Israel is expected to approve on ‌Thursday the allocation of 1 billion shekels ($337.8 million) to build new settlements and connect them to infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now said. The plan is being promoted by Israel's far-right finance minister Beza»»»

On a blustery but thankfully dry Sunday, June 7, the 12 captains of teams in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2026 assembled on Waterloo Bridge, London. The event was termed a carnival and was followed by a press conference in a less windswept venue nearby. There, for the purpose of two consecutive questi»»»

MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistani soldiers offered funeral prayers on Thursday over the coffins of security personnel killed in a helicopter crash that left no survivors in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Soldiers in military fatigues joined dozens of local residents at the ceremony in the city of Muzaffaraba»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Al-Manar correspondent in Western Bekaa reports two Israeli drone strike on Sahl (plain) Mashghara 11-06-2026 12:23 PM Latest News Urgent N»»»

Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Karim Badawy announced the complete settlement of outstanding payments to oil and gas investment partners, bringing them down to zero for the first time in years, after reaching US$ 6.1 billion in June 2024. These payments are not merely a financ»»»

Through various EU mechanisms, Bulgaria has received just over EUR 203 million for aid provided to Ukraine, Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov told reporters on Thursday. Not all of these funds go to the Bulgarian Army's modernization, because nearly half of them have been used to offset the deficit»»»

The ruling party, Progressive Bulgaria, has submitted a bill of amendments to the National Service for Protection (NSP) Act that will allow again the NSP to drive members of the President's administration. The bill can be viewed on Parliament's website. NSP provided transport services to the Presid»»»

Iran's new body overseeing the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday confirmed a complete closure order for the strategic waterway until further notice, after the Revolutionary Guards announced the move overnight. "Due to the tensions caused by the aggression of the American forces in the region and the ann»»»

New York: New York has honored two footballing greats by temporarily renaming streets after Thierry Henry and Pele ahead of the World Cup kickoff. The tournament -- co-hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States -- begins Thursday and the final will be played next month at the MetLife Stadium, r»»»

RIYADH: Tourism revenues in Egypt recorded an annual rise of 14.9 percent during the first nine months of the fiscal year, reaching approximately $14.4 billion, the country’s prime minister revealed. Speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting Mostafa Madbouly also revealed remittances from Egyptians work»»»

Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed 12 people on Wednesday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Lebanese citizens to join Israel's fight against Hezbollah. A border town said two municipal employees detained by Israeli forces were later releas»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters targeted gathering of Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the outskirts of Teir Harfa southern Lebanes»»»

A plenary session of the National Assembly is held in Seoul on Thursday. Photo by Yonhap The National Assembly on Thursday launched formal procedures for a potential parliamentary investigation into ballot shortages reported during last week's local elections, with requests for the probe submitted »»»

Rescuers recovered the remains of all 22 soldiers aboard a military helicopter that crashed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir the previous day, officials said Thursday, confirming there were no survivors, as senior government and military officials attended a mass funeral for the victims. The helico»»»

Doha, Qatar: As we enter an increasingly digital age, almost everyone has a social media account. Different platforms cater to a wide range of professions and interests, spanning from entertainment and leisure to politics and news. As daily life becomes more digitalised and even the simplest forms »»»

In tonight's edition, a new Human Rights Watch report uncovers mass forced recruitment and arbitrary detention by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group in eastern DR Congo. Also, we head to Durban, where thousands of foreign nationals displaced by xenophobic violence remain camped outside the Departmen»»»

Minister of Foreign Affairs Youssef Rajji said Hezbollah is a military organization and there is no difference between its political and its military wings. In an interview with the French news channel LCI, Rajji said that "distinguishing between the political and military wings of Hezbollah is com»»»

Azerbaijan’s opposition leader Ali Karimli, a former secretary of state, goes on trial in Baku on Wednesday for an alleged "attempted coup". Karimli spoke to FRANCE 24 from prison, where he slammed the charges against him as "entirely fabricated and politically motivated" and warned that he risked »»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian armed forces have liberated the settlement of Roskoshnoe in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday. "As a result of decisive actions, units of the Yug battlegroup liberated the village of Roskoshnoe in the Donetsk People's Republi»»»

From January to May, recycling fee collections totaled 132.1 million soms, an increase of 115.4 million soms compared to the same period last year. The number of payers increased from 50 to 259 entities. The Ministry of Natural Resources of Kyrgyzstan reported. Eco Operator state enterprise under t»»»

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly chaired a meeting of the Economic Ministerial Group at the government headquarters in the New Capital on Tuesday, June 10, 2026, to review a number of priority economic issues and developments. The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Hu»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israel plans to allocate over $350 million to establish 61 settlements on the West Bank of the Jordan River, Axios journalist Barak Ravid reported on Thursday, citing a government directive he reviewed. "The Israeli cabinet is expected to approve on Thursday a plan to fund the de»»»

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States has underestimated the resilience of the Iranian people, counting on their weakness after military strikes, prominent Iranian writer and film director, Habid Ahmadzadeh, told RIA Novosti. “When the US attacked Iran, it assumed the Iranian nation was a losing»»»

As it races to become NATO’s frontline fortress against Russia, Poland has launched large-scale civilian courses teaching survival skills during times of crisis. The programme is intended to help bridge the gap between the military and society while psychologically preparing civilians for war. Imag»»»

BYD (Build Your Dreams/Shenzhen/002594) has quietly abandoned work on its much touted project to build a $1bn factory in Turkey, Stella Li, an executive vice president at the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant, confirmed on June 10. The company, however, remains »»»

There is a map that used to hang in the offices of Soviet central planners in Moscow, showing the five republics of Central Asia as a single administrative unit — roads pointing inward toward Russia, railways terminating at Russian junctions, pipelines flowing north. The region was designed, quite »»»

Who is Timur Turlov? Where did his billions come from? And how did he turn a small brokerage firm into a transnational financial ecosystem? Freedom Holding Corp. is a Kazakhstan-born international fintech company listed on the Nasdaq and valued at nearly $9 billion. In recent years, the company - w»»»

The National Assembly on Thursday banned economically unjustified increases in consumer prices and obliged certain retailers to publish their selling prices online on a daily basis. The measures were adopted through second-reading amendments to the Consumer Protection Act. Lawmakers stipulated that»»»

Global supply chain pressures have risen again in recent months, returning to levels last seen during the height of pandemic-related disruptions, Statista reports. According to the Global Supply Chain Stress Index (GSCPI) published by the World Bank, shipping container capacity tied up due to delay»»»

According to NASA, there is “unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate”, Statista reports. Data from Copernicus, the European Earth Observation program for the European Space Agency, shows that July 22, 2024, was the world’s hottest daily global average temperature since t»»»

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has expressed Washington’s strong support for the decades-old idea of diversifying Turkmenistan's natural gas exports via a pipeline that would be constructed across the Caspian Sea, according to a US State Department statement released on May 29. The statement fol»»»

The economic fallout from the conflict in the Middle East is expected to slow growth across emerging Europe, Central Asia and parts of Africa and the Mediterranean, as higher energy costs reignite inflation, weaken industrial competitiveness and strain already fragile public finances, the European »»»

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (C) is walking with Ursula von der Leyen (R), president of the European Commission, and Antonio Costa, president of the European Council, ahead of their summit in Brussels on Wednesday. Photo by Yonhap SEOUL, June 11 (UPI) -- South Korean President Lee Jae Myung»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) announced yesterday its participation in the €1bn ($1.2bn) Series F funding round of sovereign intelligence company ICEYE, at a valuation of over €10bn (over $12bn). The new funding will support ICEYE’s global footprint efforts and expand the company’s »»»

DUBAI: Game 3 of the 2025-26 ABA League Finals saw Dubai Basketball suffered an 84-70 defeat by Partizan in Belgrade on Wednesday night. Despite the loss, however, Dubai Basketball continue to lead the best-of-five finals series 2-1 and remain just one victory away from securing their first ABA Lea»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia is receiving signals from many European companies about their desire to return to the Russian market, Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Russian presidential special envoy for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, s»»»

Who is going to pay for rebuilding Ukraine after the war is over? Now the EU has raised a €90bn two-year loan to keep the country in the fight against Russia, attention has started to turn to what comes next. The European Commission (EC) has drawn up a draft recovery plan for 2028-2034 but it falls»»»

For much of the 26 years since the beginning of the millennium, India has aimed at becoming a rising economic power by way of first becoming a service centered hub and gradually shifting towards becoming a centre of manufacturing. However, many of these ambitions have hit the wall of geop»»»

Some fintech companies operating in Azerbaijan could surpass individual banks in certain service segments within two to three years, the chairman of the Azerbaijan Fintech Association (AzFina), Edgar Abdullayev, told Report in an interview. Abdullayev, who also serves as head of United Payment Azer»»»

The documents for the extradition of Stoyan Mavrodiev from Serbia to Bulgaria for criminal prosecution have been sent to the Serbian Embassy in Sofia, Justice Minister Nikolay Naydenov told a briefing here on Thursday. In his words, the procedure follows strictly formal rules and there is no need f»»»

Wall Street is counting down to what could be the biggest market debut in history, with SpaceX preparing to go public. The IPO is expected to value the company at $1.75 trillion and make founder Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. Also, US inflation has surged to its highest level in three ye»»»

Taiwan said Chinese ships entered the "prohibited" waters off a disputed island in the South China Sea for the first time on Thursday, condemning escalating "harassment" by Beijing. The two Chinese vessels "openly intruded" into the waters around the Taiwan-controlled Taiping Island and stayed for »»»

New EU asylum rules come into force on Friday (12 June), spanning 10 legislative files that have taken years to develop, as far-right forces gain momentum amid a wider backlash against migration. The European Commission has framed the package as a major policy achievement, despite uneven implementa»»»

Dubai: Qatar Airways will resume daily flights between Doha and Philadelphia from August 1, 2026, restoring a direct route to Pennsylvania’s largest city and expanding its North American network to 14 destinations. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.The service will be op»»»

The Iranian military has been “completely defeated,” US President Donald Trump has claimed, warning Tehran it will “pay the price” for delaying a deal with Washington. The warnings came after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced missile and drone strikes on American military fa»»»

New Delhi: Three Indian sailors on a commercial vessel hit by the United States off the coast of Oman are dead, New Delhi's shipping minister said Thursday. "It is deeply unfortunate to learn of the tragic incident aboard the Palau-flagged MT Settebello," Sarbananda Sonowal said in a statement, ref»»»

CHICAGO: The authors of a new book on how the US helped stabilize Egypt through “soft power” argue that the strategy could have helped avoid much of today’s regional conflict. In an interview with Arab News, two of the three authors of “A Daring Enterprise: A US-Egyptian Partnership and the Case fo»»»

Hungarian energy company MOL and the Serbian government have reached a major agreement on the future ownership and governance of Serbia’s oil industry giant NIS, potentially paving the way for MOL to acquire the company’s Russian-controlled majority stake. The breakthrough comes after months of neg»»»

Dubai: Emirates has been named Best Overall Airline in the Middle East at the 2026 APEX Best in Airline Awards, after passengers rated the Dubai carrier highly across comfort, service, food, entertainment and connectivity. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.The award was »»»

Sunny Beach-Central has retained its prestigious Blue Flag award for the 2026 summer season, the beach operator told BTA on Thursday. The beach regained Blue Flag status in 2019 under new management and has successfully renewed the award every year since. They emphasized that water quality is regul»»»