a woman, as public outrage grew ahead of planned weekend protests. Officials in the midwestern state of Minnesota said their law enforcement »»»

KUWAIT, Jan 10 (KUNA) -- 1962 -- Al-Arabi SC won the first Amir Football Cup after beating Qadsia SC 7-1. 1966 -- Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) was proclaimed to aid people in crises in line with Geneva Conventions. The society joined the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (IRCR»»»

Hard hat-wearing rescue workers and backhoes dug through rubble in search of survivors on Saturday in the shadow of a mountain of garbage that buried dozens of landfill employees in the central Philippines, killing at least four. About 50 sanitation workers were buried when refuse toppled onto them»»»

Dubai: The laughs started early and they barely stopped. When Max Amini took the stage at Dubai’s 1 Billion Followers Summit, the Iranian-American stand-up comedian didn’t just deliver punchlines. He delivered perspective. The kind that lands harder than a viral clip and lingers longer than applaus»»»

A memorial evening dedicated to artist Chingiz Aidarov will take place on January 24 at the Gapar Aitiev Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, the museum announced. «We invite everyone, in an open-microphone format, to remember Chingiz—share stories and memories, and talk about him both as a person »»»

Paris, France: France's World Cup squad will be based in Boston, the French Football Federation (FFF) announced on Friday. The two-time World Cup winners will train at Babson College, a private business school located "about thirty minutes from downtown Boston where they will be staying," the FFF s»»»

Washington, United States: The United States added fewer jobs than expected in December, government data showed Friday, capping the labor market's weakest year since the Covid-19 pandemic amid growing concerns about hiring. US employment rose by 50,000 last month, slowing from a revised 56,000 in N»»»

As Yemen’s government, led by the Presidential Leadership Council, moves to consolidate military and security authority in the south under the defense and interior ministries, it is seeking to contain the fallout from recent turmoil, prevent a return to rebellion, and avert a slide back into violen»»»

Bissau: Guinea-Bissau's junta on Friday announced it was banning all unauthorised press conferences and public statements, some six weeks after coming to power in a post-election coup. After ousting leader Umaro Sissoco Embalo on November 26, just after the presidential vote, the army suspended the»»»

Washington, United States: NASA crewmembers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) could return to Earth as soon as Thursday, the US space agency said, after a medical emergency prompted the crew to return from their mission early. "NASA and SpaceX target undocking Crew-11 from the Internatio»»»

In November 2025, nearly 1.4 million guests spent 3.0 million tourism nights at tourist (commercial, private and other) accommodation establishments1. Tourist arrivals were up by 7.9% and tourism nights by 5.8% in number compared to a year earlier. In January-November 2025, the number of domestic a»»»

Brisbane, Australia: Aryna Sabalenka beat Karolina Muchova in straight sets to reach her third Brisbane International final in a row on Saturday, a week ahead of the Australian Open. Sabalenka looked in great touch against the tricky Czech, who had won their last three meetings and went into the ma»»»

Syria's army said its operation in a Kurdish neighborhood of Aleppo was nearing completion early Saturday and urged fighters from the minority to surrender themselves and their weapons. Government forces began striking the Sheikh Maqsud district overnight after the Kurdish fighters defied a deadlin»»»

Sydney: Australian authorities declared a state of disaster on Saturday after bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in the country's southeast. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heatwave blanketed the state of Victoria this week, with hot winds fanning some of the most dangerous»»»

Rabat: Hosts Morocco kept their dream of winning the Africa Cup of Nations in front of their own fans alive with a 2-0 victory over Cameroon in the quarter-finals on Friday, while Senegal saw off neighbours Mali to reach the last four. Real Madrid winger Brahim Diaz made it five goals in five games»»»

Dubai: Mohammad Al Gergawi, Minister of UAE Cabinet Affairs, reaffirmed the 1 Billion Followers Summit’s status as the largest global annual gathering of content creators, and a key platform for advancing the content economy. Growing its audience from 1 billion followers in its inaugural edition to»»»

Venezuela said Friday it had launched talks with the United States on restoring diplomatic ties, days after US forces deposed Nicolas Maduro as its president. It was the latest sign of cooperation following the leftist leader's capture and US President Donald Trump's claim to be "in charge" of the »»»

Caracas: Venezuela said Friday it had launched talks with the United States on restoring diplomatic ties, days after US forces deposed Nicolas Maduro as its president. It was the latest sign of cooperation following the leader's capture and US President Donald Trump's claim to be "in charge" of the»»»

United Nations, United States:The UN Security Council will meet Monday to discuss Ukraine, a revised scheduled showed, after Kyiv's mayor urged residents to leave the capital due to mass heating outages caused by Russian strikes. The latest strikes left half of the residential buildings in Kyiv wit»»»

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: GCC Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed AlBudawi expressed his deep regret regarding the damage to the State of Qatar's embassy in Ukraine as a result of shelling. The GCC Secretary-General stressed in a statement the importance of respecting the laws guiding diplomatic relations,»»»