RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s new national carrier Riyadh Air launched daily direct flights between Riyadh and Dubai on June 18, operated by its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. Flight RX243 departed King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh at 2:05 p.m. Saudi time and arrived at Dubai International Ai»»»

MUZAFFARABAD: A territory-wide shutdown ‌in Pakistan-administered Kashmir has brought daily life to a standstill after the region’s deadliest unrest in years left at least 24 people dead in nearly ​two weeks of protests. The confrontation between local authorities and supporters of the recently ban»»»

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has set up secretive new cells in Iraq to carry out attacks on Gulf countries that host American forces, bypassing established militia networks to avoid detection, eight Iraqi sources told Reuters.Three or four cells, each comprising about 10 elite Ir»»»

PARIS: Musicians this weekend will for the first time publicly interpret music for flute and harp that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote as a 22-year-old while teaching an aristocratic French student. The unprecedented concert on Sunday at France’s National Library (BnF) comes after what it has called »»»

KINSHASA: Ebola is spreading again in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where conflict, mistrust and the lack of a vaccine have made the outbreak hard to contain. The virus, transmitted through close contact and bodily fluids, can cause a fatal haemorrhagic fever and has killed more than 15»»»

MELBOURNE: Police charged a third suspect on Friday with an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue that was allegedly directed by Iran. The 20-year-old man was one of three masked offenders who broke into the Adass Israel Synagogue, doused the interior with flammable liquid then set it alight in the»»»

Bo Wang ‘The Revolution will not be air conditioned’ While the Gil Scott-Heron lyric poem on which this work’s title plays (“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”) was a call to action for Black America in the 1970s, the Chinese artist’s video — a still from which is seen here — “begins with images»»»

DUBAI: Bob Odenkirk continues his transformation into an everyman action hero in this stylish action comedy from English filmmaker Ben Wheatley (“Kill List,” “Rebecca”). Odenkirk plays Ulysses, a lawman haunted by a shooting incident that left him mentally shattered and broke up his marriage. Now, »»»

TIJUANA: The Iranian football federation said Thursday it will lodge a complaint with FIFA claiming its team is being subjected to travel restrictions during the World Cup in North America. Iran wanted to fly from their base camp in Tijuana, Mexico, to the United States two days before their next m»»»

France on Friday urged Israel to "respect" a deal signed between the United States and Iran to end the Middle East war, the French foreign minister said after overnight Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. "This agreement provides for a cessation of hostilities, the Israeli government must respect »»»

Ajman: Thumbay Medicity welcomed Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Foreign Trade, UAE to its Ajman campus on Friday. It marked the Minister’s first visit to one of the region’s largest integrated hubs for medical education, healthcare and research, and it set the tone for a closer conversa»»»

Paris, France: Musicians this weekend will for the first time publicly interpret music for flute and harp that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote as a 22-year-old while teaching an aristocratic French student. The unprecedented concert on Sunday at France's National Library (BnF) comes after what it has»»»

On June 19, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prayers led by students at public high school football games aren't permitted under the constitutional separation of church and state. 1 of 6 | Demonstrators pray in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 27 2022. On June 19, 2000, the U.S. Supre»»»

Israel said Friday four of its soldiers were killed in south Lebanon amid clashes with Hezbollah. Hezbollah said its fighters destroyed three Israeli tanks and that clashes were ongoing, as Lebanese state media reported that Israeli strikes in the south killed at least 18 people. The fighting came »»»

Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people overnight in the Nabatieh region of southern Lebanon, state media reported Friday, despite a peace deal in the Middle East war that includes Lebanon. Lebanon's National News Agency said "the enemy committed several massacres" with a series of airstrikes after mid»»»

The State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) announced the disruption of a transnational criminal group operating fraud schemes against foreign nationals. According to the security service, members of the group were operating from within Kyrgyzstan and carried out fraudulent activ»»»

Abu Dhabi: The UAE and France are exploring new opportunities to expand cooperation in tourism, aviation, entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as the number of French companies operating in the UAE continues to grow. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Ba»»»

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan on Friday presented his maiden State Budget, unveiling an economic roadmap centred on governance, welfare, investment and long-term growth. Holding the Finance portfolio alongside the Chief Minister’s office, Satheesan tabled the revised 2026»»»

Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people overnight in the Nabatieh region of southern Lebanon, state media reported Friday, despite a peace deal in the Middle East war that includes Lebanon. Lebanon's National News Agency said "the enemy committed several massacres" with a series of airstrikes after mid»»»

Young mathematicians from Kyrgyzstan won three bronze medals at the Professor Shaltai Smagulov Republican Mathematics Olympiad among students in grades 6 and 7. According to the Ministry of Education, the final round of the intellectual competition took place in Almaty. Schoolchildren from Kazakhst»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Casualties as Israeli Enemy Pound Southern Lebanon amid Failed Ground Push 19-06-2026 09:46 AM Smoke rises as Israeli warplanes bombs Nabat»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Al-Manar correspondent in southern Lebanon reports Israeli air strikes on Toul, Habboush and Abu Rashed Heights in Al-Jabaour 19-06-2026 09»»»

Vice President JD Vance conducts a briefing for the media at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, June 18, 2026. Photo by Aaron Schwartz/UPI | License Photo June 19 (UPI) -- Scheduled talks to implement the U.S.-Iran memorandum aimed at de-escalating their war have been postponed, Swit»»»

The volume of construction works increased by 11.7% in the first four months of the year in as gross series, and by 10.3% as series adjusted according to the number of working days and seasonality, compared with the period from 1 January to 30 April 2025, according to the National Institute of Stat»»»

Contruction works recorded a modest increase in EU, in April 2026, compared to March 2026. However, Romania was the country with the strongest advance for that chapter, with a two figure increase from one month to another, according to data released by Eurostat on Thursday. According to those data,»»»

Romania's media market reached a net value of 838 million euros in 2025, up 5.4% from the previous year, according to the annual Media Fact Book 2026 report published on Thursday.The report's conclusions indicate a stable evolution of the overall market in 2026, against an economic and political ba»»»