Presidential and vice-presidential candidates Andrey Gurov and Georgi Kandev are leading in Serbia, with 100% of the tally sheets processed from Sunday's Bulgarian presidential election. According to data published on the Central Election Commission's (CEC) website, the Gyurov-Kandev ticket receive»»»

Tokyo: The Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs HE Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al Khulaifi met in Tokyo on Monday with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan HE Toshimitsu Motegi. During the meeting, the two sides reviewed the cooperative relations and ways to support an»»»

Doha, Qatar: The General Authority of Customs has announced that both registered and non-registered individuals can now authorize an approved customs clearance agency through the Al-Nadeeb system. In a social media post, the authority outlined the steps for completing the authorization process thro»»»

Hungary’s competition authority says Aldi misled consumers by claiming to offer the widest range of products and the best deals without sufficient objective evidence to back up the slogans. Aldi has been fined HUF 123 million (approximately EUR 335,000) by Hungary’s Competition Authority (GVH) over»»»

Police seek cancellation of 17-year-old’s bail after crash in Kochi sparks public outrage Kerala Police have registered a case against an Additional District Judge whose 17-year-old son allegedly drove a Mercedes-Benz that killed a scooter rider in Cheranelloor, near Kochi. Police are also preparin»»»

Nuclear, energy and military sites in crosshairs as Trump weighs major strikes Dubai: The Pentagon has drawn up an extensive list of Iranian targets, including nuclear facilities, energy infrastructure and military installations, as US forces prepare for a potentially major assault that could drama»»»

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said the upcoming presidential runoff would be a choice between peace and war, democracy and corruption, urging voters to support Iliana Yotova and warning against complacency, this was reported from his remarks to journalists at the Sofia Economic Forum. Radev »»»

Andrey Gyurov and Georgi Kandev won the first round of Bulgaria’s presidential election among voters abroad with 45.79% of the vote, while Iliana Yotova and Kiril Valchev placed second with 22.79%, according to Central Election Commission results based on all protocols processed from overseas polli»»»

DFSA bans Gary Joseph Peters from financial services over concealed fraud convictions Dubai: The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has fined Gary Joseph Peters $210,000 (Dh771,330) for providing false and misleading information during a regulatory investigation and failing to submit documen»»»

Thousands of trucks remain stranded on both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border despite the resumption of limited overland trade between the two countries, southwest Pakistan business representatives told AFP on Monday. Mir Naveed Jan Kalmati, president of the chamber of commerce for Gwadar city on P»»»

Collectors’ Week returns to Abu Dhabi in December with six auctions across art and luxury Sotheby’s will return to Abu Dhabi this December for the second edition of Collectors’ Week, introducing its first international fine art auction in the emirate alongside sales of luxury watches, jewellery, ha»»»

60-year-old man undergoes procedure in a Dubai hospital to remove 2cm-long, 1cm-wide bone Dubai: For nearly two months, Unnikrishnan Sivaraman, a 60-year-old Indian expat living in Sharjah, struggled with a persistent cough, chest congestion and increasing difficulty in breathing. The cause was a s»»»

Israel's defense minister denied on Monday reports of a rift between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the army over Iran, as the premier's rivals seized on the story as a line of attack a day before close elections. Over the course of a neck-and-neck race, Netanyahu has campaigned heavily on h»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Vostok battlegroup liberated the settlement of Obshchee in the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday. Ukraine lost up to 340 soldiers in combat against Russia's Tsentr battlegroup over the past day, in addition to losses in manpower and equipment»»»

Presidential and vice-presidential candidates Iliana Iotova and Kiril Valchev, and Andrey Gurov and Georgi Kandev, will face each other in a runoff next Sunday, November 1. The Iotova-Valchev ticket has secured 34.76% of the vote, while Gurov-Kandev has received 31.95%, with 99.95% of tally sheets »»»

The choice is clear and so is what is at stake: on Sunday, voters will choose between peace and war, between democracy and the corruption model of the “assemblage” [a derogatory term referring to the formation of governments by politically incompatible entities], and between the calm of truth and t»»»

Khartoum: Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces launched a coordinated drone attack Monday against five power stations, causing mass power outages across the country's east, a government official told AFP. The drones hit two power stations each in the states of Al-Jazira and Gedaref, and one in»»»

Iranian Navy Deputy Commander of Operations Rear Admiral Farhad Fattahi outlined on Monday the Islamic Republic’s military achievements during its confrontation with the United States, stressing that Iranian missile strikes and drone operations inflicted damage on US naval assets and thwarted Washi»»»

By Staff, Agencies Serbia’s student-led opposition is leading in Sunday’s snap parliamentary election, according to preliminary results prompting former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to accuse European powers and anti-Trump elements in the US of meddling in the vote to “bring down a sovereign »»»

By Staff, Agencies “Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has clashed with Army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir over a proposed military operation that could trigger a confrontation with Iran ahead of the country’s October 27 parliamentary election, according to Channel 12. The broadcaster reported »»»

Doha, Qatar: Bearys Qatar and BCCI Qatar jointly organised a Blood Donation and Health Check-Up Drive in collaboration with American Hospital, Doha, on Friday, October 23, 2026. The initiative aimed to promote community health, encourage voluntary blood donation, and raise awareness about regular h»»»

Vladimir Zelensky’s disregard for Donald Trump is doing more damage to the US president’s interests than Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela do combined, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday. Ukraine’s leader has publicly backed Trump’s predecessor and former political rival, Joe Biden, re»»»

Prime Minister Edi Rama has once again called for dialogue with protesting students, this time introducing a new setting outside the government headquarters in Tirana. In a post on Facebook, Rama shared images of a stone table placed in front of the Prime Minister’s Office, with written invitations»»»

Prime Minister Edi Rama has convened a meeting of the Socialist Party’s parliamentary group on Monday, as protests continue to grip the country and the government prepares potential legal changes targeting violence at demonstrations. The meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the headquarters of the A»»»

A serene green escape under the trees at Al Rahba, Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi- For years, the small green patch near the BAPS Mandir was somewhere drivers passed on their way elsewhere, a quiet corner kept tidy by the government and noticed by almost no one. Then people began stopping for a walk in the sh»»»