PANAMA CITY: A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck southern Panama on Friday, damaging buildings and sending thousands ​into the streets, but the country appeared to escape widespread destruction or deaths. The US Geological Survey said the earthquake hit at a depth of 12.6 km (7.8 miles), with an epic»»»

LONDON: The ceasefire in Gaza exists “in name only,” more than 100 humanitarian and human rights organizations warned on Friday. A year after the agreement took effect, Palestinians continued to face Israeli attacks, widespread hunger and a devastated healthcare system, they said. In a joint statem»»»

OSLO: The decision to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to veteran jurist Navi Pillay has exposed the vast gulf between Israel and global institutions charged with upholding international law, a rift that has widened over the war in Gaza. Over a decades-long career, Pillay served at the highest l»»»

Pope Leo is tapping into public fears of artificial intelligence to distract people from the Catholic Church’s latent child sex abuse scandals, Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel has claimed. The gay US tech billionaire also accused former President Barack Obama of exploiting opposition to AI for poli»»»

The US Treasury Department has announced a temporary sanctions waiver on the Russian fuel trade amid skyrocketing global prices. The move allows the sale, delivery, offloading, and import of Russian diesel, including to the United States, until at least April 7, 2027. The announcement came after Pr»»»

LONDON: Britain’s Northern Ireland Secretary on Friday banned a contentious Protestant parade through a mostly Irish nationalist and Catholic district after a nearly two-week standoff. The Parades Commission, Northern Ireland’s independent body regulating contentious processions, had authorized 35 »»»

We condemn in the strongest terms the attacks carried out by the Houthis on Abha International Airport in the south of Saudi Arabia and King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. We wish Allah’s mercy upon those who lost their lives in the attacks and a speedy recovery to the injured. These attac»»»

NOUAKCHOTT: Mauritania’s prime minister resigned Friday after a scathing report on two major electric facility fires, but he was reappointed hours later and asked to form a new government. Mokhtar Ould Djay’s resignation after more than two years in office came after President Mohamed Ould Cheikh E»»»

National security threat: US pushback on renewables in favour of costly, aging alternative WASHINGTON: US Rep. Dave Min (D‑California) used a House oversight hearing recently to argue that the United States should be “leading” the global renewable‑energy drive, instead of deliberately losing out to»»»

Tunis, Oct. 9 (TAP) - Trade and Export Development Minister Samir Abid stressed the importance of making better use of existing opportunities to further develop and diversify economic and trade relations between Tunisia and Spain.Spain ranks fourth...»»»

Tunis, Oct. 9 (TAP) - Preparations for the implementation of the economic corridor project, involving the doubling of National Road No. 13 linking Kasserine and Sfax governorates via Kairouan and Sidi Bouzid, were the focus of a meeting held on...»»»

RIYADH: The Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen announced on Friday that it had launched large-scale operations against the Houthi militia. Different elements and capabilities were being targeted, coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki said. He added that strikes destroyed 136 military »»»

Istanbul, Oct. 9 (SANA) Syria’s Minister of Justice Mazhar al-Wais met Friday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the sidelines of an international legal conference in Istanbul, conveying greetings from Syria’s leadership and the Syrian people. The Minister participated in the two-day In»»»

French riot police have deployed tear gas and water cannon, as well as charging with batons against crowds of young protesters in central Paris. Student demonstrations and labor union protests continued for a fifth week on Thursday over anger at underfunded schools, teacher shortages, and planned g»»»

NEW YORK: Saudi Arabia will not allow Yemen to become a launchpad for attacks against the Kingdom or threats to shipping in the Red Sea, the Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the UN Abdulaziz Alwasil told the UN Security Council on Friday. Addressing an emergency meeting on the Middle East, Alw»»»

Dubai, Oct. 9 (SANA) Syrian Administrative Development Minister Mohammad Hassan al-Sakkaf discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in administrative development and government modernization with UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi and Minister of State and Secretary-Gen»»»

Tunis, Oct. 9 (TAP) - Five electric cars were handed over on October 8 and 9 to several pilot municipalities in Sfax Governorate and on the island of Djerba, as part of a programme to promote electric mobility in Tunisia, the National Agency for...»»»

Former economy minister Márton Nagy and his delegation reportedly chartered a private aircraft for the 88-kilometre journey between Brussels and Bruges, as well as for their wider trip, which cost HUF 12.5 million of taxpayer money, according to documents uncovered during an internal ministerial re»»»

Washington: The United States today imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in an unprecedented move targeting its resources and operational capacity, just hours after former ICC judge Navi Pillay of South Africa was named the winner of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. US Secretary o»»»

France's far-right National Rally leader Jordan Bardella deleted data from a former activist Facebook account as soon as allegations surfaced that he wrote anti-Semitic comments in his youth, French investigative weekly Le Canard enchaîné said Friday, piling pressure on the top ally of preside»»»

NEW YORK: Saudi Arabia will not allow Yemen to become a launchpad for attacks against the Kingdom or threats to shipping in the Red Sea, the Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the UN Abdulaziz Alwasil told the UN Security Council on Friday. Addressing an emergency meeting on the Middle East, Alw»»»

Hackathon to address financial literacy, savings, and business growth The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has launched a Financial Health Innovation Hackathon to find practical solutions that improve how individuals and businesses manage their finances. The initiative, launched in collaboration wit»»»

RABAT: Morocco’s King Mohammed VI defended his country’s “partnership” with Spain on Friday but said it would not be influenced by pressure or threats, weeks after thousands of migrants swept into Madrid’s North African exclave of Ceuta. The tiny territory has occupied a central place in Spanish po»»»

2020 was an annus horribilis. Covid stalked the land. Lockdowns, curfews and social distancing were the order of the day. But there was a silver lining: European countries showed themselves to be capable of great solidarity, jointly procuring vaccines and then agreeing on a mammoth post-Covid recov»»»

US President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia had agreed to immediately supply more than 300,000 tonnes of diesel to US and global markets in an effort to cut fuel prices before November's midterm elections. The move marks a stunning change of policy after the US and its allies hit Russia with »»»

Tunis, Oct. 9 (TAP) - The implementation of the action plan for short-, medium- and long-term energy projects, stemming from the state's energy strategy, was the focus of a small Cabinet meeting chaired on Friday by Prime Minister Sarra Zaafrani...»»»