WASHINGTON: Parasitic illness cases linked to recalled iceberg lettuce have now been confirmed in 20 states, federal health officials said Thursday, expanding the scope of the largest outbreak of its kind in the US. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said government scientists have now identifi»»»

Residents of the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta tore down makeshift migrant shelters as police fired rubber bullets during escalating protests over the migration crisis, videos posted online purport to show. Thousands of migrants remain in the territory nearly a month after a record mass cr»»»

US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to update the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America" in the country's geographic naming service. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pushed back, citing the name's Indigenous origins, as the row between the neighbors roi»»»

DAMASCUS: Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa appointed Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi as a presidential adviser, state media said on Friday, days after Abdi announced the dissolution of his Kurdish forces under an integration deal with Damascus. “Mustafa Khalil Abdi is appointed as adviser to the presid»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Water is increasingly becoming a strategic priority as countries across the region look to strengthen water security, build climate-resilient infrastructure, and make more sustainable use of available resources. In a conversationwith Qatar Tribune, Saur Group Executive Cha»»»

LIAQAT NAWAZ MALIK Doha The Embassy of Pakistan in Doha organised an exclusive and spiritually enriching talk on the life and teachings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), commemorating his blessed life, exemplary character and timeless message of peace, mercy, compassion and humanity. The event, »»»

Tribune News Network Doha The College of Health Sciences at Qatar University (QU) organised annual orientation event under the theme ‘Discover Your Path… Create Your Health Impact’. A total of 167 students were admitted to the College of Health Sciences for Fall 2026, including 130 Qatari students,»»»

Tribune News Network Doha To celebrate the enduring power of family narratives, Qatar National Library (QNL), in collaboration with the Family Consulting Center (Wifaq), hosted the “A Story from a Loved One: Family Cohesion and Storytelling Heritage” event on August 27. The gathering underscored ho»»»

QNA Geneva Qatar, recognising the significant role young people can play, has placed great emphasis on youth empowerment and capacity-building, promoting a culture of volunteerism and active citizenship, and supporting innovation and entrepreneurship, in line with Qatar National Vision 2030, partic»»»

Indian-American billionaire Vinod Khosla, has been a described as a "contrarian" kind of visionary. Tech media has sometimes tag him as "abrasive", even "polarising". Yet Vinod Khosla, 71, has a reputation as a high-conviction billionaire venture capitalist who co-founded Sun Microsustems and leads»»»

NEW YORK CITY: Israeli military strikes and incursions are pushing the region toward catastrophe, Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Ibrahim Olabi, told the UN Security Council on Thursday. “The entire region is standing at a threshold of a regional war that would spare no one,” he said, b»»»

New Delhi, India: Quick commerce is rapidly expanding beyond India's major metropolitan markets, with dark stores now spread across 477 cities, as newer players target untapped geographies while established companies deepen their networks in key markets, according to a report prepared by brokerage »»»

There is a strange disconnect in the Philippines today. The country's economic elite can spend hours debating industrial policy, Pax Silica, freeports, the Luzon Economic Corridor, whistleblower protection, semiconductor supply chains, energy security and how to move the economy up the global value»»»

Harshly repressed protests that have shaken Pakistan-administered Kashmir since early June have continued through local legislative elections held in July and August. With internet access cut off and access by foreign media restricted, local residents are attempting to report on the situation on th»»»

The death toll in the catastrophic flash floods that struck the Nepal-Tibet border rose on Thursday to 392 people, as rescue teams waded through mud on searching for more than 1,400 missing. Experts warned of the risk of further floods a day after the devastating tsunami-like wall of»»»

Alexander Mikaberidze’s “The Louisiana Purchase” examines what lay behind what eventually became one of the costliest undertakings in American history and looks beyond the period’s diplomatic wranglings and delves into a broader story of European colonialism to illuminate why Louisiana was passed a»»»

NEW YORK CITY: A investigation this week by the newspaper Haaretz revived scrutiny of a network of armed Palestinian militias that operate in Israeli-controlled parts of Gaza with weapons, funding and protection provided by the Israeli military. The origins of the militia project can be traced to t»»»

LONDON: About two-thirds of children surveyed across four districts in southern Yemen are out of school as the new academic year begins, Save the Children said on Thursday. A survey of 2,214 households in districts across Aden, Lahj and Taiz governorates found that 32 percent of children had never »»»

In the batch of leaked secret recordings preceding the latest wave of corruption-related arrests in Ukraine, a woman strongly resembling the deputy head of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office, Iryna Mudra, cites an even more senior official at the presidential administration. The latter allegedl»»»

CIA director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced visit to Moscow on August 25 spending seven hours in Moscow in talks with the Kremlin before flying out again the same day, sparking a torrent of speculation on the subject matter of the meeting. The US admitted that it had asked Ukraine to hold off o»»»

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted Russian leader Vladimir Putin would not attack NATO territory, downplaying reports that Washington had warned Moscow against a possible move on Europe. The Kremlin also dismissed the reports as “scare stories” following a rare visit to the »»»

RIYADH: Artificial intelligence is already making its way into the music studio. The harder question is how far artists are willing to let it go. That debate is gaining urgency worldwide after Spotify removed more than 75 million AI-generated “spam” tracks from its platform over the past year, expo»»»

Sharjah: Before the skyscrapers, highways, and modern ports transformed the UAE’s coastline, there was the sea and generations of Emiratis who built their lives around it. They fished its waters, built boats by hand, preserved their catch with salt, and passed their knowledge from parents to childr»»»

LONDON: Volatile oil prices after six months of conflict in the Middle East have raised the cost of delivering humanitarian aid worldwide, putting lifesaving assistance for almost 1.5 million children at risk, Save the Children said on Thursday. Crude oil prices surged at the onset of the US-Israel»»»

Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic (L) enters the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal for the verdict hearing in his genocide trial in The Hague in November 2017. Mladic has died at age 84, the U.N. said Thursday. File Photo by Peter Dejong/EPA Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic»»»

DOHA: The Local Organizing Committee of the FIBA Basketball World Cup Qatar 2027 officially opened Al Janoub Arena in its new configuration on Thursday evening in front of a capacity crowd of 8,200 fans, following its transformation from a football stadium into a basketball arena. The venue will be»»»

LONDON: There are voices that belong to actors, and there are voices that seem to belong to the characters themselves. For more than four decades, Peter Cullen’s was the latter. To generations of “Transformers” fans, Optimus Prime did not merely sound like Cullen. Cullen was Optimus Prime: the deep»»»

First Sermon (Khutbah One)Praise be to Allah, Who sent His Messenger with guidance and manifest light, and made his birth a mercy to all the worlds. We bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, and we bear witness that our Prophet Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. May Al»»»

Damascus, Aug. 27 (SANA) Representatives from major Turkish industrial and commercial enterprises participating in the 63rd Damascus International Fair emphasized on Thursday that economic and trade relations between Syria and Türkiye are entering a transformative phase of strategic cooperation. Dr»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Rezaei: Iran Views Lebanon’s Security as Integral to the Security of West Asia 27-08-2026 23:00 PM Iranian Secretary of the Supreme Nationa»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Rezaei to Al-Manar: As a servant of Islam, I take great pride in the Lebanese people’s resistance, bow before them in respect, and fully un»»»

Abu Dhabi: The Ministry of Education has launched its back-to-school campaign for the 2026–2027 academic year under the theme “Through the Charter, We Reach New Horizons”, aimed at embodying the values and principles of the National Education Charter in students’ lives and daily practices, while st»»»

PARIS: Seven of the leading candidates in the increasingly tight and crowded race to succeed President Emmanuel Macron clashed on Thursday in their first debate, eight months ahead of the election. The candidates, spanning the hard left to far right, agreed that France was facing economic trouble, »»»

LONDON: Hanna Gedin, a member of the European Parliament, told Arab News that the Israeli government denied her entry this week on political grounds, along with her MEP colleague Jonas Sjostedt. “Refusing us to enter the West Bank and Palestine, a country that Israel is occupying in violation of in»»»

Relatives of missing persons participate in a demonstration at the Angel of Independence in Mexico City in June. File Photo by Tomas Perez/EPA Aug. 27 (UPI) -- More than 100 bone fragments and about 30 teeth were found in El Arenal, a rural community in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco. The rema»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Rezaei, on reconstruction in Lebanon: The destroyed homes will be rebuilt, God willing 27-08-2026 22:26 PM Latest News Urgent News Rezaei t»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Rezaei to Al-Manar: The Strait of Hormuz issue is tied to ending the wars across the region; if the Americans want the strait reopened, the»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Rezaei to Al-Manar: We do not seek war, nor have we ever been warmongers; rather, we stand against those who pursue war 27-08-2026 22:22 PM»»»

Alleged senior Tren de Aragua leader Luis Saúl Pérez Nieto, also known as “Páez” or “Nairobi,” was arrested, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella (pictured) announced Thursday. Photo by Mauricio Duenas Castaneda/EPA Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Colombian authorities captured an alleged senior Tren de A»»»

A Russian State Duma member has warned that Moscow could suspend oil and gas supplies to Hungary after the country’s new government formally described Russia as a security threat. The warning comes as Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s administration pursues a major foreign policy shift away from the cl»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Rezaei to Al-Manar: For four decades, the Lebanese people and Hezbollah have shaped the West Asian region 27-08-2026 22:10 PM Latest News U»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Rezaei to Al-Manar: There is no doubt that the issue of Lebanon will be settled in the period ahead, and “Israel” is no longer in a positio»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Rezaei told Al-Manar: The city of Beirut and its southern suburbs (Dahiyeh) constitute a red line for us 27-08-2026 21:58 PM Latest News Ur»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Rezaei to Al-Manar: We must trust Lebanon’s youth and entrust them with responsibilities; I have great faith in their capabilities 27-08-20»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Rezaei to Al-Manar: A key condition of the memorandum of understanding is that the United States bring an end to the war throughout West As»»»

LONDON: In southern Lebanon’s villages, the fear of being treated as a collective enemy is not new. Years of conflict, displacement and political rhetoric have left many Shiite residents wary of language that erases the line between Hezbollah fighters and civilians living alongside them. This week,»»»

Doha, Qatar: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has reduced the average waiting time for a first specialist appointment from 58 days to around 16 days, as part of a broader effort to improve access, efficiency and patient experience across Qatar’s public healthcare system. HMC Managing Director H.E. M»»»

Workers constructing the White House Ballroom in Washington, DC on May 29. President Donald Trump on Thursday named a new chair of the federal agency that oversees the project. File Photo by Aaron Schwartz/UPI | License Photo Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday named a new head»»»

Washington: A new study suggests that El Ninos - the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up periodically and spikes global temperatures - are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change. El Ninos are more than 36% stronger than they were before the industrial age began in the mid 180»»»

Tropical Storm Dolly is making its way toward the eastern Caribbean. Image courtesy of the National Hurricane Center. Aug. 27 (UPI) -- The National Weather Service named Tropical Storm Dolly Thursday, as it makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean toward the eastern Caribbean. In its 11 a.m. AST upd»»»