There is no direct threat to Bulgaria’s security, representatives of the country’s security services said during a working meeting with Prime Minister Rumen Radev, where the security environment and the challenges arising from it were discussed, the Government Information Service said on Monday. Th»»»

Iran's foreign ministry on Monday said it was not currently involved in negotiations with the United States, despite a halt in recent fighting between the two sides. "At present, we are not engaged in any negotiations with the United States," said the ministry's spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei at a weekly»»»

The top US commander in the Middle East, Admiral Brad Cooper, has advised US President Donald Trump that striking Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz was no longer effective, Axios reported on Sunday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Cooper, who leads US Central Command (CENTCOM)»»»

Share: Former Israeli army chief Gadi Eisenkot has emerged as the main challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming elections. © Jack Guez, AFP Former military chief Gadi Eisenkot has emerged as the principal challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel prepares to v»»»

Dubai: Bill Oddie, the comedian, broadcaster and passionate conservationist who spent decades introducing British audiences to their own back gardens, has died at the age of 85. His agent, David Foster, confirmed that Oddie passed away on Saturday. In a statement shared with British media, Foster d»»»

Tehran: Smoke billowed over northern Tehran on Monday, AFP journalists witnessed, after a building adjacent to the capital's Hotel Esteghlal caught fire. Thick black and white columns of smoke engulfed the towering hotel on Monday, while flames in the nearby building were visible from surrounding r»»»

Employees working in Bucharest’s main northern business districts spend an average of RON 42-45 on lunch, with Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday recording the highest traffic, according to data collected during the first six months of 2026 by the FAYN restaurants in Pipera and Aurel Vlaicu. The data »»»

The State Civil Aviation Agency of Kyrgyzstan has introduced a ban on the practice of overbooking for all airlines operating flights through airports in the Kyrgyz Republic. The decision is aimed at protecting passengers’ rights and preventing situations where travelers with confirmed tickets are d»»»

Employees of the State Drug Control Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan stopped the activities of a criminal group involved in the sale of Afghan hashish in Osh. Two people have been detained on suspicion of illegal drug trafficking. According to the Interior Ministry, in July»»»

Dubai: OGold, the premier Shariah-compliant gold and silver-backed super app, has announced a major milestone of surpassing 1.5 million users, cementing its position as one of the region's fastest-growing digital precious metals investment apps. The achievement reflects the increasing adoption of d»»»

TEHRAN: Smoke billowed over northern Tehran on Monday, AFP journalists witnessed, after a building adjacent to the capital’s Hotel Esteghlal caught fire. Thick black and white columns of smoke engulfed the towering hotel on Monday, while flames in the nearby building were visible from surrounding r»»»

MADRID: Spain faces a “decisive” two days to control and contain wildfires that have forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate before temperatures rise, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said Monday. “Today and tomorrow are absolutely decisive days, because from Wednesday the weather »»»

Dubai: Kuwait's State Security and Terrorism Crimes Circuit at the Criminal Court has sentenced nine Syrian nationals to 10 years in prison after convicting them of operating an organised criminal network that laundered around KD 2.29 million, Al Qabas Arabic daily reported. The court also fined th»»»

The bodies of two Bulgarian men were recovered from the sea in separate incidents off the coast of Alexandroupolis, in North-eastern Greece, the news portal in.gr reported on Sunday night On Sunday morning, a 73-year-old Bulgarian was pulled unconscious from the water at the EOT beach, the Hellenic»»»

Maghazi, Palestinian Territories: Just days before her final secondary school examinations, the house opposite the temporary home where 18-year-old Saba Rabah was living in central Gaza was bombed. She and her family fled, leaving behind everything they had. It was only the latest ordeal in a war t»»»

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Cabinet meeting that he will resist U.S. pressure to pull forces from Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria, Israeli media reported Monday. Channel 13 quoted Netanyahu as telling his ministers that Washington is pushing for Israeli troop withdrawals from sever»»»

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has said that Syria has no intention of launching any military intervention into neighboring Lebanon, despite repeated remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump on the issue. Instead, he told Al-Jazeera that his government is currently discussing ways for Lebanese auth»»»

Archaeologists from a team led by National History Museum Director Boni Petrunova have uncovered evidence of pagan ritual practices during excavations at Kaliakra Fortress, the museum team said. The researchers said they discovered two horse skulls placed in a pit beneath a medieval wall, resting o»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani received in his office at Lusail Palace on Monday, July 27, 2026, HE Ferenc Korom, the Ambassador of Hungary, to bid him farewell on the occasion of the end of his tenure in the country. His Highness the Amir awarded the Hungarian Ambassador »»»

The Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan has proposed amending the rules for providing state subsidies to petroleum product importers in an effort to curb fuel price increases and prevent shortages on the domestic market. The draft resolution has been published for public discussion. Under the curren»»»

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received a farewell visit from Hungarian Ambassador to Belgrade Jozsef Magyar on Monday. "A cordial and substantial discussion with Hungarian Ambassador Jozsef Magyar, whom I thanked for his commitment, personal engagement and significant contribution t»»»

German police said Sunday they had shot and killed the chief suspect in what officials described as a deadly Islamist attack near the Berlin Pride parade the previous night, the latest ramming assault to hit the country. The attack late Saturday -- the first such incident to target the German capit»»»

MADRID: Spain faces a “decisive” two days to control and contain wildfires that have forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate before temperatures rise, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said Monday. “Today and tomorrow are absolutely decisive days, because from Wednesday the weather »»»

Dubai: The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) on Monday has issued 135 fines against 42 domestic worker recruitment offices during the first half of 2026 for violating the Federal Decree-Law Concerning Domestic Workers and its Executive Regulations. The ministry said administrati»»»

A growing majority of Americans believe the conflict with Iran is unfolding far more difficultly than the Trump administration had anticipated, with most now bracing for a prolonged war lasting for months, according to a new CBS News poll. The survey underscores deepening pessimism as tensions rise»»»

For three days, the southern shore of Issyk-Kul Lake was filled with music, art installations, performances, and film screenings as the international contemporary music and arts festival KOLFEST 2026 took place there from July 24 to 26. This year’s theme, «City of the Nomadic Future,» brought toget»»»

Manila: June Palomar is paying Php730 pesos in "system loss" charges on his June 2026 electricity bill amounting to Php11,500. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr now wants it scrapped. That's one of the president's appeals made to Filipino lawmakers on Monday (June 27) as he delivered his fifth State of»»»

An ​Australian court on Monday rejected an appeal from right-wing leader Pauline Hanson to overturn a ruling that she racially discriminated against a Muslim senator by telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan.” The three-judge panel of the Full Federal Court of Australia unanimously upheld a 2024»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Israeli occupation forces launch wide-scale arrest campaign across West Bank 27-07-2026 11:38 AM Latest News Urgent News Israeli occupation»»»

A man lost his right arm in an explosion in a village in At-Bashy district of Naryn Rrgion, local residents reported. Preliminary reports indicate that the explosion was caused by an unidentified object that children had previously found in a field and brought home. The incident occurred on July 24»»»

RIYADH: For years, the price of a loaf of tamees bread in Saudi Arabia remained fixed at SR1 ($0.27), becoming part of the Kingdom’s cultural memory and immortalized in a line of poetry: “If your only concern in life is your daily bread, beans are SR2 and bread is SR1.” But this equation has recent»»»

Units of the Russian Vostok battlegroup liberated the settlement of Kommunarovka in the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Monday. "Units of the Vostok battlegroup continued their advance into the depths of the enemy's defenses and, through active operations, liberat»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The installation of defensive means on merchant vessels cannot be considered at this time, but the Russian navy can take measures to protect them, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that attempts to influence the Russi»»»

KHARTOUM: Sudan’s army has regained control of a key highway linking the capital Khartoum with the flashpoint city of El-Obeid, two military sources told AFP on Monday. The advance has pushed their rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces west, away from the North Kordofan state capital they had sou»»»

TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry on Monday said the United States was not involved in recent talks with Oman over the administration of the strategic Strait of Hormuz.“These talks have no connection with the United States. They are a bilateral matter between Iran and Oman, and they are continuing,” »»»

Abu Dhabi: The UAE Space Agency has announced a 90-day grace period for companies, organisations and individuals operating, or planning to operate, in the country's space sector to regularise their status and obtain the required licences and permits. The grace period began on July 27, 2026, and is »»»

Manila: A homemade bomb detonated near the entrance of the Philippine justice ministry early on Monday, officials said, hours before a suspected unexploded device was found near the country's Senate. The explosion just after midnight, which resulted in no casualties, and the discovery of the second»»»

Israeli occupation forces conducted a sweeping campaign of raids and arrests across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem early Monday morning, storming homes and intensifying military deployments in what appears to be a coordinated escalation across the territory. The raids, which»»»

TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned the French ambassador to Tehran to protest the conduct of two diplomats who were briefly detained earlier this month. “Yesterday, the French ambassador in Tehran was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where it was stressed tha»»»

Some of the doctors and nurses who left the state-owned hospital in Vratsa to join the newly built private Heart and Brain Hospital want to return, Keti Tsenova, director of the public hospital, told BTA on Monday. She noted that several of the staff have applied to return, seven of which have alre»»»

Tokyo: Japanese mystery fiction author Keigo Higashino has died aged 68, his publisher said on Monday, triggering an outpouring of grief among fans across Asia. Since his 1985 debut, Higashino wrote more than 100 books, with much of his work widely translated and adapted for film and television. "A»»»

Seattle: A shooting near the Space Needle landmark in Seattle killed three people on Sunday and wounded at least four others including a toddler, officials said. Seattle Police said one suspect was arrested and they were searching for another following the incident at a food festival in a popular t»»»

Sydney: Residents and police searched for survivors on Monday after a landslide at a gold mine in the Solomon Islands, a witness and officials told AFP. The landslide at the Chinese-owned Gold Ridge mine, around 25 kilometres (16 miles) southeast of the Pacific nation's capital Honiara, took place »»»

Dubai: Travellers flying from the UAE to Hungary will soon have another direct option, with flydubai resuming non-stop flights between Dubai and Budapest from July 31. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.The Dubai-based carrier said it will initially operate three weekly f»»»

SelfDrive, the UAE's digital mobility platform has expanded its fleet in Abu Dhabi to meet increasing demand for affordable and flexible transport in the emirate. The expansion adds a wider mix of economy, sedan and SUV options to the company's Abu Dhabi lineup to offer residents and visitors more »»»

RIYADH: Qatar has launched a diamond exchange in a bid to position Doha as a regional hub for the global trade in rough and polished diamonds. The Qatar Diamond Exchange, launched by the Qatar Free Zones Authority, will operate from the Ras Bufontas Free Zone and offer trading, vaulting, certificat»»»

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.4305 dinars for one euro on Monday, which is a slight change relative to Friday, the National Bank of Serbia said. The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m, down by 0.2 pct y-o-y and down by 0.1 pct relative to t»»»

As Bulgaria prepares for the autumn presidential election, Monday's media attention focuses on President Iliana Iotova's decision to seek a full term, Bulgaria's security position amid the US-Iran conflict, and the country's defence commitments to NATO. Other key stories include possible US efforts»»»

A new challenge is spreading on social media in Kyrgyzstan, where young people buy alcoholic beverages and then publicly pour them out. Videos circulating online show participants purchasing alcohol worth about 6,000 soms at a store before emptying the bottles. They also encouraged others to join t»»»

London, July 27 (SANA) Global oil prices fell by more than 5 percent on Monday, while gold prices rose by more than 1 percent, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military not to carry out any new strikes on Iran, raising hopes for a diplomatic path to ease regional tensions. Accordi»»»