Dubai: Dubai gold prices fell to their lowest level this month on Monday morning, handing buyers a sizeable decline after rates remained elevated through much of the previous week. (Check latest UAE gold prices here, alongside prices in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and India.) Sign u»»»

BRUSSELS: European Union foreign ministers will on ‌Monday explore whether there is enough support for new measures to curb trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to diplomats and officials. The discussion will be based on a confidential paper by the European Commission»»»

MOSCOW: Drone attacks killed three people and wounded five in the Moscow region, the governor said on Monday, as Ukraine intensifies its strikes in response to Russia’s barrages. Ukraine has been striking Russia, particularly energy targets, which Kyiv says is fair retribution for Moscow’s more tha»»»

Dubai: Dubai Municipality has urged residents not to leave vehicles unattended in public spaces during summer travel or extended absences, warning that neglected cars can detract from the city's appearance and result in fines. With the annual holiday season under way, the municipality called on mot»»»

Rare party-government-military meeting exposes Pak Hui-chol's alleged bribery, embezzlement and abuse of personnel authority North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signing documents during the first enlarged meeting of the ninth Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea at the headquarter»»»

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Iranian Army launched coordinated strikes on US military installations in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait on Monday, escalating retaliation following US attacks that killed a civilian in Iran's Khuzestan province. The IRGC announced it destroyed f»»»

Options to restrict trade between the EU and illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank will be discussed by EU foreign affairs ministers on Monday (13 July). An import-licensing regime, higher tariffs, and a trade ban on imports from Israeli settlements are the main options on the table by the E»»»

As Dr Anil Menon prepares for his first journey to the International Space Station (ISS), Kerala’s Palakkad district is celebrating a rare space connection that links it to three astronauts. Menon, a NASA astronaut of Indian origin, is scheduled to launch aboard Russia’s Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft on J»»»

Interaction between the deaf and the hearing communities and the social integration of people with hearing impairments were in the focus of a BTA interview with Yordanka Dimitrova, Editor-in-Chief of the Tishina (Silence) newspaper of the Union of the Deaf in Bulgaria (UDB). The organization was fo»»»

Dubai: The Monday morning commute is off to a slow start, with multiple crashes and heavy traffic causing delays on major roads in Sharjah and Dubai according to Google Maps real time data. In Sharjah, motorists are experiencing heavy congestion on Emirates Road near Al Badee Suburb. Traffic is als»»»

Filipino cash remittances from overseas hit approximately $14.1 billion to $14.2 billion for the five-month period based on data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). The remittance growth hovered at modest single-digit percentages (around 2.5% to 3.5%) month-over-month, reflecting the overal»»»

On Monday, the National Assembly will adopt the 17th amendment to the Basic Law. The President of the Republic will have five days to sign it. If he does not do so, removal proceedings can be initiated against him — Prime Minister Péter Magyar wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday. The continuatio»»»

The gradual restart of news services has begun on the M1 channel, on public media radio platforms, and on digital platforms, the Press Department of Duna Médiaszolgáltató and the Médiaszolgáltatás-támogató és Vagyonkezelő Alap (MTVA) announced on Saturday evening regarding the coordinated news rest»»»

Using 32.3 billion forints (just under 90 million euros) in EU funds, construction work on the ring tram line between Szent Gellért tér and Budafoki út — along the riverside section in front of the Budapest University of Technology and the Infopark — will begin in autumn. Transport Minister Dávid V»»»

On the same day that the Ecofin Council approved Hungary's recovery and resilience plan, that Hungary's application to join the European Public Prosecutor's Office was accepted, and that Hungary took part in the meeting of the Friends of the Western Balkans group, "we have returned to Europe," Fore»»»

The US military has carried out another wave of strikes on Iran, targeting dozens of locations with precision weapons as tensions continue to escalate over the Strait of Hormuz. United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said the strikes were aimed at reducing Iran’s ability to attack international sh»»»

BUCARAMANGA, Colombia: Saudi Arabia’s national physics team won five international awards at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) in Colombia, while the Kingdom also secured the right to host the prestigious global competition in 2027, marking another milestone in its drive to strengthen »»»

Salaries at state-owned companies should be adjusted downward, Deputy Prime Minister Ivo Hristov said in an interview with Bulgarian National Television on Saturday. According to him, remuneration at some state enterprises is unrealistically high. He argued that current pay levels are based on flaw»»»

The US military and Iran exchanged further attacks over the weekend, with the conflict spreading concerns across Gulf nations and putting the Strait of Hormuz at the centre of the crisis. The Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important energy and shipping routes, has emerged as the focal po»»»

JAKARTA, Indonesia: A pickup truck carrying wedding guests was crushed between two trucks on a busy highway on Indonesia’s main island of Java, killing 13 people and injuring five others, police said Monday. The crash occurred Sunday afternoon on the northern coastal highway near Kiajaran Kulon vil»»»

Manila: A constitutional law expert has pushed back against claims that only the Senate President may preside over an impeachment trial and that 16 votes are needed as an absolute number to convict an official being impeached. The remarks came from legal scholar, Atty. Domingo Cayosa, who argued th»»»

The US military on Sunday said it had launched a new wave of attacks against Iran, after renewed fighting over the Strait of Hormuz saw several of Washington's Gulf allies targeted by incoming fire. The flare-up is the latest to undermine an interim agreement between Washington and Tehran aimed at »»»

Global oil prices surged more than 4% Monday after the United States launched a fresh wave of strikes against Iranian military targets, renewing fears that escalating tensions in the Arabian Gulf could disrupt crude shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important energy ch»»»

Rescue workers recover the bodies of fire victims outside the burned pub following a fire in Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday. At least 27 people were killed after a fire engulfed the pub, according to Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA July 12 (UPI) -- An intense fir»»»

KUBUQI DESERT, China: For half a century, millions of workers have repeated a task across the deserts in northern China: inserting forearm-length sticks into shifting sand, first in a row, then in an intersecting line, gradually forming a grid. Then saplings are planted at the center of each small »»»