Ukrainian firefighters tackle a blaze early Wednesday at the site of Russian missile strike on a postal logistics center in Kyiv. Photo by Maxym Marusenko/EPA Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A Russian airborne assault targeting civilian commerce and infrastructure in Ukraine's Kyiv region in the early hours of Wed»»»

Biresh BanerjeeWildberries, Russia's largest online marketplace, faces a wave of attacks. Ukraine says the strikes target a company linked to Russia's war effort, bringing the conflict closer to everyday Russian consumers. https://p.dw.com/p/5IHIzAdvertisementWildberries, Russia's biggest online re»»»

Dubai: Tourists visiting the UAE can now access VAT refunds through more than 19,300 retail outlets, 100 self-service kiosks and eligible purchases made on the Noon e-commerce platform. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.The number of stores connected to the Federal Tax A»»»

Berlin: German police said Wednesday that a "security related" incident involving an unidentified object found at an airport forced the diversion of flights and the deployment of a bomb disposal robot overnight. The Bild newspaper said the object found at Leipzig-Halle airport was a drone with a de»»»

Kyrgyzstan has managed to accelerate its economic growth by making prompt decisions that meet the needs of citizens and businesses, former Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Akylbek Japarov said at the Kyrgyz-Russian Economic Forum in Issyk-Kul region. According to him, the forum has become a tra»»»

Wildfires in the EU have caused more than €3 billion ($3.46 billion) in damages so far this year, exceeding the European Commission’s average annual estimate, the Financial Times has reported. Almost half a million hectares have burned in the first two months of the fire season in France, Spain, Po»»»

As the geopolitical centre of gravity shifts eastward, Romania is positioning itself to evolve from a net importer of military capabilities into an assertive, regional production engine. To orchestrate this transition, Bucharest is leveraging an expansive, multi-tiered capital deployment strategy d»»»

Russia’s services sector remained under pressure in July as weak consumer demand and falling purchasing power continued to weigh on business activity, while fuel shortages pushed up transport costs and renewed inflationary pressures across the economy. (chart) The latest S&P Global Russia »»»

Two numbers define how much longer Ukraine can keep fighting: how many interceptor missiles it has left to defend its skies, and how many of its soldiers are actually dying to hold the line. Both are contested, both are politically massaged, and both look worse than the headline versions suggest on»»»

Geneva: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) called on all parties to uphold by their obligations under international humanitarian law, including the protection of children and civilian infrastructure in Russia and Ukraine. UNICEF said in a statement, "in the Russian Federation, there are re»»»

Moscow, Russia: An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale struck off the coast of the Kuril Islands in Russia on Wednesday. The Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that the quake occurred at a depth of 70 kilometers. No tsunami warnings were issued. Various parts »»»

German police are investigating a suspicious object found near a ​runway at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Wednesday after an overnight security incident that temporarily disrupted operations. The southern runway of the airport, which serves ‌as a ‌major hub for ​logistics ‌group ⁠DHL, ​remained closed ⁠»»»

SEOUL: The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday accused Japan of “transformation into a war state” as Tokyo beefs up its military stance in the Pacific. Japan has been gradually moving away from its post-World War II pacifist status — increasing military spending, ramping»»»

Doha, Qatar: Alkrar (Azadi) claimed his first victory at the highest level by winning the Gr.1 (PA) Al Rayyan Cup while HM Alchahine (Al Mourtajez) claimed the Gr.1 (PA) Doha Cup (Prix Manganate) in thrilling action at Deauville in France yesterday. Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club (QREC) chairman »»»

KYIV: Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens more in Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight, authorities said Wednesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks on Ukraine. Kyiv has in recent months urged allies to supply more US-made Patriot interceptors a»»»

Twenty-five-year-old Saadat Asylbekova will represent Kyrgyzstan at the 75th Miss World 2026 international beauty pageant. According to the organizers of the Miss Kyrgyzstan national beauty contest, Asylbekova was selected based on her international pageant experience, successful modeling career, a»»»

Kyiv, Ukraine: At least one person was killed, and five others were injured after Russia launched an overnight attack on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, late on Tuesday (local time), according to the city's military administration, as hostilities between the two countries continued to intensify. According»»»

* Pledge came as part of talks on lifting last major terrorism sanctions on Syria, sources say * Two ‌sources say US requested reduction and Damascus agreed * Move raises questions on crude supplies to Syria given reliance on Moscow By Maya Gebeily, Feras Dalatey and Gram Slattery BEIRUT/WASHINGTON»»»

Ukraine has run out of air defence ammo and has little chance of getting any more before the war is decided. Bankova, Ukraine’s presidential administration, only option now is to do as much damage or more to Russia as Russia is expected to do to Ukraine this winter. That seems like an impossibly ta»»»

Ukrainian drone strikes killed five people in the Moscow region and seven others at a Black Sea resort, Russian officials said, as Moscow and Kyiv exchanged a series of deadly attacks that included Russian strikes on a Ukrainian gas station and Black Sea vessels. Moscow region governor Andrei Vorob»»»

Iran called off retaliatory strikes against Ukraine over last month’s attack on a cargo ship in the Caspian Sea after Kiev apologized, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has said. Ukraine struck the Iranian vessel with drones on July 25, killing one sailor, and claimed that»»»

LONDON: For years, Hezbollah fighters propped up Syrian ruler Bashar Assad, who the men now governing in Damascus fought to overthrow. Both sides are now talking about sitting down together. Any handshake between them would be built on that history. Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said on Tuesday that»»»

The winter of 2026–2027 risks becoming the hardest for Ukraine, Stanislav Mitrakhovich, a lead expert at the National Energy Security Foundation and the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, tells Sputnik. If Ukraine continues attacking Russian refineries, prompting c»»»

As AI increases cyber complexity, hands-on certification pathways help leaders verify workforce readiness, prove resilience and close skill gaps. AI hasn’t made cyber-security a boardroom issue, but it has made the boardroom question harder to answer. For years, executives have asked whether the bu»»»

A Russian ship under US sanctions, the Mikhail Britnev, dropped off its cargo of military vehicles at the Port of Lomé in Togo on July 9. It’s the first time that Togo has been a stop for a Russian shipment of weapons to Mali, carried out as part of Moscow’s support for the Malian government. »»»

Denmark's ambassador to the United Nations has said that Russian strikes have become more brutal. On August 4, the funeral of several Ukrainians killed in a Russian ballistic missile attack a week earlier, including three children, took place. On the other side of the border, what appeared to be a »»»

MOSCOW: A serviceman in Russian-held Crimea opened fire on fellow soldiers and civilians, killing four people and wounding four, the Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol said Tuesday. The shooting occurred in the village of Khmelnytske, which is part of Sevastopol, said Gov. Mikhail Razvozhayev,»»»

A 45-year-old artillery boat that once led the Navy Day parade in Polyarny on the Kola Peninsula has been transferred to Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula temporarily occupied by Russia. For several years, the 22-metre-long artillery boat AK-388 led the annual Navy Day parade in the Northern Fleet ba»»»

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: The US Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the military’s ​readiness for future conflicts. The missiles are principally the Ar»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. "At the initiative of the Brazilian side, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Brazilian President Luiz In»»»

MOSCOW: Ukrainian drone attacks in the region around Moscow killed five people, local officials said Tuesday, while authorities in Ukraine said Russian aerial strikes there also caused at least five civilian deaths. Since Russia’s invasion more than four years ago, Ukraine has developed long-range »»»

LONDON: The Syrian Arab Republic’s national carrier is reopening flight routes to Europe, Russia and Saudi Arabia within weeks of one another, part of a broader effort to rebuild an aviation sector battered by years of war. Syrian Airlines is adding new and resumed service to Amsterdam, Moscow and »»»

Árpád Habony never held a formal position in Viktor Orbán’s governments, but he was widely regarded as the chief architect of the prime minister’s communications machine and one of the key figures behind the Orbán era’s propaganda network. He was also credited with importing the political tactics o»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law establishing the legal basis for the legal circulation of cryptocurrencies in Russia, according to a document published on the legal acts portal on Tuesday. The document recognizes digital currency as property, introduces general requ»»»

Ukraine’s drone strikes on Wildberries depots in Russia have run up losses equivalent to tens of millions of dollars for traders from across Central Asia, Belarus, Armenia, China and other countries, according to the founder and CEO of the company known as “Russia’s Amazon”, Tatyana Kim. Kyiv has i»»»

Ukraine’s drone strikes on Wildberries depots in Russia have run up losses equivalent to tens of millions of dollars for traders from across Central Asia, Belarus, Armenia, China and other countries, according to the founder and CEO of the company known as “Russia’s Amazon”, Tatyana Kim. Kyiv has i»»»

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is starting to sound desperate. A terrifying winter bombardment by Russian missiles is clearly on the way as soon as the mercury begins to fall, but the Uralian president said at the weekend, Kyiv is down to its last PAC-3 Patriot interceptor missile left. He»»»

Russian forces on military exercises in Crimea in April 2021. File photo by Vadim Savitsky/Russian Defense Ministry/EPA-EFE Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A soldier in Russian-occupied Crimea allegedly killed four people and injured another four in a mass shooting on Tuesday. Crimea region Gov. Mikhail Razvozhaye»»»

Dubai: A 23-year-old Indian expat student from Dubai is set to represent the UAE at an international space mission, where she will help design, build and launch a real satellite. Shafaq Mandha, a BEng Computer Systems Engineering graduate from the Class of 2026 at Middlesex University Dubai, has be»»»

A Turkish-operated cargo ship was hit in an apparent Ukrainian drone attack off the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk late on Monday. According to Türkiye’s Directorate General of Maritime Affairs (DGM), the Cameroon-flagged Nadezhda was sailing from Novorossiysk to the Turkish port of Samsun »»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian armed forces have taken control over the settlement of Baksheevka in the Kharkov region, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday. "Units of the Sever battlegroup have actively taken control over the settlement of Baksheevka in the Kharkov region," the ministry»»»

Damascus, Aug. 4 (SANA) Syrian Airlines is expanding its international route network with new and resumed direct services to Moscow, Amsterdam and Madinah in Saudi Arabia, as Syria’s aviation sector continues to recover after years of disruption. The national carrier said it will begin operating sc»»»

Gasoline and diesel fuel prices in Kyrgyzstan will gradually increase. Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliev stated in an interview with Kabar news agency. According to him, the country imports over 90 percent of its fuel and lubricants, so the domestic market is dir»»»

Turkish-owned civilian vessels “Yaşar” and “Nadezhda” were reported to be attacked by unmanned aerial vehicles yesterday (3 August) evening after departing from the Port of Novorossiysk, resulting in injuries to a group of crew members including Turkish citizens. The safety of our citizens is our u»»»

The Russian Navy has carried out a large-scale live-fire exercise simulating the defence of the Kola Peninsula against a seaborne attack, deploying submarines, surface warships, fighter jets and coastal missile systems. The Norwegian military, which monitored the exercise, said the live-fire drills»»»

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani held a telephone call with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation HE Sergey Lavrov. During the call, the two sides discussed cooperation relations between the two co»»»

At least five people were killed and 11 injured in the Moscow and Leningrad regions overnight after a large-scale Ukrainian attack targeting 18 Russian regions, plus occupied Crimea, with hundreds of drones. File photo by Stringer/EPA Aug. 4 (UPI) -- At least five people were killed and 11 injured »»»

ISTANBUL: Turkish officials on Tuesday said a drone attack on two civilian vessels in the Black Sea had left crew members injured. The foreign ministry said the ships were attacked after leaving the Russian port of Novorossiysk late on Monday and several personnel were wounded, adding that “their s»»»

At least six people were killed in Ukrainian drone attacks across Russia, local officials said Tuesday on the messaging app Telegram. Warehouses belonging to the Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries were targeted for the second night in a row. Ukraine’s ​overnight attacks on Russia killed six peopl»»»

Four people, including three civilians, were killed by an unidentified Russian soldier in the Black Sea city of Sevastopol in Russian-annexed Crimea, officials said Tuesday. The deadly shooting comes a day after six civilians, including three children, were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on the»»»