President Donald Trump announced on Thursday tariffs of up to 100 percent on imports of unmanned drones and their components to reduce US reliance on imports in an industry dominated by China. The US president justified the decision on national security grounds, according to a White House statement»»»

A sweeping overhaul of Germany’s intelligence services proposed by the government could infringe on police powers in violation of constitutional safeguards, opposition politicians have warned. On Wednesday, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt presented a 730-page package comprising three draft law»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Gulf International Services (GIS) reported a net profit of QR67 million for the six-month period ended June 30, 2026, as stronger performance from its insurance business helped offset lower contributions from the drilling and aviation segments. The Qatar-based group report»»»

Ukraine's power generation capacity has collapsed from just under 60GW before the war to just 12GW today. If Russia's missiles get through this winter the way they did last year, the shortfall could nearly double. Ukraine already has a 5-6GW deficit of power generation between what it can produce a»»»

JEDDAH: The Saudi-led multinational maritime defence coalition has finalized key arrangements to activate its command structure, and preparations began to integrate officers and personnel from member states into its command, maritime operations and intelligence structures, the Saudi Ministry of Def»»»

Damascus, Aug.13 (SANA) Syria’s trajectory toward full economic openness is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Backed by expanding Western, Arab, and international partnerships in energy, logistics, ports, and industrial technology, Syria is successfully overhauling its legislative framework, l»»»

Dubai: XRG, ADNOC’s international energy investment company, is entering Venezuela through an interest in the offshore Loran gas licence, giving the Abu Dhabi-based company exposure to one of Latin America’s significant undeveloped gas resources and extending its rapidly growing international gas p»»»

LONDON: The Syrian Arab Republic’s Interior Ministry said on Thursday that it released six people detained during an investigation into a Daesh cell in the southern province of Quneitra, saying it found no evidence that they were involved and apologizing to them and their families. The detentions f»»»

President Karol Nawrocki has signed legislation introducing Personal Investment Accounts, known as OKI, clearing the way for the new savings vehicle to launch on January 1, 2027. Investment assets held within an OKI will be exempt from Poland’s capital gains tax up to PLN 100,000, while a separate »»»

The Danube has begun falling again at Paks, increasing the threat of further restrictions or even a complete shutdown at the Paks nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said on Thursday. The government has already begun emergency river-engineering works, while two 80-metre barges are bein»»»

Britain’s economic growth slowed in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the first three months of the year, official data released Thursday, August 13, showed, as domestic political turmoil and the fallout from the war on Iran weigh on the economy. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said»»»

Hungarian football finances remain heavily dependent on centrally distributed funding rather than supporters buying tickets, according to a new analysis of the country’s top-flight league. NB I clubs generated more than HUF 63 billion (around EUR 173 million) in combined revenue in 2024, yet ticket»»»

Poland has arrested a Russian national who was allegedly planning to kill a Ukrainian-American dual citizen in Warsaw, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Thursday. Tusk added that this was the first time that “someone on the order of Russia” had sought to attack an American citizen on NATO territory.&»»»

They look like normal glasses, but there is a minuscule camera that is capturing what is in the eyes of the beholder – and transferring it directly onto social media. A German NGO has launched legal action against Meta on Saturday (8 August), as well as several optical retail chains selling Meta’s »»»

Russia’s Rosatom is accelerating work on the Paks II project, which will provide Hungary with two new nuclear reactors, but a key political relationship behind the massive investment has changed dramatically. While Viktor Orbán’s governments maintained unusually close ties with Moscow for years, Ro»»»

Fuel prices in Bulgaria are expected to decline in the coming months as the market moves toward normalization, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Alexander Pulev and Evgeni Simeonov, the special commercial manager of the Burgas oil refinery. Speaking at a briefing at the refine»»»

FRANKFURT: German police said on Thursday that a suspicious object found on rail tracks in a Bavarian town did not contain explosives, as initially feared. Earlier on Thursday, buildings near ‌the object ‌were evacuated in the ‌town ⁠of Treuchtlingen for ⁠the item to be moved safely by a robot. Exp»»»

Soft power, in the form of scientific cooperation, is helping to drive an expansion of China’s economic influence in Central Asia. Uzbekistan and China, for example, recently launched the joint hyperspectral satellite, Samarkand-2028, which will support applications in agriculture, environmental mo»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will participate in the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Mongolia on Monday, marking the conclusion of its landmark presidency. The COP17 summit, which runs from Aug. 17 to 28 in Ulaanbaatar, brings together states,»»»

Ukraine has stopped reporting how many missiles the Russian military has fired, as the figures expose deep weaknesses in its air defenses, veteran military analyst Viktor Litovkin tells Sputnik. "They know they can’t intercept even a single [missile] — and it’s becoming harder to keep up the preten»»»

On the Romanian market, through its West Beton division (concrete production and delivery), the company contributed to the development of projects such as Nusco City, HILS Nord, HILS Sunrise, Media City Ghica 2 Apartments, Pipera H, Horizon City, The Edition 1011, Bucharest Metro Line 6, the Buchar»»»

RIYADH: Oman launched a government bond offering worth up to 100 million rials ($260 million) as the Gulf state expands domestic borrowing to finance budget needs and refinance maturing debt. According to the Oman News Agency, the Central Bank of Oman said the 84th Government Development Bonds issu»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Producer Price Index increased 8.5 percent year on year in June, driven by higher prices in the manufacturing sector, official data showed. Manufacturing prices rose 9 percent, while prices in the electricity, gas, steam, and air-conditioning supply sector increased 2.4 perce»»»

On 9 August, Donald Trump sat for an interview with Axios and, in the space of a few sentences, reversed the tone of the previous week. “We're moving very quietly,” he said. Rather than ordering the sweeping new strikes he had threatened days earlier, the president said he preferred to let sanction»»»

Nadia Comăneci will officially open the third edition of the Singureni Manor Polo Cup international polo tournament, taking place from 25 to 27 September 2026 at Singureni Manor Equestrian Retreat. As guest of honour, she will mark the start of the competition by throwing the first ball onto the fi»»»

The condition of the 5-year-old boy who was beaten by his father yesterday remains critical, with doctors continuing to fight for his life at Sofia’s Pirogov emergency hospital. The child was transferred by air ambulance from a hospital in Montana, where he was initially admitted after being brough»»»

Seoul: Republic of Korea's car exports hit a record high in July, exceeding $6.2 billion, thanks to a 7% year-on-year increase to $6.24 billion, surpassing the previous record of $5.9 billion set in July 2023. Yonhap news agency reported, citing data from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resourc»»»

DUBAI: The eagerly anticipated 2026/27 ADNOC Pro League kicks off this weekend, with questions ranging from whether an era of Al-Ain dominance awaits, to what revolutionary upstarts United FC can achieve on their debut with Italy icon Andrea Pirlo, somehow, still at the helm. The unbeaten Boss live»»»

The Executive Chairman of the Egyptian Exchange (EGX), Omar Radwan, affirmed that the Egyptian stock market acts as a mirror to the country’s economy. He noted that proactive measures taken by the Egyptian government at the onset of the region’s geopolitical crisis since March enabled the Central B»»»

Dubai: A mobile phone recovered from the barrack of former Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna at Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Central Prison has raised fresh questions over security and alleged preferential treatment for high-profile inmates. Central Crime Branch (CCB) officials recovered an Android 5G sm»»»

On Aug. 13, 2020, Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed to full normalization of relations. 1 of 5 | U.S. President Donald Trump (2nd-L), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), United Arab Emirates' Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al »»»

RIYADH: The World Bank Group’s 2026 World Development Report, titled The Promise of Artificial Intelligence, highlights Saudi Arabia’s growing position in the global artificial intelligence landscape, placing the Kingdom among the world’s top 10 countries for private AI investment and identifying i»»»

Russia's Supreme Court has banned the Yabloko party and its candidates from being on next month's ballots for the Duma legislative elections. File Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA-EFE Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Russia's Supreme Court has removed Yabloko, the country's only anti-war political party, from the ballo»»»

The decrease of 2.26 percentage points in a single month is not the result of an improvement in the internal inflationary mechanism, but of the exit from the calculation base of the energy shock in July 2025, says the chairman of the Association of Romania's Financial-Banking Analysts (AAFBR), Flav»»»

Electric vehicles imported into Kyrgyzstan under the quota are not intended for resale, Deputy Minister of Economy and Commerce Sultan Akhmatov said at a press conference. According to him, the additional quota for 10,000 electric vehicles should not be distributed among importers. The increased qu»»»

UAE residents travelling to India around Independence Day on August 15 should plan ahead, with airports across the country stepping up security and warning passengers to expect longer processing times. India will celebrate its 80th Independence Day on Saturday, with enhanced security measures in pl»»»

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Kyrgyzstan will soon begin assembling passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and specialized vehicles with electric engines. According to the Ministry of Economy and Commerce, production is planned to begin with large-knockdown assembly, followed by a transition to small-knockdown assembly and a full»»»

Washington: Keeping a low profile doesn't come naturally to Donald Trump. Yet that is the strategy the American president says he now favors in the war against Iran, and he is betting on economic pressure over diplomacy or new strikes. "We are low-keying it," Trump told news site Axios by phone Sun»»»

WASHINGTON: Keeping a low profile doesn’t come naturally to Donald Trump. Yet that is the strategy the American president says he now favors in the war against Iran, and he is betting on economic pressure over diplomacy or new strikes. “We are low-keying it,” Trump told news site Axios by phone Sun»»»

BEIJING: China’s homegrown C919 jet completed its first international commercial flight on Wednesday, a symbolic step toward Beijing’s goal of challenging the decades-long aerospace dominance of Boeing and Airbus. The narrow-body jet has been billed as a potential competitor to Boeing’s 737 or Airb»»»

Most Poles would back the deportation of unemployed military-age Ukrainian men, a recent survey by the Warsaw-based IBRiS Institute for Market and Social Research has indicated. Public perception of Ukrainians in Poland has deteriorated in recent months amid a diplomatic spat between the two countr»»»

Four more Iran-linked ships were blocked or redirected by the US Central Command on Wednesday, as American forces continue to enforce the “steel wall” naval blockade against Iran. This brings the total of ship redirections to 59 commercial vessels, 3 “disabled”, and 2 boarded as of August 12, 2026.»»»

People across Europe looked to the western horizon on Wednesday evening to see the moon moving in front of the sun, bringing twilight-like conditions and plunging parts of the continent into darkness. The totalsolareclipse began in northern Siberia, before the moon's umbra swept in an arc over Gree»»»

Washington: US natural gas production is on track to hit a new annual record in 2026, with output forecast to average 122.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), according to the latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). That would eclipse the prev»»»

Salzburg, Austria: Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain rubber-stamped their status as Europe's top team as they beat Aston Villa 2-1 in the UEFA Super Cup on Wednesday. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Desire Doue netted either side of a debut goal for Villa teenager Brian Madjo in Salzburg as PS»»»

RIYADH: What kind of relationship binds the Houthis to Iran? Afrah Al-Zouba, the first woman to head Yemen’s Foreign Ministry, has a term for it: “mutual instrumentalization.” “I use the term because it describes the relationship more accurately,” Al-Zouba told Asharq Al-Awsat in her first intervie»»»

PARIS: Xavi Hernandez has been named as the successor to Ronald Koeman as head coach of the Netherlands national team, becoming their first foreign boss in 48 years, the country’s football association announced on Wednesday. The Barcelona great, who won the 2010 World Cup with Spain as a player, ha»»»

Then-Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., speaks at a press conference in Washington, D.C., in 2009. Hoekstra, now the U.S. Ambassador to Canada, is the subject of a Canadian petition to have him removed from the country. File Photo by Roger L. Wollenberg/UPI | License Photo Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Thousands of »»»

Poland has christened ORP Wicher, the first of three new-generation frigates being built under the Miecznik program for the Polish Navy. President Karol Nawrocki said the vessel will significantly strengthen Poland’s naval capabilities and described the program as an important boost for the domesti»»»