Rabbits are among the most common carriers of tularemia, hence the name rabbit fever. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Three confirmed cases of tularemia, also known as rabbit fever, have been reported in New York this year, health officials said Monday. The cases a»»»

The United Nations Security Council is expected to hold another informal poll ​this month as it selects the next UN secretary-general, the council president said on Monday, while indicating that a decision is still some way off. Portugal’s Antonio Guterres steps down as head of the world body at th»»»

NEW YORK: Proceedings opened Monday in the latest trial over the fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes, with relatives of an Irish-born United Nations employee looking to hold the US plane manufacturer accountable. Michael “Mick” Ryan, an engineer with the UN World Food Programme who had worked during the E»»»

Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., was recommended for censure by the House Ethics Committee for the alleged, "highly unprofessional" treatment of two female staffers, one 19-years-old and another in her 20s, who had first worked with him when he was a state senator in North Carolina. File Photo by Bonnie»»»

CAIRO: The State of Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt, and the Republic of Turkiye, in their capacity as mediators, expressed their strong condemnation of the ongoing Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip, particularly the targeting of health facilities and the resulting civilian casualties, includi»»»

Washington, United States: Alexandra Eala capped her giant-killing run at the Washington Open with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 victory over top-seeded Jessica Pegula on Monday to become the first player from the Philippines to win a WTA title. Eala, ranked 28th, overpowered Pegula over the final two sets as pl»»»

NEW YORK: Proceedings opened Monday in the latest trial over the fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes, with relatives of an Irish-born United Nations employee looking to hold the US plane manufacturer accountable. Michael “Mick” Ryan, an engineer with the UN World Food Programme who had worked during the E»»»

LONDON: Save the Children warned on Monday that more than five months into the Middle East conflict, children across the region continue to pay the highest price, with many killed, injured, displaced or cut off from healthcare, education and protection. Compounding the crisis, the London-based char»»»

JEDDAH: Motor Mania GT, a new Saudi-promoted GT racing series, will join the Aramco F4 Saudi Arabian Championship as an official support category beginning in October. Launched by Altawkilat Motorsport and run under the sporting regulations of the Saudi Automobile and Motorcycle Federation, organiz»»»

A Hyundai technician places a metal collar around the ignition system on a Accent model in Chesterfield, Mo., on Feb. 2, 2024. The Institute for Supply Management’s July Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index report showed on Monday that economic activity picked up in the manufacturing sector. Fi»»»

Doha: The State of Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt, and the Republic of Türkiye, in their capacity as the mediating countries, express their strong condemnation and denunciation of the ongoing Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip, particularly the targeting of healthcare facilities and medical in»»»

LONDON: Jordan sent 16 trucks carrying 32 mobile housing caravans to support the people in the Syrian Arab Republic on Monday. The humanitarian effort was organized by the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization, in cooperation with the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army, according to Jordan News Agency. »»»

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon waits for President Donald Trump to speak at a rally June 24 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. McMahon sent a letter Monday to U.S. colleges and universities, asking them to commit to changes by the end of 2026. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Pho»»»

Cairo: A three-storey house collapsed in the village of Jasfa in Egypt's Dakahlia Governorate on Friday, partially crashing onto a neighbouring mosque shortly after worshippers had finished Friday prayers, triggering panic among residents. Videos widely shared on social media captured the moment th»»»

MOGADISHU: Somalia’s militant insurgent group Al-Shabab said it seized a strategic location in central Somalia on Sunday after intense fighting with government forces, a claim confirmed to AFP on Monday by locals in nearby areas. Somalia has been battling the Al-Shabab insurgency for around two dec»»»

London: Shoppers and pedestrians in London were met with an unexpected encounter this week when they spotted His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, strolling through the city's streets and shopping districts. Accompanied »»»

Washington: US authorities announced that around 60,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in Spokane County in Washington state in the northwestern United States, while wildfires destroyed 600 homes, businesses, and other structures. The fires have burned nearly 1,000 square kilometers, wi»»»

US President Donald Trump said Monday that negotiations with Iran were ongoing despite Tehran's denials and the Islamic Republic was facing a "last chance before decapitation." Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, said he agreed to continue to pursue talks with Iran at the request of Sa»»»

Author: Carla Hesse In “The People’s Justice,” Carla Hesse offers a sweeping reappraisal of political violence in the French Revolution. From Charles Dickens to Hannah Arendt, the Revolution of 1789–1799 in France has been depicted as the bloodiest of the 18th-century democratic revolutions. Throug»»»

ROME: Amid the grandeur of the Palace of Versailles on June 17, US President Donald Trump signed a preliminary agreement aimed at ending hostilities with Iran. The memorandum of understanding — a nonbinding short-term framework stating each party’s intention to stop the war — promised to immediatel»»»

JEDDAH: Jeddah Gov. Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Jalawi received the Ambassador of Cyprus to Saudi Arabia Charis Moritsis in Jeddah on Monday. The parties discussed bilateral relations and topics of common interest, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Arab Parliament Speaker Mohammed bin Ahmed Al-Yama»»»

Washington, United States: US President Donald Trump said Monday that major oil companies are making "too much money" due to high prices stemming from the Iran war, seeking to address a political vulnerability ahead of midterm elections. "I don't like it. They're making too much money, okay? Based »»»

Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The 10th annual World Dog Surfing Championships brought radical rovers and thousands of human spectators to a California beach. The Saturday competition at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica featured 14 dogs of all sizes riding the waves to attempt to win prizes including towel robes, meda»»»

Justice Department officials said from 2020 to 2023, Complete Health routinely added bogus diagnosis coding to its billing -- saying its patients had drug and alcohol dependencies as well as bipolar disorder -- that "were not clinically valid." File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo Aug. 3 (»»»

July 30 (UPI) -- Workers have begun the process of removing thousands of gallons of rotting fish sauce from a Newfoundland and Labrador plant that was abandoned in the early 2000s. St. Mary's Mayor Steve Ryan said the former Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company plant has been stinking up the town for dec»»»

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Monday that Chinese investments in Egypt exceeded $10bn, highlighting growing confidence among Chinese businesses in Egypt’s investment climate as the government reviewed new opportunities to deepen economic cooperation with Beijing. Madbouly made th»»»

RAMALLAH: Israeli settlers continued expansion activities in several areas north of Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, coinciding with a raid on the town of Sinjil. Local sources reported that Israeli bulldozers carried out land leveling and expansion works at the illegal settlement of Eli, built o»»»

KYIV, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday dismissed his ambassador to the United States, Olga Stefanishyna, in a move that had been expected following a government reshuffle last month. The sacking, announced by decree, happened however as Kyiv was lobbying Washington hard to »»»

DAMASCUS: Syria’s reformed Supreme Constitutional Court, the country’s highest judicial authority, is working to strengthen public confidence in its mission to preserve the separation of powers and rule of law, its president has said. In an interview, Dr. Issam Al-Khalif said that one of the court’»»»

RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society says the case of detainee Mohammad Musa Hamid, 15, exposes systematic crimes committed by the Israeli prison authorities against inmates, including the denial of medical treatment, which it described as “slow killing.” The society said Hamid, born on Aug»»»

Beachgoers sunbathe in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in January 2025. File Photo by Vicente Robles/EPA Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Seven Latin American countries appear on Forbes' list of the best places for Americans to retire abroad in 2026, as rising living costs and political polarization continue to push seni»»»

JEDDAH: Jeddah Gov. Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Jalawi received the Ambassador of Cyprus to Saudi Arabia Charis Moritsis in Jeddah on Monday. The parties discussed bilateral relations and topics of common interest, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Arab Parliament Speaker Mohammed bin Ahmed Al-Yama»»»

Sharjah: Sharjah Police have warned residents against fraudulent bookings for holiday chalets, apartments and tourist facilities, saying scammers are exploiting peak travel periods by posting fake online advertisements featuring attractive properties at unusually low prices to pressure victims into»»»

Preparatory work has begun on a factory in Gorzów Wielkopolski that will produce CGR-080 missiles for Poland’s HOMAR-K rocket artillery systems. The project, developed by Hanwha WB Advanced Systems—a joint venture between Poland’s WB Electronics and South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace—is expected to cos»»»

New-home prices were largely stable across Poland’s major metropolitan markets in July, according to RynekPierwotny.pl. Warsaw recorded its first monthly decline in eight months, with the average asking price falling by about PLN 100, or 1%, to PLN 19,800 per sqm. Prices increased only in Wrocław, »»»

Jerusalem: Palestinian police have arrested a beggar and his wife in the town of Abu Dis, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, after officers found them travelling in a luxury Range Rover valued at more than 500,000 shekels (about $163,500). Police spokesman Brig Gen Loay Erziqat said preliminary investi»»»

Share: FILE – A monument that represents justice stands in front of towering grain silos that were gutted in the massive August 4, 2020 explosion at the port that killed at least 220 people , wounded over 7,000, destroyed a large section of the capital and left 300, 000 homeless in Beirut, Lebanon.»»»

1 of 2 | A model of President Donald Trump's Triumphal Arch and a ferris wheel are seen during the fifth day of the Great American State Fair on the National Mall on June 29. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The National Park Service's review of President Donald Trump's»»»

Doha: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani held separate phone calls with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the sisterly United Arab Emirates HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs o»»»

CAIRO: A “Treasures of the Pharaohs” exhibition opened at the de Young Museum in San Francisco this weekend, which includes 130 artifacts from ancient Egypt that are on show in the US for the first time. The display, which runs until Jan. 31 next year, features treasures from the Egyptian Museum in»»»

The European Commission President, Ursula Von der Leyen, has reiterated the EU's support to help tackle illegal migration following last week's chaos in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa. The crisis has fanned anti-immigrant rhetoric by right wing politicians in Europe and sparked diplom»»»

Kremlin critic and anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin – who openly criticised President Vladimir Putin and Moscow's Ukraine offensive – said Monday he had fled Russia for Paris. Nadezhdin was recently detained outside Moscow and blocked from running for parliament. Russia's clampdow»»»

The arrival of the first two of an expected eight US Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft at Bezmer Air Base marks the start of a temporary deployment that has fueled weeks of political debate, public protests, and diplomatic exchanges in Bulgaria. The mission, scheduled to run until October 1, 2026»»»

Daniel Valchev, dean of the Faculty of Law at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” has announced that he will not run in Bulgaria’s October 25 presidential elections. Valchev made his decision public in an interview with Bulgarian National Television on Monday, saying that although his name had»»»

Iran says Bulgaria has assured Tehran it will not take part in the war against it, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Bagai said, according to Bulgarian media BGNES. Bagai said Tehran had received similar assurances from other countries, including Britain and Ukraine, in recent hours. He als»»»

Bulgaria’s parliament has approved final amendments to the Electoral Code, restoring mandatory machine voting in larger polling stations, removing restrictions on voting sections abroad and abolishing the planned “Abroad” electoral district ahead of the upcoming presidential elections. The changes,»»»

The honest answer is no, not by themselves, and that is precisely the problem the F-16 delay has exposed. The jets are necessary. What Bulgaria still lacks, according to some experts, is everything that is supposed to surround them: a long-term plan, political consensus, and public communicati»»»

Bulgaria’s 52nd National Assembly adopted 28 laws and 89 decisions during its first parliamentary session, according to a report prepared by the Directorate of Legislative Activity and Parliamentary Control and the legislature’s press office. The session covered the period from April 30 to July 31,»»»

Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, state health officials announced Monday, the first deaths confirmed in the U.S. related to the microscopic parasite. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said both people had underlying health conditions that may have been»»»

Damascus, Aug. 3 (SANA) The importance of economic corridors is no longer measured solely by their length or geographical location, but by their ability to provide a stable and secure environment that ensures the smooth flow of trade, energy and investment. In this context, Syria is gradually recla»»»