Switzerland will provide Hungary with CHF 87.6 million (more than HUF 34 billion) to support development projects across the country, the Hungarian President’s Office announced on Wednesday following talks between President András Baka and his Swiss counterpart, Guy Parmelin, in New York. According»»»

US President Donald Trump has rolled out full ceremonial honors for Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has arrived in Washington for a three-day state visit (23–25 September 2026) - his first formal White House trip since 2015. As Xi and First Lady Peng Liyuan arrived at Joint Base Andrews, Trump an»»»

Federal judge says banning outlets likely violated constitutional rights The Trump administration must immediately reinstate White House access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico, a US federal judge ordered Thursday, after their reporters were banned from the premises. President Donald Trump barred the o»»»

Kyrgyzstan’s economy is projected to grow by 8.9 percent in 2026 and by 8.4 percent in 2027, the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) September outlook says. The ADB estimates that in both years, Kyrgyzstan will record the fastest economic growth among countries in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and West As»»»

The Senate plenum unanimously adopted on Wednesday, with 95 votes in favour, a legislative proposal initiated by UDMR (Democratic Union of Hungarians of Romania) Senator Cseke Attila, interim Minister of Development, extending the implementation of the 'Anghel Saligny' National Investment Programme»»»

Prime Minister-designate Siegfried Muresan said on Wednesday that his preference, based on "what is good for Romania", is for the country to have a single government from now until 2028."We have not discussed this. Indeed, in the spring I said that we, the National Liberal Party, would no longer be»»»

Romania is still not fully prepared for the threat posed by drones, although it has improved its response capabilities, President Nicusor Dan said in an interview with journalist Jim Sciutto for CNN International's "The Brief with Jim Sciutto" broadcast on Tuesday evening.When asked whether Romania»»»

Brother Paul-Adrien preaches from a studio with gamer-like codes. Sister Albertine debunks convent clichés on Instagram. Father Benoît prays with followers on TikTok. As France sees a surge in teen and adult baptisms, a new generation of Catholic influencers is fuelling a quiet religious »»»

Nagoya, Japan: Kabaddi has its roots in ancient rural communities in South Asia and India is the superpower, but Japan has developed a niche taste for the team contact sport -- thanks to a comic. At a gymnasium on the outskirts of the port city of Nagoya, hosts Japan face another unlikely kabaddi p»»»

Pezeshkian rejects US pressure as diplomacy collides with blockade and disrupted oil flows The US-Iran conflict entered a critical diplomatic and economic phase on Thursday, with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian telling the UN that Tehran would never “bend at the knee” to US pressure, even as Wa»»»

Return of stolen Syrian treasures highlights US-Syria cultural cooperation US officials announced Wednesday the return of 36 stolen antiquities to Syria, including a stone trafficked during the Islamic State group's destruction of the ancient site of Palmyra. Authorities seized the items, collectiv»»»

Doha, Qatar: The sixth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Arab Anti-Corruption Convention concluded in Doha yesterday, with participating countries adopting a series of decisions aimed at strengthening Arab cooperation in preventing corruption, enhancing transparency and improvi»»»

Native of Kyrgyzstan Valentina Shevchenko plans to reclaim the UFC championship belt after recovering from an injury. The former UFC women’s flyweight champion confirmed that an old injury was the reason she withdrew from her next fight. «I had an old injury — a partial tear of the shoulder ligamen»»»

Commuters reveal what could make them leave the car behind for the new train Dubai: For many professionals who live in one emirate and work in the other, the Abu Dhabi-Dubai drive can swallow a large part of the working day, stretching to as much as two hours each way in peak-hour traffic. From Sep»»»

Afghanistan: An overnight airstrike hit the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, home to the Taliban government's supreme leader, a resident told AFP early Thursday. Pakistan's minister of information said its forces had struck 10 targets in Afghanistan -- without specifying where -- accusing its neig»»»

Worries about the power of AI tools are mounting after a string of hacking incidents Sydney: A rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training and hacked an Australian government website, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said as he admonished the ChatGPT creator over an "obviously unacceptabl»»»

Letter to senator reveals scale of suicide attempts on extended carrier deployment The Trump administration has acknowledged eight suicide attempts by US service members during the extended deployment of an aircraft carrier to the Middle East, a US lawmaker revealed on Wednesday. The information em»»»

Worries about the power of AI tools are mounting after a string of hacking incidents Sydney: A rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training and hacked an Australian government website, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said as he admonished the ChatGPT creator over an "obviously unacceptabl»»»

EXCLUSIVEADX says listings, investor access and new digital tools are deepening Abu Dhabi’s market Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi has seen sustained demand from companies looking to list over the past five years, helping make its stock exchange one of the larger listing venues globally while drawing more ret»»»

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reminded the UN General Assembly of NATO’s 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia and blasted the Western justification for the campaign. “They told us that they had attacked a sovereign, free, and independent country in order to prevent a potential humanitarian disaster,” he»»»

Orlen has notified prosecutors over a 25-year ethylene oxide supply contract signed in October 2021, which current management says could expose the group to penalties of up to $1.2 billion, or more than PLN 4 billion. The agreement called for deliveries beginning in stages from 2024 and 2027 and ru»»»

Turkey will gradually hand over control of its Bashiqa military base in northern Iraq to Baghdad, Ankara and Baghdad said Wednesday, in a move aimed at strengthening Iraqi state authority and easing a long-running source of tension between the neighbours. Turkey will hand over control of its base i»»»

Court of Cassation reduces 15 year term in final ruling over 2023 killing Dubai: Egypt’s Court of Cassation on Wednesday reduced the prison sentence of Tunisian flight attendant Amira Bint Hamad to seven years from 15 years for killing her young daughter Tara in New Cairo in 2023, local media repor»»»

Iranian embassy shares Balakrishna clip after Trump threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran Dubai: Iran has taken an unusual pop-culture route to respond to US President Donald Trump’s warning to “annihilate” the Islamic Republic, sharing an action clip featuring Telugu superstar Nandamuri Balakrishna. The »»»

Share: Prime Minister of Lebanon Nawaf Salam meets with Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, United States on September 21, 2026. BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s meetings in New York o»»»

Online outcry over cat video renews focus on rescue work A social media video showing a man handling a cat in a way that has raised concerns about animal abuse has prompted animal welfare advocates in UAE to seek attention for the animal's situation. The footage, shared alongside photographs of a g»»»

Brent's surge above $100 puts upward pressure on October rates despite improving supply Dubai: UAE motorists could see fuel prices rise in October after global oil prices spent much of September at elevated levels, although improving regional supply routes could ease some of the pressure. Get updat»»»

Asia buys more oil again — but Iran war still hurts supplies Asia is on track to import its highest volume of crude oil since the start of the US-Iran war, even as disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz continue to constrain Middle East supplies. Asian countries are expected to import 23.96 millio»»»

Investor jitters grow as protests challenge US-led tech hub in New Clark City Manila: Opposition to the Philippines' participation in the US-led Pax Silica initiative is no longer confined to protests, petitions and social-media campaigns. A senior Philippine trade official says some investors are »»»

The US Democratic Party has embraced a transgender agenda that amounts to “the normalization of sadism,” author A.J. Rice has said, warning that radical trans policies would return if the party is allowed to regain power. Speaking to RT’s America First host Scotty Nell Hughes about his new book, ‘T»»»

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s economic recovery momentum continued in the second quarter of 2026 with a 4.2% GDP expansion, marking 11 consecutive quarters of growth, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It added that the island country's gross official reserves rose to 6.9 billion U.S. dolla»»»

Tribune News Network DOHA In the early 20th century, Cairo’s recording studios pressed the sounds of a musical golden age onto fragile discs, capturing voices and styles that might otherwise have been lost. This September, Lusail Museum Conversations, an ongoing series of public lectures and events»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Dalal Ahmed, principal of Tariq Bin Ziad Primary School, part of Qatar Foundation’s Pre-University Education (PUE), has spent 30 years in education. Last year she launched ‘Kullukum Ra’in’ (Each of You Is a Guardian) – an initiative built around a question many families ar»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Foundation’s Doha Debates launched a new season of Doha Debates Podcast on September 22 with 20 episodes airing weekly through February 16, 2027. The series brings leading global thinkers together to debate some of the world’s most complex and challenging issues. The»»»

Tribune News Network Doha The Media Majlis Museum at Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q), in partnership with ACMI- Australia’s national museum of screen culture- has announced its fall 2026 exhibition titled ‘All That Is Unseen’, created by internationally acclaimed London-based artist collect»»»

A former British member of parliament implied that a video filmed from a helicopter on September 11, 2001 shows that no planes actually hit the World Trade Center's south tower, but this claim would be unfounded. The plane that hit the south tower hit the other side of the building, which isn’t vis»»»

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia’s food system remains dangerously exposed to international trade shocks despite recent gains in overall food security, analysts warned on Wednesday. Geopolitical conflicts could raise energy, fertilizer, animal feed, freight and packaging costs, with delayed effects on agricu»»»

PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, September 23: The papers look ahead to US President Donald Trump hosting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. In other news, a Haitian-born novelist, tipped to win France's prestigious Goncourt literary prize, has been struck by an AI scandal. Finally, could the remains of »»»

QNA New York Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Wednesday participated in a closed-door meeting convened by President of France Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Andy Burnham and Prime Minister of Canada Dr. M»»»

Addis Ababa: The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) forces launched an all-out offensive against Ethiopian government positions in Afar and Amhara regions, and have taken over federal-controlled airports in Tigray, according to Getachew Reda, advisor minister to the Ethiopian Prime Minister on»»»

The Baltic states have secretly asked the European Commission for hundreds of millions of euros to boost their defense against drones, citing an alleged Russian threat, Lithuania’s Defence ​Minister Robertas Kaunas told to Reuters on Wednesday. Moscow has repeatedly rejected claims that it has aggr»»»

New York: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani met today separately with Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Egyptian Expatriates of the sisterly Arab Republic of Egypt HE Dr. Badr Abdelatty; Minister for Foreig»»»

Brig. Hossein Zarifi killed during operation in Saravan near Iran’s border with Pakistan Dubai: A senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed during an operation against armed men in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim »»»

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday in another #MeToo reckoning for sexually assaulting a former production assistant in 2006. Weinstein, who was at the center of abuse allegations that spurred the #MeToo movement in Hollywood, was res»»»

LONDON — Stock markets fell on Wednesday while oil rose sharply as investors weighed the chances of a deal to end the Mideast war, after US President Donald Trump had hailed "very good" talks at the United Nations between US and Iranian representatives.Trump added that a three-hour meeting Tuesday »»»

AMMAN — The Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation (JEDCO) stressed the importance of innovation, research and development (R&D) in boosting the "competitiveness" and expansion of Jordan’s pharmaceutical industry.JEDCO Executive Director Ghaleb Hijazi, Wednesday said "stronger" cooperation a»»»

The 3.5-metre visitor has become an unlikely attraction after failing to leave A giant shark that swam into an artificial canal in the South Korean city of Busan has become an unlikely tourist attraction, drawing around 20,000 visitors over a single weekend. The shark, estimated to be about 3.5 met»»»

AI investment surge lifts productivity but deepens risks for middle-skilled workers Artificial intelligence could transform productivity, investment, labour markets, and economic policy, posing new opportunities and risks for workers, countries, and businesses, according to the 2026 Annual Report, »»»

NEW YORK, September 23 (Reuters) – Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly addressed high-level UN General Assembly summits on Wednesday, warning that the two-state solution faces “unprecedented challenges” and demanding urgent reform of the UN Security Council to expand African representation. Sp»»»

Egypt’s Minister of Industry Khaled Hashem witnessed the launch and handover of Egypt’s first industrial robot developed locally by Egyptian engineers and technology company Raed Bots. The robot was developed through cooperation between the Industrial Modernization Center (IMC), Raed Bots, and Qube»»»