Ashraf Siddiqui Doha As Finland Week in Qatar draws to a close on Friday with Finland’s participation in the 2026 European Jazz Festival at Katara Cultural Village, the week has provided an opportunity to explore new avenues of cooperation between Finland and Qatar in education, science, digitalisa»»»

DUBAI: Iran has sent the United States a nuclear proposal via Qatar, to be discussed only after Washington meets Tehran’s seven demands, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the US was reviewing the proposal but declined to prov»»»

WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is under growing pressure, with victorious Democrats planning to target him in Congress and Republicans blaming the Iran war he championed for their election losses. Hegseth, a former Fox News co-host and National Guard officer, has survived repeated sc»»»

WASHINGTON: A Mexican judge is accused of taking a $2 million bribe in exchange for releasing a suspected Canadian drug trafficker from custody in an investigation into a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring, US officials said Thursday. Luiz Benítez Alcántara, 49, was arrested in Colombia on Sunday»»»

WASHINGTON, United States: Donald Trump, knowing that the US president’s party almost always loses seats in midterm elections, launched an unprecedented push last year for states to redraw congressional district lines in favor of Republicans. The redistricting gambit — a costly endeavor that provok»»»

LONDON: Israeli authorities demolished nearly half of a Palestinian Bedouin community in an area designated for the controversial E1 project in the east of occupied Jerusalem, displacing about 20 residents and threatening the rest with eviction, three Israeli rights groups warned on Thursday. In a »»»

IRBIL: One of Iraq’s two main Kurdish parties withdrew from the government in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region Thursday, threatening to form a rival administration as a long-running power struggle between the parties intensified. The political crisis comes at a delicate moment for the»»»

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iranian top security official Mohsen Rezaei at the Kremlin, ​Iran's state media reported on Thursday, after Iranian negotiators met with mediators to discuss proposals to end hostilities with the US.Rezaei delivered a message from Iran's Supreme Leader A»»»

Emerson executives explain how automation is helping the industry withstand disruption Emerson executives explain how advanced automation, artificial intelligence and local engineering capabilities are helping the UAE’s energy sector withstand disruption, accelerate recovery and prepare for its nex»»»

Béla Merkely, rector of Budapest’s Semmelweis University, has announced that he will step down on 1 January 2027, citing a breakdown in trust with the board of trustees of the foundation that maintains the institution. He has led Hungary’s leading medical university since 2018, overseeing significa»»»

The National Assembly Legal Affairs Committee decided unanimously on Thursday, with 18 votes in favour, that all Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) candidate members nominated by parliament should be put forward for consideration and successive votes by the full Assembly. A total of 21 magistrates were»»»

By Staff, Agencies Ukraine’s efforts to join the European Union are falling behind those of other candidate countries due to insufficient progress in tackling corruption, according to the European Commission’s latest enlargement assessment. In its annual enlargement package published on Wednesday, »»»

The president is weighing his next move as the war fuels economic and political concerns Washington: As he takes stock of his Republican Party's midterm drubbing, President Donald Trump now faces the difficult question of what to do about his unpopular 8-month-old war against Iran. For weeks, Trump»»»

The leaders of the Visegrád Group (V4) have called for closer regional cooperation and further European Union enlargement, while acknowledging differences over the war in Ukraine. Hungarian President András Baka said Hungary wanted to become an even more committed partner in building a common Europ»»»

Emails show officials worked to arrange flights for more than 100 Iranians 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 administ»»»

Three German soldiers have been hospitalized after two military trucks traveling in a convoy collided with each other on a highway in southwestern Poland, the Polish Gendarmerie has said. The collision on the A4 highway near Kostomloty, 27 km from Wroclaw, left three German soldiers injured on Wedn»»»

TALLINN: A Roman Catholic priest, who has opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and helped Ukrainian refugees, has been sentenced to three years in prison in Belarus, the latest move in the authorities’ crackdown on critical voices, a rights group said Thursday. A court in Belarus convicted Anatoly »»»

Election losses have intensified calls for investigations into the defence chief US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is under growing pressure, with victorious Democrats planning to target him in Congress and Republicans blaming the Iran war he championed for their election losses. Hegseth, a former »»»

CARACAS: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Thursday backed a US proposal to declare her country’s presidency vacant and hold elections next year. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate made a dramatic return from exile late last month, almost one year after the US seized president Nicola»»»

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»»»

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»»»

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»»»

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»»»

Major General Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), has met with the Russian president and delivered a message from Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Khamenei. According to the secretariat of the SNSC, on Thursday, Rezaei traveled to Moscow for the meeting and personal»»»

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»»»

INNSBRUCK, Austria: An Austrian court convicted fallen property tycoon Rene Benko of aggravated fraud on Thursday, sentencing him to two years in prison at his third criminal trial after two earlier convictions for insolvency-related fraud. The aggravated fraud charge centered on a roughly €5 milli»»»

LONDON: A UK government lawyer on Thursday defended before Britain’s highest court the banning of Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organization, insisting that it was not a “non-violent protest group.” Palestine Action was proscribed in July 2025 after a string of protests targeting a UK military »»»

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»»»

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 »»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is aware of the situation regarding people held captive near Kiev, but it is not commenting on it, the organization told Sputnik on Thursday. "We are aware of reports concerning recent events in Borshchagevka... We do not commen»»»

A digital hub to bring together and analyze data in support of road safety is beginning to take shape, Transport and Communications Minister Georgi Peev said at a meeting with the working groups preparing the technological, legislative and administrative aspects of a road safety reform, the Ministr»»»

DOHA The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) has launched the first edition of its Educational Voucher Policy for private schools and kindergartens, aimed at expanding learning opportunities, promoting educational equity and ensuring equal opportunities for students through a clear r»»»

HARARE: A son of the late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe appeared in a court in Harare on Thursday accused of assaulting an anti-corruption agency official during an operation linked to the alleged smuggling of two luxury vehicles into the country. Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe arrived at the Hara»»»

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to 10 more years in prison on Thursday for colluding with foreign powers, a court summary said. Wong, 30, pleaded guilty in September to seeking foreign sanctions against Hong Kong and China under Beijing’s national security law, having spent n»»»

DOHA Minister of Justice and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs HE Ibrahim bin Ali bin Issa Al Hassan Al Mohannadi, on Thursday launched the new website for 'The Legal and Judicial Journal'. The launch took place during a graduation ceremony for participants in the qualifying and mandatory train»»»

GERB leader Boyko Borissov has called Bulgaria's Parliament "an absolutely pointless organization right now," accusing lawmakers of deliberately delaying a vote on a proposal to lower fuel prices. Borissov, who chairs the GERB-SDS parliamentary group, made the comments while responding to a questio»»»

An Airbus A320 ​flying from Dublin to Rome was safely diverted to France's Evreux airbase ​following a ‌bomb threat, ⁠the French prime minister's office said Thursday, in the latest in a series ‌of threats targeting flights across Europe. Multiple other flights in Europe also made emergency landing»»»

LAGOS: A Nigerian court Thursday declared invalid the nomination of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate for the opposition African Democratic Congress, the party said, two months before the country’s elections. The ADC, one of the main opposition parties trying to oust President Bola Tinub»»»

Following its October elections, BiH has a chance to show renewed commitment to reforms and start accession talks, EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos said. Speaking at a news conference, Kos said the country was showing “less and less engagement” on its path to EU membership. She stressed that B»»»

Lachezar Bogdanov of the Institute for Market Economics (IME) has warned that Bulgaria will spend nearly EUR 1.5 billion on public debt interest next year, while criticizing proposed changes to pension contributions and the government's plans for an excess-profit tax in an interview with Bulgarian »»»

Bulgaria is already working on two of the key priorities set out in the European Union's new Sustainable Tourism Strategy: workforce training and the management of the sector based on reliable data. This transpired at a meeting of EU tourism ministers in Mullingar, Ireland, attended by Bulgarian To»»»

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday cited "serious suspicions" around foreign interference in Israel's recent parliamentary elections. He claims foreign countries spent large amounts of money to influence the results, while the largest Arab-Israeli bloc called such accusations "p»»»

MOGADISHU: Somalia’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the extension of the president’s term by one year, which sparked violent clashes with the opposition, was “unlawful.” President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s term ended in May, but his government declared a “transition period” that gave him an ext»»»

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 statement that th»»»

World shares were mostly higher Thursday, though heavy selling of artificial intelligence-related stocks offset gains for some markets following the U.S. midterm elections. South Korea's Kospi sank more than 5% and the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo lost nearly 2%. Oil prices were mixed after the Dow industri»»»

Asian man found hanging from villa shower rail as forensic tests expose murder. Dubai: A broken shower curtain rail helped expose a murder disguised as suicide. In another case, traces of fuel beneath a burnt vehicle revealed an attempt to cover up a killing by making it look like an accidental fir»»»

Woman in intensive care as police investigate conflicting accounts of hotel fall Dubai: Egyptian authorities have arrested two Kuwaiti men for allegedly throwing a Moroccan woman from an upper floor of a prominent Cairo hotel following a dispute over private videos, according to local media reports»»»