Billionaire tech investor and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel has expressed regret over the US war against Iran, warning that it could ultimately lead to International Criminal Court warrants for the Trump administration and have broader implications for the US, Politico reported on Thursday. The o»»»

RIYADH: Coalition forces intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Houthi militia toward Riyadh early Friday, the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen said. In a post on X, coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki said the missile was shot down shortly after 4 a.m. »»»

UK equips military aircraft to combat wildfires amid climate challenges UK military helicopters and planes will be equipped to fight wildfires, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced late Thursday ahead of hosting England's first "resilience" summit focused on the growing threat they pose. English f»»»

Flights canceled as Typhoon Champi disrupts Taiwan and regional travel Most shops and schools were shut across Taiwan on Friday as Typhoon Champi neared the island, forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes ahead of the powerful storm. The typhoon is expected to sweep past Taiwan's northeast »»»

Higher steel costs may impact European infrastructure and global trade, says Goyal Berlin: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday criticised the European Union’s carbon tax on steel, saying the bloc was “inviting disaster” by imposing additional costs that could raise the cos»»»

Eight dead, 10 injured in violent Ecuador prison clashes Eight inmates were killed and 10 injured in near-simultaneous prison riots at Ecuador’s Cotopaxi No. 1 prison in Latacunga and Pichincha No. 1, known as El Inca, in northern Quito on Thursday, October 22. Ecuador’s prison authority, SNAI, con»»»

Oil prices were little ‌changed in early Asian trade on Friday, after rising 4 percent to a five-month high in the previous session due to ​concern of further energy supply disruption after Houthi attacks on top exporter Saudi Arabia. Brent crude futures was down 21 cents, or 0.2 percent, at $112.9»»»

BEIJING: A magnitude 7 earthquake hit China’s Tibet region on Thursday evening, killing at least 16 people, injuring 54 and collapsing hundreds of homes in the northern regional city of Nagqu, official media said. Search and rescue efforts continued following the collapse of at least 339 homes and »»»

New mRNA technology offers hope for melanoma patients post-surgery WASHINGTON: A first-of-its-kind cancer vaccine is significantly reducing the chances that melanoma patients’ tumors come back, according to results of a major study released Thursday by drugmakers Moderna and Merck. The vaccine was »»»

Tibet quake claims 16 lives, injures dozens, and collapses hundreds of homes A strong earthquake killed at least 16 people and injured 46 in China's remote Tibet region, state media said, citing local authorities. More than 300 houses collapsed in the 7.0 magnitude quake, which struck on Thursday a»»»

Anti-corruption movement gains momentum in Serbia's tense political landscape Around 150,000 supporters of Serbia's opposition student movement rallied in central Belgrade on Thursday, seeking to oust the party of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic in crunch parliamentary elections this weekend. The S»»»

Major US news outlets amplified fabricated election polls showing gains by Democrats, giving a bogus months-old polling operation national credibility before investigators exposed its invented data. Wedgewood Polls, which appeared in June, secured coverage from publications including Newsweek, the »»»

RIYADH: Of the 980,000 migrants deported during the first 18 months of US President Donald Trump’s second term, only 20 percent were individuals with a criminal conviction, according to a report published on Thursday by the Migration Policy Institute think tank. The study, authored by Marc Rosenblu»»»

Defense claims al-Qaida suspect unfit for trial due to CIA torture-induced injuries WASHINGTON: A lawyer for the suspected organiser of a deadly al-Qaida attack on a US warship in the year 2000 wants a military court to determine his competence before trial, arguing that he has a traumatic brain in»»»

Kharg Island's decline symbolizes Iran's economic isolation under US pressure Washington DC: Iran’s crude export apparatus has been crippled and the regime's principal financial lifeline has been severed, a US official asserted. United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent launched a scathing att»»»

Lockheed to produce 850 F-35s under new Pentagon deal, pending approval The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin on Thursday announced a 10-year agreement for the production of 850 F-35 warplanes, underscoring Washington's long-term commitment to the high-tech stealth aircraft. The two sides did not specif»»»

CARACAS/MARACAY/VALENCIA, Venezuela: Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets on Thursday in the first nationwide opposition protest in nearly two years, as demonstrators demanded ​free elections and other political changes. The United States has been working closely with the interim government»»»

Moscow is ready to resume trilateral talks on Ukraine: Report Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (local time) confirmed that Moscow is ready to resume trilateral talks on Ukraine, TASS news agency reported, citing an interview with a Vesti journalist. In the same interview, Putin »»»

The National Service for Protection (NSP) officer involved in Thursday's incident with journalist Sonya Koltuklieva was led out in handcuffs from the Military District Prosecution Office building in Sofia, a BTA reporter saw on Thursday night. The officer was then taken away by the Military Police.»»»

RIYADH: The Saudi medical charity Al-Balsam Association for Training and Health Development performed 28 open-heart surgeries and 84 cardiac catheterization procedures in the space of just six days in Nigeria this month. The volunteer mission to the capital, Abuja, took place from Oct. 13 to 18 and»»»

Capitol Hill reacts to Starshield disruptions impacting Ukraine's drone operations WASHINGTON: Recent efforts to throttle Ukraine’s access to satellite systems have created a blame game of sorts among Trump administration officials and their allies, who have offered mixed messages about what led to»»»

NEW YORK: A New York woman accused of receiving weapons training from the Daesh group was tricked by her father into traveling to Syria, where she became an unwilling teen bride to a militant fighter, her lawyer told a jury Thursday. Halima Salman, a US citizen born in Brooklyn, was 17 when her fat»»»

LONDON: Maysa Yousef’s husband went to a market in central Gaza on Thursday evening to buy food for the weekend but found little to bring home. “All I can find is a couple of grapefruits,” he told her. For Yousef, an artist and mother of three, shopping has become an exercise in timing and improvis»»»

Lagos: The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Thursday that Africa's Ebola outbreak was more "complex" after cases spread to Nigeria. Nigeria on Tuesday announced an imported case of the Bundibugyo strain behind a major DR Congo Ebola outbreak in a woman, a wife of a diplomat who had a history »»»

ADEN: Yemeni government forces carried out 780 strikes against Houthi targets over a 24-hour period, ‘neutralizing’ more than 500 militia fighters in an operation that spanned several fronts, the Yemeni Armed Forces said on Thursday. Spokesperson Col. Majed Al-Nuzaili said in a message posted on so»»»

GENEVA: Saudi Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Waleed Elkhereiji met with Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan Al-Nahyan, UAE minister of state, on the sidelines of the Sixth Consultative Meeting on Enhancing Coordination of Peace Initiatives and Efforts in Sudan, in Geneva on Wednesday. During the meetin»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar is set to host the final three matches of the FIFA Intercontinental Cup for a third consecutive year, bringing together some of the world’s greatest football clubs to compete in the 2026 edition in December. The annual competition will crown the best club in world fo»»»

Ashraf Siddiqui Doha Ambassador of Vietnam to Qatar HE Nguyen Huy Hiep has highlighted the enduring diplomatic legacy of President Ho Chi Minh emphasising peace, independence, respect for sovereignty, equality and friendship among nations during a documentary screening at the state-of-the-art Katar»»»

QNA Doha The fourth Educational Guidance Forum for 2026, organised by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE), reviewed the key achievements of the Educational Guidance Department during the 2025-2026 academic year. The forum also examined the results of the department’s self-evaluat»»»

LONDON: The British government is committed to the full restoration of the UK diplomatic mission in East Jerusalem that serves Palestinians, Sir Vincent Fean, a former consul general in the city, told Arab News. It came after the diplomatic facility’s status was downgraded this month following thre»»»

TOKYO/BEIJING/AMSTERDAM: Global firms and governments rushed on Thursday to patch critical ​flaws in the PHP programming language that underpins much of the Internet, as a cloud firm reported millions of hacking attempts after vulnerabilities were disclosed. The push came after governments in Europ»»»

RIYADH: The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen has “categorically denied” Houthi allegations that Saudi Arabia was threatening to target tribal and civilian gatherings.The claims are false and completely baseless and reflect continuous attempts to mislead public opinion, a coalition statement»»»

DHAHRAN: Houthi attacks on Saudi civilian and energy infrastructure killed four people in the Eastern Province on Wednesday, underscoring the growing threat posed by the Iran-backed militia’s widening terror campaign against the Kingdom. With airports, residential areas and energy facilities increa»»»

BEIJING: A magnitude 7 earthquake hit China’s Tibet region on Thursday evening, killing at least 16 people, injuring 32 and collapsing hundreds of homes in the northern regional city of Nagqu, official media said. A major magnitude 7 earthquake recently struck northern Tibet. The epicentre of the w»»»

JAKARTA: Indonesia remains on high alert ​for wildfires despite a decline in hotspots over the past week, with the sporadic rainfall still not enough to put them out, a disaster agency official said on Thursday, as students on Borneo island staged protests against the government’s handling of the c»»»

N’DJAMENA: A drone strike in Chad on the border with Sudan killed four people earlier this week, a government official said on Thursday. The civil war in Sudan, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been fighting the Sudanese army since April 2023, regularly spills over into Chad. »»»

Prime Minister Péter Magyar paid tribute to the demonstrators of 1956 and their yearning for freedom in an address at a ceremonial wreath-laying on Bem Square in Budapest on Thursday, held to mark the 70th anniversary of the Revolution and Freedom Fight. Magyar also announced the establishment of a»»»

WASHINGTON: The United Nations’ climate loss and damage fund moved Thursday to provide $20 million in aid sought by flood-stricken Nepal, the first time it has set aside money for any country, in a key test of the body’s credibility. In an extraordinary meeting, the fund’s board agreed to earmark t»»»

How noble a quality it is to mention people's good qualities and worthy deeds First Sermon (Khutbah One) All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the earth and the heavens, who has commanded us to mention virtues and good deeds. We bear witness that nothing is worthy of worship except Allah, and we bea»»»

Bulgaria's National Service for Protection (NSP) has ordered an immediate and thorough investigation into the actions of security officers involved in an incident with a journalist from the PIK news agency, the service's press office said on Thursday. The NSP said it had reviewed video footage of t»»»

CAIRO: Egypt’s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, and his Greek counterpart, Giorgos Gerapetritis, on Thursday reaffirmed their nations’ rejection of the ratification by the Libyan parliament on Tuesday of a 2019 maritime agreement with Turkiye on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean. Ambassador»»»

ANKARA: Canada, locked in a trade war with the United States, opened talks with Turkiye Thursday on a free trade agreement during a landmark visit by Prime Minister Mark Carney. The two sides pledged to deepen cooperation on defense, energy and efforts to tackle climate change, as Carney became the»»»

By Staff, Agencies Major US news outlets amplified fabricated election polls showing Democratic gains, lending national credibility to a fictitious polling firm before investigators exposed its invented data. Wedgewood Polls emerged in June and received coverage from outlets including Newsweek, the»»»

Bulgaria's National Service for Protection (NSP) has ordered an immediate and thorough investigation into the actions of security officers involved in an incident with a journalist from the PIK news agency, the service's press office said on Thursday. The NSP said it had reviewed video footage of t»»»

The sale comes in the year marking the centenary of Monet's death on December 5, 1926 Paris: "Iris," a monumental painting by Impressionist Claude Monet, sold for 50 million euros ($56 million) including buyer fees in Paris on Thursday, becoming the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in Fr»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Yemeni media: A citizen was killed and a child was injured in a Saudi airstrike that targeted homes in the Al-Za’za’a area of ​​Al-Shamaita»»»

Berlin, Oct. 22 (SANA) – Syria’s Chargé d’Affaires in Berlin, Mohammed Baraa Shukri, met Thursday with Martin Blessing, the German Chancellor’s representative for investment, on the sidelines of the second day of the Berlin Global Dialogue. During the meeting, the two sides discussed ways to streng»»»

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump called Elon Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Starlink, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing US officials. The Starlink system was working more normally on Thursday, shortly after the Trump-Musk conversation, according »»»

Russia is "not preparing for any war with Europe," and "if you look at the political processes taking place in Europe, it's obvious that the peoples of Europe don't want to fight Russia," President Vladimir Putin told Russian media on Thursday. Western leaders are talking about a "Russian threat" a»»»

LONDON: Israeli forces used US-made electroshock weapons to torture Palestinian detainees, according to a report published by The Guardian on Thursday. An investigation, conducted by the newspaper and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, identified four former Palestinian detainees who said»»»