KYIV: Large protests erupted in several Ukrainian cities on Thursday morning against the removal of popular Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. AFP reporters in Kyiv saw more than a thousand people gathered on a central square, singing the Ukrainian national anthem, waving Ukrainian and EU flags and»»»

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump wants Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to keep pulling over vehicles, signaling his opposition Wednesday to plans announced just a day earlier to suspend most traffic stops following another string of fatal shootings. It’s not clear whether ICE will qu»»»

PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, July 15: French papers weep, while the Spanish press celebrates the World Cup semi-final. Also in France, papers discuss the assisted dying bill that will be voted on today. Finally: are cigarettes back in vogue?  PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, July 15: French pa»»»

Dubai: As the US-Iran conflict entered its fifth month with no clear end in sight, one theme has become increasingly apparent: Many of the priorities repeatedly emphasised by Gulf states have proved more durable than several early assumptions made in Washington. While US President Donald Trump and »»»

Dubai: India’s Congress Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday made an emotional appeal to activist Sonam Wangchuk to end his indefinite hunger strike, saying the protest had already achieved its purpose by drawing national attention and that the battle over students’ concerns should now »»»

Fitch Ratings has warned that Bulgaria’s 2026 state budget reflects growing risks for the country’s public finances and economy, pointing to a deterioration in the fiscal position in recent years, BTA reported. According to the international credit rating agency’s analysis, the expansionary fiscal »»»

Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student who became the face of the Trump administration's crackdown on Palestinian rights demonstrators, filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges senior Trump administration officials, pro-Israel group the Heritage Foundation and onl»»»

DAKAR: Former Senegalese ‌President Macky Sall will travel to Senegal on Friday, his first public visit to the country since ​leaving office as he campaigns for the post of UN secretary-general. Sall remains a divisive figure in Senegal following his unsuccessful attempt to postpone the 2024 presid»»»

LONDON: Hamas says it has formally stepped aside from governing Gaza, dissolving the administrative body that has overseen the enclave throughout the war in a move analysts say is intended to pave the way for a technocratic administration — while leaving the group's military wing intact. On July 6,»»»

NEW YORK: Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is suing the federal government and several private groups, alleging they were part of a conspiracy to suppress criticism of Israel through a campaign to dox, jail and ultimately deport student activists. The civil rights suit, filed Tuesday, names the »»»

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was removed from prison two days before completing a five-year sentence. Cuban artist and dissident Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, shown in 2021, was removed from prison in Cuba two days before completing a five-year sentence. His whereabouts are unknown. File Photo by Ern»»»

Parents again staged a protest outside the Council of Ministers building in Sofia on Tuesday, demanding changes to policies supporting families with children. The demonstration, held under the slogan "Maternity Is Not Charity", was organized for a second time by the civic initiative Parents for Dec»»»

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy =announced a sweeping reshuffle of Ukraine's government on July 12 and signalled changes to the country's top law enforcement agencies. The shake-up of the wartime administration comes as Kyiv seeks to strengthen international alliances while facing growing political p»»»

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday putting a ban on permits newm giant data centers in the state. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo July 14 (UPI) -- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday putting a moratorium on building large data cent»»»

LONDON: Britain’s approval for China ‌to build a vast embassy in London was challenged in court on Tuesday, as a group of local residents argue that officials failed to consider the impact on protests and potential targeting of dissidents. China’s plans to build an embassy on the site of the two-ce»»»

Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senior senator and foreign policy hawk who was one of Ukraine’s most vocal supporters in the US administration and a leading advocate of regime change in Iran, suddenly died on the evening of July 11 at the age of 71 from a “brief and sudden illness”, his office a»»»

One person was killed in Maine in a fatal shooting involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the speaker of the Maine House of Representatives said Monday. The incident came days after an ICE officer shot and killed a man at a traffic stop in Houston, Texas. A ​person was killed on Mo»»»

LONDON: The former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, met former Mossad spy chief David Barnea in Budapest, Hungary, in 2024 and 2025 as Israel attempted to groom the hardline politician to become the new Iranian leader in the event of regime change in Tehran. The plan failed, the New York Tim»»»

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa has deported or repatriated more than 53,000 African immigrants in the space of a month in a crackdown by authorities that has coincided with a series of sometimes violent protests against illegal migration. More than 80 percent of the immigrants sent home were from Malaw»»»

People protest over power outages in Havana on Wednesday. Five years after the historic social uprising of July 11, 2021, Cuba is experiencing daily protests. Photo by Ernesto Mastrascusa/EPA July 13 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump's administration expanded its economic campaign against the Cuban g»»»

The European Commission is officially recommending the termination of the EU’s €2 million ($2.28 million) grant to the Venice Biennale over the reopening of Russia’s pavilion. The country returned to one of the world’s most prestigious art festivals this year for the first time since 2022 despite B»»»

HEADLINES Energy policy, public finances and infrastructure dominate the Bulgarian media on Monday. Print outlets focus on proposed energy-efficiency requirements for new buildings, the government's plans concerning strategic water infrastructure, and the management of the country's beaches, while »»»

TEHRAN: Peyvand Naimi has spent more than six months in an Iranian prison, accused of killing state security agents during nationwide protests, although his family says no formal charges or evidence have been presented. “The Baha’is will not be released,” the family says it was told by the prosecut»»»

Salaries at state-owned companies should be adjusted downward, Deputy Prime Minister Ivo Hristov said in an interview with Bulgarian National Television on Saturday. According to him, remuneration at some state enterprises is unrealistically high. He argued that current pay levels are based on flaw»»»

Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that US President Donald Trump wanted to "exhaust the possibility" of reaching a diplomatic agreement with Iran before pursuing other options on the nuclear issue. Speaking in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press, Netanyahu asserted tha»»»

Prime Minister Edi Rama said his government is listening carefully to the concerns raised by peaceful protesters, while rejecting accusations that he has attacked citizens participating in the demonstrations. In a message posted on social media, Rama said critics had falsely accused him of targetin»»»

Democratic Party (PD) has decided not to participate in Tuesday's parliamentary plenary session, marking its second consecutive boycott of the legislature. The decision was communicated to the party's lawmakers through an internal notice. "We inform you that tomorrow we will not participate in the »»»

Salaries at state-owned companies should be adjusted downward, Deputy Prime Minister Ivo Hristov said in an interview with Bulgarian National Television on Saturday. According to him, remuneration at some state enterprises is unrealistically high. He argued that current pay levels are based on flaw»»»

Budapest’s District XI (Újbuda) council has approved a controversial planning agreement that effectively clears the way for a 140-apartment residential development next to the popular Lake Feneketlen. Residents opposed, but council said compromising was the only solution The decision follows months»»»

FRANKFURT, Germany — Volkswagen on Friday said that a slide in sales accelerated in the second quarter, as the crisis-hit German auto group reportedly considers cutting up to 100,000 jobs worldwide.Overall vehicle deliveries fell almost nine percent in the April-June period from a year earlier than»»»

TIRANA, Albania: Thousands of Albanians marched in Tirana Saturday calling for the resignation of the country’s prime minister and protesting a tourism project linked to the Trump family — the 42nd consecutive night of such demonstrations. The marchers were also protesting a concert Saturday by con»»»

MUSINA, South Africa: Perched on weathered wooden rafts, small groups of people hauled themselves and their bundles of cargo hand over hand along a rope strung across the crocodile-infested Limpopo River. Minutes later, they were in South Africa, having bypassed the border post at Beitbridge, a sho»»»

Salaries at state-owned companies should be adjusted downward, Deputy Prime Minister Ivo Hristov said in an interview with Bulgarian National Television on Saturday. According to him, remuneration at some state enterprises is unrealistically high. He argued that current pay levels are based on flaw»»»

IBADAN, Nigeria: Nigerian security forces suffered “casualties” during the rescue of over 40 kidnapped schoolchildren and teachers, the army said Saturday, in an operation that put an end to a major security crisis in the country’s relatively safe southwest. The pupils, whose rescue was announced F»»»

ISTANBUL: Turkiye’s government pressed on with its campaign against the main opposition CHP on Saturday with dozens of arrests targeting a district in the capital Ankara that is run by the party. Some 27 people were arrested in early-morning raids in Cankaya, out of a total of 36 named in a warrant»»»

KUT: Hundreds of residents of an eastern Iraqi city protested on Saturday against power cuts during extreme summer heat, an AFP correspondent said. Temperatures in the city of Kut have peaked at 44C, with residents organizing protests to urge authorities to boost electricity supply. Decades of war »»»

TIRANA: A Miami-based businessman wanted in Albania for allegedly laundering drug money is suspected of faking the deeds to land where Jared Kushner wants to build a multi-billion-dollar resort, the country’s organized crime-fighting agency said in case files reviewed by Reuters. The businessman, A»»»

Lagos, Nigeria: Dozens of schoolchildren kidnapped during a rare attack in southwestern Nigeria 56 days ago have been rescued, the presidency said on Friday. The raid on schools in Esiele and Yawota -- two agrarian communities that sit on the edge of the vast Old Oyo National Park -- quickly became»»»

Protests in Kolkata, India, have sprung up this week -- and resulted in the death of an innocent man -- over outrage of the rape and slaying of an 11-year-old girl. Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA July 10 (UPI) -- Violence erupted in India after a girl in eastern India was raped and slain, with a mob k»»»

LILONGWE, Malawi: Malawi said Friday it had brought 38,000 nationals back from South Africa in a month as part of an exodus of foreigners fleeing anti-migrant threats and violence, with six dying on the way. South Africa has been rocked by weeks of protests and unrest targeting immigrants, who stan»»»

ATHENS: ‌Greek police said they had arrested two people over a 2010 arson attack that killed three workers trapped inside a bank building in Athens during a massive general strike against budget cuts at the start of the country’s debt crisis. The ‌tragedy on ‌May 5, 2010 ‌unfolded ⁠as tens of ⁠thou»»»

TIRANA: Albania’s government on Friday defended its payment of four million euros ($4.6 million) to support the upcoming performance by US rapper Kanye West in its capital, amid reports of weak ticket sales. Prime Minister Edi Rama is facing criticism from opposition figures and arts groups in the »»»

NEW DELHI: Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, facing a death sentence back home where her party is banned, told Reuters she and senior party colleagues plan to return from exile in ​India around December and surrender. The South Asian nation’s longest-serving leader said she and membe»»»

Doha, Qatar: Undergraduate researchers from Northwestern University in Qatar’s Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South (#IAS_NUQ) will present original scholarship alongside leading international academics at the 2026 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) C»»»

France has finally returned 23 Syrian archaeological treasures that remained in the country for about 15 years after being loaned for an exhibition. Their return coincided with French President Emmanuel Macron's landmark visit to Damascus — the first by a major Western leader since the ouster of Ba»»»

In February, the ruling Iranian regime’s daily newspaper Jomhouri Eslami posed a question in print that had been taboo for 40 years: does the Islamic Republic really need two sets of armed forces? There is the regular army, the Artesh, to guard against foreign enemies, and there is the Islamic Revo»»»

Tehran: A condolence ceremony will be held on Saturday following the passing of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who lost his life during military strikes on February 28, according to a report by Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency. The news agency reported that the ceremony will»»»

He is the grandson of an influential Shiite cleric, born in Qom — the heart of religious studies in Iran — and raised in a traditional family that embraced the theocracy. But by his late 20s, he had stopped praying and given up on clerical rule. Now, he can barely discuss politics or religion with »»»

President Joseph Aoun has said that he wants to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump because he wants the Lebanese issue to “remain on the American agenda.” “We want to solidify its position there,” Aoun said in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper. “There's no need to reiterate the importa»»»

Iran's slain ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday will be buried at the country's holiest shrine in Mashhad after a week of mass funeral processions, rallies and mourning ceremonies that has coincided ​with a flare-up in conflict with the US. Khamenei's son and successor, Supreme»»»