The governor of Russia's Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said on Saturday that 600,000 residents were without electricity, heating and water after a Ukrainian missile strike. In a statement posted on Telegram, Vyacheslav Gladkov said that work was ‌underway to ‌restore supplies, ‌but ⁠that »»»

Abu Dhabi: The UAE is expanding its scientific footprint in the Arctic and Antarctic through strategic treaty accessions, research partnerships, exploration programmes and record-setting individual expeditions aimed at advancing global climate change research. The UAE strengthened its role in polar»»»

Dubai: Despite growing conversations around women's health, many women still hesitate to question their doctors, seek second opinions, or openly discuss their symptoms. At Dubai's 1 Billion Followers Summit 2026, Indian actor and wellness entrepreneur Samantha Ruth Prabhu, nutritionist and healthca»»»

The year 2025 continued Bulgaria’s trend of above-average temperatures, with the country registering an annual mean roughly 1.2°C above long-term climate norms. This places it on par with 2019, though about 0.8°C cooler than the record-setting year of 2024. The summer of 2025 was particularly inten»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian air defense systems shot down a long-range guided Neptune missile and 70 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. "Air defense systems have shot down a long-range guided Neptune missile and 70 fixed-wing unmanned aerial»»»

The US is pulling out because it “would be happy if the UN were to disappear,” former UN Independent Expert on International Order Alfred de Zayas tells Sputnik. Washington is withdrawing from 31 UN bodies and three dozen other international organizations, agencies, and commissions, according to a »»»

ABU DHABI, 9th January, 2026 (WAM) -- The United Arab Emirates stressed the importance of protecting civilian and diplomatic buildings, as well as the residences of embassy staff, in accordance with the norms and conventions governing diplomatic relations, following damage to the Embassy of the Sta»»»

Edmar Lacerda, head coach of Kyrgyzstan’s Olympic football team, commented on his team’s match against Vietnam at the Asian Cup on January 9. As reported earlier, Kyrgyzstan’s youth national team lost 1–2. «As a coach, I first of all look for the reasons for the defeat in myself. Everyone should do»»»

Incheon, South Korea: Carlos Alcaraz beat great rival Jannik Sinner in a light-hearted sell-out exhibition match in South Korea on Saturday ahead of the Australian Open. Taking place eight days before the Melbourne Grand Slam and in their first appearances this year, the Spanish world number one wo»»»

Havana: The capture by US forces of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and the killing in the operation of 32 Cubans assigned to protect him represent a major blow for the island's revered intelligence services, experts say. Fearful of betrayal by dissenters within Venezuela's ranks, the leftist Madu»»»

Venezuela was set to hold talks on Saturday with US envoys in Caracas on restoring diplomatic ties, days after US forces deposed Nicolas Maduro as its president. Venezuela said Friday it had launched discussions with US diplomats in the capital, the latest sign of cooperation following the leftist »»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Israeli occupation forces stationed in Al-Jardah post open fire towards southern Lebanese border town of Dhaira: Al-Manar correspondent 10-»»»

Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will launch a multimodal transport corridor on a pilot basis, linking Central Asia with China and Europe, Anadolu Ajansı reports. The project will begin with a test run: a convoy of ten loaded trucks will travel from Uzbekistan through Tajikistan to China. The decision to »»»

Dubai: Kuwaiti authorities have uncovered one of the most extensive and carefully concealed nationality forgery schemes in the country’s modern history, a case that stretched across more than five decades and ultimately affected 264 people, including children and grandchildren. At the centre of the»»»

The Yes, Bulgaria party will run in the upcoming early parliamentary elections as part of a coalition with its partners Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) and Continue the Change, the Yes, Bulgaria National Council decided. The meeting was held on Friday, the party's press centre reported on Sat»»»

Xushui, China: Almost a decade after China began curbing coal burning to stop thick winter smog, villagers in northern Hebei province are struggling to afford their heating bills with most gas subsidies now phased out. In 2017, Beijing mandated that dozens of northern areas wind down the use of coa»»»

Manila: Hard hat-wearing rescue workers and backhoes dug through rubble in search of survivors on Saturday in the shadow of a mountain of garbage that buried dozens of landfill employees in the central Philippines, killing at least four. About 50 sanitation workers were buried when refuse toppled o»»»

On a sunny morning in Sofia in early June 2025, excitement spread quickly through the Bulgarian National Bank. The long-awaited convergence report, requested from the European Commission and the European Central Bank in February, had arrived. It assessed Bulgaria’s economic and legal readiness for »»»

The United States announced on Wednesday that it had “seized” the Marinera, an oil tanker with links to Venezuela, in the North Atlantic. During the US pursuit of this boat, the Marinera changed its name (from the Bella 1) and swapped out its former flag for the Russian flag. Turns out, this isn’t »»»

Greenland’s political parties on Friday expressed unity in response to US President Donald Trump’s claims to the Danish territory. “We do not want to be Americans, we do not want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders,” said a joint statement signed by the five parties in the Greenlandic parliamen»»»

Dubai: A Dubai misdemeanours court has convicted a 22-year-old Asian woman of consuming psychotropic substances and fined her Dh5,000. According to court records, the case began after Dubai Police’s General Department of Anti-Narcotics received information suggesting the woman’s involvement in drug»»»

A large-scale online fraud case is being investigated in Bishkek, the press service of the Main Internal Affairs Department of the capital reported. On November 12, 2025, a woman filed a complaint with the Internal Affairs Department of Pervomaisky district. «She reported that on November 5 of the »»»

Kuala Lumpur: Giant pandas "Chen Xing" and "Xiao Yue" from China officially met the Malaysian public on Saturday. In a ceremony marking the event at the Giant Panda Conservation Center (GPC) at Zoo Negara, the country's national zoo, the pair met eager onlookers following their quarantine and accli»»»

(For the Iraq parallel and the recycled-pretext pattern, see our previous analysis here.) The moment the United States began speaking about “running” Venezuela and “freeing its oil,” the question stopped being whether Washington had crossed a line. It became how far beyond it the new logic was will»»»

Arab and Islamic positions continued to express a firm rejection of Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as an independent state, reaffirming Somalia’s unity and territorial integrity. This wave of coordinated diplomacy coincides with heightened engagement within international and UN-affiliated bodie»»»

China has updated its registration rules for overseas food manufacturers. The General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC) has published updated registration rules for foreign enterprises producing imported food products. They will take effect on June 1, 2026. China is»»»

The first modern school has been built in the village of On-eki-Moinok in Nookat district of Osh region, the Ministry of Construction of Kyrgyzstan reported. According to the ministry, 115 million soms have been allocated from the state budget for the project. «The school is designed for 550 studen»»»

The National Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) holds a meeting on Saturday. It was scheduled last month when the BSP Executive Bureau resigned following the December 11 resignation of the coalition government the BSP was part of. At the time, BSP Chair Atanas Zafirov stayed on arguing »»»

GERB leader and chair of the GERB parliamentary group Boyko Borissov said his party would accept and then return the mandate to form a government, warning that this would be followed by even greater political chaos and deepening hostility between parties. Speaking in a live Facebook broadcast from »»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Airways Holidays has announced the airline’s holiday packages for the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2026. The Ticket-Inclusive Travel packages seeks to take care of every travel itinerary to attend the world’s greatest football tournament jointly hosted by USA, Mexico and Canada. The h»»»

RIYADH: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has expressed its deep regret after the State of Qatar's embassy building in Ukraine was damaged due to shelling in the capital Kiev. The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the Kingdom stressed the importance of protecting members of diplo»»»

Ankara, jan.10 (SANA) Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, affirmed that the March 10 agreement, signed between the Syrian government and SDF organization, is a very realistic project; however, what is unrealistic is the lack of willingness on the part of this organization undertake this path. Sp»»»

Dubai: What began as an ordinary morning in a small family home escalated into a violent dispute between a married couple of different nationalities, prompting police intervention and eventually bringing both spouses before Dubai’s misdemeanours court. According to Emarat Al Youm, the incident occu»»»

Dubai: The explosive title track of Dhurandhar, starring Ranveer Singh, thundered through San Francisco’s Chase Center during an NBA game, as the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Milwaukee Bucks. What followed was not a background music moment, but a full-blown cultural takeover — comple»»»

Dubai: Oman has launched “Sahm”, the Middle East’s first locally assembled strategic cargo drone, marking a new step in the sultanate’s push to develop advanced logistics and unmanned aviation capabilities, Oman news agency reported. The heavy-lift drone was unveiled at the Military Technological C»»»

The waterfowl wintering in Bulgaria will be counted from January 15 to 18 as part of the 50th Midwinter Waterfowl Census campaign, the Executive Environment Agency said on Saturday. Over 320 wetlands across the country will be covered, including the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, rivers, reservoirs, la»»»

KUWAIT, Jan 10 (KUNA) -- The price of Kuwaiti crude oil rose by USD 2.51 to USD 59.55 per barrel (pb) on Friday, compared with USD 57.04 pb the previous day, said Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) on Saturday.In global markets, Brent crude futures climbed USD 1.35 to USD 63.34 pb, while U.S. West »»»

As protests in Iran entered their second week and Iranian authorities issued coordinated warnings to protesters, a doctor and medic at two hospitals told the BBC their facilities were overwhelmed with injuries. One doctor said an eye hospital in Tehran had gone into crisis mode, while the BBC also »»»

Aleppo, Syria: The Syrian army said Saturday that it had completed a "security sweep" of a neighbourhood in Aleppo where its forces have clashed with Kurdish fighters. "We announce the completion of a full security sweep of the Sheikh Maqsud neighborhood in Aleppo," the army said in a statement car»»»

Nuuk: "We don't want to be Americans," Greenland's political parties said after US President Donald Trump again suggested using force to seize the mineral-rich Danish autonomous territory. The statement late Friday came after Trump repeated that Washington was "going to do something on Greenland, w»»»

Tunis, Jan. 10 (TAP)- The weather on Saturday is sometimes very cloudy in northern coasts with isolated showers and rainstorms, temporarily cloudy elsewhere.The wind is blowing west strong to very strong near coasts and relatively strong inland....»»»

Informed sources in Tel Aviv said the Israeli strike on Lebanon on Friday was the response chosen by the military following remarks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who praised what he described as the Lebanese army’s “insufficient” efforts to disarm Hezbollah. The strikes also followed a stat»»»

Nearly four years into Russia's full-scale invasion, the war in Ukraine grinds on, and the search for a viable off-ramp looks increasingly narrow. Speaking to FRANCE 24’s Douglas Herbert, France's ambassador to Ukraine, Gaël Veyssière, delivers a pointed rebuttal to Moscow's battlefield narrative, »»»

The US-based son of Iran's ousted shah urged Iranians on Saturday to stage more targeted protests with the aim of taking and then holding city centers. "Our goal is no longer just to take to the streets. The goal is to prepare to seize and hold city centers," Reza Pahlavi said in a video message on»»»

Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants to make a [peace] deal” to resolve the Ukraine conflict, US President Donald Trump has stated. In an interview with the New York Times published on Thursday, Trump recounted how he “had cases where I had Putin all done and Zelensky wouldn’t make the deal, whi»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe A joint statement by political parties in Greenland issued a joint statement rejecting repeated efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump to t»»»

A young livestock farmer in Loutro, Larissa, is still reeling after his flock was culled last September due to sheep pox. “I had 1,034 sheep,” Tilemachos Arsenios told Kathimerini. “We found 70 from my grandfather and worked them ourselves.” He called the loss “a very hard thing, a crime,” saying t»»»

On Jan. 10, 1984, the United States established full diplomatic relations with the Vatican for the first time in 116 years. 1 of 7 | Pope John Paul II speaks at a press conference with President Ronald Reagan in Anchorage, Alaska, on May 2, 1984. On January 10, 1984, the United States established f»»»