HAMBURG: Jordan’s state grain buyer is believed to have made no purchase in an international tender to buy 120,000 tonnes of milling wheat which closed on Tuesday, ⁠European traders said. ⁠Two houses had participated in Tuesday’s tender, Cargill and Buildcom. Shipment was sought ⁠in a series of pos»»»

RAMALLAH: Israeli army fire wounded two Palestinians on Tuesday during a raid in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry. A hospital in the city received “a young man with a serious gunshot wound to the lower back and a 14-year-old with a live bu»»»

International hotel group IHG Hotels & Resorts is bringing its Holiday Inn Express & Suites brand to Debrecen, with a new 120-room hotel scheduled to open in 2029. The project, developed in partnership with Hungarian property group Xanga, will be the chain’s first hotel in eastern Hungary. A new in»»»

Al Tayer outlines 3-dimensional transport vision spanning roads, skies and underground Dubai: For the first time, Dubai is exploring plans to develop an integrated underground transport network that could carry passengers, goods and services beneath the city. Mattar Al Tayer, Director General, Chai»»»

MoI advises families to monitor interactions with strangers and protect personal info Abu Dhabi: The UAE Ministry of Interior has urged parents to take a more active role in protecting children online, issuing safety tips aimed at reducing risks ranging from interactions with strangers to online fr»»»

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday Pristina - and not Belgrade - was to blame for non-implementation of an Agreement on Cadastral Records, and noted that Pristina had rendered the entire agreement pointless in order to legalise it»»»

Facilities involved in weapons production for Ukrainian forces — such as the Pulp Mill Print plant in Kiev — will also be hit by Russian precision strikes. As Russia has repeatedly stated, any investment in Ukraine's defense industry is a legitimate target, military expert and air defense historian»»»

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s religious affairs minister on Tuesday strongly condemned Houthi attacks hitting civilian infrastructure and Umrah pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, saying Islamabad considers any attack on the Kingdom as an attack on Pakistan under its defense agreements with Saudi Arabia. Religious A»»»

LONDON: King Abdullah of Jordan met Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Richard Marles in Canberra on Tuesday to discuss enhancing security cooperation. The two leaders also discussed efforts to achieve stability and de-escalation in the Middle East through dialogue and diplo»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a telephone call from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, during which Ankara condemned Houthi attacks against the Kingdom and expressed its support for Riyadh. Erdogan offered his condolences to the crown prince over those kill»»»

Bulgaria must defend its national interests and pursue an independent foreign policy, said Kostadin Kostadinov, Vazrazhdane leader and presidential candidate, during an election campaign meeting with voters in Sliven. Kostadinov commented on the attacks against two commercial vessels in the Black S»»»

PARIS: France’s foreign minister on Tuesday accused the billionaire tycoon and owner of the X social media platform Elon Musk of “online harassment” of European leaders, as he sounded the alarm over the risks of interference in the French 2027 presidential election. Jean-Noel Barrot warned that ahe»»»

PARIS: French investigators on Tuesday were hunting the hackers who seized control of cooling units at hundreds of supermarkets in a cyberattack that underlined the vulnerabilities of connected systems, with no group publicly claiming responsibility. The absence of a claim of responsibility by hack»»»

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s resources are at Saudi Arabia’s disposal to help protect the Kingdom and Islam’s holy sites, the country’s defense minister said on Tuesday. The statement highighting Islamabad’s commitment to Saudi Arabia’s security followed a series of attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi »»»

RIYADH: The Saudi-led Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen destroyed three drones north of Riyadh on Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki, the spokesman for the coalition, confirmed on X the interception and destruction of the three drones. A ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthi m»»»

TUNIS, Oct. 13, 2026 (TAP) - A financing agreement, worth euro 150,000 (equivalent to TND 504,200), was signed on Tuesday in Tunis, providing for the implementation of a project dedicated to capitalising on agro-ecological knowledge and local...»»»

Bulgarian MEPs Andrey Novakov and Emil Radev of GERB/EPP are initiating a visit to Sofia and Varna by a delegation of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) over the next two weeks in connection with attacks on commercial vessels in the Black Sea, GERB’s press office said. The delegation will in»»»

The Malta-flagged vessel CHELSEA-3 was attacked 17 nautical miles east of Byala in the Black Sea, with all 15 crew members rescued, the Bulgarian Transport and Communications Ministry said on Tuesday. Another vessel, the Guinea-Bissau-flagged HS Dignity, was struck by a drone and sank 17 nautical m»»»

A delegation of the Movement of Rights and Freedoms (MRF) in Brussels met with Patryck Jaki, Co-Chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament, the Bulgarian party's press office reported Tuesday. In a spirit of understanding, mutual support, and cooperation, th»»»

Western governments have shown blatant bias in favor of Saudi Arabia in its conflict with Yemen’s Houthi movement, partly because Riyadh spends billions of dollars on Western weapons, former British diplomat Craig Murray has argued. Murray discussed the prolonged conflict and its ties to the arms i»»»

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is deliberately prolonging the conflict with Russia to avoid being held accountable for his policies and rampant corruption within his inner circle, Polish MEP Ewa Zajaczkowska-Hernik has said. Zajaczkowska-Hernik’s remarks came after Zelensky demanded a 60-day “total tr»»»

The Warsaw Security Forum has long been a soapbox for Eastern Europe’s most belligerent elites to air their fantasies of inflicting a military defeat upon Russia. This year, with nuclear weapons on the table, the forum has taken on a dangerous new dimension. Running from Monday to Tuesday in the Po»»»

BANGKOK: The United Nations Development Programme on Tuesday announced new initiatives to help attract investors and jobs to developing countries, which are being rocked by crises outside their control amid a sharp drop in official development aid. UNDP Administrator Alexander De Croo said the agen»»»

LONDON: Israel’s military on Tuesday said an unidentified object that triggered air raid sirens in a village near the Lebanese border over the weekend was likely a balloon, not a drone. The object set off sirens on Saturday night in Arab Al-Aramshe, in the Western Galilee, Israeli media reported. A»»»

RIYADH: The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen warned civilians on Tuesday to leave a fuel facility in the Houthi-controlled capital, Sanaa, ahead of a planned precision operation. Coalition spokesman Turki Al-Maliki urged civilians to evacuate the Yemen Petroleum Company’s Al-Sabahah central»»»

CEUTA, Spain: Cheering crowds waving Spanish flags filled Ceuta on Tuesday as King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia made a diplomatically sensitive visit to the city following July’s migrant influx from Morocco. Their trip is the first royal visit since 2007, when a diplomatic crisis erupted with neighb»»»

WASHINGTON - Serbia's GDP growth will accelerate from 2 pct in 2025 to 3.3 pct in 2026 and 4 pct in 2027, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its latest World Economic Outlook, released on Tuesday. In comparison, following discussions with Serbian officials in June, the IMF projected the »»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The results of the phone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump stunned those advocating escalation, and the diesel fuel deal is working to bring them to their senses, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Tuesday. "Of»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian forces struck a logistics warehouse in the Kiev region used to store Ukrainian armed forces' attack drones, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday. "As a result of the strike in the Kiev region, the Mikulichi logistics warehouse, used to store Ukrainian armed»»»

Ahmed Al Rajhi reassures attendees as emergency alerts sound during his speech in Riyadh Dubai: A video has gone viral on social media showing Saudi Arabia's Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, Ahmed bin Sulaiman Al Rajhi, reassuring an audience after an emergency warning alert soun»»»

Doha: Qatar's Shura Council has held its first sitting of the second ordinary session of its second legislative term, corresponding to the 55th annual session, at the Tamim bin Hamad Hall at the council's headquarters. Opening the session, HE the Speaker Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim praised the ad»»»

Artificial intelligence is bringing increasingly clear benefits to medicine worldwide. Doctors are spending less time on paperwork, while the number of patients treated each week is rising. These are the findings of the Future Health Index, the largest global study of its kind, conducted by Royal P»»»

A Saudi aggression targeted the oil company in Al-Sabaha, west of Sana’a, after issuing a warning to evacuate it. Brigadier General Yahya Saree stated that “our armed forces are currently confronting the Saudi enemy’s combat formations targeting the capital, Sana’a.” Saree added that a source at th»»»

France's embassy in Saudi Arabia told its citizens to avoid the airports in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam on Tuesday as fighting escalates between a Saudi-led coalition and Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have been attacking Saudi airports and oil facilities since last week. The French embassy i»»»

Haskovo District Court ordered the temporary detention of Russian citizen Anzor Unezhev, 40, for up to 40 days pending extradition proceedings, the court said on Tuesday. Unezhev was arrested on October 10 near the village of Sladun, close to the border with Turkiye, after entering Bulgaria without»»»

Donald Trump’s plan to import Russian diesel despite Western sanctions has sparked fierce criticism in Washington, including from Republicans, as high fuel prices and the upcoming midterm elections put pressure on his administration. His approach to the Ukraine war has also drawn controversy, with »»»

THE HAGUE: Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay urged the United States on Tuesday to resume its traditional role of defender of human rights and freedom for the rest of the world as Washington campaigns to undermine the International Criminal Court. “My message is: ‘You have to get back to playing»»»

Democratic Party MP Ivi Kaso has warned that the ongoing standoff between Albania’s Special Court Against Corruption and Organized Crime (GJKKO) and the Albanian Bar Association could have serious consequences for the country’s justice system, including the potential release of high-profile suspect»»»

Prime Minister Edi Rama is set to convene an expanded meeting of the Socialist Party’s Parliamentary Group tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. at the Palace of Brigades, with Socialist lawmakers and government ministers expected to attend. The meeting will focus on two agenda items, “Prania Besnike” and “Pasqyr»»»

The General Prosecutor’s Office and the Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA) are committed to strengthening institutional cooperation and coordination to fight audiovisual digital piracy.At a meeting, General Prosecutor Mr. Olsian Çela and Chairwoman of the Audiovisual Media Authority Ms. Armela Krasn»»»

As French student protests continue, we take a look at how French police have seized some protest signs. We break down whether this is legal, or police intimidation. We also discuss the origin of a slogan that's catching on – "Bismillah, c'est les ténèbres" – and another that allegedly, accord»»»

A 14-year-old pupil suspected of shooting and wounding a headmaster and teacher near Marseille may have been involved in an online network associated with the glorification of mass killers known as the True Crime Community, prompting France’s anti-terror prosecutor to take over the case. The French»»»

France’s National Assembly is set to vote on a comprehensive bill to tackle sexual and gender-based violence. The proposed legislation would create specialised police units to investigate sexual crimes, broaden the definition of incest, and introduce penalties for stalking and sending unsolicited e»»»

Bulgaria will deploy two additional unmanned systems and strengthen monitoring of the Black Sea as attacks on commercial vessels bring the conflict closer to its territorial waters, Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov told journalists at the National Assembly. “Escalation is already underway and cont»»»

Thelyson Orelien was accused of using AI to write his French-language novel A top-selling Haitian-Canadian writer who was accused of using AI to write his breakthrough debut novel denied the allegations Tuesday in his first detailed response to the scandal, while acknowleding past plagiarism "mista»»»

Russia hammered Ukrainian cities and transport links overnight into Tuesday, killing at least four people in the city of Kharkiv, while appearing to spare energy facilities for the first time since US President Donald Trump announced an "energy ceasefire" at the weekend. It was not clear wheth»»»

Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visited Ceuta for the first time since 2007, amid tensions with Morocco following July’s migration crisis, when more than 70,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave. Most returned to Morocco, but thousands remained, and dozens died. Morocco claims sovere»»»

Police in Dimitrovgrad are investigating the killing of a 67-year-old man whose body was found wrapped in a blanket in the trunk of a crashed car, with his 32-year-old wife and her 14-year-old son detained on suspicion of involvement, the Regional Directorate of the Interior Ministry in Haskovo sai»»»

RAHAT: Under an overcast sky in southern Israel, Bedouin villagers wandered through the rubble of what used to be their homes, the latest to be demolished after being deemed illegal structures by Israeli authorities. The residents of Al-Dahiya in the Negev desert say they have nowhere else to go af»»»

JEDDAH: Egyptians and Qataris offered their homes, cars and food to Saudi citizens affected by flight cancellations and delays, responding to appeals from Saudi diplomatic missions with messages of solidarity. The Saudi Embassy in Cairo urged citizens in Egypt whose flights or onward journeys had b»»»