New service lets UAE users send remittances directly to GCash wallets in the Philippines Dubai: Filipinos in the UAE can now send money directly to GCash wallets in the Philippines through Botim, following a new partnership between the two digital finance platforms. Sign up for our daily business n»»»

Organised gang posed as stranded travellers to solicit cash on busy Dubai roads Dubai: A 22-member begging gang has been arrested after Dubai Police received a tip-off about individuals stopping motorists on major roads and asking for money, claiming they needed fares to travel. The report, submitt»»»

They highlight when to pursue a degree, certification or AI skills for career growth The question facing professionals is no longer simply whether to pursue another degree, but which qualification can deliver tangible career value. Educators at Gulf News LevelUP said professionals should weigh an M»»»

Competition showcases Emirati students’ future-ready skills and innovation Abu Dhabi-The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) has announced the winners of the second edition of "HCT Skills 2026" during a ceremony held at HCT's Dubai Academic City campus. The ceremony honoured 130 winning students ac»»»

Sheikha Somayeh Noor's collection spans Picasso, Kahlo, Velázquez and the Kaaba's Kiswah Dubai: There is a villa on Jumeirah Road where a Picasso hangs a few steps from a Francis Bacon, and where you will be stopped in front of a bronze dancer and asked to look at her eyes. Noor Royal Collection is»»»

Inaugural Jashe and Sahnah Festival beats visitor target fourfold, boosts local producers Dubai: Kalba’s inaugural Jashe and Sahnah Festival generated Dh1 million in sales and attracted more than 45,000 visitors over four days, highlighting the commercial potential of turning traditional food and m»»»

How unmanned underwater vehicles spy, map the seabed, hunt mines and operate without GPS Dubai: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claim to have seized a US REMUS 600 underwater drone in the Strait of Hormuz, putting a little-known but increasingly important part of modern naval warfare in the spotlight. »»»

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s army commander on Sunday accused Eritrea and Sudan of backing armed groups fighting its troops in the north of the country. Heavy clashes have resumed between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the federal government since Wednesday, raising fears of a return to»»»

LOURDES, France: Pope Leo reaffirmed his commitment to ending abuse of children by Catholic priests in a meeting with French abuse survivors on Sunday, ​the Vatican said, hours after the pontiff urged the Church to admit its own failings and heal its “deep wounds.” In a two-hour meeting with seven »»»

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: Shirtless and drenched in sweat on his treadmill, Lula runs. He keeps running. At 80, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the dominant figure in Brazilian politics for four decades, wants to show he still has the energy to win a fourth term in office in October’s election. »»»

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump offered to sell arms to Beijing in response to concern over weapons sales to Taiwan, the US ambassador to China said in a Fox News interview that aired Sunday. China claims Taiwan is part of its territory, and US arms sales to the self-ruled island have long be»»»

KARACHI: Two Pakistani pilots are memorising Mandarin, spinning in centrifuge drills and learning to eat, sleep and repair equipment while weightless as a decision ​nears on which one will become the first foreign astronaut aboard China’s Tiangong space station. The voyage into space would be a fir»»»

THE HAGUE: The Netherlands said Monday it regretted Israel's decision to revoke the diplomatic accreditation of Dutch officials based in the West Bank over the country's sanctions on goods from Israeli settlements. "I deeply regret this unnecessary decision," Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen said, ad»»»

Nagekeo: Sahria Lelu and her family were still living in a tent outside a mosque six weeks after a powerful earthquake that killed dozens in Indonesia, demonstrating the hard road home for thousands of survivors. The 7.7-magnitude quake near Flores island on August 15 damaged tens of thousands of h»»»

LUCKNOW, India: At least 62 people have died after days of heavy rain and flooding in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state, officials said Monday. The state government said 46 people were injured and more than 1,000 houses were damaged after three days of heavy rainfall caused flooding in several d»»»

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan issued a demarche to the Afghan embassy in Islamabad over what it described as Afghanistan’s violation of Pakistani airspace last week, the Pakistani foreign ministry said on Monday, amid heightened tensions between the two countries. Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan ha»»»

RIYADH: Some of the world’s most powerful countries are violating international law while sitting on the Security Council, the UN secretary-general’s spokesperson has said, arguing that reform is needed to make the body more credible and representative. Appearing on the Arab News’ current affairs p»»»

JEDDAH: Five Saudi students are competing in the 19th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in Hanoi, Vietnam. The competition runs from Sept. 25 to Oct. 5 and features participants from more than 60 countries. The Saudi team comprises Fatimah Nazih Damlakhan and Eileen Hani Azhari f»»»

RIYADH: All six members of Saudi Arabia’s team won medals at the 19th Junior Balkan Olympiad in Informatics in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Kingdom’s first participation in the competition. The Saudi students won four silver and two bronze at the JBOI event, which included 90 participan»»»

LONDON: More than 60,000 internally displaced people in the Syrian Arab Republic have received support to return from displacement sites since January, the UN humanitarian office said on Sunday, as authorities organized another convoy from northern camps to home areas across several provinces. Depa»»»

KHARTOUM: They came home to a war-ruined city determined to rebuild their lives, but a chronic lack of power, water, jobs and medicine has left many residents of Sudan’s capital wishing they had stayed away. About four million people fled Khartoum after war broke out between the army and a paramili»»»

JERUSALEM: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accused Ireland of being “on the wrong side of history,” after the Irish football team wore black armbands for their game against Israel over the war in Gaza. Ireland’s football association came under intense public pressure to boycott the Nations Lea»»»

DAMASCUS: The Syrian Arab Republic’s Internal Security Forces have arrested Brig. Gen. Jaber Mehrez Ibrahim, a former commander of the 138th Air Defense Brigade under the ousted Bashar Assad regime. The Syrian Arab News Agency reported that Ibrahim was detained after a “precise surveillance and tra»»»

KHARTOUM: Two Sudanese cities were targeted by strikes on Sunday, witnesses told AFP, a day after army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan vowed to press ahead with the years-long war against a rival paramilitary force despite a US visa snub and mounting pressure for a ceasefire. Sudan has been at war sin»»»

CAIRO: Israel’s upcoming elections are being followed closely by its regional neighbors, who are aware that any outcome will have ramifications far beyond the country’s borders. In his Likud party’s campaign launch this month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his refrain that he “has chan»»»

Brothers reportedly panicked after mistakenly entering girls’ toilet at Fayoum school Dubai: Eight-year-old twin boys were injured after falling from a second floor window at a primary school in Egypt’s Fayoum governorate after mistakenly entering a girls’ toilet, Egyptian media reported. The two p»»»

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Abu Dhabi and met with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Sunday, a senior Israeli official told Reuters. There was no immediate comment from Netanyahu's office and the UAE's foreign ministry. The visit comes after Israeli newspape»»»

President Sadyr Japarov has signed a decree transferring certain migration-related functions to the Ministry of Labor, Social Security and Migration, the presidential press service reported. The ministry will take over from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the processing and issuance of unified perm»»»

Santiago, Chile and Doha, Qatar: Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices has been extended at Centro Cultural La Moneda in Santiago, Chile until November 1, 2026. The critically acclaimed exhibition has brought film and video art from Qatar’s collections to audiences in Chile, cont»»»

Two years after Israel assassinated Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the group he shaped for decades is “still struggling to rebuild its command structure, military capabilities, and strategic standing following a campaign that systematically dismantled the network around him,” an Israeli »»»

Doha, Qatar: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) opened its 11th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors today in Doha, State of Qatar, bringing together Governors, senior officials, clients, partners and stakeholders under the theme “Tomorrow’s Infrastructure: Impact and Innovation.” »»»

Santiago, Chile and Doha, Qatar: Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices has been extended at Centro Cultural La Moneda in Santiago, Chile until November 1, 2026. The critically acclaimed exhibition has brought film and video art from Qatar’s collections to audiences in Chile, cont»»»

UAE travellers urged to verify visas and ETAs before UK-Ireland ferry trips Passengers travelling by ferry between the UK and Ireland must now carry a passport, as new documentation requirements take effect from Monday, September 28. The change affects passengers travelling on key ferry routes betw»»»

Abu Dhabi, Sept. 28 (SANA) Syrian Finance Minister Mohammed Yisr Barnieh outlined Syria’s fiscal challenges, development needs and ongoing reforms Monday at the 17th regular session of the Council of Arab Finance Ministers in Abu Dhabi.According to Syria’s Ministry of Finance, Barnieh made several »»»

Aibiyke Ulanbek kyzy, representing Kyrgyzstan, won a silver medal at the IBSA Judo World Championships in Tbilisi. Abai Moldokanov, Vice President of the Para Judo Federation of Kyrgyzstan, reported. The Kyrgyz athlete competed in the under-52 kg weight category in the J2 class. En route to the fin»»»

A foreign national has been detained in Bishkek on suspicion of large-scale fraud, the Main Internal Affairs Department of Bishkek reported. According to police, in November 2017, the complainant and the suspect established a joint company. After gaining the partner’s trust, the woman received mone»»»

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Monday she was honoured to have taken over as acting president of the Republic from Aleksandar Vucic, who resigned as president on Sunday. In a statement, Brnabic said Serbia would never again have a president who would be so self-sacrificin»»»

Strategic UAE partnerships to drive real-world deployment of FF EAI robots Dubai: Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFAI) (“Faraday Future,” “FF” or the “Company”), a California-based global Embodied AI (EAI) ecosystem company, today announced the signing of strategic cooperation ag»»»

Four e-draw winners include a painter, a driver, a machine operator and a sales executive Abu Dhabi: Four Big Ticket participants from India and Bangladesh have each been awarded Dh25,000 in the third weekly e-draw of September. Ayyalu Samy, a 41-year-old machine operator from Tamil Nadu, India, ha»»»

In Bulgaria, daily alcohol consumption is reported by 4.6 % of the population aged 16 and over. The countries where alcohol is consumed most frequently are Poland (16.0 %), Italy (7.9 %), as well as Belgium and Denmark (7.5 % each), according to Eurostat data. In 2025, 4.8 % of people aged 16 and o»»»

Kyrgyzstan remains heavily dependent on imports of strategic food products: in the first seven months of 2026, flour imports exceeded exports 3,400 times. Kazakhstan is the main and virtually sole supplier, shipping 88,800 tonnes of flour products to Kyrgyzstan, data from the National Statistical C»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe ‘Israel’ summons Spanish diplomat over minister’s remarks that he supports Palestinian state “from the river to the sea” 28-09-2026 13:13 P»»»

The Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy will sign a contract for the construction of a new research ship, said its rector, Fleet Admiral Prof. Kalin Kalinov, during the official opening of the new academic year at the Academy on Monday. The event was also attended by Varna Regional Governor Mario Smarko»»»

New platform enables regulators to track salary payments and flag non compliance early Dubai: Kuwait’s Central Bank has launched a centralised wage payment system for private sector workers, giving regulators greater oversight of salary transfers and helping ensure employees are paid accurately and»»»

Government employee mauled by stray dogs while Kuwaiti woman attacked outside her home Dubai: Two people were injured in separate dog attacks in Kuwait, including a government employee who was mauled by several stray dogs while on duty and a Kuwaiti woman attacked as she entered her home, authoriti»»»

BusinessUnited States of AmericaWhy diesel prices are rising and what it means for EuropeTimothy RooksTrucks, farms and industry are powered with diesel. Now prices are soaring due to refinery disruptions, supply shortages and geopolitical tensions. A potential US export ban could make Europe's die»»»

Madurai, India: Authorities in India's Tamil Nadu state gave babies born in government-run hospitals a free gold ring on Monday, an initiative aimed at boosting confidence in the public healthcare system. Under the scheme launched by actor-turned-Chief Minister Vijay, all babies born in public heal»»»

From families to science and diplomacy, their contribution is driving the nation forward There are many ways to tell the story of Emirati women. It can be told through the progress of a nation that invested early in their education and advancement, through the positions of responsibility they hold »»»

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