Former prime minister Viktor Orban used his annual address at the Baile Tusnad summer university in Romania to outline Fidesz's strategy after its April election defeat, calling on supporters to organise a broad "national resistance" movement against what he described as the increasingly authoritar»»»

Poland’s largest opposition party fractured on July 24 after former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and his loyalists rejected an ultimatum from Law and Justice (PiS) chairman, Jarosław Kaczyński, to abandon their in-party Rozwój Plus (Development Plus) association. “Thirty-something” MPs ha»»»

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Djuro Macut said in the parliament on Monday his government fully deserved to win a no-confidence vote requested by the opposition. Macut said he hoped the government would continue to work at full pace, and noted that his cabinet would not be judged according to front pages, »»»

Tunis, July 27 (TAP) - Tunindex closed Monday's session down 1.9% to 20,450.39 points, with a traded volume of TND 9.6 million, said broker Tunisie Valeurs. CELLCOM shares were the best performers after rising by 4% to TND 2.080, trading for...»»»

Kazakhstan’s leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged Russia’s Vladimir Putin to “freeze” the war in Ukraine and stated that his country “does not understand its nature”, speaking during televised talks held in Omsk, Siberia, on July 25. Kazakhstan has not previously spoken out against the conflict expli»»»

A full blown and fast moving drones arms race is playing out in the wheat fields of Ukraine with each side constantly trying to leapfrog its opponent. Both sides have taken the lead at one time or another only to lose it again as technicians dream are constantly dreaming up new features followed by»»»

Kazakhstan’s leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged Russia’s Vladimir Putin to “freeze” the war in Ukraine and stated that his country “does not understand its nature”, speaking during televised talks held in Omsk, Siberia, on July 25. Kazakhstan has not previously spoken out against the conflict expli»»»

Sweden is establishing a new civilian intelligence agency to improve its monitoring of Russia’s political leadership, former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt has told The Economist. First announced in May and modeled on Britain’s MI6, Sweden’s Foreign Intelligence Service (UND) is due to begin ope»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index was steady on Monday, as it gained 2.28 points — or 0.02 percent — to close at 10,769.12. The total trading turnover of the benchmark index stood at SR4.44 billion ($1.18 billion), with 120 of the listed stocks advancing and 136 declining. The Kingdom’»»»

RIYADH: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh has performed Saudi Arabia’s first laser interstitial thermal therapy procedure, expanding treatment options for selected patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy and certain brain tumors. The minimally invasive procedure, whi»»»

Footage from traffic cameras suggests the crash was most likely caused by a technical malfunction, acting Sofia Police Director Chief Commissioner Nikolay Peltekov told reporters after a city bus crossed the central barrier and entered oncoming traffic on Tsarigradsko Shose Boulevard in Sofia on Mo»»»

Member of Loyalty to Resistance Bloc, Dr. Hussein Hajj Hasan, underlined steadfastness, patience and popular support as elements of Resistance power in addition to the religious faith. MP Hajj Hasan’s made his remarks while addressing a memorial ceremony which was held at the Imam Al-Baqir (AS) Com»»»

RAMALLAH: Palestinian health workers said a woman delivered a stillborn baby in an ambulance after the vehicle was allegedly delayed by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Monday. The 28-year-old woman was six months pregnant and unconscious when medics collected her from »»»

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham (pictured) was due to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a Royal Navy base on Monday, marking his first international visitor since replacing Keir Starmer a week ago. File photo by Henry Nicholls/EPA July 27 (UPI) -- New British Prime Minister Andy Bu»»»

DUBAI: A diverse slate of films supported by the Red Sea Film Foundation has been selected for this year’s Amman International Film Festival, underlining the Saudi organization’s growing role in championing Arab and international independent cinema. The festival runs until Aug. 3. The selected titl»»»

Dubai: Indian model Rhiya Ahir, who shot to prominence after standing in front of a moving police van during a student protest at Mumbai's Shivaji Park, will file a complaint with the cyber cell alleging that she has been subjected to online threats, abusive messages and morphed images following th»»»

Dubai: Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has expanded its e-bike delivery service to seven more areas across the emirate after a successful pilot programme that began in February. The new areas are Al Twar 1, Al Twar 2, Al Qusais 1, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard, Dubai Media City, »»»

Signs of de-escalation have emerged after three days without reported US or Iranian strikes, raising cautious hopes that diplomacy could avert a wider regional conflict. However, tensions remain high after Saudi Arabia intercepted drones targeting oil facilities, while uncertainty persists around t»»»

A Chinese citizen died at a brick factory in Kara-Suu district of Osh region after falling into a working industrial machine, the Internal Affairs Department of Osh region told 24.kg news agency. According to police, a report about the incident was received on July 26 at around 8 p.m. The accident »»»

LONDON: An Israeli drone strike injured three Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip on Monday morning, according to Palestinian media reports. The drone fired on the fishermen near the Gaza port as they were preparing to return to shore, the Palestinian Authority’s WAFA news agency »»»

RIYADH: The Restoration Center at the King Abdulaziz Public Library in Riyadh has reached a milestone after restoring and treating 10,861 items from the library’s collections, including historical photographs, documents, maps, rare books, manuscripts, newspapers, and periodicals. The work was carri»»»

Dubai: Pakistan has a “historic opportunity” to interrupt wild poliovirus transmission and move closer than ever to eradicating polio, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said after a high-level international delegation visited the country to assess progress and reaffirm support for the government’»»»

A city bus crashed through a central barrier and entered oncoming traffic on Tsarigradsko Shose Boulevard in Sofia on Monday, police said. Drivers in the oncoming lanes managed to stop in time, preventing a collision with the bus. Four people were injured during the incident. A 45-year-old man suff»»»

Palestinian health workers said a woman delivered a stillborn baby in an ambulance after the vehicle was delayed by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Monday. The 28-year-old woman was six months pregnant and unconscious when medics collected her from her home in the vill»»»

Dubai: Wildfires continue to devastate southwestern France and central Spain, leaving a trail of destruction across communities and forests. In France, the massive blaze near Bordeaux has scorched around 42,000 hectares, destroying homes in areas including Lège-Cap-Ferret and forcing the evacuation»»»

Attacks delivered by Argentine President Javier Milei against his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over the weekend has resulted in a summoning of the Argentine ambassador to Brasilia. File Photo by Peter Foley/UPI.. | License Photo July 26 (UPI) -- Brazil's foreign ministry has summ»»»

The Health Ministry has received no information indicating that production of the BCG vaccine has been halted, the Ministry's press office told BTA on Monday in response to questions about protests by employees of the company that manufactures the vaccine. The Ministry said it has a supply contract»»»

Kathmandu, Nepal: Nepal's first-ever highway tunnel was formally inaugurated on Monday, marking a major milestone in its transport infrastructure development. The 2.68-km tunnel section of the busy Prithvi Highway at Nagdhunga, the main gateway to the Kathmandu Valley, is expected to reduce travel »»»

Damascus, July 27 (SANA) Two fuel shipments have arrived at Baniyas maritime terminal, including a tanker carrying 64,324 metric tonnes of diesel and another carrying 5,620.3 metric tonnes of liquefied gas, as efforts continue to maintain petroleum product supplies in the domestic market. The Syria»»»

A city bus crashed through a central barrier and entered oncoming traffic on Tsarigradsko Shose Boulevard in Sofia on Monday, police said. Drivers in the oncoming lanes managed to stop in time, preventing a collision with the bus. A 45-year-old man suffered an arm injury, while a 50-year-old woman »»»

Is Volodymyr Zelenskiy more focused on his own political survival than on winning the war? That is the question The Spectator's Owen Matthews asked after the Ukrainian president's sacking of his popular defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, and — days later — his chief of the general staff, Oleksandr»»»

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that a Ukrainian strike on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea would not go unanswered, after Kyiv claimed responsibility for a wave of drone attacks on Russian energy and military targets in the region. The strikes pull Iran directly into »»»

New Delhi, India: An Indian policeman in the eastern state of Bihar was suspended after a video of him firing an AK-47 against protesting students went viral on social media, multiple local media reports said Monday. The policeman used the assault rifle while chasing the protesting students during »»»

Health Minister of Kyrgyzstan Damir Osmonov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Kyrgyzstan Birender Singh Yadav visited the National Center of Oncology and Hematology, where India officially handed over a new Cobalt-60 radioactive source for a Bhabhatron external beam radio»»»

Three members of the same family were killed and two others wounded after gunmen opened fire on relatives visiting a cemetery in Batman, southeast Turkey, in what authorities said was the latest chapter in a long-running family feud, Turkish news agency reported. The attack took place on Sunday eve»»»

Dubai: Parts of the eastern and western UAE saw rainfall on Monday afternoon as convective clouds developed over the mountains, while sunny skies and hot summer weather continued across much of the rest of the country. Today afternoon, rain fell over Masafi, located on the border between the emirat»»»

A city bus crashed through a central barrier and entered oncoming traffic on Tsarigradsko Shose Boulevard in Sofia on Monday, police said. The incident occurred shortly after the Pliska bus stop on the outbound carriageway. The No. 204 bus crossed several lanes, broke through the central crash barr»»»

Paris, France: A French off-duty policeman on Monday detained a man after he allegedly attacked and wounded three women with two kitchen knives in Paris, a minister and police said. Three women aged 19, 24 and 36 were taken to a hospital after the assault at around 11:30 am (0930 GMT) in the Porte »»»

Dubai: "I was born underweight. I was born blue. I was born bald." It's hardly how you'd expect Kalpana Iyer, one of Bollywood's most unforgettable dancing stars of the 1970s and '80s, to begin telling her story. When I meet her at the Palm Jumeirah home of Bollywood producer and entrepreneur Rajan»»»

The latest survey by the independent pollster Medián — which accurately forecast April’s election result and has an excellent record in predicting previous parliamentary contests — suggests that the Tisza Party’s months-long surge has stalled. Although it remains by far the most popular political f»»»

Cairo: Mediators have achieved progress in efforts to get the United States and Iran back to negotiations and avert an all-out war in the Middle East, two regional officials said Monday, with a pause in attacks coming after a period of rapidly escalating tensions. The comments came after neither th»»»

Former military chief Gadi Eisenkot has emerged as the principal challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel prepares to vote in a fiercely contested general election on October 27. Eisenkot's campaign is built around a 10-point platform that he says will restore Israel's se»»»

French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez spoke to the press on Monday after an emergency cabinet meeting on the uncontrolled fires spreading across southern France that have so far forced more than 250,000 people from their homes. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit fire-hit areas in»»»

Iran has criticized Bulgaria's decision to host U.S. aerial refueling aircraft, saying Bulgarian officials responsible for approving the deployment should be held accountable for what Tehran described as a dangerous move. In a statement shared by the Embassy of Iran in Bulgaria, citing the spokespe»»»

RIYADH: A power and energy equipment manufacturing park is set to be developed in Dubai after a memorandum of understand was signed with Hong Kong Tinkam Capital. The partnership with Dubai Multi Commodities Centre aims to attract upstream and downstream Chinese companies across the industry’s valu»»»

New Delhi: An IndiGo flight operating from Mumbai to Dubai made an emergency landing at Gujarat’s Rajkot airport on Monday after the crew detected smoke in the aircraft’s cargo hold. The flight, 6E 1452, was carrying 194 passengers when the crew reportedly noticed smoke in the cargo hold area and a»»»

African telecommunications group Airtel Africa (LSE:AAF; NGX:AIRTELAFRI) has selected the London Stock Exchange for the planned initial public offering of its mobile money business, reviving a listing that was postponed earlier this year because of market volatility and higher energy costs linked t»»»

Athletes from Kyrgyzstan won top honors at the international IRONMAN 70.3 Desaru Coast triathlon race held on July 27, 2026, in Malaysia. In the men’s elite category, Yevgeny Tikhonin claimed a convincing victory, completing the course in 3 hours 49 minutes and 36 seconds. He finished ahead of reig»»»

Russia's central bank cut its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 14% on July 24, defying a market consensus for no change, while raising its 2026 inflation forecast to 6%-7% and cutting its GDP growth forecast to 0%-1%, according to the regulator's press release. Given the growing severity of »»»