LONDON: In southern Lebanon’s villages, the fear of being treated as a collective enemy is not new. Years of conflict, displacement and political rhetoric have left many Shiite residents wary of language that erases the line between Hezbollah fighters and civilians living alongside them. This week,»»»

WASHINGTON: US ‌President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on Thursday, escalating a feud with Canada that has already spawned tariffs ​on tens of billions of dollars in cross-border trade. The change would take effect immediately, said Trump, who also ordered the Gulf of Mexico ren»»»

Doha, Qatar: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has reduced the average waiting time for a first specialist appointment from 58 days to around 16 days, as part of a broader effort to improve access, efficiency and patient experience across Qatar’s public healthcare system. HMC Managing Director H.E. M»»»

Workers constructing the White House Ballroom in Washington, DC on May 29. President Donald Trump on Thursday named a new chair of the federal agency that oversees the project. File Photo by Aaron Schwartz/UPI | License Photo Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday named a new head»»»

Major rivers across the Amazon region are experiencing an alarming decline in water levels because of the effects of El Niño, File Photo by Paolo Aguilar/EPA Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Major rivers across the Amazon region are experiencing an alarming decline in water levels because of the effects of El Niño»»»

Washington: A new study suggests that El Ninos - the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up periodically and spikes global temperatures - are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change. El Ninos are more than 36% stronger than they were before the industrial age began in the mid 180»»»

Washington: President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as "Lake America" in the United States as he exacerbates his trade war with Canada. The Republican president signed an executive order that updated the lake's name for the US geographic naming service. Trump ca»»»

Washington: When President Donald Trump launched the war with Iran in late February, he initially forecast it would last four weeks to five weeks. Six months later, there still is no off-ramp in sight despite Trump's repeated assertions that the war has been won or a deal to resolve it was nearly c»»»

US President Donald Trump is once again trying to impose a $100,000 fee on employers seeking to hire skilled temporary foreign workers through the H-1B visa programme. But while tech titans like Elon Musk have long championed the programme as a crucial way of drawing top global talent to Silicon Va»»»

A spokesman for the US military court at Guantanamo Bay said Thursday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States – will go on trial before a US military court in June 2028. Mohammed, also known as "KSM", was c»»»

Mexico Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Omar Garcia Harfuch said authorities arrested one of two men accused of shooting influencer César Daniel Nolazco Gastélum while he was livestreaming, File Photo by madia Hartz/EPA Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Mexican authorities arrested in Puebla one of two »»»

CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a covert trip to Moscow this week, meeting with Russian intelligence chief Sergey Naryshkin. The visit was allegedly an effort to warn Russian against attacking a NATO country, according to some media outlets. Trump dismissed these reports as media hype. "I am not c»»»

A child was seriously injured after being hit by a tram at Batthyány Square in Budapest on Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters used hydraulic lifting equipment and a spreader cutter to free the boy from underneath the vehicle before handing him over to paramedics. He was reportedly revived and taken »»»

DAMASCUS, Aug. 27 (SANA) The 63rd Damascus International Fair entered its second day on Thursday at Damascus Fairgrounds, bringing together about 1,000 participants representing 60 countries under the theme “Syria Shines Again.” Thursday’s program is dedicated to business leaders, investors and off»»»

Romania will open another 47 kilometres of the A7 Moldova Motorway to traffic on Monday, August 31, extending the high-speed road from Adjud to Bacău and bringing the total operational length of the A7 to around 242 kilometres. Interim Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said on Thursday that final prepara»»»

Abu Dhabi: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a message of condolences to President of Nepal Ramchandra Paudel over the victims of floods and landslides, which resulted in a number of deaths and injuries. Sheikh Mohamed wished a speedy recovery to all those injured. »»»

WASHINGTON: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, will go on trial before a US military court in June 2028, an official said Thursday. The long-awaited trial of Mohammed and three other accused 9/11 plotters is scheduled to begin on J»»»

London: Tottenham Hotspur continued their summer binge when they signed Egyptian striker Omar Marmoush on loan from Manchester City. The 27-year-old joined on a season-long loan but Tottenham said that "the deal includes an obligation to make the move permanent next summer". That will cost £60 mill»»»

Kuwait has arrested an Egyptian expatriate and a Kuwaiti woman accused of selling and using counterfeit government stamps at a government hospital and misappropriating fees owed to the state, the Interior Ministry said. The arrests were made by the Criminal Police Department following an investigat»»»

Tunis, August 27, 2026 (TAP) — July 2026 was marked by an exceptional heatwave that swept across much of Tunisia, making it the second-hottest July recorded since 1950, after July 2023, according to the National Institute of Meteorology (INM)...»»»

Ukraine warned that Ukraine is slowly losing the war and has months, not years, to change course, according to the ex-Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov in an exclusive interview with Reuters on August 25. "I think that there's now a turning point which will determine our future trajectory, but it l»»»

Ukraine has been sytematically being trying to destroy her company, but Wildberries founder Tatyana Kim has topped the Forbes annual rich list, as Russia’s richest women again for the fifth time. The chief executive of the merged RWB group has a fortune put at $5bn, TASS reported on August 27. Yele»»»

WASHINGTON: The US military is experiencing a “beyond critical” shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, a US defense official in Europe and a NATO official told The Associated Press, raising concerns about vulnerabilities in NATO»»»

Monaco: UEFA has provisionally withdrawn its threat to boycott FIFA tournaments after receiving written assurances that world football's governing body would not try to revive plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup, it said in a statement Thursday. The European game's governing body said after a»»»

Tens of thousands of people march through downtown Minneapolis protesting federal immigration enforcement in the city in January. On Thursday, a Texas jail freed an ICE agent who was arrested for allegedly shooting a man in the leg. File Photo by Craig Lassig/UPI | License Photo Aug. 27 (UPI) -- An»»»

Hungary’s new government has set its sights on adopting the euro by 2030, with Finance Minister András Kármán revealing how and when the country could bring its budget deficit below the EU’s key 3% threshold. The government says it will tackle the country’s huge fiscal gap without imposing austerit»»»

A catastrophic flash flood on Wednesday morning wreaked massive destruction upon Nepal’s northern mountainous region, bordering China. The torrent of water, rock, and mud wiped out entire villages, washed away roads and destroyed power infrastructure and dams. Thousands of people are missing, Nepal»»»

Washington: The US military is experiencing a 'beyond critical' shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, a US defense official in Europe and a NATO official told The Associated Press, raising concerns about vulnerabilities in NATO»»»

Andrew and Tristan Tate are in federal court in Miami on Thursday for a hearing over their potential extradition to Britain where they face charges of rape and human trafficking. File Photo by Robert Ghement/EPA-EFE Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Andrew and Tristan Tate are in federal court in Miami on Thursday »»»

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Kuwait signed an agreement on Thursday expanding military cooperation, with Islamabad to provide training, capacity building and border-management assistance to the Gulf state as regional security ties deepen amid the prolonged conflict involving Iran. The new protocol build»»»

BEIRUT: A report prepared by Lebanon’s National Commission for International Humanitarian Law documenting Israeli violations is being revised almost daily as infringements continue in southern Lebanon and the Lebanese state remains unable to access some of the areas where Israeli forces have advanc»»»

AL-MUKALLA: Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis fired four missiles at two Red Sea areas controlled by the country’s internationally recognized government over the past 24 hours, in the latest wave of missile and drone attacks that the UN says has killed nine civilians and displaced hundreds. A Houthi miss»»»

Brazil's Office of the Attorney General filed a civil lawsuit against Discord after it said it identified serious failures in protections for minors and age verification on the platform. Photo by Matheus Bertelli/Pexels BRASILIA, Brazil, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- The Brazilian government has sued Discord fo»»»

LONDON: In a market in Gaza, Maysa Yousef offered her children a choice — a slice of cake, or a toy. They wanted the toy, she said, she could see it in their eyes, but they chose cake instead. They understood what toys cost now and did not want to embarrass her in front of the shopkeeper. “Children»»»

The Government has tasked the State Financial Inspection Agency with conducting a financial inspection of National Palace of Culture – Congress Centre Sofia EAD for the period between January 1, 2024 and June 30, 2026, the Government Information Service said. The review of financial data shows that»»»

The Government on Thursday approved a draft 2026–2028 healthcare cooperation plan with North Macedonia. The document, which will serve as a basis for negotiations, is between the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of North Macedonia. The three-»»»

The US FDA on Wednesday approved Revolution Medicines' Rasonque for advanced pancreatic cancer, opening a new treatment option for patients with metastatic disease. A large trial found the once-daily pill doubled survival rates, offering fresh hope for people who have exhausted other treatments. Th»»»

The disappearance of former Hungary international footballer Ákos Buzsáky has sparked concern both in Hungary and England, where the midfielder spent much of his career. The 44-year-old has been reported missing by Hungarian authorities, while his former club Queens Park Rangers has said it is pray»»»

Ten Nile crocodile eggs at a wildlife park in southern France hatched naturally without the need for controlled incubators, zoo authorities said Wednesday. The natural incubation, a first at the reserve for reptiles, occurred following a series of extreme heatwaves over the summer. France's heatwav»»»

Berlin: Two people were killed in a "violent incident" at a school near Berlin, local media reported Thursday, saying an 18-year-old woman student and a 30-year-old man had died. Regional public broadcaster RBB and a local daily said the alarm had been raised at a secondary school in the town of Go»»»

JERUSALEM: Israel’s far-right finance minister on Thursday laid out his party’s plan to dramatically increase the number of Jews living in two areas of the country with large Arab-Israeli populations. With elections approaching, Bezalel Smotrich said the plan would emulate what he termed the “revol»»»

Road freight transport in Bulgaria will receive EUR 55 million in government support. On Thursday, the government approved a de minimis aid scheme aimed at supporting the costs of maintaining the competitiveness of Bulgaria’s heavy-duty road transport sector. The Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) wi»»»

The Cabinet has appointed Hristo Stoyanov as the new State representative on the Supervisory Board of the National Health Insurance Fund, the government information service said. He is replacing Petko Salchev, who was relieved as the State's representative after leaving the post of Deputy Minister »»»

London, Aug. 27 (SANA) Global stock markets were broadly steady Thursday as a strong revenue outlook from Nvidia supported technology shares, while persistent inflation concerns and uncertainty over US interest rates kept wider gains in check. The pan-European STOXX 600 slipped about 0.1%, while th»»»

Israeli politics are littered with the unaccomplished ambitions of former generals who thought they could turn military gravitas into political success. Of Israel’s 14 prime ministers, only three were generals, and the last one (Ariel Sharon) was elected more than 20 years ago. Still, a long line o»»»

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and attorney Abbe Lowell leave the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Attorneys for Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, told the White House in a letter that»»»

UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday he expects a new contribution of hundreds of ​millions of dollars the United States owes to the UN budget very soon. Reuters reported last week that the Trump administration has informed the US Congress of its intent»»»

TUNIS: Tunisian President Kais Saied, who has ruled with near-total power since 2021, said on Thursday that premeditated acts were behind prolonged water and electricity cuts as the country swelters in summer heat. Temperatures have neared 50 degrees Celsius in recent weeks, driving up demand for e»»»

CEUTA, Spain: Protests over security in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta escalated into violent clashes with the Spanish military Thursday, a month after a mass influx of migrants from Morocco. Residents of Ceuta, which is just 18 square kilometers (seven square miles) in size, have held seve»»»

London: Private data on millions of customers has been stolen in a cyberattack on three British airports, the Manchester Airports Group announced Thursday, saying the attack did not impact flights or airport operations. MAG, which operates the Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports,»»»