Poland’s president takes boxing lesson from Manny Pacquiao during historic Manila visit Manila: Polish President Karol Nawrocki stepped into a Manila boxing ring with Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao during his state visit to the Philippines, combining diplomacy with a light training session. »»»

Elbasan: For several days this summer the Albanian city of Elbasan choked in a dense cloud of stinging smoke coming from the direction of its notorious steelworks. Environmental inspectors who rushed to two fires discovered 318 tons of toxic industrial dust that had been stored for months in a chro»»»

Washington: A convicted US killer who survived a botched execution was almost taken off life support before she regained consciousness, her lawyer said Wednesday, as a court ordered prison authorities to preserve evidence in the case. One week after Christa Pike survived her execution by lethal inj»»»

A former Australian Catholic bishop has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for sexually abusing two young indigenous men over the course of a decade. 76-year-old ex-bishop Christopher Saunders is one of the most senior Australian clerics to be convicted in a series of scandals that ha»»»

Failed execution attempt leaves Tennessee woman in critical but recovering condition Christa Pike regaining consciousness and speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee has left a stunning question: How did she survive? Attorneys for Pike, 50, called her recovery “med»»»

With almost a quarter of a billion people and a culture of healthy debate, there are not many topics in Pakistan that unite opinion, but Saudi Arabia is one. Whether from its political parties or from its 240 million people, there has been a rare and in many ways remarkable show of solidarity with »»»

Maduro and Flores face fresh allegations of torturing detained Americans US prosecutors are expected to bring new charges against ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores over the alleged torture of Americans held in Venezuelan government custody, CNN reported Wednesday.»»»

WASHINGTON: The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday sued President Donald Trump’s administration for recent television advertisements that promoted his political message while costing taxpayers millions of dollars. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, a»»»

WASHINGTON: An award-winning filmmaker whose work has explored ​conflict in his native Kashmir has been detained by US immigration officials after legally coming to the United States to study and later claiming asylum, his family and friends said on Wednesday. The Department of Homeland Security se»»»

Military representatives from all of NATO's 32 members have gathered in Kiev. Ukraine has been trying to join the expansionist military-bloc for years, but has been consistently rejected. The visit by the members of the so-called Military Committee, takes place just a day after US Secretary of Stat»»»

Iran and Oman finalise safe transit routes through the Strait of Hormuz Iran and Oman have agreed on the geographical coordinates of designated "safe" transit routes for ships entering and leaving the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Wednesday (Oct. 7, 20»»»

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday urged Western nations to return to what he called their civilisational roots and ensure the West "maintains its place at the head of the world" in a speech delivered against the backdrop of the Acropolis in Athens. The top US diplomat called on Europe »»»

IZMIR, Turkiye: More than 1,000 protesters gathered in Turkish opposition stronghold Izmir on Wednesday, angered by the defection of the city’s mayor to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AKP. The move was a huge symbolic victory for the Turkish leader, who has long wanted to control the secul»»»

BEIJING: The European Union’s top commerce official was due in China on Thursday for talks aimed at bringing both sides back from the brink of a mutually damaging trade war. The EU last year ran a trade deficit of around a billion euros ($1.1 billion) a day with China, caused by what many in the bl»»»

MILAN: Foreign workers building the vast new US consulate compound in Milan signed agreements at a Milan hotel Wednesday securing payouts averaging 45,000 euros ($50,400) each for alleged labor abuses while working for an American construction company. More than 60 laborers, mostly from India, sign»»»

QNA Doha The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is set to launch a new website of the Official Gazette and the Al Meezan Legal Portal on Sunday, introducing what it describes as the country’s first AI-powered comprehensive national system for legal knowledge. The new platform will provide legal information »»»

QNA Doha Attracting the wealth of talent in the nation, primarily citizens, those born in the country, and residents, is a foremost priority for the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in order to turbocharge the educational sector, Minister of Education and Higher Education HE Lolwah bint R»»»

LONDON: The longtime speaker of the Libyan parliament was ousted on Tuesday in a move likely to inject fresh tension into the country’s largely frozen political landscape. Aguila Saleh, a supporter of the Libyan National Army commander, Khalifa Haftar, was removed after 12 years in the post. Al-Sal»»»

Pregnant woman, two children among dead after residential building collapses in Seemapuri Dubai: Rescue teams searched through tonnes of rubble for survivors after a multi-storey residential building collapsed in northeast Delhi on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring eight, officials said.»»»

NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, ​showing sunlight bathing jagged crags formed billions of years ago as the car-sized vehicle continues to explore Earth’s planetary ‌neighbor. Curiosity landed in 2012 in Gale Crater near the Martian equ»»»

DENPASAR: An Indonesian court sentenced dozens of Indian nationals to prison on Wednesday for their involvement in an online gambling operation on the resort island of Bali. Gambling is illegal in the Muslim-majority archipelago, with punishments extended to bookmakers, punters, those who promote g»»»

RIYADH: When Sven Otto Littorin arrived in Saudi Arabia in 2017, he witnessed a country at the beginning of Vision 2030. Nearly a decade later, the former Sweden minister of employment has turned those experiences into a book documenting the Kingdom’s transformation. In “Kingdom in Motion” publishe»»»

A court on Wednesday ordered the former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service August Hanning to remain in pretrial detention after his arrest on suspicion of espionage and treason, along with a former deputy who allegedly supplied him with secret files. Here's what we know about one o»»»

Pike would have been the first woman put to death by Tennessee in more than 200 years A convicted US killer who survived a botched execution is shackled to her hospital bed, awake and able to speak a little, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as a court ordered prison authorities to preserve evidence in»»»

Court finds no reliable proof she received money or sent the disputed messages Ajman: The Ajman Appeal Court has overturned the conviction of an Egyptian woman accused of embezzlement and breach of trust, ruling that doubts over the authenticity of WhatsApp evidence and a lack of proof that money w»»»

SEOUL: South Korea’s presidential office on Wednesday dismissed a Ukrainian report that Russia has imported petroleum products from South Korean ports, calling the accusation inappropriate. Ukraine’s top sanctions official, Vladyslav Vlasiuk, said on Tuesday the shipments had eased the impact of a »»»

Lucky Day Draw No. 261007 sees several participants walk away with cash prizes Dubai: Several participants have won cash prizes following the latest UAE Lottery Lucky Day draw held on Wednesday. In Lucky Day Draw No. 261007, the winning numbers in the Days section were 16, 18, 20, 8, 11, 12, while »»»

Doha, Qatar: The Investment and Trade Court's Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling awarding QR500,000 in compensation to a foreign visitor who suffered serious injuries in a limousine accident while spending his annual holiday in Qatar. The compensation, covering material and moral damages, is to be»»»

It has become a cliché in Israel to say the country is “stuck on October 7”: unable to move on to 8 October; unable to return to 6 October. Moving beyond that day will take time, but it will also require moments that mark a before and an after. One came last year, when the last living Israeli hosta»»»

SINGAPORE — The global AI boom is fast becoming the key driver of economies around the world but the boom is risking wider global inequality by leaving some nations behind, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warned on Wednesday.She also lamented a lack of "decisive action" in heavily indebted advanced »»»

Britain is seeking closer economic ties with Poland as London pushes for a broader reset in relations with the European Union. UK Trade Minister Anas Sarwar met Polish government representatives to discuss infrastructure projects and industrial cooperation, while arguing that British companies shou»»»

The World Bank raised its forecast for Poland’s 2026 GDP growth to 3.6 percent from 3.1 percent, citing stronger momentum in the economy. Finance and Economy Minister Andrzej Domański said investment, consumption and exports are driving the acceleration. The bank also lifted its 2027 forecast to 2.»»»

Staff shortages, rats in the corridors, and a university admissions system that feels like a lottery: As protests sweep France, high school students have drawn up a list of demands to deal with these and other issues. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has promised a government response by the end of»»»

LONDON: The Palestinian Ministry of Education reported that more than 20,500 school and university students in the Gaza Strip have been killed by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, 2023. A report released on Wednesday revealed the devastation inflicted on the education sector three years after Hamas laun»»»

ATHENS: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for the nations of the West to return to their civilizational roots and restore the values that drove the rise of Europe and North America to global dominance for centuries. In Athens to discuss deepening economic, energy and security cooperation wit»»»

The US-Israeli war has shown that military action “could not inflict damage on Iran,” Tasnim quotes Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf as saying. This has prompted Iran’s foes to focus on other tactics, he noted in a conversation with Police Chief Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Radan»»»

DHS targets visa program with costly fees for foreign student employment The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States, the latest effort from the Trump administration to crack down on foreign enrollment. A pr»»»

OSLO: Donald Trump’s chances of winning the Nobel Peace Prize are seen as minimal, but his “spectre” will cast its shadow over Friday’s announcement of the winner in Oslo, experts say. The Norwegian Nobel Committee knows it will be under close scrutiny: since his return to the White House in Januar»»»

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza: It’s perhaps the most dramatic wound inflicted on the Gaza Strip by Israel’s military campaign over the past three years: The city of Rafah, once home to a quarter million people, has been erased. Satellite imagery shows the Israeli military has systematically razed the souther»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Sayyid Al-Houthi: Operation Al-Aqsa Flood Is the Greatest Epic in the Struggle of the Palestinian People 07-10-2026 18:41 PM Leader of Yeme»»»

DOHA: Minister of Education and Higher Education HE Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater emphasized that attracting the wealth of talent in the nation, primarily citizens, those born in the country, and residents, is a foremost priority for the ministry so as to turbocharge the educational sector. The mini»»»

OSTROLEKA, Poland: A 19-year-old student at a vocational school in northern Poland attacked fellow students, teachers and passersby with a sharp object Wednesday, injuring nine people before fleeing and being arrested nearby, authorities said. The attack took place about 11 a.m. local time at the V»»»

LONDON: Before 3-year-old Jannat Al-Afis was killed in the Syrian Arab Republic’s Deir Ezzor governorate, relatives say there had been warnings about the danger she faced at home. Her father had previously been detained after a complaint that he abused her, then released, a relative told Syrian med»»»

Initiative draws 15,000 entries from 153 countries and helps launch over 140 apps Dubai: Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, and Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai, on Wednesday honoured the winners of the thir»»»

LONDON: Five former Barclays traders, jailed in Britain for plotting to rig global benchmark interest rates, won an appeal to clear their names on Wednesday, further unraveling some of the UK Serious Fraud Office’s most high-profile prosecutions. London’s Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of »»»

NOVI SAD - Celebrated Serbian former footballer Vladimir Jugovic was unveiled as new director of sports at FK Vojvodina Novi Sad on Wednesday. He will be in charge of the club's sports department, player selection and signings and further development of the Vojvodina youth academy. Jugovic has prev»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is set to launch a new website of the Official Gazette and the Al-Meezan Legal Portal on Sunday, introducing what it describes as the country's first AI-powered comprehensive national system for legal knowledge. The new platform will provide legal informat»»»

DOHA: The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is set to launch a new website for the Official Gazette and the Al-Meezan Legal Portal on Sunday, introducing what it describes as the country's first AI-powered comprehensive national system for legal knowledge. The new platform will provide legal information in»»»

The International Criminal Court on Monday unsealed warrants for Afghan Education Minister Habibullah Agha, and Higher Education Minister Neda Mohammad Nadeem, accusing two senior Taliban officials of crimes against humanity for denying Afghanistan's women and girls over 12 their rights to an »»»

Candidates for members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) from the National Assembly quota will be heard from November 2 to 6, the parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee decided Wednesday, updating the schedule for the hearings. The proposal was made by committee chair Yanka Tyankova of Progressi»»»