Share: File photo of US envoy Tom Barrack “Diplomacy demands accuracy, not reckless generalizations that compromise human lives.” “Tom Barrack’s comments and “lack of understanding” of the region have “brought a lot of damage to the whole Middle East”, experts say Israeli Druze figures and regional»»»

Death toll in Nigerian bandit attack rises to 50, survivors recount horror The death toll from an attack by gunmen in a rural eastern Nigerian town has risen to at least 50, survivors and Amnesty International told AFP Sunday, after more bodies were discovered. Both police and Amnesty said some of »»»

SAO PAULO: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented fourth term on Sunday, the country’s electoral court said, in a shock result that defied polls, precedent and global anti-incumbent sentiment to put ​the brakes on a wave of right-wing election victories across Latin Amer»»»

Lula and Bolsonaro face off in chaotic Brazil runoff vote Brazil's election stood at a virtual tie halfway through counting on Sunday, with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holding a razor-thin lead over right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro. With a seesawing lead, Lula had 50.7 percent of votes a»»»

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has won reelection as Brazil’s president, defeating right-wing challenger Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro and an ally of US President Donald Trump. With 99.76% of polling stations counted, Lula secured 51.75% of valid votes against Bolso»»»

BELGRADE, Serbia: The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat on Sunday in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government. It was a seismic political shift in th»»»

Paris, France: French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and the country's two education ministers will meet with student leaders on Monday before addressing journalists, the prime minister's office announced in Paris on Sunday. Sunday's announcement came after another weekend of protests over the st»»»

Government Faces Mounting Pressure Over High School Reforms and Living Costs France's Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's office announced that he and the country's two education ministers would meet student leaders Monday before speaking to journalists. Sunday's announcement came after another week»»»

DOHA The Ministry of Justice affirmed that the enactment of Law No. 17 of 2026 on international treaties and agreements, together with the issuance of Amiri Decision No. 39 of 2026 regulating their conclusion, establishes an integrated framework for managing this vital area. The framework promotes »»»

DOHA The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers has affirmed that issuing Amiri Decision No. 38 of 2026, which regulates the drafting of legislation, marks a qualitative leap in the development of the State of Qatar's government legislative processes. It embodies the General Secretariat’s »»»

BELGRADE - With 75 pct of votes counted, the Student List-The Students Will Win electoral list has 52.4 pct of votes after Sunday's early parliamentary polls in Serbia, while the Aleksandar Vucic-United Serbia list has won 39.2 pct of votes, IPSOS and the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (Ce»»»

QNA Doha A panel discussion, held as part of the 9th World Investment Forum (WIF), being held in Doha, explored the prospects for economic cooperation between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as the ASEAN experience in attract»»»

Agencies Larnaca (Cyprus) The 52nd Cyprus Rally delivered one of the most dramatic finishes of all time on Sunday as Qatar’s Nasser Al Attiyah beat Simos Galatariotis by just 4.63 seconds, securing the victory and being crowned Middle East Champion for the 21st time in his career, as well as winnin»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has announced the launch of its Warm Winter Campaign 2026–2027. Under the theme of “Warmth and Serenity”, the three-month drive involves a wide range of winter-aid projects and aid for the benefit of more than 57,000 people in many vulnera»»»

QNA Doha The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) completed 2,259 requests across 32 radiation-protection services in the first eight months of 2026, substantially bolstering processing efficiency and streamlining regulatory oversight. In a statement on Sunday, MECC said average proce»»»

QNA Paris The Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne hosted a graduation ceremony for the first cohort of Qatari students from the Sorbonne programme in Qatar. The nine graduates represent a milestone that transcends the mere awarding of diplomas. It’s a celebration of a journey of educational and cu»»»

The Indian Women Welfare Organization (IWWO) successfully conducted the preliminary round of Spell Bee Season 2 on October 23, 2026, with over 360 students from schools across Qatar participating. The competition promotes spelling skills, vocabulary, language proficiency, confidence, and healthy co»»»

Tribune News Network Doha The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC), in collaboration with Earthna Centre for a Sustainable Future, a member of Qatar Foundation (QF), announced details of the 11th edition of Qatar Sustainability Week (QSW) 2026, scheduled to take place from October 31 »»»

Tribune News Network Doha The Indian Community Benevolent Forum (ICBF), continuing its commitment to serving the Indian expatriate community in Qatar, successfully organized its Fifth Blood Platelet Donation Camp in consecutive months in association with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) at the Qatar»»»

Tribune News Network Doha MIE-SPPU Institute of Higher Education celebrated cultural diversity through an Indology Models and Posters Exhibition titled “Global Heritage: India & the World” on October 15, 2026. Organised by the Department of Management Sciences and the Department of Commerce, the ex»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Maharashtra Mandal Qatar (MMQ), an affiliated organisation of the Indian Cultural Centre (ICC) under the aegis of the Embassy of India in Qatar, organised a farewell and felicitation ceremony in honour of Dr Vaibhav Tandale, Counsellor (Political) and Head of Chancery at t»»»

The cover of the 13th volume of Vijayamanthrangal, a motivational book series authored by Dr. Amanulla Vadakkangara, was unveiled at Radio Malayalam Studio in Doha. Radio Malayalam CEO Anwar Hussain, who unveiled the cover, described Vijayamanthrangal as one of the station’s flagship programmes, in»»»

Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) HE Dr. Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi met with Ambassador of Turkiye to Qatar HE Yakup Caymazoglu on Sunday. During the meeting, they discussed cooperation between the two nations and ways to strengthen and expand it, as well as a range of ma»»»

Abuja: Health authorities in Nigeria said Sunday that their ongoing Ebola contact-tracing operations in the capital city of Abuja were expanding, having traced an additional nine contacts. "As of now, we have 53 primary contacts," said Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) boss J»»»

Student-led protests end Aleksandar Vucic's 14-year political dominance in Serbia The dominant force in Serbian politics for over 14 years, Aleksandar Vucic, who conceded defeat in a snap parliamentary poll on Sunday, rose from the wreckage of strongman Slobodan Milosevic's cabinet to the centre of»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Birla Public School (BPS) Doha hosted the grand finale of BPS Pi Nova 2026, an inter-school mathematics competition, on October 17, 2026, at the Basant Kumar Birla Auditorium. The event brought together talented young mathematicians from Indian schools across Qatar to show»»»

Satyendra Pathak DOHA Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Sunday attended the inauguration of the ninth World Investment Forum (WIF) 2026 bringing together more than 5,000 participants from around the world to explore investment o»»»

QNA Doha Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani held a series of high-level meetings on the sidelines of the World Investment Forum (WIF) held in Doha on Sunday. The prime minister met with Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and Nat»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Museums (QM) yesterday opened Beyti Beytak or My Home is Your Home, an exhibition exploring ideas of home, hospitality and belonging through architecture, art and design. Organised by the future Art Mill Museum and on view until May 29, 2027, the exhibition is presen»»»

Tribune News Network DOHA Qatar Museums (QM) on Sunday opened Wooden Doors of Qatar: From Storage to Stories and Atharna 2026: Life and Death in Pre-Islamic Qatar at Fahad Bin Ali Palace in Msheireb. On view until May 29, 2027, the exhibitions offer two distinct encounters with Qatar’s heritage thr»»»

BELGRADE - We have shown that changes are not only possible, but also that the will for them is there, Student List candidate for MP Radomir Saicic said on Sunday evening after early parliamentary elections in Serbia, adding that the Student List - which won the polls - now needed to demonstrate it»»»

Moscow: Russia's Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow welcomes the European Union's nomination of an envoy for negotiations on Ukraine, underscoring the importance of the envoy's credibility in paving the way for a settlement. Commenting Sunday on reports that Finnish President Alexander Stu»»»

Energy markets and diplomacy at stake as Trump issues stark warning on Iran's ambitions US President Donald Trump has renewed his warning that allowing Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon would create catastrophic security and energy consequences. Trump warned that a nuclear-armed Iran would create “e»»»

Bulgaria’s presidential election is heading for a runoff between Iliana Yotova and Andrey Gyurov, with parallel vote counts placing the two tickets in the lead and turnout remaining low, according to polling agencies and reports by BGNES and NOVA. New exit poll puts Gyurov ahead of Yotova by 0.8% T»»»

According to Alpha Research’s exit poll, 39% of GERB voters who participated in the presidential election chose Andrey Gyurov, while turnout among the party’s supporters exceeded 30%, representing approximately 130,000 votes. Among these voters, 22% backed Iliana Yotova, 8% supported Kostadin Kosta»»»

Revival leader and presidential candidate Kostadin Kostadinov said the October 25 election results were predictable given low turnout, adding that his party’s voters could play a decisive role in the November 1 runoff. Speaking at a news briefing at the party’s headquarters in Sofia, Kostadinov sai»»»

Presidential candidates Iliana Yotova and Andrey Gyurov outlined their positions ahead of Bulgaria’s November 1 runoff, with Yotova calling for a message of peace and stressing the importance of voting, while Gyurov invited her to an open debate. “Our message of peace must be heard, and that is wha»»»

Bulgaria’s presidential election is heading for a runoff between Iliana Yotova and Andrey Gyurov on November 1, with completed parallel vote counts showing a narrow race and turnout of about 22%, according to polling agencies cited by BGNES and NOVA. The final parallel count by the Market Links Age»»»

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Sunday that Egypt would not accept a fait accompli or compromise its water security, stressing that the right of Nile Basin countries to development must not come at the expense of other states or cause them harm. In a recorded address at the opening »»»

Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Badr Abdelatty travelled to Algeria on Sunday to participate in a ministerial meeting of the tripartite neighbourhood mechanism on Libya alongside his Algerian and Tunisian counterparts. During the meeting, the three foreign m»»»

“For the first time, I saw in Hebron hundreds of citizens, elderly men, women,and children leaving their homes and wandering aimlessly in the streets,” Al-Khalil (Hebron) Mayor Yousef Al-Jabari said,reporting that the Israeli army had displaced over 2,000 Palestinians in the southern West Bank city»»»

Egypt’s Higher Committee for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Affairs has approved a new package of infrastructure and service projects for implementation under public-private partnership arrangements, including industrial wastewater treatment plants, seawater desalination facilities and electricit»»»

These elections have shown the complete erosion of the current government's legitimacy, Continue the Change leader Assen Vassilev said on Nova TV Sunday after the end of the presidential elections in Bulgaria. "Out of 1.4 million people, 900,000 are now saying, 'We do not support Iliana Iotova.' An»»»

Barcelona, Spain: A brace from Kylian Mbappe was enough for Real Madrid to claim three precious points on Sunday as they beat La Liga leaders FC Barcelona 2-1. Mbappe found himself in the right place and in the right time after a clearance by Barcelona defender Gerard Martin deflected off the incom»»»

"It is an illusion to think that we can change anything in the country if citizens do not vote," incumbent President Iliana Iotova, who is seeking a full term in office, told journalists after the close of voting on Sunday. Iotova said many changes would be needed in the coming years to prevent Bul»»»

Dhaka: Bangladesh recorded 2,249 mosquito-borne dengue fever cases in the 24 hours leading into Sunday morning, marking the highest single-day infection tally documented this year. According to the latest data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the country also recorded seven m»»»

BELGRADE - With 56 pct of votes counted, the Student List-The Students Will Win electoral list has 52 pct of votes after Sunday's early parliamentary polls in Serbia, IPSOS and the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (Cesid) have announced. According to preliminary electoral results released by»»»

Mass protests have swept across Europe over the weekend, with demonstrators clashing with riot police amid widespread anger over soaring living costs and government policies. The unrest has largely been inspired by the protests in France, which began in September. Spearheaded by students, they were»»»

ORLÉANS, France: Marine Le Pen, France’s far-right candidate to succeed President Emmanuel Macron, kicked off her campaign Sunday vowing to “restore the rule of law” if elected next year. Le Pen — the frontrunner in the polls — seems to be benefiting from the convulsions France has been going throu»»»

Opposition leader Machado returns, reigniting calls for free elections in Venezuela Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado returned on Sunday after months abroad, making her first public appearance in Venezuela since December. Her return comes at a time of »»»