Keelung, Taiwan: Fifteen people were killed in landslides in the Philippines, and more than 2,000 in Taiwan were evacuated from their homes, as the biggest typhoon in decades neared the region on Friday. Typhoon Bavi is expected to pound Taiwan's north and east, as well as Japan's remote southweste»»»

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Islamabad: Pakistan Navy search teams recovered additional debris from a cargo plane that crashed into the Arabian Sea earlier this week, with the recovered wreckage to be analyzed by investigators as the search for the aircraft's five missing crew members entered its third day Friday. The Pakistan»»»

Dubai: Gold prices in Dubai fell on Friday, giving back part of this week’s recovery as elevated US Treasury yields and renewed tensions around the Strait of Hormuz kept investors cautious. (Check latest UAE gold prices here, alongside prices in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and India»»»

I love travelling. I love the excitement in the airport. I love the thrill of being in the air. I hate other passengers. Okay, hate is a bit strong. It’s more of a rising frustration that seems to be growing with my years on this planet. As many of us travel, or get set to travel, to and from the U»»»

Romania is often described as a digitally connected country, but connectivity alone does not translate into digital skills or AI readiness among its population. With AI tools quickly becoming part of everyday work, the gap between those who can use these tools effectively and those who cannot gets »»»

New Delhi: In India, a pavement can be many things -- a hawking site, parking area and garbage dumping space -- but rarely what it is meant to be: a safe path to walk. Across the country, pedestrians are routinely forced to walk on busy roads, despite a recent ruling by the Supreme Court that said »»»

On 24 June 2026, the European Commission published its long-awaited EU tax simplification package, a major legislative initiative aimed at reducing complexity in EU direct taxation and supporting the competitiveness of businesses operating across the European Union. The package forms part of the Co»»»

BOSTON: When Morocco left Qatar in 2022, they did so as heroes, having become the first African and Arab side to reach a World Cup semifinal. Four years later in the US, this time in the quarterfinals, they have lost to France 2-0 once again. Same opponent, same result. Yet it is testament to Moroc»»»

NEW DELHI: Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, facing a death sentence back home where her party is banned, told Reuters she and senior party colleagues plan to return from exile in ​India around December and surrender. The South Asian nation’s longest-serving leader said she and membe»»»

Doha, Qatar: As part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen institutional performance and develop human capital, the Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zaid Al Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Centre at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has organised a specialised training course on artificial intelligence (AI) too»»»

Doha, Qatar: Undergraduate researchers from Northwestern University in Qatar’s Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South (#IAS_NUQ) will present original scholarship alongside leading international academics at the 2026 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) C»»»

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China on Friday successfully launched the Long March 10B rocket on its maiden flight and achieved the nation’s first controlled recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster, a major step forward in its ambitions to develop reusable space launch technology. Get updated faster and for FREE: Download t»»»

It began with one aching tooth. A 63-year-old man walked into a private dental clinic in eastern China expecting treatment for a routine toothache. He left having undergone 12 tooth extractions. Now the procedure is under investigation. Health authorities in Anhui province have ordered the clinic t»»»

Doha, Qatar: When Norway and England meet in the FIFA World Cup quarter-finals early Sunday morning (12am Qatar time), a place among the final four will be at stake, but so too will two very different footballing dreams. England continue their pursuit of a first World Cup title since 1966, while No»»»

British politics has long had room for eccentric independent candidates, but few have become as recognisable as Count Binface, the silver-faced, cape-wearing satirical campaigner who has turned elections into a platform for political humour. Now, Count Binface has unexpectedly found himself at the »»»

President Donald Trump executed a sweeping purge of the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC) on Thursday, dismissing its three remaining commissioners in an unprecedented shake-up that places the independent agency in administrative limbo just months before the 2026 midterm elections. The White »»»

Marshall McLuhan's famous dictum that “the medium is the message” has rarely felt more relevant than during the livestreamed impeachment trial of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte. Millions of Filipinos are not reading transcripts. Get updated faster and for FREE: Download the Gulf News app no»»»

OSCE Secretary-General Feridun Sinirlioglu offered to help oust the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), in a phone call with Russian pranksters posing as Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. In recent years, Pashinyan has cracked down on the clergy, with several senior bishops placed i»»»

French investigators have again summoned Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov for questioning as the criminal investigation into the messaging platform nears its second year with no resolution in sight. Durov spent around six hours being questioned at the Paris Judicial Tribunal on Wednesday, local medi»»»

New cancer cases are projected to nearly double worldwide by 2050, with the disease expected to affect more than 90% of the global population in some way, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. In a report released on Wednesday, the agency said cancer remains the world’s second-leading cau»»»

Veteran French politician Marine Le Pen is the early favorite to win France’s presidential election next year after an appeals court ruled her eligible to run, opinion polls suggest. Le Pen, the longtime figurehead of the right-wing National Rally (RN), reached the presidential runoff in 2017 and 2»»»

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Parliament is debating on Friday at first reading the Bill on the 2026 Public Social Insurance (PSI) Budget and the Bill on the 2026 National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) Budget. On Tuesday, the two draft budgets were approved at first reading by the parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee. The »»»

JEDDAH: Just off the coast of Jeddah lies a destination unlike any other in Saudi Arabia. Thuwal Private Retreat is the Kingdom’s only full-buyout private island — a secluded sanctuary for a truly distinctive escape. Although easily accessible, the island feels worlds away from everyday life, with »»»

Namibia wants to process more of its uranium domestically rather than continuing to rely on exports of uranium concentrate, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said during a visit to China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) in Shenzhen as part of her state visit to China, The Namibian reports. CG»»»

After being distracted by the Iran war and cutting off Ukraine’s financial and military aid, US President Donald Trump is back in the Ukraine peace game. In a major policy U-turn, the Trump administration has promised to give Kyiv a licence to make its own desperately needed Patriot missile weapons»»»

Afghan nationals with no criminal convictions are being held in immigration detention in Germany pending deportation, according to a report by German daily taz, raising questions over whether some cases are consistent with Berlin's stated deportation policy. The newspaper said at least five Afghan »»»

DUBAI: The plot of Kenji Tanigaki’s “The Furious,” such as it is, is simple. Think “Taken” with far fewer guns. “Somewhere in South East Asia,” widowed mute Chinese handyman Wang Wei (Miao Xie) spends some time with his young daughter Rainy. When she runs off, angry at his refusal to return with he»»»

SYDNEY: Pacific Islands denounced China’s ballistic missile test because they say it landed in the heart of their shared “blue continent,” politicians and analysts told AFP. Even Pacific nations indebted to Beijing joined criticism of Monday’s submarine-launched ballistic missile test, which reache»»»

Doha, Qatar: Spain have made winning look routine at the FIFA World Cup, but Belgium’s growing confidence suggests today’s quarter-final could be anything but. A place in the last four is at stake when two of Europe’s biggest football nations meet at Los Angeles Stadium today (10pm Qatar time), wit»»»

‘The Secret Agent’ Director: Kleber Mendonca Filho Starring: Wagner Moura, Roberio Diogenes The Brazilian director’s slow-burn political thriller is visually stunning and horribly tense. Set during his homeland’s turbulent 1970s — under a military dictatorship that committed extensive human rights »»»

An Israeli strike targeted Friday on a pickup truck on the outskirts of Kounine-Kfardjal, wounding two people. In another incident, a drone dropped a stun grenade in the vicinity of al-Mansouri. Israeli forces detonated overnight houses in the border town of al-Khiam. President Joseph Aoun called o»»»

Dubai is officially part of the K-drama map. Earlier this year, BTS made a pitstop in Dubai, creating much joy and sparking excitement about when their concert would ever be in UAE. And last year, the rom-com Genie, Make A Wish starring Kim Woo-bin and Bae Suzy gave the city a starring role, and it»»»

Manila: The state weather bureau Pagasa on Friday (July 10, 2026), issued Heavy Rainfall Warning No. 5 for Metro Manila and nearby provinces while hundreds of people in Taiwan have been evacuated from their homes, and many schools and offices closed, as the biggest typhoon in decades sweeps towards»»»

As Bulgaria reassesses its planned cooperation with German defense manufacturer Rheinmetall, neighboring Croatia is moving ahead with a major partnership that positions the country as a future regional center for advanced defense technology and unmanned systems, BGNES writes. Rheinmetall has offici»»»

The United States will oversee the withdrawal of Israeli forces from "pilot zones" in the south, with the first to get underway within days, Lebanese and U.S. officials said Thursday. A U.S. official said that new talks between Israel and Lebanon would go ahead next week, after a diplomatic source »»»

On July 10, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, in which John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in school, a violation of state law, began in Dayton, Tenn. 1 of 8 | Photograph shows William Jennings Bryan (seated, left, with fan) and Clarence Darrow (standing, center, with arms folded) at an o»»»

One of the greatest minds in the history of world science, Serbian physicist and inventor Nikola Tesla, was born on this day in 1856. He was born in what was then the Habsburg Monarchy, in what is now Croatia, as the son of a village Serbian Orthodox priest. He was the fourth child of Milutin and D»»»

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For 20 years the Islamic Republic of Iran measured its power by the number of Arab capitals it could move from Tehran: At one point, it was four: Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, Sanaa. Those days are gone. Damascus fell first, taking the land bridge with it. Then, in the last week of June 2026, two of t»»»

BEIJING: Authorities were investigating a blaze at a shoe factory in southeastern China’s Fujian province that killed 28 people, raising renewed concern over worker safety. The state-run Xinhua News Agency said Friday that a search had ended while an investigation was underway into the cause of the»»»

Dubai: Emirates Global Aluminium has restarted alumina production at its Al Taweelah refinery in Abu Dhabi, more than three months after operations were suspended following Iranian attacks on Khalifa Economic Zone Abu Dhabi. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.Production i»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe 27 nationalities participate in the funeral and burial ceremonies of the martyred leader of the Islamic Revolution in the holy city of Mash»»»

West Palm Beach, United States: A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump on Thursday, accelerating a push by the US president and supporters to plaster his name and image on everything from national landmarks to banknotes. "This will soon be one of the Greatest and Most Spectacular Airports»»»

From Tom Cruise’s climb up Dubai’s Burj Khalifa to Dune: Part Three returning to Abu Dhabi’s vast deserts, the UAE has cemented its place as one of Hollywood’s most versatile filming destinations. Over the years, the country has transformed into everything from a high-altitude action playground to »»»

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