A federal grand jury on Thursday turned aside the Trump administration's request to re-indict Letitia James, attorney general of New York. File Photo by Derek French/UPI | License Photo Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A federal grand jury has rejected the Justice Department's bid to re-indict New York Attorney Gen»»»

Bulgaria spent around 2 billion euros on defense in 2024, placing the country 19th among EU member states. Eight nations fall behind Bulgaria in this ranking, including Croatia, Estonia and Latvia, despite the latter two being situated much closer to Russia’s borders, BGNES reported. Across the Eur»»»

The United States and Bulgaria have successfully concluded a dynamic regional workshop, hosted by the Bulgarian Air Force, on military air operations management. This three-day event brought together defense ministries from Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine—countries operating the F-16 fighter»»»

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosts Russia's President Vladimir Putin at a summit on Friday, with defense and trade ties taking center stage as New Delhi faces heavy US pressure to stop buying Moscow's oil. Both leaders will also discuss the geopolitical situation in the wake of the Russian »»»

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa received on Monday a UN Security Council delegation and several UN officials at the People’s Palace in Damascus. “Al-Sharaa and the UN delegation discussed the Israeli aggressions on the country’s territory,” said Syria's permanent representative to the United Natio»»»

The e-commerce Expo will be held at the Tripoli International Fairgrounds from 27 to 29 January. The organisers say the event will include the leading companies and brands in the sector showcasing their latest products and services to thousands of interested parties and investors. These will includ»»»

Qissati, a luxury fragrance brand inspired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai's book My Story, has officially launched sales at THAT Concept Store, located in the Mall of the Emirates. The launch event was held on N»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani sent a cable of congratulations to HM King Maha Vajiralongkorn of the Kingdom of Thailand on the occasion of his country's National Day.»»»

Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani met yesterday with Founder and Executive Chairman of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, who is currently visiting the country. During the meeting, they reviewed cooperation and relations in the fields of artific»»»

Doha: General Manager of the Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) and Chairman of the Host Committee for the 2025 World Arabian Horse Championship Supreme, Prof. Dr. Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti announced the launch of the first edition of the championship in Doha at a press conference yesterday. »»»

DOHA: Students at Birla Public School have brought laurels to the institution by winning the runner-up award at the Students Short Film Contest organised by the Indian Cultural Centre (ICC) Film Club, Qatar. The short film, titled “The Weights We Carry,” distinguished itself among more than 40 entr»»»

Damascus, Dec. 5 (SANA) Syria and South Korea convened their first bilateral economic forum in Damascus on Thursday, focusing on potential cooperation in Syria’s reconstruction and efforts to expand commercial ties. The event, organized by Syria’s Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Economy in collab»»»

The European Commission will invoke “emergency powers” to raise up to €210bn for Ukraine using frozen Russian state assets, in a move that could bypass the need for unanimous approval by member states and sidestep vetoes by countries like Hungary and Slovakia, the Financial Times reported on Decemb»»»

The European Commission will invoke “emergency powers” to raise up to €210bn for Ukraine using frozen Russian state assets, in a move that could bypass the need for unanimous approval by member states and sidestep vetoes by countries like Hungary and Slovakia, the Financial Times reported on Decemb»»»

The European Commission will invoke “emergency powers” to raise up to €210bn for Ukraine using frozen Russian state assets, in a move that could bypass the need for unanimous approval by member states and sidestep vetoes by countries like Hungary and Slovakia, the Financial Times reported on Decemb»»»

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said Friday, with some populations dropping by 95 percent in just eight years. Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of the small, black and white African Penguin are left globally, according »»»

Saudi Post (SPL), the Kingdom's national postal and logistics provider, has issued a set of commemorative stamps valued at SAR3 to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, observed annually on December 3. The day is celebrated worldwide, including in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to »»»

The European Commission will invoke “emergency powers” to raise up to €210bn for Ukraine using frozen Russian state assets, in a move that could bypass the need for unanimous approval by member states and sidestep vetoes by countries like Hungary and Slovakia, the Financial Times reported on Decemb»»»

The European Commission will invoke “emergency powers” to raise up to €210bn for Ukraine using frozen Russian state assets, in a move that could bypass the need for unanimous approval by member states and sidestep vetoes by countries like Hungary and Slovakia, the Financial Times reported on Decemb»»»

Dubai: Companies operating in the UAE and subject to Emiratisation quotas will be required to pay Dh108,000 for every Emirati they fail to hire under their 2025 targets, with financial penalties taking effect in January 2026, the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) announced. The »»»

The Center for Space Futures (CSF) held an international workshop in Riyadh on Thursday, bringing together nearly 40 experts from around the world to explore “The Next Decade of Transformative Space Technologies.” The event forms part of the center's ongoing efforts to advance the global space econ»»»

New Zealand police have recovered a diamond-encrusted green Faberge egg after keeping a six-day watch over the thief accused of swallowing it. The 32-year-old allegedly gulped down the egg late last week from a store in the country's largest city, Auckland, but was arrested before he could flee. "P»»»

Doha: The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) has declared the initiation of two emergency humanitarian interventions aimed at assisting communities that have been severely impacted by the recent floods and landslides in both Sri Lanka and Vietnam. These initiatives, executed in collaboration with Qa»»»

Iraq on Thursday stunned observers by abruptly adding Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi movement to a terrorism list that triggers immediate asset freezes, only to retract the move within hours by claiming the two names had appeared in an “unedited list” slated for correction. The whiplash decision set »»»

A depressing pattern has taken hold in the way parts of the Western press cover Russia: take a volatile subject, strip it of the conditional language that contains it, and then act surprised when the public grows more fearful, more hardline, and less able to distinguish deterrent rhetoric from an i»»»

A powerful weather system named Byron swept across much of Greece on Friday, forcing widespread school closures, disrupting public services and causing severe travel delays as heavy rain and thunderstorms lashed large parts of the country. Intense downpours hit Attica, the southern and eastern Pelo»»»

The National Audit Office has sent materials to the prosecution service from the audit report on the annual financial statement of the Culture Ministry for 2024, the audit institution said on Friday. This is the second consecutive year in which the National Audit Office has referred financial manag»»»

DOHA: Qatar has taken a significant step into the world of specialised vocational training with the launch of the region’s first Advanced Diamond Examination Programme, offered by the Gemstones Visual Arts Centre —licensed by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, in collaboration with the»»»

Doha: The Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, in partnership with the Doha Forum, will organise the Qatar Mediation Forum 2025 on Monday and Tuesday. The forum will bring together a select group of diplomats, policymakers, and mediation experts, particularly from the United Nations, the A»»»

DOHA: Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has graduated 183 participants from a series of mandatory legal training programmes, marking a significant expansion in the country’s efforts to build a highly skilled national legal workforce. The ceremony, hosted by the Ministry’s Center for Legal and Judicial Stud»»»

In 2026, the State Mortgage Company plans to provide 40,000 apartments in Kyrgyzstan. The head of the Public Relations Department of the State Mortgage Company (SMC), Gulzat Totubaeva, announced at a briefing. According to her, over the past two years, SMC has demonstrated record results in impleme»»»

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the presidential palace in Delhi for an official welcoming ceremony as part of his state visit to India, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Friday. The Russian leader arrived in New Delhi on a two-day visit on Thursday. On Friday morning, the official we»»»

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India on December 4 for a two-day state visit. Sputnik is live as the second day of the Russian leader's visit to India kicks off. Russia’s president will visit the Mahatma Gandhi MemorialAfterwards, talks between Putin and Modi will begin—first in a limi»»»

Jeddah: The star-studded opening night at the Red Sea International Film Festival on December 4 unfurled with confident flair, led by British director Rowan Athale’s gritty boxing drama Giant, which set an emotionally charged tone for the evening. This year’s theme, “For the Love of Cinema,” wasn’t»»»

Abu Dhabi: Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, attended the graduation ceremony of the second cohort of officer cadets at Zayed Military University in Abu Dhabi on Dec»»»

Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court has ordered a woman to repay Dh125,000 to a man who lent her the money in multiple installments, ruling that she failed to provide any evidence that the debt had been settled. According to Emarat Al Youm, the case began when the man filed a lawsuit demand»»»

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has welcomed the latest wage agreement between employers and employees as another step forward in Hungary’s work-based economic model. The new deal raises both the minimum wage and the guaranteed wage minimum, while preserving the principle that such decisions should com»»»

KUWAIT, Dec 5 (KUNA) -- His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Friday sent a congratulatory cable to King of Thailand Maha Vajiralongkorn on the occasion of his country's National Day. (pickup previous) mt»»»

The Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan has amended a government resolution regulating passenger transportation by motor vehicles. The document was issued to ensure the conditions necessary for taxi drivers to obtain licenses. Under the amendment, the date on which mandatory licensing requirements c»»»

Dubai: UAE non-oil private sector activity expanded at its quickest pace in 11 months during November, with the S&P Global PMI climbing to 54.8 from October's 53.8. The reading beat the long-run average of 54.3 and signalled robust business conditions driven by stronger new orders and positive mark»»»

Witnesses, aid workers and researchers said the Rapid Support Forces, which surrounded El-Fasher in Darfur before capturing it in late October, have been holding survivors from the siege in a systematic campaign, demanding ransom for their release and killing or beating those whose families cannot »»»

Ordinary Iranians face up to 10 years in prison or even execution if they use X to write anything the government deems critical. But little did they know that government officials and regime supporters have been using the social media site, which is banned inside Iran, Britain’s The Telegraph repor»»»

President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov signed a decree on measures to improve the efficiency and reform the vehicle and driver registration system. It is aimed at strengthening the material and technical resources of the State Center for Vehicle Registration, which is under the jurisdiction of the P»»»

Meta is shifting some of its investments in the metaverse to AI glasses and wearables, hoping to capitalise on the "momentum" in that segment, a company spokesperson has said. Over the last decade, Meta has poured billions of dollars to build the metaverse, which lets people to interact in a virtua»»»

Severe weather from a system named Byron swept across Greece on Thursday, flooding roads, prompting school closures and triggering multiple emergency alerts as authorities warned of worsening conditions overnight. The storm hit large parts of the country, especially Attica, the Peloponnese and the »»»

Russia is waiting for the reaction from Washington to Russian President Vladimir Putin's discussions with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner earlier this week, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said. "We are now waiting for the reaction of our American c»»»

Dubai: A federal court has convicted a man for submitting forged documents to a UAE bank, including falsified salary statements and a high-value housing lease approval. These documents led the bank to settle his debts with two financial institutions, paying over Dh882,000 before the fraud was disco»»»

France’s President Emmanuel Macron will work toward the release of a French journalist in jail in Algeria “as soon as possible,” his office said Thursday, a day after an Algerian court confirmed his incarceration. An appeals court upheld a seven-year prison term against Christophe Gleizes, a sports»»»

Three more underpasses will be built on Chingiz Aitmatov Avenue in Bishkek. Deputy Mayor of the capital Ramiz Aliev announced at a meeting of the Bishkek City Council’s Standing Committee on Housing and Utilities, Fuel and Energy, Transport, Communications, and Ecology. According to him, one of the»»»

The Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan amended the resolution implementing the requirements of Articles 296, 297, and 364 of the Tax Code. The amendments are aimed at supporting sports infrastructure and exempt certain organizations from VAT and sales tax on goods intended for sports development. I»»»