Paramount completed its acquisition of Warner Bros Discover on Tuesday, after a bidding war against Netflix. The deal closed following federal approval of a settlement between Paramount and 12 US states that tried to block the transaction on antitrust grounds. Opponents in the movie industry warned»»»

STRASBOURG, France — EU chief Ursula von der Leyen warned Tuesday against a push by Germany and other member states for "large cuts" to the EU's next long-term budget, saying "critical" European priorities were at stake.Germany and five other so-called "frugal" countries , Austria, Denmark, Finland»»»

BRUSSELS — EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic will travel to Beijing Thursday for two days of high-stakes talks aimed at staving off a trade war with China.The trip comes as the European Union has toughened its stance towards Beijing to defend businesses against what it believes is unfair competition in»»»

AMMAN — The Ministry of Labour and Aqaba University Hospital (AUH) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to create 100 job opportunities for Jordanians in the southern governorates.Supported by the National Employment Programme, the jobs will cover healthcare, technical, administrat»»»

AMMAN — The Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC) and the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) hosted a business delegation from the US Chamber of Commerce to present investment opportunities across the industrial, logistics, digital technology and tourism sectors in the economic zone.Coordi»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Yutong and Mowasalat (Karwa) successfully concluded the fourth edition of the Yutong and Mowasalat Energy Saving Driving Competition 2026, recognising the professionalism, skills and commitment of bus drivers while highlighting the importance of safe and efficient driving »»»

Tribune News Network Doha Mall of Qatar (MoQ) marked World Animal Day with its first-ever animal welfare initiative, “Every Paw Deserves a Home”, in collaboration with #BigBMeetup. The initiative aimed to promote animal welfare, support the local rescue community and give a voice to animals in need»»»

QNA Paris The State of Qatar, represented by the Qatar General Organization for Standards and Metrology, participated in the annual meeting of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) held in Paris, with representatives of national standards bodies, international organisations and e»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Vodafone Qatar and Huawei recently hosted the Education Summit 2026 under the theme “Advancing Intelligent Education: AI and Education,” bringing together education leaders, technology experts, government stakeholders and industry partners to explore how artificial intelli»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Duty Free (QDF) celebrated a successful evening at the 2026 Frontier Awards ceremony in Cannes, France, winning “Airport Retailer of the Year” for the fourth consecutive year, as well as taking home the award for “Best Speciality Concept – Hybrid & F&B” for the recen»»»

Pakistan’s rich textile heritage and contemporary fashion took centre stage as the eighth edition of The Festive Exhibition opened on Saturday at the Marriott Marquis City Centre Doha, bringing together leading Pakistani designers, fashion enthusiasts, business leaders and diplomats. Organised by B»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Four Qatari high school students won week-long research laboratory experiences at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) when they triumphed in the college’s annual “Healing Hands” essay competition. The winning students were Abrar Al Khulaifi and Manayer Abdulaziz Al Ansari»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Cancer Society (QCS) has launched the “Heroes Series” as part of its “Our Children Are Gold” programme during an event held at KidZania Doha, featuring two childhood cancer survivors, Mohammed and Lin. The initiative forms part of QCS’s ongoing efforts to support chi»»»

QNA Doha Under the patronage of Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, the Organising Committee of the Qatar Boat Show announced that the third edition of the exhibition will be held from November 4 to 7, 2026. During a press conferenc»»»

David Rush faces 20 years for defrauding $193M and leaking defence secrets A former senior CIA official who was arrested in May with a hoard of hundreds of gold bars worth more than $45 million in his home pleaded guilty to fraud on Tuesday. David Rush, 49, who held a top secret security clearance »»»

Kenya on Tuesday reported its first-ever Ebola death after a Kenyan national who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) died after returning to the country. Kenya is the fourth country to record an Ebola case in the current outbreak, which was declared in eastern DR Con»»»

Hundreds of thousands of students and their supporters took part in nationwide protests across France on Tuesday after weeks of student barricades protesting school conditions.  If the French government was hoping to drive its protesting high schoolers back into their classrooms with a whiff o»»»

Two commercial vessels were hit by unidentified drones on Tuesday off the Bulgarian coast in the Black Sea, Prime Minister Rumen Radev has confirmed. The attack marks the first time when merchant vessels were attacked within the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of a NATO member in the waterway. Such z»»»

JERUSALEM: US President Donald Trump’s year-old plan to end the Gaza war has stalled, with Israel mounting near daily ‌attacks and occupying around two-thirds of the shattered enclave where Palestinians face dire conditions. The initial phase resulted in a ceasefire on October 10, 2025 and secured »»»

RAMALLAH: Israel has barred Palestinian election officials from entering Gaza and Jerusalem to prepare for November’s long-awaited legislative elections in the territories, creating a fresh obstacle to the first Palestinian parliamentary vote in two decades. The Palestinian Central Elections Commis»»»

A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Tuesday lifted the arrest warrant for Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, clearing the way for him to return home without fear of detention ahead of a general election in November. A Spanish judge on Tuesday lifted an arrest warrant for exiled former Catala»»»

LONDON: Recent satellite imagery has revealed the sheer scale of destruction in Gaza. But beneath the rubble covering large swathes of the enclave, what remains hidden is harder to quantify — and far more consequential. The latest UN estimates put the amount of rubble at about 61 million tonnes — r»»»

Damascus, Oct. 7 (SANA) Nada Aswad, Director of the Afro-Asian and Oceania Department at Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, met Tuesday with Pakistan’s chargé d’affaires in Syria, Muhammad Mughees Afzal, to discuss regional developments and ways to strengthen cooperation between t»»»

RAMALLAH: Israeli forces and settlers carried out 26 incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque in September, while authorities prevented the call to prayer 150 times and closed Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque for six days, the Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said on Tuesday. The ministry said the»»»

WASHINGTON: A former senior CIA official pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Virginia to a charge that he abused his position and government funds to enrich himself by acquiring Florida real estate and hundreds of gold bars worth tens of millions of dollars, according to court records. David J. Rush fabri»»»

WASHINGTON: Most families of the six soldiers killed in the deadliest attack of the Iran war will not be attending a major White House event for Gold Star families hosted by President Donald Trump. Only one family member of those killed in an Iranian drone strike March 1 on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait c»»»

WASHINGTN: US President ​Donald Trump said on Tuesday the biggest problem ‌for ‌him ​is ‌that ⁠nobody ​knows who is ⁠running Iran. “Their second group of ⁠leaders ‌are gone, ‌and ​the ‌biggest problem ‌I have is nobody knows ‌who the hell is ⁠running ⁠the country,” Trump said.»»»

Raqqa, Oct. 6 (SANA) In the cotton fields of northern Raqqa countryside, the day begins for women cotton pickers with the first light of dawn. Carrying their bags, they head into the fields to harvest what is locally known as Raqqa’s “white gold,” embarking on a long workday, or “sarwa,” that stret»»»

RAMALLAH: Israel has barred Palestinian election officials from entering Gaza and Jerusalem to prepare for November’s long-awaited legislative elections, creating a fresh obstacle to the first Palestinian parliamentary vote in two decades. The Palestinian Central Elections Commission was prevented »»»

PARIS: Saudi Arabia’s new ambassador to France, Faisal Al-Mejfel, presented his credentials to the French president, Emmanuel Macron, during a reception at the Elysee Palace on Tuesday. The envoy conveyed the Saudi leadership’s greetings to Macron, along with their best wishes for the progress and »»»

DAMASCUS: Syrian authorities have arrested a Daesh military commander accused of overseeing and planning a December 2025 bombing at a mosque in Homs that killed eight people and wounded 18 others. Syria’s Interior Ministry said intelligence and security forces detained Khaled Raed Birouni, also kno»»»

France and Germany are pressing Brussels to take a tougher line on China by creating new powers that could rapidly shut foreign countries out of the EU market. The proposal effectively tells Brussels to beef up its position as it prepares for negotiations with Beijing. It also marks a shift for Ger»»»

PARIS: The Government Communications Office (GCO) and the Embassy of the State of Qatar in France organised the second promotional Runway to Web Summit Qatar 2027 event in Paris.This gathering is part of preparations to host the summit's fourth edition at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center f»»»

Hungary and Croatia have agreed to launch a joint natural gas exploration and production project, Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán and Minister for Economic and Energy Affairs István Kapitány announced following talks in Zagreb. The ministers held discussions with Croatian Economy Minister An»»»

LONDON: Jordanian anti-narcotics authorities thwarted a drug-smuggling attempt on Tuesday along the country’s southern border. Border guards shot down guided balloons laden with drugs on the Jordanian border and seized large quantities of narcotics. Guided balloons are an unconventional method incr»»»

The European Commission has formally presented Communication COM(2026) 705 final, titled “Preparing for a Larger Union,” outlining a strategic roadmap for adapting the European Union’s institutions, policies and budget ahead of future enlargement. The document proposes significant changes to the EU»»»

Damascus, Oct. 6 (SANA) Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC) confirmed Tuesday its participation in the 25th World Petroleum Council (WPC) Energy Congress 2026, which is being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from October 11 to 15, bringing together energy industry leaders, experts, and companies from aroun»»»

MONTREAL: Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Turkiye this month, his office confirmed Tuesday, in what will be the first-ever bilateral visit by a Canadian leader to the NATO ally. Carney’s October 21-23 trip will include talks in Ankara with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and meetings with »»»

RIYADH: Measuring impact and linking funding to results have become an urgent necessity, experts and specialists participating in the Global CSR Forum 2026 told Arab News. Spending levels and the number of beneficiaries are no longer sufficient to assess the success of initiatives, they noted, with»»»

IRKUTSK, Russia: Reports of a plague laboratory worker’s death in Siberia have caused waves of speculation outside Russia, but in the city where she worked, many appeared unfazed. The laboratory worker’s death was first reported on Friday. Several Russian media outlets reported she had died from pn»»»

Residents in Irkutsk questioned whether the laboratory worker had died of plague at all Irkutsk: Reports of a plague laboratory worker's death in Siberia have caused waves of speculation outside Russia, but in the city where she worked, many appeared unfazed. The laboratory worker's death was first»»»

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The major battle is to reach the runoff, presidential candidate Ivan Hristanov said at a meeting with voters in Yambol, Southeastern Bulgaria. According to him, actual polling data not released to the public indicate that three opponents are running against presidential candidate Iliana Iotova with»»»

Two merchant ships were attacked by naval and aerial drones in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone in the early hours of Tuesday. The first vessel, the Togolese-flagged Alfa Watan, sank east of the Bulgarian coast, and its crew remains unaccounted for. The second, the Palau-flagged Able, caught fire»»»

The European Commission has proposed up to 15 years of post-accession safeguards to punish new member states in case of bad behaviour, in a long-delayed pre-enlargement policy review out on Tuesday (6 October). The reforms were initially requested by the European Council in June 2024 to be ready by»»»

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei dismissed US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s predictions and anti-Iran rhetoric as baseless, warning that Washington will fail in its economic war against Tehran as well.Rezaei made the remarks in a post on his X account address»»»

The American “Israel” Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), for decades one of Washington’s most powerful pro-Israeli occupation lobbying groups, is steadily losing influence as it maintains its unconditional support for “Israel” and moves increasingly closer to the Republican Party, even as criticism »»»

Hungary can only be a truly European country if it remains true to itself, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said in Gyula on Tuesday, 6 October, at a commemoration marking the 177th anniversary of the execution of the Martyrs of Arad. Magyar delivered his speech at the memorial to the military officers »»»

London: Stock markets firmed Tuesday as oil prices retreated on easing supply worries, helping to temper concerns about rising government borrowing costs. On Wall Street, the technology-focused Nasdaq index advanced 0.8 percent, coming off a record high set on Monday driven by AI enthusiasm. That b»»»

Tunis, Oct. 6 (TAP) - The European Union Delegation in Tunisia’s “Sawer Bel Akhdhar” competition is returning in a new format dedicated to content creation, supporting environmental protection and sustainability initiatives through two themes:...»»»