MP Hassan Fadlallah of Hezbollah noted Thursday that Israel “has not withdrawn from any meter it has occupied in south Lebanon,” despite the declared start of the pilot zones process. "What happened was the Lebanese Army strengthening its deployment in liberated villages and towns that the enemy fa»»»

Kyrgyzstan’s Ambassador to Germany, Omurbek Tekebayev, has traveled to the German city of Bremen following reports of problems with the working and living conditions of Kyrgyz students participating in the Ferienjob summer employment program. In a social media post, the ambassador said he had alrea»»»

Kyiv, Ukraine: UNESCO added an ancient city in Crimea to its list of endangered heritage sites Thursday, saying the site was "under threat" from construction work and archaeological activities while under Russian occupation. The ruins of Chersonese, founded by Dorian Greeks in the fifth century BC,»»»

The South Korean economy grew 0.6 percent in the second quarter on robust exports, central bank data showed Thursday. In this photo, containers are stacked at a port in Busan on July 15. Photo by Yonhap The South Korean economy grew 0.6 percent in the second quarter from a quarter earlier on robust»»»

The reconversion of former industrial sites has become a cornerstone of global urban development, reclaiming spaces of historical, architectural, and economic value. In Bucharest, the CARO complex stands as one of the most prominent local examples of this transformation. by Ovidiu Poșircă Over more»»»

New York, July 23 (SANA) UN Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria Karla Quintana said cooperation with Syrian authorities and partners is helping lay the groundwork for a national system to exchange information on missing persons, in line wi»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi departed for Tehran on an official visit to Iran, according to a statement issued by the Iraqi Prime Mini»»»

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SEOUL: South Korea has abandoned its campaign prioritizing pressure on the North to dismantle its nuclear weapons, a minister said Thursday, marking a fresh overture by Seoul’s dovish government. President Lee Jae Myung has reversed the stance of his hawkish predecessor since taking power in Seoul »»»

ABU DHABI: The buildup to UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Guskov continued on Wednesday as fans packed Yas Mall for the UFC Open Workouts, catching a first glimpse of some of the event’s biggest stars before they step into the Octagon at Etihad Arena this Saturday. Main event athletes Magomed Ankalae»»»

Cabinet Chairman Adylbek Kasymaliev held a meeting on fuel and lubricant supply issues in Kyrgyzstan. According to the Cabinet press service, participants discussed the situation in the domestic market, petroleum product imports, stockpiling, tariff regulation, and the provision of state subsidies.»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s digital payments sector is set to expand after the Saudi Central Bank licensed Malaa Co. for Information Technology to offer payment account information services, raising the number of permitted payment service providers to 33. The move enables Malaa to allow customers to sec»»»

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of European Integration Nemanja Starovic said on Wednesday evening there was no consensus among EU member states on opening Cluster 3 in Serbia's EU accession talks by end-July and that the issue could be back on the agenda of EU institutions in late August. "The informa»»»

New Delhi: Floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 41 people in India's northeast Assam state, officials said Thursday, as authorities pursued rescue and relief operations. Flood-related disasters are an annual occurrence across India during the monsoon months after the re»»»

July 23 (UPI) -- A group of non-governmental organizations shared with world leaders a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza with an estimated cost of $71.4 billion, according to a report released Thursday. Oxfam, an international coalition of non-governmental organizations, said in its report that t»»»

Biofarm, one of the leaders of Romania’s pharmaceutical market with uninterrupted operations since 1921, has joined Polpharma Group in a transaction valued at approximately PLN 1.1 billion (EUR 257 million), which Polpharma says reflects its long-term commitment to Romania and its strategy of build»»»

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday vowed to punish those involved in a leaked exam papers scandal that has sparked mass student protests. His promise came a day after thousands of protesters, led by the social media-driven Cockroach Janta Party, demonstrated in New Delhi, spa»»»

Paris, France: The French Football Federation (FFF) will hold a news conference on July 28 to unveil the next coach of the national team, the governing body said on Thursday. Zinedine Zidane, although not named in the FFF statement, is the overwhelming favourite to succeed Didier Deschamps as Franc»»»

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, who visited Wednesday the southern village of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh, said the visit aimed to reassure the people of the south that the state is with them. Salam, alongside Lebanon’s defense minister and senior military officials, pitched a Lebanese flag near a destroyed bu»»»

Tokyo: More than 450 people received hospital treatment for heat-related issues in a single day in Tokyo -- the highest number since records began 16 years ago, emergency services said Thursday. The figure was released as Japan sweltered in a heatwave that has killed at least 14 people over the pas»»»

Hungary will abolish VAT on prescription medicines from 1 September, Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced on Thursday. The Hungary prescription drug VAT decision is the latest element of a broader tax overhaul launched since the new government and parliament took office in May 2026. Prescription m»»»

Romania has the highest home ownership rate in the European Union, with 94 percent of the population living in owner-occupied housing. At the same time, investment gold is now viewed almost on par with real estate as a way to protect wealth against inflation. Investors today can choose from a wider»»»

Last Friday, July 17, news filtered through at the Oval that Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers had died, aged 89. A few days earlier, I had wondered about the state of his declining health. It was a sad moment. Along with many others, I am certain beyond doubt that he was the finest all-round cricketer»»»

A regular meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be held in Cholpon-Ata on July 24. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. The meeting will be held in the year of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the SCO and wil»»»

GapMinder, venture capital investing in technology startups from Romania and Eastern Europe, is leading a seed funding round in Croatian healthtech startup Lasken AI, alongside Fil Rouge Capital. Lasken AI is building a healthcare data intelligence platform that transforms publicly available health»»»

BusinessChinaUS-China AI rivalry heats up as Chinese models gain groundNik MartinChina's AI platforms are rapidly closing the gap with their US counterparts, prompting fresh threats from the Trump administration. With accusations of intellectual property theft, could tensions boil over? https://p.d»»»

EU ​ambassadors on Thursday ​reached a political agreement on a new round of sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine war, ‌according to EU diplomats. The ​21st ‌sanctions package includes ⁠a 12-month freeze on the Russian oil price cap.   EU ​ambassadors have ​reached a political a»»»

Hollywood actor John Cusack has once again stepped into India’s student protest debate, this time throwing his support behind the ongoing agitation over alleged irregularities in the NEET examination system. The High Fidelity actor shared an essay by author and activist Arundhati Roy on X, days aft»»»

“I didn’t kidnap Natalia.” These were the first words of Asen Simeonov after he was detained nearly a month after disappearing with 11-year-old Natalia from her home. Simeonov, 40, was captured late Wednesday night in the Shumen village of Ovcharovo after a 24-day search operation. He was escorted »»»

TUNIS, July 23 (TAP) – GRAMMER AG, the German global leader in the manufacture of automotive interior components and seating systems for commercial vehicles, is considering the establishment of a strategic industrial project in Tunisia that could...»»»

JERUSALEM: Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir led hundreds of Israeli Jews into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Thursday, breaching the site’s decades-old status quo as he marked a Jewish day of mourning. The visit coincided with Tisha B’Av, the Jewish fast day comm»»»

Prices for socially important goods in Kyrgyzstan are monitored on a daily basis, Oksana Goryanova, head of the Analysis, Reporting and EEC Cooperation Department of the Antimonopoly Regulation Service, said on Birinchi Radio. According to her, the agency tracks prices for 16 categories of essentia»»»

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Djuro Macut on Thursday welcomed Czech PM Andrej Babis at a ceremony outside the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade. Babis, who is on a two-day visit to Belgrade, was welcomed with the highest state honours that included a red carpet, a guard of honour and the playing of the nationa»»»

Doha, Qatar: Minister of State for International Cooperation HE Dr. Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al Misnad met today with Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) HE Dr. Rania Al Mashat, who is »»»

At least five nurses have reportedly been questioned as witnesses in a Budapest hospital murder investigation involving a 32-year-old female doctor who previously worked at the North Buda St John’s Centre Hospital. The doctor was detained in May and is suspected of killing an elderly patient receiv»»»

Rome: Wildfires continued to sweep across swathes of Italy, France and Spain on Thursday, forcing thousands to flee from blazes fanned by scorching temperatures and strong winds. Three firefighters have been killed fighting the flames as southern Europe endures another spell of severe heat, with te»»»

Dubai: The passengers settling into their seats may never think about what it takes to get a train moving safely and on time. They see the doors close, the journey begin, and the landscape glide by. What they do not see are the years of training, countless hours of practical experience, and unwaver»»»

Forest fires have set new records across four continents over the past two years, with the fire season starting earlier, affected areas expanding and economic and human losses increasing, the Branch Chamber of Woodworking and Furniture Industry said. Official data from the European Commission's EFF»»»

Public trust in the Cabinet in the second month of its work already shows a clearly pronounced downward trend, according to a survey by the Market Links polling agency presented on Thursday. The number of those who have trust has decreased by 8%, and the number of those who declare distrust in the »»»

RIYADH: Saudi mobile telecom operator Zain KSA has announced the commercial launch of Advanced 5th Generation technology for individual customers, becoming the first company in the Kingdom to offer this service. This comes as an extension of its leadership in developing digital infrastructure, foll»»»

MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - The Russian armed forces have liberated the settlement of Belitskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday. "Units of the Tsentr Battlegroup have liberated the settlement of Belitskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic," the ministr»»»

‌Oman said on Thursday it is coordinating with Saudi Arabia, Yemeni parties and the UN ‌special ‌envoy for Yemen ‌to ⁠resume the political ⁠track aimed at achieving security and stability in ⁠the region, according ‌to ‌a foreign ‌ministry statement. The ministry ‌also stressed the need to avoid ‌es»»»

DUBAI: The Saudi Arabian national football team have jumped three places in the FIFA World Rankings, which were announced this week following the World Cup. Spain, who beat Argentina 1-0 on Sunday to claim their second World Cup triumph, climbed to top spot. The Saudi team are now in 58th place glo»»»

Kyrgyzstan’s foreign trade in fish and seafood showed solid export growth in January—May 2026, while imports remained significantly higher and continued to dominate the domestic market, data from the National Statistical Committee say. Export dynamics Kyrgyz producers increased fish exports across »»»

PANCEVO - Serbian side Zeleznicar Pancevo lost 1-0 at home to Portuguese powerhouse Braga in the first leg of their UEFA Conference League second qualifying round match on Wednesday evening. In the 67th minute, the visitor's captain Ricardo Orta converted a penalty kick awarded after a foul on Vict»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Qatar Meteorology Department has warned of very hot weather through the weekend, with maximum temperatures across the country ranging from 45°C to 47°C. The minimum temperature will be around 33°C on Friday and Saturday, July 24-25, 2026 and around 34°C on Thursday, July 23. Winds »»»

The Romanian residential market is undergoing a profound structural rebalancing in 2026 as a projected 18.5% surge in supply collides with cautious, highly selective demand. Following an 8.5% sales contraction in 2025, developers are slated to deliver over 20,500 new homes across Bucharest and its »»»

The 2026 Public Social Insurance budget and National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) budget feature rising debt, deficits and spending, but no progressive reforms, Democratic Bulgaria (DB) MPs said here on Thursday after Parliament approved the two budgets on second reading on Wednesday and debated th»»»

Prime Minister Rumen Radev will meet representatives of the management of Rheinmetall at the Council of Ministers, the government's press service said on Thursday. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Investments and Industry Alexander Pulev will also take part in the meeting. Earlier in »»»