"On the first day, I asked 'why are there no more women?'," says Hind Kabawat. She is Syria's minister for social affairs and labour - the only female minister in the transitional government tasked with navigating the country's jagged road from war to peace. Sectarian violence, which has killed tho»»»

Dubai: Squatwolf was born out of daily training routines in Dubai, where two founders, Anam Khalid and Wajdan Gul, deeply invested in fitness struggled to find performance wear that matched the intensity of their workouts, the realities of training in heat and the diverse body types they saw around»»»

Dubai: As Ramadan approaches, UAE retailers said they are doubling down on price stability, deep discounts and smarter sourcing to shield shoppers from global cost pressures and keep everyday food essentials affordable during the holy month. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Bala»»»

3272830 KUWAIT -- The State of Kuwait strongly condemns the multiple attacks that left scores of casualties in southwest Pakistan. 3272829 ISLAMABAD -- At least 92 attackers 18 civilians and 15 security personnel are killed in coordinated attacks in Pakistan. 3272762 GAZA -- Gaza health authorities»»»

Lahore: Pakistan has officially announced that its national cricket team will boycott the highly anticipated group-stage match against India in the 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, scheduled for February 15 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, even as it confirms participation in the rest of the tournament. The boy»»»

Damascus, Feb.1 (SANA) The Board of Directors of the Damascus Chamber of Industry discussed with the Italian ambassador in Damascus Stefano Ravagnan ways to advance economic and industrial relations between the two countries, enhance trade exchange, and facilitate the work of Syrian and Italian bus»»»

A 26-year-old Iranian man who was reportedly sentenced to death in connection with anti-government protests last month has been released on bail, reports say. Erfan Soltani was arrested on 8 January in the city of Fardis, just west of Tehran, as protests swept across the country, prompting a deadly»»»

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Madrid: Kylian Mbappe stayed calm to roll home a 100th-minute penalty and claim Real Madrid a 2-1 win over nine-man Rayo Vallecano on Sunday in a spicy La Liga derby clash. Los Blancos cut Barcelona's lead back to one point at the top of the table after the Spanish champions beat Elche on Saturday.»»»

KBN Holding Group, a leading diversified investment group headquartered in the State of Qatar, and Lai Sun Group, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate, today jointly announced strategic partnership designed to support China’s leading technology enterprises en route to the Gulf regions' market opportuniti»»»

Dubai: The UAE Council for Fatwa has issued a religious ruling (Fatwa) clarifying the permissibility of observing the night of mid-Sha’ban, outlining its spiritual merit and the ruling on commemorating it through worship and customary practices. The move is part of the council’s efforts to unify re»»»

A commercial flight landed in the Sudanese capital Sunday for the second time since a devastating war broke out in the northeastern African country nearly three years ago. The domestic flight, operated by the national flag carrier SUDANAIR, landed at the Khartoum International Airport Sunday aftern»»»

Dubai: A visibly grief-stricken Rohith Roy, son of Confident Group Chairman Dr CJ Roy, expressing shock and disbelief over his father’s sudden suicide. “My father was a great man. We are truly shocked by what led him to reach this point. None of us ever imagined something like this would happen,” R»»»

Lebanon said one person was killed and several others wounded in Israeli strikes in the country's south on Sunday, as Israel said it struck Hezbollah targets. Despite a November 2024 truce that sought to end more than a year of hostilities including two months of all-out war between Israel and the »»»

Abu Dhabi: The Foreign Ministers of the UAE, Turkiye, Egypt, Jordan, the Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar strongly condemn Israel’s repeated violations of the ceasefire in Gaza which have resulted in the killing , and injuring of more than a thousand Palestinians. These actions risk esc»»»

Israel partially reopened the Rafah crossing between the devastated Gaza Strip and Egypt on Sunday, following months of appeals from aid groups, though access is limited to pedestrians. COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry body coordinating Palestinian civilian affairs, made no mention of allowing i»»»

Snowfall began in the southwestern parts of Bulgaria on the morning of Sunday, February 1, and gradually spread across the country. By evening, snow is expected nationwide, with heavy and widespread precipitation in most regions. Later in the evening and overnight into Monday, snowfall will intensi»»»

CAIRO, Feb 1 (KUNA) -- Egyptian President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday stressed the necessity of the full implementation of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, working with the US President's peace plan, and launching early recovery and reconstruction efforts.I»»»

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BAGHDAD, Feb 1 (KUNA) -- Iraq's parliament on Sunday failed to elect a new president over a lack of quorum for the second time in less than a week, delaying the move to a later session without citing a new date.Iraq's Parliament Speaker Haibat Al-Halbousi had met with the heads of parliamentary blo»»»

Russia condemns the renewed US attempts to economically strangle Cuba, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. Her comments come after US President Donald Trump moved to ramp up pressure on the island’s fuel lifeline. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order invoking a national e»»»

French technology giant Capgemini has announced it will sell its US subsidiary after its work locating people for immigration enforcement agency ICE sparked outrage. Capgemini has come under pressure from French lawmakers over a contract its subsidiary signed with ICE, amid international scrutiny o»»»

Abu Dhabi: The Foreign Ministers of the UAE, Turkiye, Egypt, Jordan, the Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar strongly condemn Israel’s repeated violations of the ceasefire in Gaza which have resulted in the killing , and injuring of more than a thousand Palestinians. These actions risk esc»»»

Hezbollah dismissed on Sunday claims by Syrian Interior Ministry, stressing that the Lebanese resistance group has no presence on Syrian territory. In a statement, Hezbollah’s Media Relations described claims by the Syria Interior Ministry false accusations. “Hezbollah’s name was dragged into these»»»

Kinshasa: The Democratic Republic of Congo's government said on Sunday it feared "at least 200 dead" in a "massive" landslide that struck a militia-held mine in the country's east. Since its resurgence in 2021, the M23 armed group has seized vast tracts of the DRC's resource-rich east, capturing th»»»

Dubai: UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today attended the World Laureates Summit in Dubai, a gathering that brings together more than 100 Nobel laureates and recipients of leading international scientific honours. Sheikh Mohamed stressed that the UAE is committed to fu»»»

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Israel says it will ban Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) from working in Gaza after the medical charity refused to hand over a list of its staff in the territory. The Israeli government had ordered 37 organisations to submit documents about their local and international workers in Gaza, claiming some»»»

New Delhi: India will spend a record $133 billion on infrastructure, the finance minister unveiled on Sunday in her national budget speech, with plans for new high-speed train links and tech investments. The figure is an almost nine percent jump from last year's budget. Data centres, artificial int»»»

Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei warned the US on Sunday against initiating a war, stressing that such war will inevitably expand into a regional conflict. “Americans should understand that any war they initiate will inevitably expand into a regional conflict,” Imam»»»

The director of the new documentary on US First Lady Melania Trump has appeared embracing a young woman in images released by the US Department of Justice on Friday. Brett Ratner, who also directed the Rush Hour films and X-Men: The Last Stand, can be seen sitting on a sofa beside the late sex offe»»»

Politicians, public figures, and citizens paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the communist regime at the Memorial to the Victims of Communism, located next to the temple of Bulgarian Martyrs, near the National Palace of Culture in Sofia on Sunday. Bulgaria marks the Day of Gratitude and H»»»

Bulgaria is expected to post economic growth of over 3% in 2025, one of the highest rates in Europe, but this is still not sufficient, outgoing Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Innovation and Growth Tomislav Donchev told Bulgarian National Radio on Sunday. According to him, in the medium and l»»»

A 44-year-old man was killed early Sunday after his car crashed into a highway side barrier in northern Greece. The fatal accident occurred on an exit ramp of the Thessaloniki-Edessa highway. Traffic police have launched an investigation to determine the exact cause of the crash.»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Europe has tried and is still trying to drive a wedge between Russia and the United States, seeing in the policy of US President Donald Trump a certain tilt in favor of Russia at the expense of Europe's interests, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Sunday. "It's hard »»»

Dubai: Ramadan is coming sooner than you think, and many UAE residents are already preparing to give back. Whether you’re donating food boxes, sponsoring iftar meals, or contributing towards Eid clothing for children, there are several official, registered charities across the UAE running Ramadan c»»»

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said that US President Donald Trump was an effective leader who was genuinely seeking peace, but that Moscow ‌had seen ‌no ‌trace ⁠of nuclear ‌submarines Trump said he moved to Russian shores last year. Speaking to Reuters, TASS and the»»»

Nabil Safiya had taken a break from studying for a biology exam to meet a cousin at a pizza parlor when a gunman on a motorcycle rode past and fired, killing the 15-year-old as he sat in a black Renault. The shooting — which police later said was a case of mistaken identity — stunned his hometown o»»»

Dubai: From February 1, 2026, all advertisers and content creators in the UAE must hold a valid Advertiser Permit, the UAE Media Council has confirmed. The rule applies to all paid and unpaid promotions on social media, websites, blogs, and other digital platforms. The goal is to ensure a professio»»»

Dubai: Indian expatriate business leaders based in the UAE broadly welcomed India’s Union Budget 2026, describing it as stable, continuity-driven, and strategically aligned with long-term growth. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.Their reactions underline support for NRI»»»

The chairman of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games has said he "deeply regrets" decades-old flirty emails with Ghislaine Maxwell - the jailed associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Casey Wasserman's messages to Maxwell, sent in 2003, were among millions of files published by the US De»»»

Paris, France: French car sales in January fell 6.5 percent against the same month last year, extending a run of poor sales in the key European market, an industry group said Sunday. The 107,157 new cars registered in January was one of the lowest figures for the month in the past 15 years, the Pla»»»

The Albanian government has announced compensation for 15 municipalities affected by wildfires during last summer, covering the period June 15 to September 15, 2025, Prime Minister Edi Rama said Sunday. Rama stated that the payouts have been processed through the National Agency for Civil Protectio»»»

The last rites of Dubai-based businessman and Confident Group chairman CJ Roy, who allegedly died by suicide on January 30, were held in Bengaluru on Sunday morning. Public viewing of his mortal remains took place at Nature's Cascade on Bannerghatta Road from 9 am to 2 pm IST, followed by funeral p»»»

Israel said Sunday it was terminating the humanitarian operations of the international charity Doctors Without Borders in Gaza after the organization failed to provide a list of its Palestinian staff. "The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism is moving to terminate the activities»»»

Question: I am a housemaid. I would like to know what procedures I should follow to file a case and claim my rights from my employer. Do I need to pay any court fees? Answer: To claim your rights, you must first file a complaint with the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MOHRE). The Mi»»»

Israel partially reopened the Rafah crossing between the devastated Gaza Strip and Egypt on Sunday following months of urging from humanitarian organizations, though access is limited to the movement of people. The reopening comes as violence continues despite a ceasefire in the Palestinian territo»»»

Elon Musk said on Sunday that steps SpaceX had taken to stop the 'unauthorized' use of Starlink by Russia seemed to have worked. "Looks like the steps we took ‌to stop ‌the unauthorized ‌use of ⁠Starlink by ‌Russia have worked. Let us know if more needs to be done," SpaceX CEO Musk said on ⁠X. Ukra»»»

Doha, Qatar: Web Summit Qatar 2026 opens tonight at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre (DECC), building on the strong momentum of previous editions and reinforcing Qatar’s position as a growing global hub for technology, innovation and startups. Addressing a press conference today, February »»»

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