The UK will supply enriched uranium to Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company, Energoatom, under a £210 million ($280 million) deal aimed at supporting Ukraine’s power grid, the British government has announced. The arrangement, backed by UK Export Finance, will enable British-based Urenco to suppl»»»

JEDDAH: The Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts in Jeddah honored the winners of the ninth Dia Aziz Dia Portrait Award on Tuesday, held under the theme “King Salman: The Man and His Achievements” this year. The event brought together artists, cultural figures and officials to celebrate portr»»»

Lille, France: Former Eintracht Frankfurt boss Dino Toppmoeller has been appointed Lens coach after Pierre Sage left for Crystal Palace, the French Ligue 1 club said on Tuesday. The 45-year-old German was sacked by Eintracht in January after four years at the helm, during which he guided them to th»»»

Dubai: The United States and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at extending the ceasefire that ended months of conflict and creating a pathway towards a broader settlement. But while the agreement has eased immediate fears of renewed fighting, many of its most important pro»»»

Franco-German defence group KNDS on Monday unveiled a new battle tank at the Eurosatory defence industry exhibition near Paris, a week after the two European countries dropped their ​joint FCAS fighter jet programme. A German chassis and a French gun: the new battle tank unveiled on Monda»»»

Evian His Highness the Amir of the State of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Tuesday met with President of the United States of America HE Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France. HH the Amir affirmed the strong strategic relations between »»»

1 of 2 | Crude carrier Universal Winner, a South Korean oil tanker operated by Korean shipping company HMM, reaches waters off the southeastern port city of Ulsan, South Korea, on June 10, about three weeks after exiting the Strait of Hormuz where it had been stranded amid tensions in the Middle Ea»»»

Yum Brands announced Tuesday it would sell Pizza Hut to a private equity firm. Stores in China will be owned by Yum China. File Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI | License Photo June 16 (UPI) -- Yum Brands announced Tuesday that it plans to sell Pizza Hut to private equity firm LongRange Capital for abou»»»

RIYADH: A new luxury hotel has opened its doors at the Saudi tourism megaproject Red Sea Global. Four Seasons Amaala is now taking bookings at its new hotel at Triple Bay on the shore of the northwestern Tabuk region. “Our new resort at Triple Bay is a shining example of how we seek to anticipate a»»»

RIYADH: Oman’s economy has shown resilience despite the war affecting the Middle East, with the International Monetary Fund upgrading its growth forecast for the country by 0.2 percentage points. Releasing its assessment of Oman’s economic outlook amid continued regional conflict after a staff visi»»»

Doha The National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA) and the Community College of Qatar (CCQ) signed a cooperation agreement aimed at strengthening institutional collaboration in the fields of training, research, and development, while supporting national capacity building in cybersecurity. The agreement»»»

BELGRADE - Slovenian Parliament Speaker Zoran Stevanovic said on Tuesday in Belgrade Serbia was Slovenia's strategically important regional partner and its top economic partner in the Western Balkans, and noted that Ljubljana provided unreserved support for Serbia's EU accession. Stevanovic said hi»»»

Canada’s online casino sector has moved from a narrow policy issue to a business and fiscal topic. Its economic impact is no longer theoretical. Regulated iGaming has grown under provincial oversight. Ontario’s open model draws the most attention, while Crown-led systems remain central elsewhere. T»»»

The parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee has approved on second reading a proposal allowing Bulgaria to take on up to €3.8 billion in new debt to cover upcoming payments under projects financed through the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP). The measure was backed during an extraordinary comm»»»

Dozens of tanker trucks carrying raw milk are currently stranded at Bulgaria’s borders after a new order issued by the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA), triggering strong criticism from dairy processors who warn of supply disruption, waste, and potential price increases for basic food products, »»»

West Asia LLC is a St. Petersburg–based company that holds a portfolio of overseas oil and gas assets. It was formerly known as GPN-Middle East Projects LLC. The company was set up in 2020 and spent its first five years under Gazprom Neft PJSC umbrella. On 24 February 2025, Gazprom Neft ceased to b»»»

The extended disruption caused by the US-Iran conflict highlights a need for diversifying energy export routes to reduce dependency on shipping via the Strait of Hormuz. A new initiative launched by the Washington, DC-based New Lines Institute seeks to develop Syria and Turkey into major energy dis»»»

JERUSALEM: Israel has seized planning and ‌construction powers at a Jewish and Muslim shrine in the occupied West Bank from the Palestinian Authority, scrapping an agreement in place since the ​1990s, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday. Under the 1997 Hebron Agreement, Palestinians c»»»

EVIAN, France: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday that “justice has been done” after two men were convicted of arson attacks on his property, ordered online by a Russian-speaking handler. The British media have linked the attacks to Russia, with the BBC reporting it had uncovered evid»»»

DUBAI: Moderna appointed a ‌new chief commercial officer and widened its president’s role to oversee certain franchises, the vaccine maker said on Tuesday, as it prepares for potential product launches over the next couple of years. Ester Banque, who was most recently the president of US operations»»»

Ukrainian drones struck oil plants in Moscow and Russia's southern Krasnodar Krai region overnight. No fatalities or injuries were reported in either location. File photo by Russian Emergencies Ministry/EPA-EFE June 16 (UPI) -- Ukrainian drones struck oil plants in Moscow and Russia's southern Kras»»»

Transport sector representatives said Tuesday their meeting with Prime Minister Rumen Radev at the Council of Ministers had largely met their expectations. Some of the sector’s demands call for urgent action by regulators, the Financial Supervision Commission and the Commission on Protection of Com»»»

Trust in news in Bulgaria has fallen to 21%, placing the country among those with the lowest levels of trust in the media worldwide, according to the Digital News Report 2026 published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. “The Bulgarian media landscape i»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Airways continues to deliver on its commitment to network restoration, and is steadily expanding its reach to more than 160 gateways for the ease and convenience of international travellers. Starting today, the airline is returning to 26 destinations in key global markets. The Wo»»»

Evian His Highness the Amir of the State of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thaniattended the G7 Summit, at the invitation of HE President Emmanuel Macron, President of the friendly French Republic, and in the presence of a number of heads of state, heads of government, delegations and senior offic»»»

Evian-Les-Bains: US allies at the Group of Seven summit of major industrialised democracies worked Tuesday to push the war in Ukraine back up the agenda of President Donald Trump after more than four years of fighting sparked by Russia’s full-scale attack. The Iran conflict has in recent weeks over»»»

Damascus, June 16 (SANA) Syrian Deputy Minister of Economy and Industry Basel Abdul Hannan held talks with a delegation of Egyptian business leaders and investors on Tuesday on opportunities to expand industrial cooperation and launch joint investment projects, including plans for a large-scale ind»»»

Egypt has unveiled a strategic plan to localize 23 high-priority industries. The initiative, announced by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Transport, Kamel El-Wazir, is set to turbocharge Egypt’s economic engine by tapping into locally available raw materials and reinforcing the c»»»

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR) has announced the inclusion of four additional higher education institutions (HEIs) in its Automatic Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications initiative, bringing the total number of participating institutions to 42. This step »»»

​The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) officially opened a Maternal Support Room at its main headquarters for female employees, reinforcing its commitment to promoting maternal and child health and fostering a supportive workplace environment for women. The room was inaugurated during an event title»»»

DOHA His Highness the Amir of the State of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has affirmed the State of Qatar’s commitment to promoting peace, stability and international cooperation following his participation in the Group of Seven Summit. In a post on X, HH the Amir said his participation in t»»»

Dubai: A Dubai-based Russian real estate broker has become the latest dollar millionaire after winning the top prize in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire draw held at Dubai International Airport. Vitalli Gamaiunov, a 37-year-old Russian national who has lived in Dubai for the past four yea»»»

One of Hungary’s largest media companies, Mediaworks Hungary Zrt., has embarked on a major restructuring of its operations, in a move that could mark one of the most significant shifts in the domestic media landscape in recent years. The company announced on Monday that, as part of a portfolio over»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s benchmark Tadawul All Share Index rose 0.45 percent on Tuesday to close at 11,145.55. The blue-chip MT30 index gained 0.62 percent to 1,488.54, while the Nomu Parallel Market advanced 1.03 percent to 23,221.15. Trading turnover on the main market reached SR4.65 billion ($1.24»»»

Arab Finance: Tourist arrivals to Egypt increased by 4% between January and the first week of June despite regional tensions and challenges facing the global travel industry, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy revealed. Speaking at a press conference organized by the Egyptian Tourism »»»

The UN-backed Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic will on Tuesday, with foreign judges, begin the trial in absentia of former president François Bozizé over crimes against humanity. Bozizé, 79, who seized power in a 2003 coup before being overthrown 10 years later by rebels,»»»

Berlin, June 16 (SANA) Syria’s chargé d’affaires in Berlin, Mohammad Baraa Shukri, held talks with Clemens Hach, the German Foreign Office’s director for the Middle East and North Africa, on ways to strengthen cooperation between Syria and Germany, the Syrian Embassy in Berlin said on Tuesday. The »»»

A total of 3,495 people of retirement age work in the Defence Ministry system, Minister Dimitar Stoyanov said in a written response to Democratic Bulgaria MP Martin Dimitrov, published on the National Assembly’s website on Tuesday. The data are valid as of April 2026. In response to the MP’s reques»»»

The European Union and the United States on Tuesday gave a final sign off to a long awaited tariff deal as the EU seeks to close a volatile chapter of transatlantic trade relations. The deal puts the bloc well on track to meet Trump's July 4 deadline and defuse his threat of new tariffs o»»»

A comparative study of parliamentary pay across Europe shows that Bulgarian MPs receive salaries that are among the highest in relation to the national minimum wage. In Bulgaria, the ratio stands at roughly 6.8 times the minimum wage, placing the country at the top of this specific indicator in Eur»»»

The government introduced a new digital transparency platform called SIGMA, presented at the Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Rumen Radev and Minister of Innovation and Digital Transformation Ivan Vassilev. The system was developed as a public tool for monitoring public procurement and is pos»»»

ANKARA: Turkiye does not want an extension of the existing Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline agreement under current conditions, a senior Turkish official said, after Baghdad asked Ankara to extend it for at least a year ‌to allow time for ‌more talks. The decades-old Turkiye-Iraq Crude Oil ‌Pipeline ⁠Agr»»»

Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sheikh Naim Qassem sent a letter of gratitude to the Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Dr. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf over Iran’s support to Lebanon. “Words fail to adequately express our profound gratitude for your strong and supportive positions »»»

Fireworks go off as America's Justin Gaethje celebrates after defeating Georgia's Ilia Topuria during UFC Freedom 250 mixed martial arts event on the South Lawn of the White House in the early morning hours Monday. Pool photo by Saul Loeb/UPI | License Photo June 16 (UPI) -- The FBI said it blocked»»»

Doha The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) has launched a new edition of the “Hukoomi” platform as part of Qatar's ongoing efforts to advance digital transformation and achieve the objectives of Qatar National Vision 2030. The platform is the first outcome of the "Digital»»»

ConflictsPakistanPakistan raises defense spending amid regional conflictsShakoor RaheemThe sharp defense spending hike highlights lessons Pakistan has learned from recent conflicts with India and a growing focus on new warfare technologies, regardless of economic constraints imposed by the IMF. htt»»»

LONDON: Britain’s Labour government on Tuesday raised objections over a proposed private rescue of Thames Water, increasing the prospect of the country’s biggest water supplier being nationalized. Heavily-indebted Thames, which supplies about 16 million homes and businesses in London and elsewhere »»»

GENEVA: Almost 2.4 million refugees will need resettling next year, the United Nations said on Tuesday, at a time when a number of countries have slashed resettlement spots. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, warned of a dire shortage of options for such refugees, who cannot return home and face risks i»»»

DHAKA: When the FIFA World Cup started last week, it became one of the year’s most anticipated moments in Bangladesh’s Rohingya camps, especially for children, to whom it gives a rare connection to a world beyond the refugee settlement. Watching matches with their favorite players and taking part i»»»

HARARE: A freight train struck a bus at a level crossing in Zimbabwe on Tuesday, killing at least nine people including two children, police and rail authorities said. The crash occurred at a railway crossing in Triangle, a sugar-producing town in the country’s south, according to police. National »»»