Dubai: Etihad Airways is pushing deeper into long-haul growth with the launch of its first-ever nonstop service between the Middle East and Calgary, opening a new direct air corridor between the UAE and Western Canada and giving travellers a faster route between two globally significant economic re»»»

The Minister of Health of Kyrgyzstan, Kanybek Dosmambetov, met with Professor Zhenishbek Nazaraliev, an addiction specialist, at the Ministry of Health. They discussed measures to develop a state-run rehabilitation system for people with drug addiction. According to the ministry’s press center, the»»»

Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliev met with Yoshikawa Yoshifumi, Senior Vice President at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). According to the government press service, the parties discussed projects implemented in the country with the agency’s supp»»»

Minister of Health of Kyrgyzstan Kanybek Dosmambetov noted the importance of restructuring the logistics and pharmacy chain El Aman. According to the Ministry of Health’s press center, the state-owned enterprise Kyrgyzfarmatsiya plans to receive a state loan of 2 billion soms in the near future. Of»»»

Dubai: Bahraini rapper Flipperachi has officially entered the Guinness World Records after his song Fa9la (pronounced Faasla), featured in Ranveer Singh’s blockbuster Dhurandhar, topped the Arabia Charts with the highest number of billboards. The achievement has made the artist a household name in »»»

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. On Thursday, Trump said he was decertifying all Canada-made planes. File Photo by Francis Chung/UPI | License Photo Jan. 30 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Th»»»

The Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic approved an action plan for 2026 to implement the National Development Program until 2030. The corresponding decision was signed by Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Adylbek Kasymaliev. It is noted that four main development vectors have been ident»»»

Dubai: Dubai gold prices cooled slightly on Friday morning after a dramatic rally that pushed rates to record territory earlier in the week, even as prices remained close to historic highs and market volatility kept buyers and traders on edge. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Ba»»»

A newlywed man and his family member died by suicide in Karnataka’s Davangere district after the wife allegedly eloped with her lover just two to three months into the marriage, police and local media reported. The case has prompted investigators to register multiple cases and is under active inqui»»»

President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov addressed issues of human rights and freedom of speech in his traditional interview with Kabar news agency. Photo Kabar According to him, both freedom of speech and democracy exist in the country. «Compared to the past, freedom of speech is no less widespread n»»»

New York: A man falsely claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in New York City on Wednesday night and told officers he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, authorities said. Mark Anderson, 36, of Mankato, Minnesota, was arrested and charged with impersonating an FBI agent »»»

The European Commission has approved a plan for the export of Kyrgyz honey and added it to its special list under the EU technical regulation permitting imports into the European Union, the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Kyrgyz Republic reported. According to the ministry, the »»»

A one-year-old boy in northern China’s Shanxi province was hospitalised with more than 600 needle marks on his body, authorities reported, triggering a police investigation into suspected abuse. The child, identified in local media as Wang Wang, was admitted to a hospital in Hunyuan County earlier »»»

Greenland may consider returning to the European Union for national security reasons amid threats from the United States, Bentiaraq Ottosen, deputy speaker of the Greenlandic parliament, told Sputnik. "Also, I mean that if we hit a bad economic tariff from the US, so we need to take to the European»»»

The United Nations believes that the right for self-determination is not applicable in Crimea and Donbass, like it does in Greenland, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday. “And after a very careful study by our Office of Legal Affairs, it is our position that the principle of self»»»

Dubai: Ranveer Singh’s action-packed Bollywood spy thriller Dhurandhar has finally made its OTT debut on Netflix after a successful theatrical run. However, instead of celebration, the film’s streaming release has sparked disappointment and criticism from fans over unexpected censorship and muted d»»»

Sexual and gender-based violence "is being used systematically to terrorise the population" in Haiti's stricken capital Port-au-Prince, Doctors Without Borders said Thursday in a report based on 10 years of data from its clinic there. The medical charity, which goes by its French acronym MSF, said »»»

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez signed a law on Thursday opening the oil sector to privatisation, reversing two decades of socialist policy. Lawmakers approved the overhaul earlier as Washington eased sanctions, expanding US firms’ operations weeks after President Nicolas Maduro was se»»»

During the Cold War, Nato consistently prioritised strengthening its naval aviation, investing heavily in aircraft carriers and enhancing its surface fleets. At that stage of the strategic competition, the Soviets recognised they could not compete in carrier warfare, so they focused instead on subm»»»

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly offered to host a teleconference between US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in a bid to ease tensions and avert a potentially major American military strike on Iran. »»»

During the Cold War, Nato consistently prioritised strengthening its naval aviation, investing heavily in aircraft carriers and enhancing its surface fleets. At that stage of the strategic competition, the Soviets recognised they could not compete in carrier warfare, so they focused instead on subm»»»

During the Cold War, Nato consistently prioritised strengthening its naval aviation, investing heavily in aircraft carriers and enhancing its surface fleets. At that stage of the strategic competition, the Soviets recognised they could not compete in carrier warfare, so they focused instead on subm»»»

After decades of debate and analysis, Bangladesh remains trapped in an export structure that is both narrow and increasingly risky, writes Dr Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, economist and chairman of Research and Policy Integration for Development (RAPID), in The Daily Star. The persistence of this issue »»»

During the Cold War, Nato consistently prioritised strengthening its naval aviation, investing heavily in aircraft carriers and enhancing its surface fleets. At that stage of the strategic competition, the Soviets recognised they could not compete in carrier warfare, so they focused instead on subm»»»

During the Cold War, Nato consistently prioritised strengthening its naval aviation, investing heavily in aircraft carriers and enhancing its surface fleets. At that stage of the strategic competition, the Soviets recognised they could not compete in carrier warfare, so they focused instead on subm»»»

After decades of debate and analysis, Bangladesh remains trapped in an export structure that is both narrow and increasingly risky, writes Dr Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, economist and chairman of Research and Policy Integration for Development (RAPID), in The Daily Star. The persistence of this issue »»»

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly offered to host a teleconference between US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in a bid to ease tensions and avert a potentially major American military strike on Iran. »»»

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly offered to host a teleconference between US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in a bid to ease tensions and avert a potentially major American military strike on Iran. »»»

During the Cold War, Nato consistently prioritised strengthening its naval aviation, investing heavily in aircraft carriers and enhancing its surface fleets. At that stage of the strategic competition, the Soviets recognised they could not compete in carrier warfare, so they focused instead on subm»»»

During the Cold War, Nato consistently prioritised strengthening its naval aviation, investing heavily in aircraft carriers and enhancing its surface fleets. At that stage of the strategic competition, the Soviets recognised they could not compete in carrier warfare, so they focused instead on subm»»»

Kamchybek Chotoev, a 70-year-old resident of the village of Kadzhi-Sai in Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, became a social media sensation after he assembled a flying machine with his own hands, fulfilling a long-held childhood dream. Videos and photos of the homemade plane are rapidly spreading onl»»»

Dubai Police issued an advisory for drivers in the UAE this morning, calling for them to adhere to the posted speed limits to ensure their own safety and the safety of others. This is a particularly apt call on a day when traffic is seen running generally smoothly across Dubai, with the exception o»»»

The U.S. administration supports legislation to repeal the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which restricts U.S. trade with the Central Asian republics. The U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio confirmed the information. «We agree,» he said at a hearing of theSenate Committee o»»»

About 1.2 million fewer health insurance plans for individuals were sold during the Affordable Care Act's open enrollment period that ended on January 15 when compared to a year ago as federal subsidies expired at the end of 2025. Photo by Bilal Al Hammoud/EPA Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Enrollments in Afford»»»

The Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg ruled in the case against blogger Ekaterina Bivol, the former wife of Russian and Kyrgyz boxer Dmitry Bivol. She was found guilty of an administrative offense for publishing insults against Kyrgyz and Kazakhs and sentenced her to 60 hours of community s»»»

Washington: President Donald Trump and his Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the administration is reasserting US military deterrence, citing strikes, deployments and aggressive action against drug traffickers and pirates. Also Read: Timeline: US military's buildup near Venezuela and attacks on a»»»

President Donald Trump participates in a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, the same day he sued the federal government for $10 billion. Photo by Aaron Schwartz/UPI | License Photo Jan. 29 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump sued the federal government on Thursday for $»»»

Washington: President Donald Trump said the United States will reopen commercial airspace over Venezuela and described a new phase of engagement that includes US oil companies scouting opportunities in the country. Trump told a Cabinet meeting he had spoken with Venezuela’s interim president and or»»»

From his newly built three-storey home outside Hanoi, Trinh Tat Thang has watched the surging global gold price with mounting dread. The Vietnamese have a long tradition of holding their wealth in gold, and a parallel practice of borrowing the asset from relatives to build homes, rather than cash f»»»

US President Donald Trump and his two sons have filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against the federal government over leaks of their business and personal tax returns. The civil complaint, filed in Miami federal court, seeks $10bn (£7.25bn) in damages. The Trump family accuses the Internal Revenue Ser»»»

Abu Dhabi: A routine family drive through one of Abu Dhabi’s busiest intersections turned into a terrifying ordeal when a 10-month-old baby unexpectedly opened a moving car door while sitting on his mother’s lap. The incident occurred on Friday, January 13, at Al Salam intersection, with the childr»»»

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said he plans to announce his choice for chairman of the Federal Reserve on Friday morning, a long-awaited decision that could set up a showdown on whether the US central bank preserves its independence from the White House and electoral politics. Also Read: US Fe»»»

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that would impose a tariff on any goods from countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, a move that puts pressure on Mexico. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said this week that her government had at least temporarily stop»»»

US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Russia's Vladimir Putin agreed to a "personal request" to halt attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, after Moscow's strikes left millions without heating during an "extreme" cold snap. Trump's claim comes as Russian strikes on Ukraine's power infra»»»

CEBU, Philippines: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations does not recognize the recently held elections in Myanmar, the first since the army seized power in 2021, the Philippine foreign secretary said Thursday. Asean's non-recognition of the elections in Myanmar, which a military-backed party »»»

Five British immigration officers have appeared in court on charges of stealing cash from illegal migrants who arrived in the UK across the English Channel on small boats, Reuters reported on Thursday. The officers were charged at Westminster Magistrates’ Court with conspiracy to steal, misconduct »»»

Mumbai (Maharashtra): The United States government reaffirmed its commitment to a strong, results-oriented energy partnership with India at the ongoing India Energy Week (IEW) 2026, which runs from January 27 to 30, 2026 in Goa. Engagements focussed on expanding energy trade, strengthening infrastr»»»

US President Donald Trump said "hopefully", he won't need military action against Iran. On Wednesday, Trump threatened Iran with an attack "far worse" than the strikes he ordered against the country's nuclear sites in June if Tehran doesn't agree to a deal to curb its nuclear programme. The US lead»»»

Dubai: Ever since the foundation work of Ciel Dubai Marina began a few years ago, Nicholas Scalabrino watched the skyscraper rise floor by floor from the premises of Skydive Dubai. As the world's tallest hotel took shape, so did a dream: one that would see him hurtle through the narrow opening on t»»»

PoliticsVenezuelaVenezuela opens its oil sector to private investorsSrinivas Mazumdaru with AP, AFP, ReutersWashington has put pressure on Caracas for access to its crude reserves since it seized then President Nicolas Maduro less than a month ago. https://p.dw.com/p/57iTmYears of underinvestment, »»»