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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced that Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan have decided to elevate their bilateral relations to an alliance level. He made the announcement following talks with President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov in Cholpon-Ata. Today, July 31, an official welcoming ceremony for »»»

RIYADH: Abha-based Syrian artist Hatem Al-Ahmad left his lush green backyard to venture to the Kingdom’s bustling capital for his most recent milestone. “Would I ever willingly live in Riyadh? No, never. It is not me, no,” Al-Ahmad tells Arab News. He prefers opening his front door onto picturesque»»»

TORONTO: Egyptian filmmaker Abu Bakr Shawky’s “The Stories,” which opened this year’s Toronto Arab Film Festival last week, is a love letter of sorts to his homeland, set across three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s. The film follows Ahmad (Amir El-Masry), an aspiring concert pianist from a mid»»»

July 31 (UPI) -- Fourteen nations have backed the formation of a Saudi-led coalition to protect shipping routes from Houthi attacks in and around the Red Sea, drawing more countries into the Iran-U.S. war. The kingdom's defense ministry announced their support for the multinational defensive mariti»»»

QUETTA, Pakistan: A blast at a coal mine killed at least 34 workers in southern Pakistan, the provincial disaster agency said on Friday, as rescuers searched for more missing miners. The explosion, suspected to be caused by methane gas, tore through the mine near the capital of the resource-rich pr»»»

TEHRAN: Iran’s military said on Friday it launched drone strikes targeting US military facilities in Kuwait, as fighting resumed between Washington and Tehran in the Middle East war after a nearly week-long lull. The army said in a statement it targeted “fighter aircraft shelters, satellite communi»»»

President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov amended his 2024 decree approving «My Home» state housing program. Military personnel and law enforcement officers are now eligible to participate in the program during their term of service, regardless of their place of service. However, they have to meet all »»»

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) has significantly expanded its Community Responsibility Project for private schools and kindergartens, increasing the total number of study seats available under the initiative to 13,627, up from 9,257, in a move aimed at widening »»»

Quetta, Pakistan: A blast at a coal mine killed at least 34 workers in southern Pakistan, the provincial disaster agency said on Friday, as rescuers searched for more missing miners. The explosion, suspected to be caused by methane gas, tore through the mine near the capital of the resource-rich pr»»»

Heightened maritime security and air travel snags amid diplomatic uncertainty remain the biggest concerns for the region on Friday as the US and Iran continue their military confrontation. There have been no reports of direct attacks on the UAE. The conflict, however, is affecting regional aviation»»»

Archaeologists have studied a rare Kyrgyz burial site dating back to the 9th-early 10th centuries in Altai, where a cremation rite was used. The Information Center of the Greater Altai Scientific and Educational Center for Altaic and Turkic Studies reported. The burial was discovered in Balchikov-3»»»

President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov signed the Law «On Venture Capital Financing,» adopted by the Zhogorku Kenesh in June of this year. The document introduces such concepts as venture funds, venture managers, business angels, venture investors, and so on. The law defines the rights and obligatio»»»

Maritime security in the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandab Strait, and the Strait of Hormuz is often treated as a regional problem whose principal stakeholders are the Gulf states and other countries bordering these waterways. Yet these routes are global economic arteries, so protecting them is a matter of na»»»

On 22 July 2026, the US Department of Energy announced that Washington and Riyadh had signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement. It took the Middle East largely by surprise because it appeared to allow uranium enrichment, whilst dispensing with the international atomic watchdog’s snap inspection»»»

Since the 1970s, Robert Einhorn has played a prominent role on arms control and nuclear non-proliferation in the United States, either as a federal employee or as a think tank expert. Now a senior fellow at Brookings, he was previously a State Department Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation an»»»

Renowned Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja is among 10 missing after an avalanche in northern Pakistan where they were on a climbing expedition, the country's alpine club said. "The Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) has received deeply concerning reports of an avalanche that struck a team of climbers on »»»

Dubai: Before we get into misogyny, morality or the increasingly complicated job description of a comedian in 2026, Indian comedian Vir Das is distracted by my gloriously over-branded Zoom backdrop. It's impossible to miss. Every inch of my virtual background is dressed in Gulf News blue and white »»»

Beginning in the 1950s, the Soviet Union launched an ambitious programme aimed at developing artificial intelligence. While the history of AI today seems to be shaped by the giants of Silicon Valley, ideas originating from behind the Iron Curtain had a significant influence, although they remain la»»»

Bulgaria's National Assembly is set to consider a draft resolution scheduling the country's next presidential election, according to the parliamentary agenda adopted for Friday. Lawmakers from several parliamentary groups have proposed that the election for President and Vice President of Bulgaria »»»

The co-founder of Palestine Action has been granted permission to challenge the group’s prohibition at the British Supreme Court, as police arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists in London. The court ruled on Thursday that Huda Ammori, who co-founded Palestine Action in 2020, could appeal t»»»

US President Donald Trump said that an agreement on the full disarmament of Hamas and other groups in the Gaza Strip had been reached. "Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza. This is a monumental step toward l»»»

On July 29, the Oktyabrsky District Court issued a ruling in the case of former Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in Chui region Mirbek Miyarov. He was acquitted under the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic article on bigamy or polygamy due to the absence of elements of a crime in his a»»»

Dubai: Travellers flying to and from the UAE on Friday, July 31, are advised to check their flight status before heading to the airport, with Etihad Airways and Air Arabia cancelling several services to Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia due to operational reasons. Emirates and flydubai have not anno»»»

Due to the low water level of the Danube, the complete shutdown of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant — and the resulting cessation of electricity generation — will become unavoidable within the next 24 to 72 hours, MVM Paksi Atomerőmű Zrt. announced on its website on Thursday in the early afternoon. The»»»

Dubai: MultiBank Group's digital asset platform, mb.io, has integrated Botim as a payment method, allowing users in the UAE to fund their trading accounts directly through the app. The move is designed to simplify one of the most time-consuming parts of the digital asset trading journey by enabling»»»

Beijing has lodged an official protest with New Zealand’s Foreign Ministry over controversial remarks made by the country’s top diplomat, Winston Peters, to a Chinese-born MP during a heated parliamentary exchange. The Chinese Embassy in Wellington made the announcement on Thursday, a day after the»»»

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday announced his "Board of Peace" and Hamas had reached consensus on a Gaza disarmament framework. File Photo by World Economic Forum/UPI | License Photo July 30 (UPI) -- Negotiators implementing the Gaza cease-fire plan and Iran-backed Hamas have reached a fram»»»

RIYADH: Israel said it has destroyed tunnels under Beaufort ridge in southern Lebanon belonging to Hezbollah, the prime minister and defense minister announced late on Thursday. Israeli military used 700 tons of explosives to demolish what they say was a tunnel system belonging to the Lebanese grou»»»

MONTREAL, Canada: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday denounced a shooting at an Islamic center in Winnipeg as an “appalling” act of Islamophobia. No one was injured in the Wednesday night shooting at the Rahma Islamic Centre in the capital of Canada’s Manitoba province. “This violent a»»»

A missile believed to be a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into Nato member Poland and appears to have exploded in a field near Lublin at close to 4 am on July 30, leaving a 10-metre crater but causing no casualties or reported damage. The missile came down near Tarnawa-Kolonia in L»»»

On the afternoon of August 2, 2027, something remarkable will happen over Saudi Arabia. For a few minutes, day will turn into night. The Moon will completely cover the Sun, the air will cool, stars will appear in the daytime sky, and the Sun's glowing outer ring, called the corona, will become visi»»»

Dubai: GCC residents who are planning a trip to the UAE can apply for an electronic visa (eVisa) before travelling. The UAE eVisa for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) residents allows eligible expatriates living in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia to enter the UAE without applying throug»»»

The car parked outdoors may look fine from the outside, but months or perhaps even years of relentless sun exposure and temperatures crossing 40°C can slowly affect everything from the battery and tyres to the paintwork, air-conditioning system and interior materials. And when it is time to sell, t»»»

Tehran: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei condemned a US strike on a residential building on Qeshm Island in southern Iran that killed three civilians. In a post on social media, Baghaei said that the overnight attack damaged several homes and killed taxi driver Qaisar Jafari, his »»»

Five children from Russia and Ukraine are about to be reunited with their loved ones under an international humanitarian initiative, Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova reported. According to Moscow, the process is being coordinated by US First Lady Melania Trump and the Inter»»»

Google has been fined by European regulators so many times that another billion-dollar penalty no longer feels extraordinary. The European Commission’s latest action imposed a combined €890 million (about $1.02 billion) in penalties after finding that Google breached parts of the Digital Markets Ac»»»

Dubai: Montenegro is one of those places that feels far bigger than it is. In a country roughly the size of a large emirate, you get medieval walled towns, a fjord-like bay, mountain national parks and a whole strip of Adriatic beaches, all within a couple of hours' drive of each other. For UAE res»»»

Washington: President Donald Trump said Thursday that a deal has been reached for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza, but many hurdles, conditions and long timelines remained to wind down the war in the Palestinian territory. Neither Hamas nor Israel gave immediate indicati»»»

Manila: The Philippines has launched three new interoperable digital-payment services designed to make it easier for consumers and businesses to move money between banks and e-wallets, automate recurring payments and handle larger real-time business transactions. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and»»»

Dubai: Indian expatriates in the UAE could face fewer repetitive identity checks when opening or updating financial accounts in India under an upgraded central Know Your Customer system expected to begin rolling out in August 2026. Known as Central KYC 2.0, the framework will allow participating fi»»»

Boeing is reluctant to share the technology used in the warheads it manufactures for the Patriot PAC-3 interceptor missiles which Ukraine and its Western supporters want to manufacture in Europe, German media outlet Die Welt has reported, citing sources. US President Donald Trump announced earlier »»»

Share: The Israeli military has blown up Hezbollah’s tunnel system beneath the Beaufort Ridge in southern Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announce in a joint statement. They say that the IDF used 700 tons of explosives to demolish the subterranean facilit»»»

Dubai: A clinic visit that stretched from 11 am until 3.30 pm gave two Dubai entrepreneurs the idea for a healthcare technology business designed to reduce the time doctors, pharmacists and patients lose to outdated systems. Get updated faster and for FREE: Download the Gulf News app now - simply c»»»

The renewed fighting has widened fears of a broader regional conflict, with Egypt hit for the first time and Gulf states scrambling to secure key shipping routes. Mediator Pakistan insisted Thursday that negotiations between Iran and the United States were ongoing, even as Washington carried out a »»»

A massive wildfire that has devastated southwestern France was no longer advancing on Thursday, local authorities said, raising hopes the crisis was easing. In Spain, most of the tens of thousands of people evacuated from areas west of Madrid were cleared to return home after the state of emergency»»»

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday his so-called “Board of Peace” ​reached an agreement for the complete disarmament of Palestinian Hamas militants and other armed groups in Gaza. In a post on Truth Social, Trump cast it as a “major milestone in the implementation of the ‌Trump 20-Point ‌Pl»»»

US President Donald Trump has claimed that his Board of Peace reached a “historic agreement” on the complete disarmament of Hamas and every other armed group in Gaza, although neither the Palestinian movement nor Israel immediately confirmed that a final deal had been concluded. Trump announced the»»»

Kyrgyzstan’s election to a two-year term on the United Nations Security Council came after a diligent campaign to gain support for its candidacy. It means a Central Asian state will have a seat on the UN’s most powerful body for the second time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Attention now »»»

Iranian state media reported that the commercial oil tanker M/T Nora had successfully broken through the US naval blockade. On Friday, however, US Central Command (CentCom) rejected the claim, saying the tanker had not breached the blockade. CentCom said US warships, hundreds of aircraft and thousa»»»