Gaza City, Palestinian Territories: Authorities in Gaza said Saturday that they had recovered the remains of another 112 people in rubble, part of daunting operations after more than two years of Israeli strikes. Gaza's civil defence agency said it found the remains or body parts following 136 hour»»»

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Authorities in Gaza said Saturday that they had recovered the remains of another 112 people in rubble, part of daunting operations after more than two years of Israeli strikes. Gaza’s civil defense agency said it found the remains or body parts following 136 hour»»»

LONDON: For nearly four decades, Hamas has presented itself as an armed resistance movement whose military wing is inseparable from its political identity. Since its founding in 1987, the group has fought successive wars with Israel, weathered repeated military campaigns and resisted international »»»

Abu Dhabi: UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received a phone call from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which the two leaders discussed strengthening cooperation across various fields in support of mutual interests under the Comprehensive Economic Partne»»»

Doha: The Qatar Goodwood Festival presented by Visit Qatar concluded after a week of outstanding racing, cultural celebration, and strategic dialogue, further reinforcing Qatar's commitment to international sporting excellence and bilateral cooperation with the United Kingdom. The festival reached »»»

BOGOTÁ: Colombia’s government on Saturday blamed the nation’s largest remaining rebel group for an explosion outside a police base that injured 11 officers and killed a police dog. The attack took place early Saturday in Cucuta, a city along Colombia’s border with Venezuela, where drug gangs and re»»»

TUBAS: Israeli forces on Saturday detained seven Palestinians, including two children, during military raids across the governorates of Nablus, Tubas and Bethlehem, while also storming several towns and villages. In the Tubas governorate, Israeli forces detained a 16-year-old child after raiding an»»»

Hungary will temporarily halt most rail freight traffic during the evening peak from Monday as the government introduces further emergency energy-saving measures following the sharp reduction in output at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant. The move is expected to reduce electricity demand by up to 90 me»»»

EL SALVADOR: Saudi Ambassador to Mexico Fahd bin Ali Al-Munawer presented his credentials to the vice president of El Salvador, Felix Ulloa, as Saudi ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, non-resident, of the Kingdom to El Salvador, at the Presidential Palace in El Salvador recently. The am»»»

Olympic canoeist David Hearn departs the Moultrie Courthouse with his attorneys, Norm Eisen (not pictured) and Mary Dohrmann, after pleading not guilty to damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., on July 9. Charges against Hearn were dropped Friday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UP»»»

BEIRUT: Former Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh was transferred to prison on Saturday after being placed under police guard in a hospital, a judicial official told AFP. Salameh, who fell ill earlier this week on his way to court to face embezzlement charges, “was admitted and placed amon»»»

AMMAN — Arab Bank Group reported positive results during the first half of 2026, with 7 per cent increase in net income after tax reaching $570.9 million as compared to $535.3 million for the same period last year.The Group maintained its strong capital base with a total equity of $13.5 billion, ac»»»

AMMAN — The government continues its efforts to mitigate the domestic impact of soaring global energy prices by freezing the primary prices of oil derivatives for the current month.The measure aims to curb transportation, production and industrial costs while stabilising commodity and service price»»»

Gaza: A Palestinian civilian died after sustaining wounds in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, medical sources said. The sources added that another Palestinian was shot and injured in the Al-Iqlimi area, west of Khan Younis, whi»»»

Damascus, Aug. 1 (SANA) The Syrian Arab Republic extended on Saturday its congratulations to the government and people of the Swiss Confederation on the occasion of Switzerland’s National Day.In a statement, Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates expressed its best wishes for security,»»»

GENEVA: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is intensifying at an “exceptional” pace, the World Health Organization warned on Saturday, calling for a significant scaling-up of the health response. “This outbreak is now the largest recorded Ebola virus disease outbreak in the coun»»»

Europe's worst drought in decades is rippling through the continent's transport, energy and agricultural sectors, bringing shipping on parts of the Danube to a standstill, threatening nuclear power generation and exposing growing vulnerabilities as climate change pushes temperatures to unprecedente»»»

The eighth Jam on the River International Music and Arts Festival closed with a concert by Antoni Donchev’s All-Star Big Band in Debnevo on Saturday. Organizers said the four-day event drew about 23,000 people. Some of Bulgaria’s leading jazz musicians, including saxophonist Dimitar Lyolev, trumpet»»»

Washington: President Donald Trump on Saturday sharply criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's assessment that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of shoddy construction and not the work of vandals, as he claims. Pirro's office, in a court filing on Friday, moved to drop »»»

WASHINGTON: The head of US European Command has warned the Pentagon that without additional naval resources, he may no longer be able to sustain the current level of support for Israel’s air defense against Iranian strikes, The Washington Post reported. According to the publication, Gen. Alexus Gry»»»

Acclaimed British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja and nine other expedition members died following an avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak in Pakistan, his climbing company confirmed on Saturday.  Renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja died with other team members in a powerful avalanche in Pakistan, his»»»

Bulgaria’s Defense Ministry has launched a public procurement procedure worth 17 million euros, including VAT, for the repair of up to 10 engines for the country’s MiG-29 fighter jets as Sofia seeks to keep the aging fleet operational until its new F-16 aircraft become fully ready for service. The »»»

Europe's worst drought in decades is rippling through the continent's transport, energy and agricultural sectors, bringing shipping on parts of the Danube to a standstill, threatening nuclear power generation and exposing growing vulnerabilities as climate change pushes temperatures to unprecedente»»»

FEATURE | Europe/Climate | Environment | July 30, 2026 "The Pyrocene is here," climate researcher Peter Dynes wrote on X on July 28, as wildfires near Bordeaux began generating huge pyrocumulus clouds intense enough to create their own weather – winds and lightning capable of igniting new fires. "A»»»

A mystery drone hit a US-owned liquefied natural gas carrier at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta on July 29, set it alight, and spread the fire to a second ship. Cairo took until the following morning to report the incident, likely from being in a flap about being sucked into the wider war wi»»»

A mystery drone hit a US-owned liquefied natural gas carrier at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta on July 29, set it alight, and spread the fire to a second ship. Cairo took until the following morning to report the incident, likely from being in a flap about being sucked into the wider war wi»»»

Soviet Ukraine once built some of Moscow's deadliest missiles: the Yuzhmash plant in Dnipro produced the SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile, technology reportedly still echoing decades later in North Korea's own missile engines. During the Soviet period, the Yuzhnoye design bureau in Dnipro d»»»

Europe's worst drought in decades is rippling through the continent's transport, energy and agricultural sectors, bringing shipping on parts of the Danube to a standstill, threatening nuclear power generation and exposing growing vulnerabilities as climate change pushes temperatures to unprecedente»»»

BEIRUT: The United Nations on Saturday expressed concern over Israel’s ongoing demolitions in southern Lebanon despite a ceasefire in its war with Iran-backed Hezbollah. “The scale of the detonations and demolitions taking place in south Lebanon is deeply concerning, with a devastating impact on ci»»»

The United States and Japan have executed a highly coordinated intervention to rescue the beleaguered yen, driving the currency to its highest level since early May following direct market purchases and explicit support from US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The yen closed in New York on Friday »»»

Dubai: A number of participants took home cash prizes in the latest UAE Lottery Lucky Day draw held on Saturday. In Lucky Day Draw No. 260801, the winning numbers in the Days section were 14, 20, 1, 6, 22, 25, while the winning number in the Months section was 1. Three participants have also won Dh»»»

Gaza: Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital spokesperson Khalil Al Daqran said that the Israeli occupation forces' direct strike on the hospital's main medicine warehouses marks a dangerous escalation in attacks on the healthcare sector. Al Daqran told Qatar News Agency (QNA) that the Israeli occupation went fr»»»

Dubai: A number of participants took home cash prizes in the latest UAE Lottery Lucky Day draw held on Saturday. In Lucky Day Draw No. 260801, the winning numbers in the Days section were 14, 20, 1, 6, 22, 25, while the winning number in the Months section was 1. Three participants have also won Dh»»»

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Washington had not agreed to allow Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles, contradicting remarks by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following talks between the two leaders earlier this week. President Donald Trump said on ​Friday ‌the ⁠United ‌State»»»

The US Justice Department on Friday dropped its case against a former Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after saying the damage was a result of "a botched installation", not vandalism. Trump had personally overseen the Reflecting Pool's renovation, which was estimate»»»

LONDON: Vanessa ‌Gold, daughter of former West Ham United chair David Gold, has reached an agreement to sell her family’s shares to a consortium led by Amanda Staveley and others, after a previously agreed sale to Czech businessman Daniel Kretinsky fell through. The Gold family trust owns 25.1 perc»»»

LONDON: Chelsea continued their off-season recruitment drive by signing former England international Danny Welbeck from Premier League rival Brighton on Saturday. The 35-year-old striker, who has been capped 42 times by his country, will head straight for Hong Kong to join up with head coach Xabi A»»»

LONDON: Brentford have ‌signed Mamadou Sangare from RC Lens for a club-record fee, the Premier League outfit said on Saturday, as media reported that the west London club had paid £39 million ($52.57 million) for the Mali international. Sangare, 24, joins Brentford on a ‌five-year contract, ‌with t»»»

DAMASCUS: Syrian authorities have seized more than 156,000 Captagon pills and arrested four suspected traffickers in two separate anti-drug operations on the country’s Mediterranean coast, state news agency SANA reported. The larger operation took place in Latakia province, where Syria’s Drug Enfor»»»

Katmandu: Nepal was mourning Saturday the loss of mountaineer Nirmal Purja, with Prime Minister Balendra Shah leading the nation in paying tributes to the braveheart who etched his name in record books. The 43-year-old British-Nepali mountaineer was killed alongside nine other climbers after they w»»»

DUBAI: Desert Vipers head coach Azhar Mahmood has urged his side to learn from its shortcomings after the franchise’s Guyana Global Super League campaign ended with defeat in the qualifier, while highlighting the emergence of UAE players as a major positive from the tournament. The Vipers missed ou»»»

After a day of deadly chaos in Spain’s tiny North African enclave of Ceuta, calm has returned for now. Of the 60,000 migrants who stormed into the territory, around 45,000 returned to neighbouring Morocco within hours. Authorities ordered people to turn around and go back, warning they could otherw»»»

Almost all of the tens of thousands of migrants who entered Spain’s enclave of Ceuta had left by Saturday, according to officials. An estimated 60,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco over just a few days, with at least 67 people losing their lives in the attempt. Spain has ann»»»

Firefighters in southwestern France were working to control the last hot spots of a massive wildfire that has burned an area four times the size of Paris and forced thousands out of their homes. The blazes that have burned 42,000 hectares of pine forest and touristic areas in Bordeaux's Gironde reg»»»

French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez on Saturday said that France's largest wildfire since 1949 was "under control", more than a week since the fire erupted in the Gironde department near the southwestern city of Bordeaux. France has for weeks been battling wildfires after a series»»»

DAMASCUS: Syrian authorities have seized more than 156,000 Captagon pills and arrested four suspected traffickers in two separate anti-drug operations on the country’s Mediterranean coast, state news agency SANA reported. The larger operation took place in Latakia province, where Syria’s Drug Enfor»»»

Renowned Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja is among 10 climbers missing after an avalanche struck an expedition on Broad Peak in northern Pakistan's Karakoram range, with rescue efforts under way as authorities race to establish contact with the team. Renowned Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja is among»»»

The tenth edition of the Ethnicity, Colour and Kotel Carpet Festival opened in Kotel’s Izvorite Park on Saturday. Kotel Mayor Kosta Karanashev said the festival began as an idea a decade ago and had since become an established cultural event. This year, amateur ensembles from 43 community centres a»»»

Kathmandu, Nepal: Nepal was mourning Saturday the loss of mountaineer Nirmal Purja, with Prime Minister Balendra Shah leading the nation in paying tributes to the braveheart who etched his name in record books. The 43-year-old British-Nepali mountaineer was killed alongside nine other climbers afte»»»

Hungary has recalled another 25 ambassadors in one of the country’s biggest diplomatic reshuffles in recent years. The latest changes, initiated by Foreign Minister Anita Orbán, affect several of Hungary’s most strategically important diplomatic posts, including Washington, London, Brussels, Moscow»»»