Dubai: The Philippine ambassador to the UAE has reassured the Filipino community that the situation across the Emirates remains calm and stable, urging residents to stay informed and trust the UAE authorities. In an interview with Philippine radio programme DZMM, ambassador Alfonso Ver has reiterat»»»

Kazakhstan’s service sector activity declined in February, with the decline in new orders the most marked in almost four years, according to the monthly Freedom Holding and S&P Global Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) survey. »»»

Fewer than half of Ukrainian refugees now say they plan to return home after the war with Russia, according to new survey data, as the country’s demographic crisis continues to escalate. A poll conducted by Info Sapiens fo»»»

Fewer than half of Ukrainian refugees now say they plan to return home after the war with Russia, according to new survey data, as the country’s demographic crisis continues to escalate. A poll conducted by Info Sapiens fo»»»

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The US is reportedly engaging with Kurdish groups in ways that position them against the Iranian regime, including discussions on arming and supporting cross-border operations to tackle IRGC forces, US media reported. The CIA is now working with some Kurdish groups, further building on historical U»»»

The UAE stock markets fell in early trade on Thursday, extending losses from the previous session after exchanges reopened following a two-day trading halt triggered by Iran’s missiles and drones. The UAE's stock markets reopened on Wednesday. Both exchanges said they will temporarily set a 5% lowe»»»

The last two names of the six US soldiers killed in a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait were released Wednesday by the Pentagon, and they are from California and Iowa. The soldiers identified Wednesday were Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, and Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien,»»»

Iran launched a new wave of attacks Thursday morning at Israeli and American bases and threatened that the United States would "bitterly regret" torpedoing an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean and a religious leader called for "Trump's blood," while Israel said it had begun a "large-scale" attack»»»

Tunis, March 5 (TAP) - An earth tremor measuring 3 degrees on the Richter scale was recorded on Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 04:04 a.m.(local time) in El Guettar, governorate of Gafsa.The epicentre of the tremor is located at 34.32 degrees latitude...»»»

Sharjah: Al Hamriyah Municipality honoured a worker from Bee’ah Company after he returned a mobile phone he found while carrying out his duties in a public area, in a gesture reflecting honesty and professional integrity during the holy month of Ramadan. The worker discovered the phone while perfor»»»

UK Defence Secretary John Healey is due to travel to Cyprus later after the Cypriot government criticised the way the UK has handled its response to the drone attacks against an RAF base on the island. Cypriot High Commissioner to the UK Dr Kyriacos Kouros told BBC Newsnight Cypriots were "disappoi»»»

"It's so good to be home." The statement sums up how almost 400 people felt after their flight from Dubai arrived in Dublin on Wednesday night. The Emirates flight was the first in a number of days after the United States-Israeli attacks on Iran led to the closure of nearly all airspace in the Midd»»»

Greenvolt Group, through Greenvolt Power, a leading global developer of large-scale wind, solar and battery energy storage projects, has secured EUR 348m financing package for the construction of the 253.1 MW wind project in Ialomita County, south-eastern Romania. With a signed sale agreement with »»»

The Vertical Corridor could generate an additional profit of up to 250 million euros annually for Romanian companies by increasing transit and market liquidity, according to Energy Minister Bogdan Ivan.He attended the Transatlantic Gas Security Summit, in Washington, which included a small-scale me»»»

SNGN Romgaz SA posted 3.35 billion lei in net profit last year, up 4.4% compared with the previous year, according to the preliminary consolidated annual report submitted to the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB).In 2024, the company reported a consolidated net profit of 3.2 billion lei.According to th»»»

The National Bucharest Airports Corporation (CNAB) has started a tender for the design and execution of a photovoltaic park that will be built in the vicinity of Runway 2 of the Henri Coanda Bucharest International Airport, as well as for its connection to the airport's power plant.According to CNA»»»

Romania's Nuclearelectrica NationalCorporation reported a 2025 net profit of RON 2.397 billion, up 40.4% year-on-year, according to a financial report submitted on Friday to the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB).In 2024, the company reported a net profit of RON 1.708 billion.According to data publishe»»»

Transelectrica ended 2025 with a net profit of 328 million lei, declining by 44 percent from the 586 million lei reported in 2024, according to preliminary financial results sent to the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Thursday.According to the quoted source, the segment of regulated profit activi»»»

Oil Terminal recorded, in 2025, a net profit of 24.64 million RON, up 28.3% compared to 2024, of 19.20 million RON, according to financial data submitted to the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Friday.According to the cited source, gross profit stood at 27.75 million RON, 17.3% higher compared to the pr»»»

The launch, by the European Commission, of an in-depth investigation into the amended restructuring plan for state-owned lignite power company CE Oltenia represents a normal step in the assessment process, the Energy Ministry said in a release."The amended restructuring plan of the Oltenia Energy C»»»

Romania's coal production totaled 1.873 million tons of oil equivalent (toe) last year, being 2.7% lower (minus 51,600 toe) compared to 2024, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Coal imports were, in 2025, 79,500 toe, down by 120,700 toe (minus 60.3%) compare»»»

The impact of rising natural gas prices at the Title Transfer Facility (TTF) hub based in Amsterdam is temporarily cushioned in Romania through price caps and domestic production, but if tensions persist, pressure on industry, inflation and the wider economy will become inevitable, believes Dumitru»»»

The Intesa Sanpaolo Group has granted an 85 million loan euros to an independent energy producer for the development of a hybrid photovoltaic solar and storage project in Romania, one of the largest hybrid renewable energy investments in Europe, the bank informs on Tuesday.The loan is intended for »»»

Over the next five years, Romania risks becoming an energy hub for Europe - but only as an exporter, because domestic consumption is collapsing, said Bogdan Nichisoiu, Regional Enhanced Information Manager at Coface Romania, on Wednesday."I was looking at Eurostat data on the energy dependence of E»»»

Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said Romania must meet the milestones under its National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) but also ensure the national energy system remains stable.Speaking in Brussels at a press conference after talks with European Commission officials, including President Ursula vo»»»

The US is reportedly engaging with Kurdish groups in ways that position them against the Iranian regime, including discussions on arming and supporting cross-border operations to tackle the Iranian regime, US media reported. The CIA is now working with some Kurdish groups, further building on histo»»»

Dubai: The Philippine Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has expressed its gratitude to the UAE government, as well as to other host countries in the Middle East, for their ongoing support in ensuring the safety and security of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) amid the increasing conflict in the r»»»

A 24-year-old Yryskeldi Akhatzhanov, convicted of drug-related offenses in Kursk, will be deported to Kyrgyzstan. The decision was issued by the Kirov District Court of the city. According to the joint press service of the courts in Kursk Oblast of Russia, an administrative claim filed by the regio»»»

Direct negotiations with buyers from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan will be held in Pskov, Russia. The Export Support Center of Pskov Oblast reported. The initiative was put forward as part of the business program of the interregional industrial cooperation forum. Manufacturers and»»»

Parliament Thursday put off until next week a hearing of a Deputy Energy Minister and of Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant CEO Ivan Andreev over “escalating costs for the annual planned maintenance programmes of Units 5 and 6 in 2026, including multimillion-euro deliveries in violation of the Public Pro»»»

A steep selloff ‌in US Treasuries extended into a fourth straight day on Thursday, as investors fretted that surging energy prices from the war in the Middle East could stoke inflation and derail the Federal Reserve's rate outlook. The benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield jumped as much as 5 basis p»»»

In Bansko, the winter tourism season is facing a severe crisis as the war in the Middle East triggers widespread cancellations. Reservations from Israel and other affected countries have been entirely scrapped, leaving hotels nearly empty. The local tourism sector warns that the season is on the br»»»

DOHA: Qatar Airways said that flight operations remain temporarily suspended due to the closure of Qatari airspace, and that they will resume once the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority announces the safe reopening of Qatari airspace by the relevant authorities. The carrier said in a statement on X tha»»»

On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill, in a famous speech in Fulton, Mo., stated that a Soviet Union "Iron Curtain" had "descended across" Europe. 1 of 5 | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (L) and U.S. President Harry S. Truman on March 4, 1946, wave from a train en route to Fulton, Mo., wher»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Germany has been left thinly protected against aerial attack due to the transfer of military systems to Ukraine and NATO's eastern flank, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing German officials familiar with the matter. Germany, Ukraine's largest European backer, o»»»

Tunis, March 5 (TAP) - Early morning fog is expected in some areas on Thursday. The sky will be partly cloudy to gradually overcast in western regions with scattered and temporarily stormy rain. Rain will affect the rest of the regions during the...»»»

Israel carried out strikes on Dahieh and South and east Lebanon Thursday, while Lebanese state media reported an Israeli drone strike killed a Hamas official in Tripoli's Beddawi. Two people were also killed in an Israeli strike on the Zahle highway Thursday. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East »»»

The 30th edition of the French Film Festival will take place between March 19 and 29 in Bucharest and 15 other cities across Romania, a release informs.The event, organized by the French Institute in Romania as part of Francophonie Month, will be held in: Bucharest over March 19 - 29, at Cinema Elv»»»

Rising oil prices, on the background of the Middle East conflict, risk to divert inflation from the basic scenario for the end of the year and affect the 1% estimated economic increase, said Iulian Lolea, head economist of Concordia Confederation at a press conference on Tuesday. Asked how economy »»»

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 6% in January, down 0.1 percentage points compared with December 2025, while youth unemployment remains at a high level of 28.2%, according to data the National Institute of Statistics (INS) published on Wednesday.The number of unemployed persons a»»»

The governing coalition met on Wednesday for a new round of talks on completing the draft State Budget.On Monday, in the first meeting of the week, the governing coalition decided that Wednesday would host the full budget closing session to complete all chapters and adopt the version agreed by the »»»

European Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi was awarded the Leipzig Robert Blum Prize for Democracy, and she announced that the prize money will be donated to Ukraine.The prize honours Ms Kovesi's advocacy for judicial independence, combating financial crime, and her decisive action in building »»»

PACE - Intai Romania senator Ninel Peia announced on Wednesday in plenary sitting the filing of a simple motion against Minister of Investments and European Projects Dragos Pislaru.Called "Dragos Pislaru, Ciolos's technocrat and minister without results," the motion is signed by 44 senators of the »»»

Combatting cross-border organised crime of all kind was among the subjects of discussion between senior official with Romania's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) Bogdan Despescu, and Federal Prosecutor John Hanley, coordinator of the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Tra»»»

The importance of the strategic partnership and of strengthened dialogue between Romanian and British MPs was highlighted on Wednesday during a meeting between President of the Senate Mircea Abrudean and a delegation of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.'Today I had the honour of w»»»

The Middle East conflict is already affecting the stock markets and interest rates, and the impact could become more severe if the situation drags on, Adrian Codirlasu, president of the Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) Romania Association, explained on Wednesday."What scared the European markets »»»

The French and Romanian armies are modernising on women's commitment, and leadership, courage and excellence are not about gender, but about competence and ambition, the French Ambassador to Romania, Nicolas Warnery, told an International Women's Day event."Our armies are modernising and transformi»»»

Romania's Defence Minister Radu Miruta, who was in Brussels on Wednesday, had a meeting with the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.According to the Romanian Defence Ministry (MApN), during the discussions, the Romanian official highlighted the importance of strengthening the def»»»

President of the Senate Mircea Abrudean, together with President of the Chamber of Deputies Sorin-Mihai Grindeanu, and their counterparts from the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, signed a joint statement marking the fourth anniversary of the Russian Federation's full-scale military invasion of the»»»