JEDDAH: Yemeni government officials are working with local authorities and humanitarian organizations to open a road through one of the main entrances to the city of Taiz to deliver urgently needed relief supplies to the province, which is under siege by Houthi militias. The operation is expected t»»»

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and sight-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro faced off Friday in their second and final debate ahead of Sunday's presidential runoff election. The two candidates repeated their campaign proposals, focusing on the cost of living and security, while exchanging»»»

The exhibition “Civilizations, Personalities, Discoveries” and an international conference at the Palais des Nations marked a further step in introducing the Islamic Civilization Center and the legacy of the great scholars of Mawarannahr to the international community. Geneva: The Islamic Civilizat»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Israeli small attack drone drops stun grenate towards Lebanese farmers in southern town of Yatar, no casualties reported: Al-Manar correspo»»»

By Staff, Agencies The Chief of the General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Major General Ali Abdollahi stressed that Tehran will never allow US military vessels to enter the Gulf. He further unveiled that US naval forces are no longer capable of approaching the waters surrounding the strategic waterw»»»

Speakers at the joint commemoration held by Fidesz and the KDNP at Bem Square in Budapest addressed the world-shaking significance of the 1956 revolution, the current preservation of Hungary's freedom, and the resistance to the closure and reorganisation of the House of Terror Museum. A letter from»»»

On Sunday, Bulgarians will choose a head of state for a five-year term beginning in January 2027 and most of them will do it knowing that the person they elect will not run the country. Bulgaria is a parliamentary republic. The prime minister and the Council of Ministers set policy, parliament»»»

Prime Minister Péter Magyar described the 1956 revolution and war of independence as perhaps the most important revolution of the 20th century on Friday in Budapest, at Kossuth Lajos Square in front of the Parliament. In his speech, the head of government pledged to carry forward the legacy of 1956»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian armed forces struck a dry cargo ship at sea that was delivering supplies for the Ukrainian armed forces to the port of Odessa, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. Overnight into Saturday, the Russian forces continued to carry out drone strikes against Ukrai»»»

Catch up on the 10 stories making headlines this week From major UAE updates to Bollywood buzz and sporting headlines, catch up on stories you may have missed this week. Find out about the upcoming ban on a widely used veterinary antibiotic, unusual odours reported across the UAE, and early forecas»»»

How basketball and medicine helped an 18-year-old find community in Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi: Three weeks ago, Nicolas Cobos Rodriguez knew no one in Abu Dhabi. He is 18, in a new country, with three months of internships ahead of him and a dream he had never been close enough to touch: becoming a docto»»»

Taipei: Emergency crews scrambled on Saturday to restore power to tens of thousands of homes in Taiwan after Typhoon Champi's fierce winds battered the island, with the storm moving towards China and Japan. Authorities evacuated more than 5,000 people from their homes ahead of the storm, which topp»»»

Europe’s growing defence budgets will not automatically translate into stronger military capabilities without new financing mechanisms, industry investment and greater cooperation between governments and financial institutions. This was the central message of the International Defence Finance Confe»»»

Nearly five years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba sees no end in sight. Ukraine’s former foreign minister (2020-24), he steered Kyiv’s diplomacy for more than two years of the war, mainly during US President Joe Biden’s administration. Now a senior fellow at Harvard’s Be»»»

Athens may feel betrayed, and Tel Aviv threatened, but Ankara must be celebrating a major triumph—one that paves the way for its expanded influence in the Eastern Mediterranean. On 20 October, eastern Libya’s parliament ratified a maritime boundary delimitation deal that Türkiye and authorities in »»»

Türkiye's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Alparslan Bayraktar, writes for Al Majalla. Increasing geopolitical uncertainty, rising demand driven in part by new unconventional sources such as artificial intelligence, technological transformation, and the need to address climate change are r»»»

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk blasted Ukraine’s elites for enriching themselves on hundreds of billions in Western aid while ordinary Ukrainians face forced mobilization raids. “The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to di»»»

EXCLUSIVEDubai Police offers jobs to father and aunt, continuing nearly 50 years of family support Dubai: Dubai Police has offered jobs to the husband and younger sister of a former employee who died following the birth of her twin sons, extending nearly five decades of support to a family whose ti»»»

NEW YORK: Syria has called on the international community to protect its sovereignty against Israeli attacks, saying the country is committed to meeting its international obligations and rebuilding trust after decades of rule by the ousted regime. Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nati»»»

EXCLUSIVEWoman, 36, died after childbirth following 12-year wait to become a mother Dubai: Dubai Police has offered jobs to the husband and younger sister of a former employee who died following the birth of her twin sons, extending nearly five decades of support to a family whose ties with the for»»»

JERUSALEM: Days ahead of close-fought Israeli elections, campaigns have gone into overdrive with poor-taste jibes and inflammatory attacks against candidates, sometimes crossing red lines. Fuelled in part by a boom in AI-generated images flooding social media, candidates and activists are seeking t»»»

GENEVA, Switzerland: The UN said on Friday it had documented more than 300 deaths from drone attacks in Sudan this month as it condemned the deadly escalation. It called for the international community to bear down on the influx of drones into Sudan’s civil war, particularly those causing civilian »»»

NEW YORK: Syria has called on the international community to protect its sovereignty against Israeli attacks, saying the country is committed to meeting its international obligations and rebuilding trust after decades of rule by the ousted regime. Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nati»»»

Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has appeared in a London court on two additional sex offense charges, British media reported on Friday.The 69-year-old faces a total of 17 charges involving nine women, including allegations of rape and sexual assault. The alleged offenses span more than three dec»»»

Convective clouds may bring rain north and east through Wednesday, with fog also possible. Abu Dhabi: Convective clouds could bring rainfall to parts of the UAE from Saturday through Wednesday, while strong winds may stir up dust and fog could develop overnight, according to the National Centre of »»»

Budapest: A Hungarian court on Friday ordered the detention of Gyorgy Matolcsy, former governor of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB), on suspected economic fraud and private document forgery. The Buda Central District Court ordered Matolcsy to be held for one month, Anna Madarasi, spokesperson for»»»

RIYADH: Coalition forces backing Yemen’s legitimate government said on Saturday they shot down a ballistic missile and intercepted a drone aimed at Saudi Arabia, amid an intensifying campaign of cross-border attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi militia. Shortly past 4 a.m., the Saudi Civil Defense sou»»»

WASHINGTON: A police officer in Mississippi who fatally shot a 1-year-old Black child in a Walmart parking lot in June and the interim police chief in the city where the shooting took place have resigned, local officials said on Friday. Hunter Foster, the officer who shot the child, resigned from t»»»

TAIPEI: Typhoon Champi ‌swept past Taiwan on Saturday killing one person and injuring more than 500, downing trees and severing ​power, as it continues to weaken and head north toward the Chinese coast. At one point a super typhoon and one of the strongest storms in the Pacific this year, Champi is»»»

RIYADH: Coalition forces fighting Yemen’s Houthis said on Saturday it had downed a drone, as the Iran-backed group carries out daily attacks on the kingdom. “A drone was intercepted and destroyed in the Eastern Province,” said Turki Al-Maliki in a post on X, the spokesman for the Saudi-led Coalitio»»»

Singapore: Singapore expanded its investigation on Friday regarding the Indonesia fires that have blanketed the region in toxic haze into 10 locally-based firms. The city-state has beefed up measures to combat the months-long blazes and had vowed legal action against companies responsible for the f»»»

Anduril Industries CEO Palmer Luckey is working to clone and genetically engineer dogs for the American military, in a venture backed by the CIA and a biotech billionaire who plans on resurrecting prehistoric creatures. Texas-based startup Warhound unveiled the project on Thursday, announcing $200 »»»

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a blockade of the occupied West Bank in the aftermath of a deadly shootout between IDF troops and two suspected Palestinian gunmen at a security checkpoint. The incident unfolded on Friday in the southern West Bank at the temporary checkpoint at»»»

FORT MYERS, Florida: President Donald Trump on Friday told a rally for candidates in South Florida that US warships returning from the Middle East could stop over in Cuba on their way back from the Iran war, his latest suggestion of taking an interventionist approach to the nearby country. Trump fi»»»

DOHA The Years of Culture initiative announced Qatar's cultural partners through 2030. Building on the previously announced partnerships with Egypt and Greece for 2027, upcoming Years of Culture will be celebrated with Italy (2028), the Netherlands and Switzerland (2029), and Portugal and Spain (20»»»

New York state woman charged with voting illegally says she recently learned she wasn’t a citizen A Syracuse, New York, woman who says she only recently learned she wasn’t born in the US has been charged with voting illegally, one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts»»»

Thursday's incident involving Parliament Chair Mihaela Dotsova's security detail and a journalist from the PIK news agency led the chief of the National Service for Protection (NSP), Emil Tonev, to tender his resignation on Friday. Political parties insisted on more resignations. The calls followed»»»

NAIROBI: For Awad Usham Al-Amin and thousands of others, Abyei provides shelter and an opportunity to eke out a living as war rages back home. This week, Sudan’s conflict caught up with them there too. A drone strike believed to be targeting a fuel depot used by the paramilitary Rapid Support Force»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe General Saree: Over the past 24 hours, Saudi warplanes have launched 124 airstrikes and missile attacks on Yemen 23-10-2026 22:21 PM Latest»»»

Estonia's counterintelligence service has recently warned that sabotage operations orchestrated by Russian special services have reached a new and dangerous phase in Europe, with targets no longer being purely symbolic. Talking Europe sits down with the country's foreign minister, Margus Tsahkna, t»»»

WASHINGTON: First lady Melania Trump has brokered a coming ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the ravaged, Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky to allow for humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians, the White House announced on Friday. The localized ceasefire is set to begin Thur»»»

GENEVA: Time is running out to get aid into Taiz, besieged by pro-Iran Houthi fighters who are preventing supplies from reaching Yemen’s third-largest city, the United Nations said Friday. Houthi fighters have encircled Taiz since early October, blocking the road that links it to Aden, interim capi»»»

GENEVA, Switzerland: The UN said on Friday it had documented more than 300 deaths from drone attacks in Sudan this month as it condemned the deadly escalation. It called for the international community to bear down on the influx of drones into Sudan’s civil war, particularly those causing civilian »»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia strongly condemned a "cowardly" terrorist attack on a church in southern Jordan on Friday that killed seven people and injured dozens.The Kingdom rejects “all terrorist acts that attempt to undermine the security and stability of Jordan,” a foreign ministry statement said.Saudi»»»

Additional naval assets and troops add to concerns over a possible new offensive Washington: The United States appears to be preparing to resume large-scale strikes against Iran, but there is unlikely to be a military solution for either side in the devastating conflict, experts say. Washington and»»»

A Bulgarian-Greek meeting at the new Rudozem-Xanthi border crossing between the two countries on Friday marked the completion of the project to build the road and its associated infrastructure. The event was organized by the Managing Authority of the Greece-Bulgaria INTERREG Cross-border Cooperatio»»»

Trappes, France: A gunman firing from a car killed one person and wounded five others—including a 12-year-old girl who was shot eight times—in the Paris suburb of Trappes on Friday, in an assault the French presidency condemned as a "racist terrorist attack." French President Emmanuel Macron visite»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Reuters cites the German Foreign Minister: France, Britain, and Germany are prepared to negotiate with Iran 23-10-2026 20:44 PM Latest News»»»

You can usually tell how many countries a company employs in by how it talks about compliance. With one country, people talk about it as a state: we are compliant, we had an audit, it went fine. With six, that language stops working. Somebody asks whether you are compliant in a particular market an»»»

Justice Minister Nikolay Naydenov discussed the rule of law and investment climate with American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria (AmCham) Chief Executive Officer Ivan Mihaylov, the Justice Ministry said on Friday. They also discussed anti-corruption efforts and their importance for Bulgaria's busin»»»