A Czech business paper has reported on how the British-owned supermarket chain Tesco may pull out of Hungary, with its Hungarian interests potentially being sold soon by well-known financial services firms. Tesco to leave Hungary — and not just us Another concrete step may have been taken towards t»»»

BOGOTA: Police from five Amazon countries have arrested hundreds of people and seized timber, minerals and thousands of livestock in one of the largest coordinated crackdowns on environmental crime ever carried out in the world’s largest rainforest. Authorities from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuad»»»

The Cormorant at 55 South, in Puerto Williams, Chile, is designed to streamline travel to one of the world’s most remote destinations, Antarctica. With 150 rooms, it is to open in October. Photo courtesy of Royal Caribbean Group Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Puerto Williams, the world's southernmost city, will o»»»

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on Tuesday asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether President Donald Trump's meme coin is a scam. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal »»»

Mere hours before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington, former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant delivered a sharp and startling interpretation of the direct reason behind the failure of the war on Iran to achieve its objectives. He st»»»

Egypt is developing a new management model for Nabq Nature Reserve in South Sinai that aims to combine environmental protection with sustainable tourism investment through closer cooperation between the public and private sectors, Environment Minister Manal Awad said. Awad chaired a meeting with th»»»

The Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA), chaired by Islam Ezzam, has approved four companies to engage in a range of non-banking financial activities, as part of its ongoing efforts to enhance the efficiency and competitiveness of the sectors under its supervision, expand financial services, stren»»»

LONDON: For years, Hezbollah fighters propped up Syrian ruler Bashar Assad, who the men now governing in Damascus fought to overthrow. Both sides are now talking about sitting down together. Any handshake between them would be built on that history. Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said on Tuesday that»»»

Disruptions to key Middle Eastern trade routes have turned sulfuric acid into a strategic commodity, creating an opportunity for Grupa Azoty. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted nearly 47% of global seaborne sulfur exports, while additional export restrictions have tightened supply. S»»»

The World Bank will support the implementation of a data analysis system in approximately 200 Bulgarian schools and will train teams to use it, the Ministry of Education and Science reported on Tuesday. This is one of the activities to be carried out under the agreement signed between the Ministry »»»

As AI increases cyber complexity, hands-on certification pathways help leaders verify workforce readiness, prove resilience and close skill gaps. AI hasn’t made cyber-security a boardroom issue, but it has made the boardroom question harder to answer. For years, executives have asked whether the bu»»»

AMMAN — Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT) handled a record 101,900 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in July 2026, marking its highest monthly container throughput and a 14.8 per cent increase from 88,781 TEUs recorded in the same month last year.In a statement to The Jordan Times, the terminal said»»»

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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is accelerating preparations to host the AFC Asian Cup, which takes place from Jan. 7 to Feb. 5, 2027, by using the continent’s biggest football tournament to showcase tourism, hospitality and digital infrastructure ahead of larger global events, including Expo 2030 and the FIF»»»

A Russian ship under US sanctions, the Mikhail Britnev, dropped off its cargo of military vehicles at the Port of Lomé in Togo on July 9. It’s the first time that Togo has been a stop for a Russian shipment of weapons to Mali, carried out as part of Moscow’s support for the Malian government. »»»

The EU's migration chief said the bloc successfully met a "test" of its border security and "resilience to disinformation" in the handling of a migrant rush into Spain's North African territory of Ceuta. His comments came as the bloc's interior ministers held an emergency meeting over the incident,»»»

Spain on Tuesday mended relations with fellow EU nations after a mass influx of migrants into the North African enclave of Ceuta drew criticism from both sides of the Atlantic. Spain also confirmed that of 72,000 people who entered the enclave from Morocco last week, all but 2,000 ha»»»

Easing winds on the northwestern outskirts of Athens allowed firefighters in Greece to gain ground against a wildfire that had been burning for five consecutive days near the coastal village of Psatha, the fire service said. The greater Athens region has been placed under near-maximu»»»

AMSTERDAM: Veteran coach Louis van Gaal said he ‌would not rule out the possibility of another return to the helm of the Netherlands national team amid speculation over who will replace Ronald Koeman. Van Gaal, who turns 75 on Saturday, has had three spells as Dutch coach, taking them to the World »»»

SINGAPORE: Low-sulfur fuel oil supplies at Singapore have tightened on reduced output from refineries and declining sweet crude imports, trade sources and analysts said, driving up refueling costs for shippers at the world’s largest bunkering port. Spot premiums for very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO)»»»

Dubai: Europe's summer heatwaves may feel more oppressive than those in the Gulf, even though air temperatures in the Gulf routinely climb far higher, Ibrahim Al Jarwan, Chairman of the Emirates Astronomical Society, and a member of the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences told Gulf News. Wh»»»

Cairo: A woman in Egypt's Menoufia Governorate died after collapsing while trying to protect her two young children during the earthquake that struck the country early on Monday, according to her family, although the Health Ministry said the tremor caused one injury and no officially recorded fatal»»»

CHICAGO: Michigan Democrats headed to the polls on Tuesday to choose between progressive Abdul El-Sayed and establishment-backed US Rep. Haley Stevens in a fiercely contested primary for the state’s open US Senate seat. El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American public health specialist, and Stevens, a four-te»»»

Spain blamed “criminal mafias” for last week’s storming of the border at Ceuta, the city which borders Morocco, but insisted that almost all of the 72,000 migrants who breached the border had been returned to Morocco. Speaking after an emergency meeting of EU home affairs ministers on Tuesday (4 Au»»»

The Sofia Directorate of the Interior said Tuesday that it is looking into media reports alleging that a group of neo-Nazis attempted to force their way into a Sofia hotel where Italian Jewish youths and their educators were staying. The Sofia police has opened an inquiry "on its own initiative fol»»»

Polish industrial waste management scaleup Zeme plans to spend more than PLN 200 mln on acquisitions over the next few years, following two completed deals. It aims to sign another Polish transaction by the end of 2026 and enter Brazil through an acquisition in early 2027. Zeme combines waste colle»»»

Spokane, United States: Emergency crews on Tuesday were racing to contain flames in the US Northwest, where a man was arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with the largest of the fires that have displaced tens of thousands. Wildfires supercharged by drought and intense heat have torn throug»»»

Beirut: Families of victims of the Beirut port explosion gathered on Tuesday demanding answers and accountability on the sixth anniversary of the catastrophe, in a country long plagued by official impunity. “Until now, we haven’t gotten justice. There has been no accountability and nobody has been »»»

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TRIPOLI: Overnight clashes between rival armed groups in western Libya left four dead and at least 10 wounded, a security source told AFP on Tuesday. The fighting was between members of the Anti-Security Threat Agency and the 103rd Battalion, the official said. The Anti-Security Threat Agency is li»»»

Deir Al Balah: Palestinians gathered on Tuesday for a mass funeral of more than 100 bodies finally recovered from a deadly Israeli strike in Gaza in 2023. More than 300 people were killed on Nov. 22, 2023, weeks into the war with Hamas, when warplanes flattened a residential block in Gaza City’s Sa»»»

GERB-UDF dismissed as "political propaganda" an inquiry by Democratic Bulgaria (DB) to the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) about an OFAC court filing concerning businessman Vassil Bojkov, former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov. I»»»

MOSCOW: Ukrainian drone attacks in the region around Moscow killed five people, local officials said Tuesday, while authorities in Ukraine said Russian aerial strikes there also caused at least five civilian deaths. Since Russia’s invasion more than four years ago, Ukraine has developed long-range »»»

DOHA: For much of the modern era, museums were defined by a singular mission: to collect, classify, and determine what was worthy of preservation. Over time, institutions such as the Louvre, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art drew their authority from the weight of their collect»»»

RIYADH: Two Red Sea Global resorts have become the first in the world to earn a new certification recognizing hospitality destinations that protect natural night skies, marking a milestone in Saudi Arabia’s efforts to advance regenerative tourism and sustainable hospitality. Desert Rock and Nujuma,»»»

The Constitutional Court decided to proceed in substance with three constitutional challenges related to the 2026 State Budget Act and the 2026 Public Social Insurance Budget Act, the court's press office reported on Tuesday. The claims were filed by the GERB-UDF coalition and the Continue the Chan»»»

DHAKA: Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Waleed bin Abdulkarim El-Khereiji met Bangladesh’s top leadership in Dhaka on Tuesday amid preparations for Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s upcoming visit to Riyadh. El-Khereiji arrived in the Bangladeshi capital on a two-day trip and met Foreign Minister Khalil»»»

Dubai's correctional and penal institutions have received the Global Eagle Award, a prestigious distinction given by the American Correctional Association (ACA), after its facilities met the organisation's accreditation standards in full. Dubai Police said the emirate is the first in the region, an»»»

BEIRUT (Sputnik) - Lebanese movement Hezbollah will oppose those who join the Israeli project and take steps against the Shiite resistance, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem said on Tuesday. "We will stand up to those who join the Israeli project and carry out its actions against the resistan»»»

Árpád Habony never held a formal position in Viktor Orbán’s governments, but he was widely regarded as the chief architect of the prime minister’s communications machine and one of the key figures behind the Orbán era’s propaganda network. He was also credited with importing the political tactics o»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Qatar Precision Health Institute (QPHI), a national center for research and implementation under Qatar Foundation (QF), has announced a strategic partnership with Qatar National Library (QNL) to make its specialized educational materials for the Genome Heroes collection available t»»»

Twenty illegal migrants and the driver of the minibus in which they were being transported were detained on Tuesday in the area of the Ropotamo River in a specialised operation carried out by officers from the Border Police Regional Directorate in Burgas, the Border Police General Directorate annou»»»

Madrid: Last week's surge of irregular migrants into Spain's north African territory of Ceuta did not "compromise" Europe's visa-free Schengen travel zone, the Spanish interior minister said on Tuesday. Fernando Grande-Marlaska added that Spain had already returned to Morocco 70,000 of the 72,000 m»»»

The global textile industry has helped transform economies from Bangladesh to Uzbekistan, creating millions of jobs and driving export growth, but the water-intensive foundations of the trade are exposing some of the world’s biggest manufacturing hubs to rising environmental and economic risks, acc»»»

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is starting to sound desperate. A terrifying winter bombardment by Russian missiles is clearly on the way as soon as the mercury begins to fall, but the Uralian president said at the weekend, Kyiv is down to its last PAC-3 Patriot interceptor missile left. He»»»

Russian forces on military exercises in Crimea in April 2021. File photo by Vadim Savitsky/Russian Defense Ministry/EPA-EFE Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A soldier in Russian-occupied Crimea allegedly killed four people and injured another four in a mass shooting on Tuesday. Crimea region Gov. Mikhail Razvozhaye»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Gaza Health Ministry: Two martyrs and 10 wounded by Israeli enemy fire arrived at the Sector’s hospitals during the past 24 hours 04-08-202»»»

President Iliana Iotova welcomed the Government's success in securing the remaining funding under Bulgaria's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). Speaking during a visit to the Dr Atanas Dafovski Hospital here on Tuesday, she said the funding would help deliver projects with tangible benef»»»

RIYADH: Heritage villages across Saudi Arabia’s Baha region are drawing domestic and international visitors this summer as festivals, cultural events and living museums transform centuries-old sites into major tourism attractions, supporting the Kingdom’s drive to expand cultural tourism under Visi»»»

LAHORE: Lahore Police on Tuesday suspended the entire staff of the Ghaziabad police station after an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) was accused of sexually assaulting an intellectually disabled girl inside the station premises, triggering a sweeping disciplinary action over alleged failures in super»»»