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Vienna: As the new school year gets under way in Austria, a headscarf ban for girls under 14 has sparked protests on the streets and in the classroom, with dozens of pupils refusing to comply. Austria's conservative-led government has insisted that the ban, introduced on September 1, promotes gende»»»

Doha, Qatar: Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university hosted the seventh annual Qatar Collegiate Programming Contest (QCPC), bringing together 100 high school teams and 35 university teams to compete in a challenging test of coding and problem-solving. The »»»

Doha, Qatar: The Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre (QICDRC), in collaboration with LexisNexis, hosted a discussion session reviewing some of the most significant cases before the Court during the first half of 2026, in conjunction with the publication of its Case Digest for H1»»»

Hungarian university students will once again be able to apply for Erasmus programmes from the 2026/27 academic year, while Hungarian researchers and universities will regain access to Horizon Europe opportunities, the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced on Facebook on Wednesday. Hungarian studen»»»

ITHACA: Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff faced off with angry members of the school’s faculty Wednesday at a meeting that underscored deep frustration on campus over his administration’s handling of a woman’s report that she was gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024. Kotlikoff addr»»»

Doha: Al Taawoun climbed to the top of Group C after edging Al Rayyan 2-1 in their AFC Champions League (ACL) Two clash at Wolves Park yesterday. The win sees the Saudi Pro League side lead with four points, having drawn their opening tie against Oman Al Nahda, while Al Rayyan suffered their first »»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar’s banking sector maintained stable asset and lending levels in August 2026, with total assets remaining unchanged month-on-month at QR2.194 trillion, while a decline in deposits pushed the sector’s loan-to-deposit ratio higher, according to the latest banking sector data. The tot»»»

Divo: Kofi Alexis Amani has watched the trees on his cocoa plantation wilt and sometimes wither as rains became unpredictable and less abundant in Ivory Coast over the past several decades. “You can lose everything,” he sighed. The west African country is the world’s top cocoa producer, responsible»»»

The Peninsula Doha: Qatar yesterday named a 23-member squad for the second edition of the Gulf Cup Under-17, which will be held in Doha from October 16 to November 4, featuring 10 teams. Head coach Nicolas Arnaldo will lead the young Qatar side as they aim to make the most of home advantage and com»»»

Mumbai, India: India's Jio Platforms, the digital arm of conglomerate Reliance Industries, is aiming to raise more than $3 billion in what would be the country's biggest-ever initial public offering, after announcing pricing details ahead of next week's launch. The company, controlled by billionair»»»

By Staff, Agencies The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards [IRG] Quds Force, Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, has reaffirmed Iran’s unwavering support for the Palestinian cause, declaring that decades of sanctions, imposed wars, and mounting external pressure will not force the Islamic Republ»»»

An international conference marking the 35th anniversary of Bulgaria's Constitutional Court will take place in Sofia on Thursday, focusing on constitutional courts' role in upholding the rule of law. Official representatives and delegations from constitutional jurisdictions in 31 countries across E»»»

ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn told Sputnik that the bloc intends to keep strengthening its own mechanisms while maintaining relations with partners both inside and outside the region. Kao stressed that ASEAN is building its own strategic autonomy, drawing on decades of regional agreements a»»»

The Plenum of Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) is expected to appoint an acting Prosecutor General on Thursday, with the item topping its meeting agenda. On Wednesday, the SJC Prosecutors Chamber unanimously backed Deputy Prosecutor General Magdalena Lazarova-Prodanova's nomination for the»»»

Anti-government protests in Albania’s capital Tirana turned violent for a second consecutive night on Wednesday, leaving several government buildings damaged and at least one abla»»»

Co-worker’s tip led to the 19-year-old’s arrest and discovery of weapons and ammunition A 19-year-old man has been charged in the US over an alleged plan to carry out a mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Aurora, Illinois, after his rifle reportedly failed to fire, according to authorities. The Cons»»»

LONDON: Russell Brand behaved as a “ruthless” sexual predator when he assaulted six women over a decade, a prosecutor said Wednesday, as she opened the rape and sexual assault case against the actor-comedian. Brand, 51, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault »»»

Dubai appeal court upholds one-year sentence and deportation order against man. Dubai: The Dubai court of appeal has upheld a one year jail term and deportation order against a man convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl, ruling that the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction»»»

Industry boost: Advanced aerospace manufacturing firm expands from Cavite to Batangas Manila: An aircraft parts maker is expanding in the Philippines. Global Aerospace Technology Philippines Inc. (GATPHI) will open a new facility in Batangas. It will make parts for export to customers around the wo»»»

HAMBURG: A lawyer for a Ukrainian accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines supplying Russian gas to western Europe said Wednesday Moscow used the network to exert political and economic pressure, as the former military officer’s trial opened in Germany. Sergiy Kuznietsov is the first person »»»

Tribune News Network DOHA Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) hosted the seventh annual Qatar Collegiate Programming Contest (QCPC), bringing together 100 high school teams and 35 university teams to compete in a challenging test of coding and problem-solving. CMU-Q is a Qatar Foundation pa»»»

Tribune News Network DOHA Qatar Airways Group has marked a major milestone in aircraft financing with the signing of its inaugural Japanese Operating Lease with Call Option (JOLCO) transaction, covering three Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. HSBC and JP Lease Products & Services Co., Ltd. (JLPS) w»»»

The Nord Stream gas pipelines were a political and economic “weapon” for Russia, the lawyer for former Ukrainian officer Sergei Kuznetsov said Wednesday. The first to appear in the high-profile case, Kuznetsov is accused by German prosecutors of having led the plan to sabotage the in»»»

Poland is mulling reintroducing compulsory military service that was abolished in 2009, Deputy Defense Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka has said. Her comments came shortly after an opinion poll indicated that over a half of Poles under 24 were against the reinstatement of conscription. In an »»»

WASHINGTON: More than a year after President Donald Trump deployed National Guard members to begin patrolling the streets of the nation’s capital, a federal appeals court on Wednesday opened a hearing on the legality of his action by asking the government if there were any limits on a president’s a»»»

They also discussed the latest developments and the evolving situation in the region Abu Dhabi: Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India's Minister of External Affairs, discussed ways to strengthen bilateral c»»»

By Staff, Agencies The BBC has asked a Florida federal judge to compel US President Donald Trump to set a firm date for sworn testimony in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster, accusing his legal team of delaying his deposition as the case moves toward trial. In a court filing»»»

The meeting underscored the importance of building on the UAE’s achievements Dubai: His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, on Wednesday met with Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of »»»

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi urged citizens to “fortify your country against this conspiracy.. and I do not say fortify the president,” while asserting Egypt harbours no hidden ambitions following recent remarks by an Israeli official regarding Sinai. Speaking at the 44th Educational Sem»»»

BEIRUT: Djibouti, a nation of about 1.2 million people at the southern end of the Red Sea, cannot on its own absorb the wave of Yemenis arriving there as they flee the conflict in their own country, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of migrants who already pass through its desert each year, »»»

It was a secession vote no one in Westminster saw coming. In September, the village of Piddington in Oxfordshire held a referendum to declare independence from the United Kingdom. The vote, of course, had no legal weight, and was a symbolic gesture by the village’s 350 residents (285 of whom voted »»»

Bulgaria will not extradite Iva Mihaylova to North Macedonia without a ratified international treaty permitting it, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry said after receiving an Interpol request for her international search, arrest, and extradition. The ministry’s Directorate for International Operationa»»»

By Staff, Agencies SpaceX has disrupted Ukrainian drone operations by reportedly imposing new speed restrictions on military access to its Starlink satellite network, according to Ukrainian officials and frontline commanders. The reported disruption comes as US President Donald Trump increases pres»»»

TRIPOLI: The NGO Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that military authorities in eastern Libya executed at least 31 people earlier this year, the first reported death sentences to be carried out in the country since 2010, according to the group. Forces under the control of military leader Khalifa Ha»»»

NAIROBI: A traitor to his peers but a hero to many, a Ugandan army officer has leaked unprecedented footage of a secret jail where he says political opponents of the government were brutally tortured. The east African country has been ruled for 40 years by President Yoweri Museveni, whose son Muhoo»»»

The case of Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj is addressed in the fourth monitoring report on the implementation of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Albania, prepared by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. Citing assessments by the Venice Commission, the»»»

PARIS: The US has not yet decided whether to abandon the electromagnetic launch system for aircraft carriers, France’s navy chief said on Wednesday, two months after President Donald Trump ordered the US Navy to drop the technology that France has chosen for its next carrier. Trump ordered the Navy»»»

SINGAPORE: Air pollution in part of Singapore hit the country’s “very high” band on Wednesday while East Timor shut schools, as haze from forest fires raging in Indonesia causes a regional crisis. In Indonesia, authorities said more than 280,000 respiratory problems have been recorded in haze-affec»»»

Vladimir Zelensky has a pattern in dealing with Western partners who disappoint him: raise the disagreement in public, question the partner’s judgment and explain why the decision benefits Russia and Vladimir Putin. Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz heard variations of that argument for years, a»»»

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The Polish consumer watchdog UOKiK has filed allegations against CANAL+ Polska concerning information supplied to customers buying sports television packages. The regulator says customers taking out or renewing contracts for the Mistrzowska Piłka package may not have been clearly told that access w»»»

Polish e-commerce recorded strong growth in September as the Base Index reached a record 188 points, according to sales data from 3,000 online stores. Sales rose 15.9 percent from a year earlier and 3.4 percent from August. The number of orders increased 15.1 percent annually, while their average v»»»

ZE PAK subsidiary PAK SMR and Synthos Green Energy have signed an agreement to develop small modular nuclear reactors at Pątnów, Poland. The parties intend to establish a joint venture to prepare, build and operate a plant using BWRX-300 reactor technology. The proposed development could eventually»»»

Communication about popes’ health has gradually opened up over the past half-century Vatican City: From the silence surrounding John XXIII’s cancer to the detailed medical bulletins issued during Francis’s hospitalisations, Vatican communication about popes’ health has gradually opened up over the »»»

Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee failed to reach a quorum on Wednesday for an extraordinary sitting to consider at first reading amendments requiring the President’s Administration to publish all pardon decrees in the State Gazette, including previously unpublished ones. The amendments to the S»»»

Did Ukraine’s strikes on Russian data centers destroy the Kremlin’s pro-MAGA bot army? Or are Vladimir Zelensky and his European patrons insulting their citizens with remedial-grade propaganda? RT takes a trip down the rabbit hole. Ukrainian forces hit three Yandex (Russia’s equivalent to Google) d»»»

RIYADH: Foreign diplomats in Saudi Arabia are joining a nationwide blood donation campaign following deadly Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport. The campaign, launched on Oct. 6 by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, comes as attacks by the Iran-backed group continue. Two str»»»

Bulgarian authorities have been notified that North Macedonia is seeking the arrest and extradition of Iva Mihaylova, a dual Bulgarian and North Macedonian national, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. The Ministry said that at 7:38 p.m. on October 13, its International Operational C»»»