Doha, Qatar: Lusail International Circuit (LIC) is proud to take part in the 11th edition of Qatar Sustainability Week (QSW), taking place from 31 October to 7 November 2026. Led by Earthna Center for a Sustainable Future, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, the na»»»

Doha: The State of Qatar strongly condemned an attempt by Yemen's Houthi group to target Madinah, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with a ballistic missile, calling it a blatant provocation of Muslims, a reckless disregard for civilian lives, a violation of Saudi sovereignty and a breach of internation»»»

DOHA The State of Qatar strongly condemned the Houthi group's attempt to target Medina in the sisterly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a ballistic missile, considering it a clear provocation to the sentiments of Muslims, an unacceptable disregard for civilian lives, and a blatant violation of Saudi so»»»

Tunis, Nov. 5 (TAP) - The weather on Thursday night will be marked by occasionally dense clouds, with scattered and temporarily thunderous rain over the western regions of northern and central Tunisia, before extending late at night to coastal areas...»»»

BELGRADE - Serbia's public debt amounted to 41.96 bln euros at end-September, accounting for 43.3 pct of GDP, according to figures released by the Ministry of Finance. Relative to December 31, 2025, Serbia's public debt was up from 39.34 bln euros, while its share in the GDP was down from 43.7 pct.»»»

By Staff, Agencies US Vice President JD Vance is seeking to distance himself politically from President Donald Trump following the Republicans’ midterm defeat, according to a CNN analysis, which interprets his recent remarks as an effort to protect his presidential ambitions and influence the party»»»

Asuncion, Paraguay: President Santiago Peña of Paraguay announced he was stepping down from office on Thursday following the takeover of a linked bank that blocked customer access to accounts Protests have roiled the South American nation after its central bank took control of Ueno Bank on Tuesday,»»»

Between late July and late October, three well-known Bulgarian businessmen were killed. Vladimir Yankov, a coffee and vending machine importer, was found burned in his home in Bankya on July 27. Iliyan Filipov, owner of the transport company PIMK and the football club Botev Plovdiv, was shot dead i»»»

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s administration held secret talks with Iran on deporting Iranians even as the war there dragged on, court documents show. The court documents unsealed Thursday show the Republican administration as recently as mid-October said it had plans to deport the Iranians »»»

ROME: An American man was found guilty by a Rome court Thursday of murdering his partner and their infant daughter, whose bodies were found naked in a city park, the LaPresse news agency reported. He was sentenced to life in prison. Francis Kaufmann, 47, fled to the Greek island of Skiathos after t»»»

LONDON: A British man being treated for Ebola in Congo is being evacuated to the UK, the government said Thursday. The man, believed to be a health care worker, is the first British patient evacuated from the current outbreak of the deadly virus, and the third person to have tested positive to retu»»»

A 9,000-title library and 150 courses support inmate rehabilitation in Ras Al Khaimah. Ras Al Khaimah: More than 5,000 inmates at Ras Al Khaimah's Correctional and Rehabilitation Institution have benefited from an education programme offering over 150 courses since 2011. Its prison library, with mo»»»

Chief Commissioner Darin Kostov has been temporarily appointed Director of the Directorate General for Combating Organized Crime by an order issued by Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev on November 3, according to the Directorate’s website. The Directorate was previously headed by Chief Commissione»»»

Tunis, Nov. 5 (TAP) - The Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) is ready to organise municipal elections and has proposed holding them next spring, pending the issuance of a decree by the President of the Republic calling voters to the...»»»

BELGRADE - In a reaction to public allegations disputing the constitutionality of pardons issued by former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's caretaker Ministry of Justice said on Thursday the right to pardon represented an explicit constitutional power of the president of the Republic un»»»

Damascus, Nov. 5 (SANA) Finance Minister Mohammad Yisr Barniyeh met with a delegation from the Türkiye-Syria Business Council, affiliated with Türkiye’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK), headed by chairman Mahsum Altunkaya, to discuss opportunities to expand economic and investment cooperati»»»

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin met Thursday with the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, the Kremlin said. Rezaei delivered a message from the ‌country's ‌Supreme ​Leader Mojtaba ‌Khamenei, Iranian state ⁠media said.Images released by the Kremlin showed that Kremlin »»»

LONDON: Stephen Doughty, British minister of state for the Middle East, reaffirmed the UK’s commitment to providing humanitarian assistance to Yemen following talks with Presidential Leadership Council Chairman Rashad Al-Alimi on the worsening crisis caused by Houthi attacks. “An honor to meet Pres»»»

NICOSIA: Natural gas deposits off the southern coastline of Cyprus are an opportunity for the European Union to bolster its own energy security by diversifying its supply, the island nation’s president said Thursday. President Nikos Christodoulides told The Associated Press in an exclusive statemen»»»

Tunis, Nov. 5 (TAP) - The fourth session of the Tunisia-European Union Joint Parliamentary Committee was held on Thursday at the European Parliament in Brussels, co-chaired by Riadh Jaïdane on the Tunisian side and Ruggiero Razza on the European...»»»

ADEN: Yemen’s Armed Forces said they had carried out 1,298 strikes against Houthi targets as part of Operation Dawn of Yemen, claiming to have neutralized about 440 fighters and commanders and destroyed or disabled 132 military vehicles, armored vehicles and heavy weapons. In a statement, a militar»»»

The state of disaster in the town of Kozloduy will be extended for up to 30 days due to deviations from drinking water quality standards in the central water supply system, the Vratsa Regional Administration said on its website. The decision was taken at Thursday's meeting of the regional response »»»

Brisbane: An Italian chef was dismissed from a restaurant in Australia following what was described a series of management grievances regarding his professional conduct, among them a dispute over his refusal to add pineapple to a pizza, BBC reported. The chef, Davide Tamburella, maintained that ins»»»

BUCHAREST: A French maritime patrol aircraft deployed to Romania to bolster surveillance after a series of deadly strikes on merchant ships in the Black Sea on the edge of NATO’s eastern flank will extend its stay by several weeks, its commander said on Thursday. The attacks have shown how the esca»»»

BRUSSELS, Belgium: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has slammed Europe’s “disorderly” approach to Ukraine negotiations and demanded the EU decide who speaks on its behalf, in a letter seen by AFP Thursday. In the message to European Council chief Antonio Costa, who chairs summits of EU leaders»»»

TUNIS, Nov. 5, 2026 (TAP) - Nearly 870 environmental projects, with an estimated total cost of TND 6,854 million, are planned within the framework of the 2026-2030 Development Plan, Minister of Environment Habib Abid announced on Thursday.These...»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Shares of US billionaire Elon Musk's companies, SpaceX and Tesla, continued to decline for a second consecutive day, according to trading data. As of 15:06 GMT, Tesla shares were down 9.86% at $347.46 per share, while SpaceX shares had fallen 8.05% to $124.98. At the close of tra»»»

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he planned to visit Azerbaijan on Sunday, as a dispute over Baku’s new rules restricting Islamic headscarves in schools strained ties between the regional allies. “November 8 is Azerbaijan’s Victory Day. Unless there are extraordinary circumst»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, discussed the latest developments in the region and the progress of diplomatic efforts to strengthen security and stability, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Their telephone conversation »»»

Searching for vacant medical residency positions and applying for them can now be done electronically, the Ministry of Innovation and Digital Transformation's press centre said. The new portal brings together vacant medical residency positions across the country and allows doctors to apply entirely»»»

Gaza: A Palestinian was killed and others were wounded today by Israeli occupation gunfire in the central Gaza Strip. Local sources in the Strip reported that a citizen was killed in a drone strike near the Zawaida municipality, while several others, including children, were injured in two strikes »»»

CHICAGO: President Donald Trump’s election-day pledge to end almost $4 billion in annual US military aid to Israel has come under renewed scrutiny after Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress and Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Senate candidate Trump singled out over the issue, defeated hi»»»

The Azov* torture chamber in the Kiev region is part of a country-wide network of some of the most horrific crimes in modern times, Janus Putkonen, a Finnish geopolitical analyst and investigative journalist with the Patriotic Network, tells Sputnik, reflecting on his visit to Donbass after the Min»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The conflict in Ukraine is beginning to exhaust Europe both economically and morally, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini said on Thursday. "I will be frank and say that this war is starting to exhaust Europe morally and economically. The billions that are needed to help Ukraine ..»»»

Heavy rain, hail and strong winds forecast from Friday to Tuesday, Civil Defence warns Dubai: Saudi Arabia has issued a weather warning for thunderstorms, heavy rain and possible flash floods across most parts of the Kingdom from Friday until Tuesday, November 10, urging residents to exercise cauti»»»

JERICHO, West Bank: Israeli settlers moved into houses they say they purchased legally near the West Bank city of Jericho this week, while Palestinian officials say the sale documents were forged. An AFP reporter saw families with children moving into homes on the outskirts of the ancient city in t»»»

BELGRADE - Serbia's January-September 2026 external goods trade totalled 59.4 bln euros, which is a 6.6 pct increase y-o-y, according to figures released by the national statistical office. Goods exports were worth 26.8 bln euros, rising by 8.9 pct y-o-y, while imports totalled 32.5 mln euros, risi»»»

Damascus, Nov. 5 (SANA) Director of Planning and Investment at the Ministry of Industry, Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Osama al-Omar met with a delegation from the Turkish-Syrian Business Council, headed by its chairman Mahsum Altunkaya, to discuss prospects for economic and investment coo»»»

Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc held its regular meeting today, Thursday, November 5, 2026, with the attendance and participation of all its members. After deliberating on the latest political developments in Lebanon and the region, the bloc issued the following statement: Observers of the US electi»»»

GAZA: Israeli strikes and gunfire on Thursday killed four people across Gaza, including a woman and a 12-year-old boy, rescue services in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory told AFP. Israel and Hamas regularly accuse each other of violating the ceasefire that came into effect in October 2025, af»»»

Hackers have stolen around €100 million from French banking group Credit Mutuel Arkea in a sophisticated cyberattack, the lender has confirmed. The attackers exploited a third-party service provider to siphon money into other bank accounts, with some of the funds potentially converted into cryptocu»»»

The pre-trial investigation into a major embezzlement scheme in Ukraine’s energy sector has been completed, the nation’s Western-backed anti-corruption agencies announced. Known as ‘Operation Midas’, the probe lasted for two years. It triggered one of the biggest corruption scandals involving Ukrai»»»

TEBNIN, Lebanon: Deep in war-ravaged southern Lebanon, just a few hundred meters from territory occupied by Israeli troops, Inaya Sultan is trying very hard to be a normal 13-year-old. She makes beaded bracelets for her 4-year-old half-sister Malak, dreams of studying medicine and spends time with »»»

LONDON: Israeli authorities on Thursday shut down the offices of a Palestinian sports and football club inside the ancient walls of occupied East Jerusalem, under an order issued by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Israeli caretaker government. Members of the Abnaa Al-Qud»»»

BEIRUT: The embassies of the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Japan on Thursday called on Lebanon’s political parties and lawmakers to publicly support the state’s exclusive authority over weapons and decisions on war and peace, amid growing tensions over an investigation into explosives belonging to »»»

JEDDAH: Jeddah will offer a variety of maritime tourism experiences along its Red Sea coastline during winter, with beaches, resorts, marinas, diving sites and water sports facilities providing opportunities for adventure, relaxation and exploration.Boat and yacht trips from Jeddah and Obhur will o»»»

ALULA: Madrasat Addeera in AlUla governorate has opened applications for its vocational training program, focusing on young women interested in design and handicrafts. The program will develop women’s skills and equip them to produce craft products inspired by AlUla’s natural environment and cultur»»»

Riyadh: In another significant international achievement reflecting the growing global recognition of Dallah Health hospitals, Newsweek magazine named Dallah Al Nakheel Hospital among the World’s Best Hospitals for Medical Tourism 2027. This prestigious recognition further underscores the hospital’»»»

RIYADH: The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen said on Thursday that a ballistic missile fired by the Houthi militia at the Madinah region — home to one of Islam’s holiest cities — had been intercepted. “Air defense intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the terrorist Houth»»»

TUNIS, Nov. 5, 2026 (TAP) - Commitment appropriations allocated to the Regional Development Programme, as part of the draft 2027 state budget, have been raised by TND 71.050 million to TND 543.550 million, Minister of Economy and Planning Samir...»»»