US President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to help Lebanon "a lot" as its president, Joseph Aoun, sought Washington's backing for a fragile effort to disarm Hezbollah and forge a path to peace with Israel. Reporting from Jerusalem, FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky explains how the meeting between Aoun and»»»

The UN refugee agency said Tuesday that 144 people were reported dead or missing following "tragic maritime incidents" off the coast of Mauritania last week. Two children who were brought safely ashore from one of the sinking boats had lost all of their families during the journey from Gambia. The »»»

Damascus, July 21 (SANA) Transport Minister Yarub Badr met on Tuesday with a World Bank team via video conference to discuss mechanisms for implementing railway development projects and rehabilitating Syria’s rail infrastructure, as part of ongoing cooperation to finance priority infrastructure pro»»»

In Ukraine, protesters say they’re giving Volodymyr Zelensky until Friday to re-instate the popular Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, and fire General Oleksandr Syrsky, the military chief of staff. The President removed Fedorov from his post last week, citing a clash between the two men. The prote»»»

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday dismissed Ukraine's military leader Oleksandr Syrsky following public pressure and named Major ​General ‌Mykhailo ⁠Drapaty, an ally of ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, as new commander-in-chief. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said T»»»

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani received a telephone call from HE Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi. During the call, they discussed bilateral relations and ways»»»

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani held a phone call with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain HE Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al Zayani. During the call, they discussed bilateral relations and ways to suppor»»»

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks in April during a House Armed Services Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. On Tuesday, the Department of Defense released the name of a soldier killed Sunday in Iraq while supporting U.S. attacks on Iran. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI |»»»

DOHA: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani held a phone call with Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia HH Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah Al Saud. During the call, they reviewed the relations of cooperation between th»»»

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani held a phone call with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia HH Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah Al Saud. During the call, they discussed bilateral relations »»»

Smoke from wildfires in Canada creates a haze over the Andy Warhol Bridge in Pittsburgh on Friday. Photo by Archie Carpenter/UPI. | License Photo More episodes of wildfire smoke are in the offing for parts of Canada and the midwestern and northeastern United States, as the weather pattern in the co»»»

Washington: Jordan and the United States signed Tuesday a reciprocal trade agreement aimed at strengthening bilateral economic ties and providing exporters from both countries with greater access to each other's markets. Under the deal, the US will reduce reciprocal tariffs imposed on Jordanian goo»»»

Dubai: UAE-based Indians who need to file an Indian Income Tax Return have until July 31, 2026, to submit it for income earned during the 2025-26 financial year. Get updated faster and for FREE: Download the Gulf News app now - simply click here.The return relates to Assessment Year 2026-27. India’»»»

1 of 2 | Several Red Cross members attend to a migrant upon his arrival at the port of Arrecife on Lanzarote island in the Canary Islands, southwestern Spain, on July 14. Photo by Adriel Perdomo/EPA July 21 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency announced Tuesday that 144 refugees and migrants have died »»»

HELSINKI: Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo and his government on Tuesday survived a confidence vote called over handling of a plan to develop a massive Helskinki complex anchored by a 19,000-seat stadium. Weeks of controversy have dogged government’s approach to the project, called Garden Hels»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Waleed Elkhereiji received Ambassador of India to the Kingdom Dr. Suhel Ajaz Khan on the occasion of the end of his term as his country’d ambassador in Riyadh on Tuesday. Elkhereiji appreciated the good efforts made by Khan in strengthening bilateral»»»

Paris: French lawmakers on Tuesday adopted a bill banning children under 15 from using social media, making France the first country in the European Union to approve a blanket ban on the platforms as concerns grow worldwide over the harmful effects of digital content on kids. Both chambers of the P»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Waleed Elkhereiji received Ambassador of India to the Kingdom Dr. Suhel Ajaz Khan on the occasion of the end of his term as his country’d ambassador in Riyadh on Tuesday. Elkhereiji appreciated the good efforts made by Khan in strengthening bilateral»»»

RIYADH: The Saudi mathematics team won six awards — three silver medals and three bronze — at the 67th International Mathematical Olympiad, in Shanghai, China, which boasted the participation of 666 students representing 117 countries. Yousef Ayman Bakhit, from the Royal Commission Yanbu; Abdulsala»»»

RIYADH: A delegation from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center met on Tuesday in Manila with representatives of the Department of Social Welfare and Development of the Philippines. During the meeting, the two sides discussed ways to provide humanitarian and relief assistance, as well »»»

RIYADH: The Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Royal Nature Reserve Development Authority recorded the participation of 11,439 beehives in the Talh and Sidr seasons as of early July, as part of its efforts to regulate beekeeping activities, preserve vegetation cover, and promote the sustainable use of natural»»»

RIYADH: The library of the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Global Center for Arabic Calligraphy library houses almost 2,000 specialized titles in 11 international languages, as well as about 450 rare editions of books in the field. The library is the world’s largest and first specialized library dedicat»»»

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands during a press conference about withholding Medicaid funds from Minnesota and California Tuesday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo July 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday it is withhol»»»

KUWAIT CITY: Residents of Kuwait, one of the world’s hottest countries, are cutting their use of air conditioning at the height of summer, as Iranian strikes on power plants turn rationing into a national priority. Kuwaiti authorities have called on the public to consume less energy so that they ca»»»

The Black Sea Mine Countermeasures Naval Group (MCM Black Sea) destroyed a drifting drone in the Black Sea after it was spotted 21 nautical miles off the Bulgarian coastal town of Ahtopol, the Bulgarian Defence Ministry reported on Tuesday. The unmanned aerial vehicle was detected after the ships o»»»

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has directed his administration to "allow all U.S. airline carriers to fly directly to Lebanon so that Americans can easily visit this beautiful land." "After meeting with the President of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun, who has done a remarkable job work»»»

Nicaragua President President Daniel Ortega announced Sunday that his country would no longer hold democratic elections. File Photo by Jader Flores/EPA July 21 (UPI) -- The United States accused Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife and co-president, Rosario Murillo, of leading a "dictato»»»

FARNBOROUGH: The Middle East’s aviation sector is open ‌for business, aviation executives representing regional businesses, including Emirates’ President Tim Clark, said on Tuesday, seeking to ease worries about spiraling conflict. Middle Eastern carriers have seen their traffic drop since the Isra»»»

Abu Dhabi: Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, received Dr. Badr Abdelatty, Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, and Egyptian Expatriates. During the meeting, held in Abu Dhabi, the two sides discussed developments i»»»

FARNBOROUGH: The Middle East’s aviation sector is open ‌for business, aviation executives representing regional businesses, including Emirates’ President Tim Clark, said on Tuesday, seeking to ease worries about spiraling conflict. Middle Eastern carriers have seen their traffic drop since the Isra»»»

LONDON: Enzo Fernandez insists Argentina represented themselves in the “best possible way” at the World Cup despite the Chelsea midfielder’s red card in the final and a host of ugly incidents in their controversial campaign. Fernandez was sent off for a second booking after clattering into Spain’s »»»

DALLAS: The first 48-team World Cup has barely finished, but Gianni Infantino has already acknowledged the possibility that soccer’s biggest tournament could one day grow larger still, a move that could fundamentally alter the economics of the sport. Speaking to Swiss television during the tourname»»»

PARIS: The French foreign ministry summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires on Tuesday, two days after it said French embassy staff had been detained and physically intimidated by Iranian security services in Tehran. “France expects the Iranian authorities to shed light on this ‌incident, punish ‌the»»»

US President Donald Trump is allegedly pressing the new British prime minister, Andy Burnham, to continue allowing American forces to use UK military bases for strikes on Iran, The Telegraph claimed on Tuesday. The report came after the two leaders held their first phone call on Monday, shortly aft»»»

Doha: The State of Qatar has strongly condemned renewed Iranian attacks against Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait, including the targeting of the Kuwaiti tanker Kaifan while transiting the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement on Tuesday, Qatar's Foreign Ministry said the attacks constituted a "flagrant violat»»»

President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday presented U.S. President Donald Trump in their Washington meeting with a formal plan to disarm Hezbollah and strengthen the Lebanese Army's authority, a U.S. source said. "Aoun's plan to Trump constitutes an implementation roadmap for the framework agreement between»»»

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved another tranche of its loan to Ukraine despite acknowledging that Kiev isn’t on schedule implementing reforms aimed at tackling corruption. In a statement issued on Monday, the IMF said its Executive Board had completed the first review of Ukraine’»»»

Kigali: The inaugural flight of SalamAir, Oman's low-cost carrier, arrived at Kigali International Airport from Muscat on Tuesday, marking the start of direct flights between Oman and Rwanda. On Monday in Muscat, Rwanda's ambassador to Oman Dan Munyuza and SalamAir chief executive officer Adrian Ha»»»

Ukrainian Serhii Kuznetsov, who has been charged in Germany over the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, allegedly said that he had served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and worked for the country's Security Service, Stern reports, citing an indictment by Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office. “Kuznets»»»

Only slightly more than 80 Polish municipalities have adopted landscape resolutions regulating outdoor advertising, small architectural structures, and fences. The Ministry of Development and Technology is reviewing whether the current voluntary system effectively addresses visual advertising clutt»»»

Growing trust in mobile banking means 57% of Poles sometimes leave their traditional wallets at home and rely entirely on their smartphones for payments, according to Santander Consumer Bank. Eighty-one percent say banking apps make everyday money management easier and save time. The trend is stron»»»

The European Union has sharply reduced its dependence on Russian gas since the invasion of Ukraine, but it now relies increasingly on liquefied natural gas, especially from the United States. LNG accounts for about half of EU gas imports from non-EU countries, while U.S. deliveries rose from 14 bil»»»

President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday expressed gratitude for the United States' support of Lebanon following his meeting in Washington with counterpart Donald Trump at the White House. In a statement, the Presidency said Aoun wrote in the White House guest book that he felt "deep appreciation for Presi»»»

Washington: US President Donald Trump has affirmed that Iran wants to hold talks with the United States but stressed that starting talks depends on Tehran's readiness to hold what he described as "meaningful talks." Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Trump said the Iranians "want to meet desperately", »»»

Egypt is currently drafting its second five-year National Human Rights Strategy for the 2026-2031 period to consolidate the values of democracy, citizenship, and the rule of law, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Egyptian Expatriates Badr Abdelatty told a European Parliamen»»»

BAGHDAD: A US soldier killed in Iraq during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone was a 30-year-old father from North Carolina who had served for nearly a decade, according to a military statement Tuesday and his family. Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, of Fayetteville, will receive a Bronze St»»»

By Wade SheridanFrance celebrates Bastille Day with an air show and fireworks on Tuesday. Bastille Day is France's national holiday, which marks the anniversary of the 1789 revolution, when French nationals fought for their liberty and civic emancipation. Jets from the French Air and Space Force's »»»

Lebanese Education Minister Rima Karami describes what it will take to put the country's educational system back together. Photo courtesy of Lebanese Education Ministry. BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 21 (UPI) -- Lebanon's education sector, which has been in a protracted crisis since the country's 2019 fina»»»

July 21 (UPI) -- A famous bald eagle who went missing from her California nest was found unable to fly after an attack, but veterinarians said she seems to have evaded major injuries. Jackie, a bald eagle who, along with partner Shadow, became famous as the subjects of a livestream camera set up by»»»