RAMALLAH: Israeli forces and settlers carried out 26 incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque in September, while authorities prevented the call to prayer 150 times and closed Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron for six days, the Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said on Tuesday. The figures reflecte»»»

Paramount completed its acquisition of Warner Bros Discover on Tuesday, after a bidding war against Netflix. The deal closed following federal approval of a settlement between Paramount and 12 US states that tried to block the transaction on antitrust grounds. Opponents in the movie industry warned»»»

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro received on Monday endorsements ​from Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, two right-wing politicians who ran against him in Sunday's first-round vote, ​for ‌the runoff against President Luiz ⁠Inacio Lula da Silva later this month. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Anthon»»»

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro received on Monday endorsements ​from Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, two right-wing politicians who ran against him in Sunday's first-round vote, ​for ‌the runoff against President Luiz ⁠Inacio Lula da Silva later this month. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Anthon»»»

TRIPOLI: Libya’s parliament speaker, a supporter of eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar, was ousted on Tuesday after 12 years in the post, in what experts said may be a sign of a shifting political balance. MPs voted to replace Agila Saleh with Al-Salhin Abdelnabi Al-Obeidi, the parliament’s spokesman»»»

STRASBOURG, France — EU chief Ursula von der Leyen warned Tuesday against a push by Germany and other member states for "large cuts" to the EU's next long-term budget, saying "critical" European priorities were at stake.Germany and five other so-called "frugal" countries , Austria, Denmark, Finland»»»

BRUSSELS — EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic will travel to Beijing Thursday for two days of high-stakes talks aimed at staving off a trade war with China.The trip comes as the European Union has toughened its stance towards Beijing to defend businesses against what it believes is unfair competition in»»»

AMMAN — The Ministry of Labour and Aqaba University Hospital (AUH) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to create 100 job opportunities for Jordanians in the southern governorates.Supported by the National Employment Programme, the jobs will cover healthcare, technical, administrat»»»

AMMAN — The Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC) and the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) hosted a business delegation from the US Chamber of Commerce to present investment opportunities across the industrial, logistics, digital technology and tourism sectors in the economic zone.Coordi»»»

DPA Berlin Qatar and India are among seven countries interested in hosting the 2036 Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Tuesday. An IOC statement said that Germany, Hungary, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey were the other interested parties before an October 31 deadline.»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Yutong and Mowasalat (Karwa) successfully concluded the fourth edition of the Yutong and Mowasalat Energy Saving Driving Competition 2026, recognising the professionalism, skills and commitment of bus drivers while highlighting the importance of safe and efficient driving »»»

Tribune News Network Doha Mall of Qatar (MoQ) marked World Animal Day with its first-ever animal welfare initiative, “Every Paw Deserves a Home”, in collaboration with #BigBMeetup. The initiative aimed to promote animal welfare, support the local rescue community and give a voice to animals in need»»»

Minister of Public Health HE Mansoor bin Ebrahim Al Mahmoud met with Ambassador of Kuwait to Qatar HE Ahmed Abdulrahman Al Shuraim. During the meeting, the two sides discussed bilateral cooperation and ways to further strengthen and enhance in the health sector. (TNN)»»»

QNA Paris The State of Qatar, represented by the Qatar General Organization for Standards and Metrology, participated in the annual meeting of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) held in Paris, with representatives of national standards bodies, international organisations and e»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Vodafone Qatar and Huawei recently hosted the Education Summit 2026 under the theme “Advancing Intelligent Education: AI and Education,” bringing together education leaders, technology experts, government stakeholders and industry partners to explore how artificial intelli»»»

Tribune News Network Doha HOPE Qatar Centre for Persons with Disabilities has achieved an outstanding “Excellent” rating with an overall score of 98 percent following the Quality Assurance Accreditation Audit conducted by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) during the last week o»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Duty Free (QDF) celebrated a successful evening at the 2026 Frontier Awards ceremony in Cannes, France, winning “Airport Retailer of the Year” for the fourth consecutive year, as well as taking home the award for “Best Speciality Concept – Hybrid & F&B” for the recen»»»

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar organised a literary gathering at Zam Zam Restaurant, Abu Hamour, featuring the launch of Pase Dastaras, a collection of critical essays on the thought and artistry of poet Ahmad Ashfaq, compiled by Jawad Danish. The programme began with a recitation of the Holy Quran by Muhammad »»»

Pakistan’s rich textile heritage and contemporary fashion took centre stage as the eighth edition of The Festive Exhibition opened on Saturday at the Marriott Marquis City Centre Doha, bringing together leading Pakistani designers, fashion enthusiasts, business leaders and diplomats. Organised by B»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Research from Qatar University (QU) exploring potential therapeutic targets for reducing diabetes-related cardiovascular complications was presented at the 29th International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, organised by the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and»»»

QNA DOHA Qatar Assistive Technology Center (Mada) launched the ‘Taqdeer’ platform, under the patronage and in the presence of Minister of Social Development and Family HE Buthaina bint Ali Al Jabr Al Nuaimi. Taqdeer platform was developed to provide a unified, reliable digital reference consolidati»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Four Qatari high school students won week-long research laboratory experiences at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) when they triumphed in the college’s annual “Healing Hands” essay competition. The winning students were Abrar Al Khulaifi and Manayer Abdulaziz Al Ansari»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Cancer Society (QCS) has launched the “Heroes Series” as part of its “Our Children Are Gold” programme during an event held at KidZania Doha, featuring two childhood cancer survivors, Mohammed and Lin. The initiative forms part of QCS’s ongoing efforts to support chi»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar, represented by the Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA), is preparing to host the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference 2026 (PP-26), to be held at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center (DECC) from November 9 to 27, 2026. Ar»»»

QNA PARIS The Government Communications Office (GCO) and the Embassy of the State of Qatar in France organised the second promotional Runway to Web Summit Qatar 2027 event in Paris. The gathering was part of preparations to host the summit’s fourth edition at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Cent»»»

QNA Doha Under the patronage of Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, the Organising Committee of the Qatar Boat Show announced that the third edition of the exhibition will be held from November 4 to 7, 2026. During a press conferenc»»»

David Rush faces 20 years for defrauding $193M and leaking defence secrets A former senior CIA official who was arrested in May with a hoard of hundreds of gold bars worth more than $45 million in his home pleaded guilty to fraud on Tuesday. David Rush, 49, who held a top secret security clearance »»»

Share: Geagea calls for dismantling Hezbollah , says this is a Lebanese demand Geagea says that dismantling Hezbollah in lebanon is a necessity and called for linking US Aid to the Lebanese army to its performance in implementing the Framework agreement Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forc»»»

Kenya on Tuesday reported its first-ever Ebola death after a Kenyan national who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) died after returning to the country. Kenya is the fourth country to record an Ebola case in the current outbreak, which was declared in eastern DR Con»»»

It’s a protest movement that a broke, lame-duck French government did not see coming. Civil servants this Tuesday joining high schoolers now in their third week of picketing over long-deteriorating classroom conditions. The usual recipe for wearing down movements in France has recently been to matc»»»

A quarter of a million demonstrators took to the streets across France on Tuesday as unions and teachers joined high school students demanding better learning conditions in protests that later descended into sporadic clashes with security forces. A French policeman was on Tuesday charged with viole»»»

We take a look at what exactly French high school students are demanding in their nationwide blockades. From crumbling buildings, to absent teachers who are not replaced, to applying to university, we take a look at what has created so much anger among French teens. We also draw parallels between t»»»

One factor accelerating these student protest is social media, and its being boosted even more by artificial intelligence. Some French mayors have even called for social media platforms to be temporarily blocked for minors. Our colleauges at France 2 took a look at the impact»»»

Hundreds of thousands of students and their supporters took part in nationwide protests across France on Tuesday after weeks of student barricades protesting school conditions.  If the French government was hoping to drive its protesting high schoolers back into their classrooms with a whiff o»»»

Two commercial vessels were hit by unidentified drones on Tuesday off the Bulgarian coast in the Black Sea, Prime Minister Rumen Radev has confirmed. The attack marks the first time when merchant vessels were attacked within the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of a NATO member in the waterway. Such z»»»

JERUSALEM: US President Donald Trump’s year-old plan to end the Gaza war has stalled, with Israel mounting near daily ‌attacks and occupying around two-thirds of the shattered enclave where Palestinians face dire conditions. The initial phase resulted in a ceasefire on October 10, 2025 and secured »»»

RAMALLAH: Israel has barred Palestinian election officials from entering Gaza and Jerusalem to prepare for November’s long-awaited legislative elections in the territories, creating a fresh obstacle to the first Palestinian parliamentary vote in two decades. The Palestinian Central Elections Commis»»»

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia carried out a combined attack with sea and aerial drones against civilian vessels in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone, while Bulgarian Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov said it was still impossible to establish whether the drones were Ukrainian o»»»

Damascus, Oct. 7 (SANA) A Syrian delegation headed by Nahla Othman, Director of the Expatriates and Refugee Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, met with Denmark’s Minister of State for Development Policy, Elisabeth Søndergaard Krone, who headed the Danish side, to discuss prospec»»»

A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Tuesday lifted the arrest warrant for Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, clearing the way for him to return home without fear of detention ahead of a general election in November. A Spanish judge on Tuesday lifted an arrest warrant for exiled former Catala»»»

Recent reports and videos of alleged recruitment irregularities are fuelling tensions between mobilisation authorities and Ukrainian society, while raising questions about the oversight and implementation of military recruitment. In a video posted on September 4, a man was forcibly taken into a pol»»»

A former German spy chief was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of espionage and treason, an embarrassing case at a time when the country is seeking to broaden the powers of its intelligence agencies. August Hanning, who ran Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency from 1998 to 2005, is accused of esp»»»

A seventh man was arrested Tuesday over a major incident last month at a British military airbase used by the United States to launch strikes on Iran, police said. The arrest came a day after President Donald Trump said the United States had withdrawn all B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford because of "t»»»

LONDON: Recent satellite imagery has revealed the sheer scale of destruction in Gaza. But beneath the rubble covering large swathes of the enclave, what remains hidden is harder to quantify — and far more consequential. The latest UN estimates put the amount of rubble at about 61 million tonnes — r»»»

RIYADH: Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy said on Tuesday that the Department of Defense denied him access to a key military ​base in Qatar during a visit to the Middle East, describing it as part of a US government effort to conceal the impact of the Iran war. The Al Udeid Air Base is the largest»»»

Damascus, Oct. 7 (SANA) Nada Aswad, Director of the Afro-Asian and Oceania Department at Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, met Tuesday with Pakistan’s chargé d’affaires in Syria, Muhammad Mughees Afzal, to discuss regional developments and ways to strengthen cooperation between t»»»

RAMALLAH: Israeli forces and settlers carried out 26 incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque in September, while authorities prevented the call to prayer 150 times and closed Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque for six days, the Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said on Tuesday. The ministry said the»»»

Tunis, Oct. 6 (TAP) - The International Frozen Seafood Exhibition "CONXEMAR 2026” opened Tuesday in the Spanish city of Vigo, with Tunisia taking part in a bid to strengthen the presence of national products on international markets, particularly...»»»

WASHINGTON: A former senior CIA official pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Virginia to a charge that he abused his position and government funds to enrich himself by acquiring Florida real estate and hundreds of gold bars worth tens of millions of dollars, according to court records. David J. Rush fabri»»»