Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has launched the fifth cultural season of its intellectual initiative, ‘Ummah Forum’, emphasising the integration of science and faith as a foundation for building civilisation, advancing knowledge and guiding human development. Held at Imam Mu»»»

Accountability proceedings have been launched in Hungary over assets allegedly misused unlawfully by the previous government, but the process must proceed in line with the rule of law, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said in an interview with the American news agency AP, published on Wednesday. “The Hu»»»

The authorities have moved to have György Matolcsy remanded in custody, Telex reported on Wednesday afternoon. The former central bank governor was questioned at the Central Investigation Prosecutor's Office on suspicion of the criminal offence of economic fraud and the misdemeanour of using a forg»»»

Trump administration challenges offshore wind projects, citing adverse impacts WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is asking a federal judge to let it reconsider a major federal permit granted for a large offshore wind farm, making it the fourth project the Republican leadership has targeted»»»

Sharjah court orders seller to refund Dh63.8m plus interest in gas supply dispute The Sharjah Court has ordered a company to refund Dh63.8 million after finding that it breached a contract to supply 41,000 metric tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), failing to deliver the shipment within the ag»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar University has announced plans to host an international conference on an Islamic charter for family mediation on November 23, aimed at developing a global framework to protect rights, preserve family ties and promote social stability. The conference is being organized by Qatar Un»»»

UAE firms can turn time saved into broader support for small businesses AI is changing how legal work is done in the UAE’s fast-growing legal services market. It can free about 30% of a lawyer’s time on routine tasks such as document review and first-pass drafting, but the bigger prize is what that»»»

Netanyahu faces challenges from Eisenkot and others in pivotal Israeli election JERUSALEM: Three years after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza, Israeli voters will decide next week whether to grant Benjamin Netanyahu yet another term as prime minister — or usher in a ne»»»

The former UAE ambassador to the UN announces her candidacy to succeed António Guterres New York: Lana Nusseibeh, UAE Minister of State and Envoy to the UN and EU, has announced her candidacy to become the next UN Secretary-General, following her formal nomination by the United Arab Emirates. Her c»»»

Court rulings halt Trump-era changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness program The Trump administration moved Wednesday to end its legal fight to overhaul a popular student loan forgiveness program. The Department of Justice appealed after federal judges ruled in June in favour of advocates who sa»»»

Operation Confrontation Ghost also thwarted more than 123 million online scam attempts Abu Dhabi: The UAE-led Operation Confrontation Ghost has identified more than US$39 billion in funds and digital assets linked to fraudulent activities and thwarted over 123.71 million online fraud attempts world»»»

DAMASCUS: Syria will need clear eligibility rules, reliable claim-verification mechanisms and coordinated institutions to establish an effective reparations system for victims of abuses committed under the former regime, legal and human rights experts told SANA. The experts said reparations are a c»»»

Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed arrives in Athens for talks with Greek officials ATHENS: H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, has arrived in Athens to begin an official visit to the Hellenic Republic. Upon arrival at Athens International Airport, H.H. Sheikh Khal»»»

Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed arrives in Athens for talks with Greek officials ATHENS: H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, has arrived in Athens to begin an official visit to the Hellenic Republic. Upon arrival at Athens International Airport, H.H. Sheikh Khal»»»

QNA Doha An official delegation from Moldova visited the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) headquarters on Wednesday to learn about Qatar’s legal and judicial system and its mechanisms for providing legal services, real estate registration, and notarisation services. The delegation attended a presentation »»»

US President Donald Trump's pivot away from Ukraine has triggered fresh questions about his attachment to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the man a top American envoy flattered on Wednesday as a "humanitarian. Trump has cast his dealings with Putin as part of a mega-deal that has secured the release»»»

LONDON: Young Palestinian men armed with slingshots and stones helped save Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine from Israeli settlers who beat her while she was covering the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, The Guardian newspaper reported. Levine, 64, suffered four fractured vertebr»»»

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Russia on Wednesday freed an American who had been jailed for more than four years on charges of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine, a deal completed during a visit by a top US envoy and at a time when President Donald Trump has taken a series of actions meant to benefit Moscow. Trump told reporter»»»

CHICAGO: A federal investigation into how Ilhan Omar, a member of Congress from Minnesota, obtained US citizenship has raised questions about whether she, or her late father, misrepresented her age on immigration documents. If proven, the allegations could expose her to criminal charges, denaturali»»»

WASHINGTON, United States: Democratic Party leaders have sued US President Donald Trump and members of his administration, accusing them of aiming “threats and intimidation” at state and local officials in the run-up to the November 3 midterm election. Democratic governors, Congressional leaders an»»»

The discussions took place as part of Prime Minister Wong's official visit to the UAE Abu Dhabi: UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Wednesday welcomed Lawrence Wong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, for talks aimed at further strengthening bilateral coopera»»»

Corvinus University of Budapest has secured a place among the world’s top 100 institutions in the 2027 QS International Trade Rankings, with its International Economy and Business Master’s programme ranking 99th globally. The university also achieved an impressive 32nd place in the Executive MBA ca»»»

Presidential and vice-presidential candidates Andrey Gurov and Georgi Kandev closed their election campaign in Plovdiv on Wednesday. In their addresses, both stressed that they were not seeking the country’s highest offices for greater power, but rather greater responsibility and an opportunity to »»»

LONDON: The partnership between the UK and Oman plays a vital role in securing global trade routes and freedom of navigation, the lady mayor of the City of London has said in an address for Haitham bin Tariq, the sultanate’s ruler. Speaking on Wednesday at a banquet in Guildhall attended by more th»»»

Those arrested during the October 17 rallies filed into the dock at Paris’s Judicial Court on Tuesday, accused of a broad range of offences – from assault against police officers to resisting arrest and handling stolen goods. The courtroom’s charged atmosphere was palpable amid the justice minister»»»

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia has indicted the mayor of Petrich over alleged fraud involving EU funding for a project to turn a former military site into a cultural heritage museum, the institution announced from Luxembourg. The announcement did not identify the defendant »»»

BATUMI: The Constitutional Court in the South Caucasus nation of Georgia began hearings Wednesday on a lawsuit by the ruling Georgian Dream party seeking to ban five major opposition parties, a move critics say would effectively eliminate political competition. The lawsuit is the latest step in the»»»

By Staff, Agencies China has opposed a US judge’s order to arrest former Cuban President Raul Castro, criticizing Washington for using the judicial system to exert pressure on Havana. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning described Castro as a highly respected figure of the Cuban Revolutio»»»

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister said Wednesday her government will resume anti-Seoul propaganda broadcasts across the heavily armed border with South Korea this month, reviving a psychological warfare campaign as tensions rise after land mine blasts injured three South Korean frontl»»»

HAVANA: Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez accused the United States on Wednesday of threatening member states of the United Nations with sanctions should they side with Cuba in next week’s annual UN vote on a resolution calling for an end to a US embargo on the island. “The US State Department»»»

At the opening of the DOMINO 2 programme’s annual conference, Deputy Education and Science Minister Tanya Pancheva said that dual education is one of the government’s top priorities, supported through various initiatives, the main one being the DOMINO 2 programme for the development and enhancement»»»

BUDAPEST: For Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar, defeating Viktor Orbán in a landslide election was only the beginning. Less than six months into his term, his new government is pursuing former officials he accuses of corruption and abuses of power. In his first interview with a global news org»»»

TUNIS: A Tunisian military court sentenced politician Olfa Hamdi, who once sought to run for president, to four years in prison for plotting against state security, her lawyer told AFP on Wednesday. The charges against the dual Tunisian and American national stemmed from social media posts and incl»»»

TUNIS, Oct. 21, 2026 (TAP) - Tunisia plans to continue, in 2027, the modernisation of its judicial system through the digitisation of procedures, the upgrading of judicial infrastructure, the reduction of judgment delays, and the reinforcement...»»»

Washington, United States: OpenAI has revealed that two of its artificial intelligence agents disabled or weakened systems built to catch them misbehaving, with one later denying it had done so. The cases are the latest in a string of safety scares at the world's top AI developers involving agents,»»»

BELGRADE - On orders from the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade and in coordination with the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad and the Security Information Agency, Belgrade and Novi Sad police and the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit have arrested five people in Novi Sad on suspi»»»

Poland does not have enough Patriot air defense missiles to hand over to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has said, urging other NATO members to supply Kiev with the scarce interceptors. In an interview with the Polish Press Agency published on Monday, Sikorski warned of growing pressure»»»

RIYADH: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh performed a whole-lung lavage on a 10-year-old girl in a single session lasting about nine hours. The procedure was performed to treat a rare lung disease that had caused the patient’s blood oxygen saturation to drop to 79 percen»»»

Prosecutors have requested the pre-trial detention of former National Bank of Hungary governor György Matolcsy following a lengthy interrogation over suspected economic fraud. A judge is expected to decide on Friday whether he will be remanded in custody. Matolcsy did not make a statement during qu»»»

LONDON: Five foreign firms have abandoned plans to build a cable car from West Jerusalem to East Jerusalem that could see dozens of Palestinian families lose their land and property rights, The Guardian has reported. Despite the withdrawal of a fifth company, local authorities have said the project»»»

Colonel Aleksandr Balyura of the 61st Naval Infantry Brigade has told the dictator about the "liberation" of the Ukrainian city. Meanwhile, President Zelenskyy says that Ukrainian forces still control the city and that the Russians are suffering "particularly heavy losses." A carefully staged video»»»

Germany’s most popular party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has suffered a massive cyberattack, with unknown hackers reportedly stealing and publishing hundreds of thousands of internal emails, while the country’s political establishment seeks grounds to outlaw the opposition party. The breach, wh»»»

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay described the US sanctions imposed on the International Criminal Court (ICC) hours after her award as "a shock" and "unacceptable". The South African judge also defended the UN commission of inquiry she chaired which conclu»»»

PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, October 21: The identities of some 300 suspects from Saturday's riots are emerging in the Paris courts. Meanwhile, the far-left France Unbowed party has promised legal action against the French government for claiming the radical left was responsible for the dege»»»

French President Emmanuel Macron took aim at world leaders including US President Donald Trump for trying to exploit the riots and looting that broke out alongside peaceful demonstrations in France Saturday for their own political advantage. Another wave of demonstrations against France's worsening»»»

A 23-year-old Syrian man has been charged with assaulting three young men, including stabbing two of them near Sofia’s National Palace of Culture (NDK) on October 16, the Sofia District Prosecutor’s Office announced. Evidence collected by investigators indicates that the accused, identified by the »»»

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that any interference in the Yemen war by Egypt or any other country would make the situation "more difficult". "Egypt has sufficient experience to avoid entangling itself in such a highly complex conflict," said Iran's top diplomat in an in»»»

The Government on Wednesday approved a list of 15 priority requests for 2026 to receive support under the European Union’s Technical Support Instrument, the Government Information Service reported. Bulgaria is seeking support for projects in a range of areas, including labour market reforms, financ»»»

The government has instructed the Minister of Justice to organize a new procedure to select a Bulgarian candidate for the General Court of the European Union, the government press service said Wednesday. The nomination will be submitted to the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Unio»»»