Dubai: Qatar is preparing to roll out a 10-year residency programme targeted at entrepreneurs and senior executives, marking a significant shift in how the country approaches long-term expatriate residence. The announcement was made at Web Summit Qatar 2026. Sign up for our daily business newslette»»»

Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled a plan to bolster Canada's car industry and support its electric vehicle transition, as the sector buckles under the weight of US tariffs. The new initiatives, announced on Thursday, mark Canada's latest effort to reduce its reliance on the US, amid President»»»

Dubai: Iran and the United States are set to hold high-stakes talks in Oman starting Friday, their first formal negotiations since last year’s war between Iran and Israel and US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. The meeting comes amid soaring tensions following Tehran’s deadly crackdown on nat»»»

Dubai: Working hours for both public and private sector employees in the UAE are set to be reduced during the holy month of Ramadan, in line with the country’s labour rules and regulations. As the holy month of Ramadan is most likely to begin on February 19, employees across government and private »»»

Share: The pro-Iranian militia Hezbollah is running a camp for Lebanese and Syrians who live in villages it controlled during the Syrian war © Joseph EID / AFP Hermel (Lebanon) (AFP) – “They drove us out at gunpoint,” says Lebanese citizen Zeinab Qataya, who fled her adopted home in Syria after the»»»

Famine is spreading in Sudan's western Darfur region, UN-backed experts warned on Thursday, as a grinding war between the army and paramilitary forces has left millions hungry, displaced and cut off from aid. Since April 2023, the conflict between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support For»»»

A deadly storm that triggered floods and thousands of evacuations in the Iberian Peninsula sparked calls on Thursday for Portugal's presidential run-off to be postponed, but electoral officials insisted it would go ahead. The country of around 10 million people had barely recovered from last week's»»»

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The Dutch military has got a new high-profile volunteer as it seeks to boost recruitment to counter growing fears about peace and security in Europe. Queen Máxima, the 54-year-old Argentinean-born wife of King Willem-Alexander, started training this week to become a reserve »»»

President Donald Trump wants China and Russia to negotiate a new strategic arms reduction treaty after the New START treaty with Russia expired on Wednesday. Screengrab from Russian Defense Ministry Press Office video/UPI | License Photo Feb. 5 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump wants a new nuclear ar»»»

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday cancelled a mandate for all vehicles sold in the country to be electric by 2035, while announcing major investments to support the auto industry's EV transition. In unveiling his plan to transform the sector, Carney said Canada's auto industry needed »»»

KYIV, Ukraine: Negotiators from Moscow and Kyiv on Thursday held a second day of US-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi on ending their war amid an escalation in Russia’s winter attacks on Ukraine’s power grid and after a sharp rise last year in Ukrainian civilians killed in the fighting. “We are working i»»»

From royals to intellectuals, politicians to sport moguls, tech magnates and CEOs, the latest tranche of published documents from the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has spotlighted a staggering global web of influence. Last week the US Justice Department published a new c»»»

NEW YORK: “The Tipping Point” author Malcolm Gladwell's next book will focus on a long-running tragedy in the country's culture, gun violence. The American Way of Killing will come out Sept. 29, Little, Brown and Company announced Thursday. Also Read: Don't be thinking 'Industrial 4.0' without ramp»»»

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One of Australia's most famous gangsters will walk free after prosecutors Friday said they would drop a planned retrial on drug trafficking charges. Sixty-year-old Tony Mokbel — one of the key figures in Melbourne's years-long gangland war — was jailed for 30 years in 2012 after pleading guilty to »»»

CARACAS, Venezuela: Andrés Velásquez didn’t stick around to become one more government critic jailed after Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election. A former governor who had crisscrossed Venezuela stumping for then-President Nicolás Maduro's opponent in the disputed race, he grew a thick beard, sent»»»

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Police in Norway have opened a corruption investigation into the country's former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland over his alleged links to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A special Norwegian police unit which is analysing newly released Epstein files in the US said the 75-year-ol»»»

Manila: Several regions in the country are expected to be impacted as tropical storm Basyang (Penha) has already made landfall early on Friday (Feb. 6, 2026). Based on the latest forecast, Basyang will continue traversing Agusan del Norte before emerging over the Bohol Sea, based on Tropical Cyclon»»»

Loyalty to Resistance Parliamentary Bloc in Lebanon held Thursday its regular session to discuss a number of political and parliamentary issues, condemning the Israeli escalation against Lebanon. The Bloc expresses its full solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran—its leadership, government, an»»»

1 of 2 | The crown of Empress Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Emperor Napoleon III of France, suffered damage in the October Louvre Museum heist. The restoration of the crown will begin soon. Photo courtesy of Thomas Clot/Louvre Museum Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The Louvre Museum in Paris announced it will begin »»»

Houses and market stalls lie in rubble after Boko Haram Islamists attacked Woro village, Kwara State, Nigeria, on Tuesday. Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/EPA Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Boko Haram Islamist militants killed 75 Muslims in attacks on two villages in the Nigerian state of Kwara this week after locals re»»»

Amazon on Thursday joined the other US tech giants in announcing a huge increase in spending on artificial intelligence (AI) projects and infrastructure, which seemed to knock back investors. Reporting on its past year's financial performance, Amazon said it was expecting to spend $200bn this year »»»

Tunis, Feb. 5 (TAP) - Strengthening Tunisian–Senegalese cooperation in the energy sector was the focus of a meeting on Thursday between Secretary of State in charge of Energy Transition Wael Chouchane and Senegal’s Minister of Energy, Oil, and...»»»