By Staff Statement by Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem on Hezbollah’s Position Regarding Political Developments in Lebanon and the Region, on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful To our people and our fellow citizens who have made »»»

Hundreds of runners and visitors stopped for a quick health check-up during the 41st SPAR Budapest Marathon Festival at the FirstMed tent, on the weekend of 10-11 October. People passing through had their blood sugar and blood pressure checked, while colleagues from FirstMed’s Budapest, Rome and Mi»»»

NAIROBI: The United Nations political mission in Somalia ended on Saturday after a two-year transition, closing a chapter of more than three decades of UN peacebuilding operations in the east African nation. UNSOM was established by the UN Security Council in 2013 to support Somali authorities in t»»»

Former Minister Mustafa Bayram has stated that “the world is witnessing major strategic shifts amidst international conflict, particularly the US-China rivalry,” noting that “the United States seeks to maintain its hegemony and influence, yet it faces mounting challenges both in the region and glob»»»

MANAMA: Syria’s top diplomat on Saturday said Damascus was considering whether to join the NATO-style Makkah defense alliance that binds Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Saudi Arabia, under heavy fire from Yemen’s Houthis, is a key backer of Syria’s government that came to power after the fall o»»»

Issuing a stark warning to the United States, a spokesman for the Iranian Army has said that the Army forces are precisely monitoring US movements in the region. In a post on his X account on Saturday, Iran’s Army Spokesman Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia emphasized that any new US military ad»»»

Sheikha Latifa leads a high-level delegation to deepen cooperation with Korean businesses Dubai: His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has expressed pride in his daughter, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Makto»»»

By Staff, Agencies Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards [IRG] announced that its Aerospace Force has disabled and seized a US MQM-170 reconnaissance drone over Qeshm Island using advanced electronic warfare systems. The IRG said its electronic warfare systems had brought the unmanned aircraft under con»»»

By Staff, Agencies A federal judge has issued a sweeping emergency order blocking the Trump administration from pressuring election officials across the United States through aggressive measures ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. US District Judge Trina Thompson ruled Friday that the administrati»»»

Brasília: Former conservative presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro said Friday that he fled Brazil to the United States because he was a victim of "persecution" in his country. Bolsonaro, who lost Sunday's election runoff to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, secretly left Brazil on Tuesday an»»»

Heavy rain and flash flooding in western Texas prompt an alert for UAE citizens in the US Abu Dhabi: The UAE Consulate in Houston has urged Emirati citizens in the United States to exercise caution due to heavy rainfall and flooding forecast in parts of western Texas. The consulate stressed the imp»»»

By Staff, Agencies Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's participation in a G20 ministerial meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, has triggered tensions among European delegations, with several diplomats reportedly threatening to boycott the traditional group photograph over his presence. German Foreign »»»

Atlanta, Oct .31 (SANA) Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held separate meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to discuss current regional issues, developments in the region and efforts to address the challenges facing it. Accordin»»»

San Francisco, United States: A shooting at a Halloween store in northern California killed one person and wounded six on Friday, police said, adding investigators had not yet identified who was responsible. The incident occurred shortly before 8:30 pm (0330 GMT Saturday) at a Spirit Halloween stor»»»

MANAMA: Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Saturday he was “extremely ‌worried” ‌that a ‌new round of escalation in the war between the United States and Iran ‌would ‌be more ‌destructive ‌and have a major impact. He ‌was speaking at the IISS Manama Dialogue security summit in Bahrain.»»»

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi’s decision to take direct control of the country’s intelligence agency after dismissing its chief, Hamid Al-Shatri, has raised questions that go beyond a shake-up at one of Iraq’s most powerful security institutions. At stake is the distribution of sensiti»»»

San Francisco, United States: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic pledged on Friday to give media outlets and other websites a single way to prevent their content from being scraped to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, amid growing criticisms and legal battles from news publishers. Pub»»»

ANTANANARIVO: Raids against online scam centers in Madagascar have exposed ties with a criminal group that ran similar operations in Cambodia, also duping African nationals via alleged human trafficking, authorities told AFP. Conducting romance, cryptocurrency and investment fraud, the sites were m»»»

Saturday, October 31, is the day of reflection ahead of the second round of Bulgaria’s presidential and vice-presidential election. Under the Election Code, election campaigning is prohibited during the 24 hours before election day and on election day itself. The campaign for Sunday’s runoff, sched»»»

Washington, United States: A US federal judge temporarily blocked on Friday the Justice Department from threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution if they fail to comply with its directives on processing ballots. The order by Judge Trina Thompson in the Northern Distri»»»

Muscat, Oman: Oman said Friday it had rescued 25 sailors from a merchant ship set ablaze in an attack, as Iran reported three oil tankers were halted while crossing the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran has restricted maritime traffic through the strait since the Middle East war erupted on February 28 with »»»

Travellers who stayed in Kenya or Ebola-hit countries in the last 21 days are barred entry Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has suspended travel by its citizens to Kenya, halted the issuance of all types of visas to travellers arriving from the country and banned their entry into the Kingdom as part of additio»»»

WASHINGTON: A US official and a coalition of veterans and advocacy groups reported on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration intends to deport some Afghan immigrants back to Afghanistan. Here are more details: Sean VanDeveer, head of Afghan Evac, stated that many of those facing deport»»»

ATLANTA: Top diplomats from the Group of 20 largest world economies will wrap up two days of talks in Atlanta on Saturday without reaching consensus on several critical global security issues after divisions, notably over Russia’s war with Ukraine, overshadowed the start of the meeting. As a result»»»

WASHINGTON: A US judge ordered ​the Justice Department on Friday to stop threatening to prosecute state and local election officials who do not comply with the Trump administration’s demands related to voting by alleged non-citizens. The ruling comes days before next week’s US midterm elections tha»»»

Share: BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese military court has charged 13 people in connection with a seized truck carrying explosives belonging to Hezbollah, state media reported on Friday. The charges marked the latest sign of a dramatic shift in relations between Hezbollah and Lebanon after two wars between»»»

Share: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Friday that a supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of oil struck a naval mine and caught fire while using an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz, HERE IS THE THE LATEST – President Trump said Friday the war with Iran is “going to end soon,”»»»

ATLANTA: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s remarks about continuing strikes on Russian targets, saying they undermined preparations for fresh peace talks, while the European Union’s top diplomat accused Moscow of spreading “lies” an»»»

ALGIERS: An Algerian army ‌convoy has arrived in Niger in Algeria’s first foreign troop deployment since it sent forces to ​support Egypt during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Niger, like other countries in West Africa’s Sahel region, is battling insurgents linked to Al-Qaeda and Daesh. Algeria, which »»»

ALGIERS: An Algerian army ‌convoy has arrived in Niger in Algeria’s first foreign troop deployment since it sent forces to ​support Egypt during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Niger, like other countries in West Africa’s Sahel region, is battling insurgents linked to Al-Qaeda and Daesh. Algeria, which »»»

MOSCOW: Russia’s atomic power agency said Friday it was in advanced talks with four African nations about building floating nuclear power stations to help overcome power shortages. Alexey Likhachev, director general of the Rosatom state agency said talks were being held with Egypt, Namibia, Tanzani»»»

UNITED NATIONS: Russia vetoed a US-drafted resolution Friday that would have supported Morocco’s demand for sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara and ended the UN’s 35-year peacekeeping mission, which was charged with helping to prepare a referendum on the future of the mineral-rich territor»»»

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump Friday insisted Republicans “have a shot” at success in the US midterms despite a feverish end to the campaign for elections that will decide control of Congress. Trump reversed course and reinstated two rallies in Kansas and Iowa a day after canceling them, a mov»»»

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in Democratic ​Republic of Congo has surpassed 5,000, government data showed on Friday, as authorities had yet to find a way to control the country’s deadliest Ebola epidemic on record. There are no ‌approved treatments ‌or vaccines to ​combat ‌the rare ⁠Bundi»»»

Ankara, Oct. 30 (SANA) The Ankara Declaration, issued on Friday at the conclusion of the 13th Summit of the Council of Heads of State of the Organization of Turkic States, affirmed support for Syria’s unity, territorial integrity and security, and for contributing to its reconstruction. Türkiye’s A»»»

GENEVA The State of Qatar has reaffirmed its commitment to mediation, de-escalation, and humanitarian diplomacy, emphasizing that lasting peace is essential to protecting lives, preserving human dignity, and ensuring the rights to health and development for all. This came in Qatar's statement deliv»»»

MUSCAT: Oman said on Friday it had rescued 25 sailors from a merchant ship that was targeted and set ablaze, as Iran reported three oil tankers were halted while crossing the Strait of Hormuz. Muscat’s navy “carried out an evacuation operation for 25 crew members of the merchant ship RITI, flying t»»»

New York: The State of Qatar has reaffirmed its support for the International Law Commission (ILC) and its mandate, expressing its readiness to continue engaging constructively with the Commission and the Sixth Committee to strengthen an international legal order rooted in the purposes and principl»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia participated in a high-level Gulf military meeting in Bahrain on Thursday as Gulf Cooperation Council member states stepped up consultations on regional security and defense coordination amid continued threats posed by Yemen’s Houthi militia and wider instability in the region.»»»

A group of Bulgarian politicians, former prime ministers, ministers, senior military officers, diplomats and public figures has urged voters to support presidential candidate Andrey Gyurov and vice-presidential candidate Georgi Kandev in the November 1 runoff, warning that Bulgaria risks internatio»»»

Canada and the European Union on Friday held talks to deepen cooperation on areas spanning critical minerals, artificial intelligence and trade; to better navigate global tensions and reduce reliance on the United States and China. European Union (EU) chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa h»»»

From the EU's perspective, the second Trump presidency has felt even more destabilising than the first. From making the false claim that the EU was set up to "screw" the United States, to slapping tariffs on European goods, to making territorial claims on Greenland, to doing a diesel deal with Vlad»»»

We speak to the influential and long-serving president of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Koen Lenaerts. The court is the EU's supreme judicial authority, responsible for ensuring that European law is interpreted and applied across all 27 member states. Lenaerts applauds the Euro»»»

Travel disruptions loom as US warns of Saudi airport attacks and closures The US Mission to Saudi Arabia has issued a countrywide security alert, warning American citizens of possible attacks on airports, airspace closures and flight disruptions amid continuing regional hostilities. In its October »»»

The inmate describes physical and emotional pain after surviving two lethal doses Washington: Convicted murderer Christa Pike said Friday that she is in constant pain, a month after surviving a botched execution attempt in the US state of Tennessee. "There hasn't been a moment since that night when»»»

By Staff, Agencies Iran’s representative to the United Nations Security Council, Gholamhossein Darzi, has condemned the United States and the "Israeli" regime over their ongoing military aggression and naval blockade against Iran, arguing that Washington’s actions are the main cause of maritime ins»»»

By Staff, Agencies The Pentagon has privately urged the Baltic NATO members to tone down their increasingly confrontational rhetoric toward Russia, warning that such statements could undermine European security, Reuters reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The reported warni»»»

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: Pakistan’s military is “cautiously optimistic” about its mediation between Iran and the United States, its spokesman said on Friday in his first interview since a high-level delegation visited Tehran this week. Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir — Pakistan’s chief mediator in»»»

Investigators suspect North Korean hackers as the world's biggest exchange faces scrutiny London: Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, estimates that assets worth $6.3 billion were impacted by a hacking attack against the trading platform. But how was such a theft possible, and wha»»»

Former president Rosen Plevneliev, three former prime ministers - Boyko Borisov, Ivan Kostov and Nikolay Denkov - along with dozens of former ministers, senior military officers, diplomats and public figures, have issued a joint declaration expressing their support for the presidential ticket of An»»»