Dubai: Emirates Flight Catering (EKFC) is planning a brand-new, large-scale catering facility at Dubai World Central (DWC) as it prepares for the next phase of the emirate’s aviation growth. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.Speaking to Gulf News on the sidelines of Gulf»»»

Sweden is moving forward with plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 in serious cases as it grapples with a growing number of children recruited into gangs to carry out violent crimes without facing serious legal repercussions. Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer said the coun»»»

BELGRADE - The Serbian government has decided to set up an operating team that will coordinate expedited fulfilment of all commitments on Serbia's EU path, says the latest issue of the Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia. The team will be comprised of top-level state officials led by Danijel»»»

DONETSK (Sputnik) - Ukrainian military commanders are sending untrained soldiers to assault units as a punishment for attempting to escape from training centers, Ukrainian prisoner of war Alexander Lugovskoy told Sputnik on Tuesday. "Conscripts who were caught [when trying to flee] were sent straig»»»

BEIJING (Sputnik) - Russia is ready to strengthen practical cooperation with the Chinese military, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, Belousov and Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun held talks via videoconference. "Russia is ready, together with China, to s»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia plans to launch Luna-30 station with two lunar rovers in 2036, head of the Lavochkin Research and Production Association Vasily Marfin said on Tuesday. Marfin showed a presentation at the plenary session of the Academic Readings on Cosmonautics according to which the launc»»»

Children in France under the age of 15 could be barred from accessing social media from September 1 after legislators in the National Assembly in Paris voted Monday in favor of a new law that would also extend a smart phone ban in schools to high school students. File Photo by David Silpa/UPI | Lic»»»

Dubai: The government on Tuesday assured overseas Pakistanis of swift action to reclaim illegally occupied properties in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), declaring that their assets were fully protected. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said deputy commissioners in Islamabad would be bound to d»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Museums (QM) has announced the final phase of a diverse program of exhibitions set to conclude in February, as part of the Qatar Creates fall-winter 2025 season. These exhibitions bring together leading voices in art, architecture, and environmental research, collectively present»»»

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Iraq's parliament postponed the election of the country's president on Tuesday to allow Kurdish rivals time to agree on a candidate. The parliament delayed the session, the official INA press agency reported, without saying whether a new date had been agreed. The agency reported earlier that speake»»»

Dubai: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Monday inaugurated ‘Shikra’, a state-of-the-art real-time monitoring system at the Directorate General of Immigration and Passports aimed at improving transparency, efficiency and service delivery. The system allows authorities to track passport a»»»

Athens: Greek investigators on Tuesday were looking into the causes of a fire that killed five workers at a biscuit factory in the country's worst industrial accident in years. The explosion early on Monday ripped through an entire section of the Violanta factory near the central Greek city of Trik»»»

Firefighters recovered the body of a 55-year-old man from the bottom of a cliff beside a stream in a mountainous village in Tzoumerka, northwestern Greece. The man, who had been staying at his brother’s house, failed to return home Monday night, prompting his family to raise the alarm. Search effor»»»

The process of withdrawing lev banknotes from circulation is progressing well and steadily, with 67% of the cash in levs collected so far, Vladimir Ivanov, Chair of the State Commission on Commodity Exchanges and Wholesale Markets and Head of the Coordination Centre on Euro Adoption in Bulgaria sai»»»

The US and Israel "have outlined a plan for the next phase in resolving the Iranian issue... The level of military readiness at all levels in Iran is high and has reached a red line," Lebanese expert Brigadier General Malik Ayub tells Sputnik. However, Israel is unlikely to participate in a war aga»»»

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Iran has warned the UN Security Council over explicit US threats against Tehran, while a senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution described President Donald Trump as “fearful of defeat.” Addressing an open debate of the UN Security Council on Monday, Iran’s Ambassador to the United Na»»»

With Ramadan expected to begin between February 17 and 19 in the UAE, medical experts say the next three weeks are critical for preparing the body for fasting. Starting early can help prevent common problems such as fatigue, dehydration and acidity that many people experience during the first days »»»

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education announced the opening and closing dates to apply for educational vouchers for students with disabilities, calling on parents to register for the current and upcoming academic years. The Ministry, represented by the Department of Special Ed»»»

The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, emphasized that Bulgaria’s economy continues to perform strongly despite ongoing political uncertainty. In an interview with BNT, she warned that the country must avoid letting its budget deficit grow and urged both car»»»

Excel Properties has announced the promotion of two senior female professionals to leadership positions as part of its ongoing organisational development strategy. Sana Shaikh has been appointed Vice President – Marketing, while Kristina Gribkova has been promoted to Sales Director. The appointment»»»

India is racing to contain a Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal, where five cases have been confirmed, including infections among healthcare workers. Nearly 100 contacts are under home quarantine, and patients are receiving treatment in hospitals around Kolkata, with one in critical condition. Als»»»

Madrid: Spain's historically stubborn unemployment fell below 10 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, official data showed on Tuesday, a first since the 2008 financial crisis. The jobless rate in the European Union's fourth-largest economy was 9.93 percent in the period, 0.52 percentage poin»»»

ACT Infraport Ltd and Salamis Shipyards have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Technical Collaboration, marking an important milestone in the development of a state-of-the-art Greenfield Shipyard project in the Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat, India. The MoU was signed in Athens in a cordial an»»»

Greek power grid operator DEDDIE has defended the legality of its Mount Ymittos undergrounding project after a local mayor blamed it for making flooding worse, following a storm in Attica. Glyfada Mayor Giorgos Papanikolaou, announced plans to take legal action against DEDDIE, saying the project ac»»»

Asen Vassilev, leader of “We Continue Change,” affirmed the stability of the WCC-DB coalition, insisting there will be no post-election alliance with GERB or Rumen Radev’s prospective formation. Speaking to reporters, Vassilev stressed that the coalition is united in vision, focused on shaping a Bu»»»

Kairat Tursunkulov has been appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan. The Cabinet of Ministers’ press service reported. The appointment order was signed by Cabinet Chairman Adylbek Kasymaliev. Tursunkulov replaces Temirbek Erkinov, who was previously transferred to the position of»»»

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Djuro Macut said on Tuesday Serbia was facing a stall on its EU integration path but that it was not as prominent as it seemed. Speaking to the RTS, Macut said that, at a session on Monday, the government had decided to set up an operating team to accelerate the progress on th»»»

The former head of a temporary detention facility of the Internal Affairs Department of Issyk-Kul district, Police Major T.K.A., has been detained, the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) reported. According to it, investigators uncovered a scheme involving the extortion of m»»»

As Damascus announces a 15-day extension of its ceasefire, the clock is ticking for Syria’s Kurdish-led forces. With the United States reportedly reconsidering its military presence and pressure mounting on the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to integrate into the national army, the coming weeks cou»»»

A meeting on teacher training and professional development was held at the Ministry of Education of Kyrgyzstan. According to the ministry’s press service, the meeting was attended by Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Edil Baisalov, Minister of Education Dogdurkul Kendirbaeva, Minister of »»»

Berlin: Germany is offering a one million euro ($1.2 million) reward for information leading to the arrest of suspected far-left militants whose arson attack caused a massive blackout in Berlin, the interior minister said Tuesday. The electricity outage left roughly 45,000 homes and 2,200 businesse»»»

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Airlines are paying out millions of pounds in compensation to passengers every year after initially saying no, as consumer groups accuse firms of trying to put customers off making claims for severe delays or cancellations. Almost £11m was paid in the year to October 2025 to passengers whose claims»»»

National Assembly Chair Raya Nazaryan and figures imposed by the status quo are not unacceptable as caretaker prime minister, Morality, Unity, Honour (MECh) MP Hristo Rastashki told journalists in parliament on Tuesday ahead of a sitting of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, when asked»»»

After two weeks of intense political and legal scrutiny, the Federal Reserve will seek to make this week's meeting about interest rates as straightforward and uneventful as possible, though President Donald Trump probably still won't like the result. The central bank's interest rate-setting committ»»»

Iran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests killed at least 6,126 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a US aircraft carrier group arrived in the Middle East to lead any American military response to the crisis. Iran's currency, the rial, meanwhile fell to a»»»

Thiruvananthapuram: Six police personnel attached to the Kazhakkoottam Police Station in Thiruvananthapuram have been suspended following an incident of public drinking that has embarrassed the force and triggered sharp scrutiny from senior officers. The suspended personnel have also been directed »»»

Doha, Qatar: The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council of the Republic of the Sudan HE Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Al Burhan held an official meeting at the Amiri Diwan on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. At the beginning of the meeting, HH the Amir welcom»»»

Speaking to reporters in Parliament on Tuesday, Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) Co-Floor Leader from Democratic Bulgaria Nadejda Iordanova said that the caretaker prime minister must be kept as far as possible from the influence of Movement for Rights and Freedoms – New Beginning le»»»

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.4073 dinars for one euro on Tuesday, which is a slight change relative to Monday, the National Bank of Serbia said. The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m, down by 0.2 pct y-o-y and down by 0.1 pct relative to »»»

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday he had always believed the relations between Belgrade and Sarajevo were important and that he now believed so even more, and noted that the relations between the Serbs and Bosniaks were key for the future of the Balkans. In an interview »»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Zapad battlegroup of the Russian armed forces has liberated the Kupyansk-Uzlovaya settlement in the Kharkov region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. "As a result of the active offensive actions of the units of the Zapad battlegroup, the Kupyansk-Uzlovaya settleme»»»

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Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Tuesday strongly criticized Hezbollah in the wake of Sheikh Naim Qassem’s latest remarks about supporting Iran. “The basis of the Memorandum of Understanding (between the FPM and Hezbollah) was to Lebanonize Hezbollah’s choices and weapons through part»»»