Since his return to power, US President Donald Trump has been intent on reshaping the nation's capital Washington, seeking to leave his name and mark on it. After his involvement with the Kennedy Center, the White House ballroom and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Trump is now particularly ke»»»

Doha, Qatar: Lusail International Circuit (LIC) is proud to take part in the 11th edition of Qatar Sustainability Week (QSW), taking place from 31 October to 7 November 2026. Led by Earthna Center for a Sustainable Future, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, the na»»»

A historic Democratic electoral breakthrough has transformed the American political landscape. For Laurie Dundon, Senior Associate Fellow at the European Leadership Network and former US diplomat, the central question is whether the Democratic Party can convert electoral momentum into coherent gove»»»

CARACAS: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Thursday backed a US proposal to declare her country’s presidency vacant and hold elections next year. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate made a dramatic return from exile late last month, almost one year after the US seized president Nicola»»»

LONDON: About 470 displaced families departed Hasakah on Thursday for their homes in Ras Al-Ain and its countryside in the Syrian Arab Republic. In recent weeks, authorities facilitated the voluntary return of 4,028 displaced families via seven convoys, representing about 32.2 percent of Ras Al-Ain»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a written message from Julius Maada Bio, president of the Republic of Sierra Leone, regarding bilateral ties between the two countries. Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Mohammed Sheriff Barrie presented the document to Waleed Elkherei»»»

Tunis, Nov. 5 (TAP) - The weather on Thursday night will be marked by occasionally dense clouds, with scattered and temporarily thunderous rain over the western regions of northern and central Tunisia, before extending late at night to coastal areas...»»»

DOHA Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has discussed bilateral relations and regional developments in phone talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran HE Abbas Araghchi. The two officials focused on coop»»»

By Staff, Agencies US Vice President JD Vance is seeking to distance himself politically from President Donald Trump following the Republicans’ midterm defeat, according to a CNN analysis, which interprets his recent remarks as an effort to protect his presidential ambitions and influence the party»»»

Asuncion, Paraguay: President Santiago Peña of Paraguay announced he was stepping down from office on Thursday following the takeover of a linked bank that blocked customer access to accounts Protests have roiled the South American nation after its central bank took control of Ueno Bank on Tuesday,»»»

Between late July and late October, three well-known Bulgarian businessmen were killed. Vladimir Yankov, a coffee and vending machine importer, was found burned in his home in Bankya on July 27. Iliyan Filipov, owner of the transport company PIMK and the football club Botev Plovdiv, was shot dead i»»»

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s administration held secret talks with Iran on deporting Iranians even as the war there dragged on, court documents show. The court documents unsealed Thursday show the Republican administration as recently as mid-October said it had plans to deport the Iranians »»»

ISTANBUL: Eight people were shot dead in three villages in western central Turkiye on Thursday, local officials said, as a major manhunt was underway to find the gunman. “Unfortunately, eight of our citizens have lost their lives, and one has been seriously injured in armed attacks in our province,»»»

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia and Sudan closed each other’s consulates near their shared border, officials from the two countries said on Wednesday, marking a further deterioration in relations over allegations each side is supporting the other’s enemies. Sudan accuses Ethiopia of supporting the paramilita»»»

LONDON: A British man being treated for Ebola in Congo is being evacuated to the UK, the government said Thursday. The man, believed to be a health care worker, is the first British patient evacuated from the current outbreak of the deadly virus, and the third person to have tested positive to retu»»»

A 9,000-title library and 150 courses support inmate rehabilitation in Ras Al Khaimah. Ras Al Khaimah: More than 5,000 inmates at Ras Al Khaimah's Correctional and Rehabilitation Institution have benefited from an education programme offering over 150 courses since 2011. Its prison library, with mo»»»

Istanbul: Eight people were shot dead in three villages in western central Turkiye on Thursday, local officials said, as a major manhunt was underway to find the shooter. “Unfortunately, eight of our citizens have lost their lives, and one has been seriously injured in armed attacks in our province»»»

Chief Commissioner Darin Kostov has been temporarily appointed Director of the Directorate General for Combating Organized Crime by an order issued by Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev on November 3, according to the Directorate’s website. The Directorate was previously headed by Chief Commissione»»»

Doha: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani has discussed bilateral relations and regional developments in phone talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran HE Abbas Araghchi. The two officials focused on coo»»»

BELGRADE - In a reaction to public allegations disputing the constitutionality of pardons issued by former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's caretaker Ministry of Justice said on Thursday the right to pardon represented an explicit constitutional power of the president of the Republic un»»»

Damascus, Nov. 5 (SANA) Finance Minister Mohammad Yisr Barniyeh met with a delegation from the Türkiye-Syria Business Council, affiliated with Türkiye’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK), headed by chairman Mahsum Altunkaya, to discuss opportunities to expand economic and investment cooperati»»»

BREAKING NEWSManhunt underway after eight killed in Turkish village shootings Istanbul: Eight people were shot dead in three villages in western central Turkey on Thursday, local officials said, as a major manhunt was underway to find the shooter. "Unfortunately, eight of our citizens have lost the»»»

LONDON: Stephen Doughty, British minister of state for the Middle East, reaffirmed the UK’s commitment to providing humanitarian assistance to Yemen following talks with Presidential Leadership Council Chairman Rashad Al-Alimi on the worsening crisis caused by Houthi attacks. “An honor to meet Pres»»»

DHAKA: Garment workers staged fresh protests in Bangladesh on Thursday, forcing factories to suspend operations despite a wage board move to introduce a revised pay structure from December. The protests, which began on Saturday, have forced the closure of hundreds of factories, disrupting productio»»»

NICOSIA: Natural gas deposits off the southern coastline of Cyprus are an opportunity for the European Union to bolster its own energy security by diversifying its supply, the island nation’s president said Thursday. President Nikos Christodoulides told The Associated Press in an exclusive statemen»»»

Tunis, Nov. 5 (TAP) - The fourth session of the Tunisia-European Union Joint Parliamentary Committee was held on Thursday at the European Parliament in Brussels, co-chaired by Riadh Jaïdane on the Tunisian side and Ruggiero Razza on the European...»»»

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US First Lady Melania Trump said on Thursday that she had written a personal message to Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Russian special presidential envoy for economic cooperation with foreign countries Kirill D»»»

ADEN: Yemen’s Armed Forces said they had carried out 1,298 strikes against Houthi targets as part of Operation Dawn of Yemen, claiming to have neutralized about 440 fighters and commanders and destroyed or disabled 132 military vehicles, armored vehicles and heavy weapons. In a statement, a militar»»»

The state of disaster in the town of Kozloduy will be extended for up to 30 days due to deviations from drinking water quality standards in the central water supply system, the Vratsa Regional Administration said on its website. The decision was taken at Thursday's meeting of the regional response »»»

Brisbane: An Italian chef was dismissed from a restaurant in Australia following what was described a series of management grievances regarding his professional conduct, among them a dispute over his refusal to add pineapple to a pizza, BBC reported. The chef, Davide Tamburella, maintained that ins»»»

BUCHAREST: A French maritime patrol aircraft deployed to Romania to bolster surveillance after a series of deadly strikes on merchant ships in the Black Sea on the edge of NATO’s eastern flank will extend its stay by several weeks, its commander said on Thursday. The attacks have shown how the esca»»»

Major General Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), has met with the Russian president and delivered a message from Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Khamenei. According to the secretariat of the SNSC, on Thursday, Rezaei traveled to Moscow for the meeting and personal»»»

BRUSSELS, Belgium: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has slammed Europe’s “disorderly” approach to Ukraine negotiations and demanded the EU decide who speaks on its behalf, in a letter seen by AFP Thursday. In the message to European Council chief Antonio Costa, who chairs summits of EU leaders»»»

TUNIS, Nov. 5, 2026 (TAP) - The 12th edition of the International Chief Information Officer (CIO) Forum kicked off on Thursday in Hammamet and will continue until November 7 under the theme "AI Driven: From Concept to Value," bringing together...»»»

TUNIS, Nov. 5, 2026 (TAP) - Nearly 870 environmental projects, with an estimated total cost of TND 6,854 million, are planned within the framework of the 2026-2030 Development Plan, Minister of Environment Habib Abid announced on Thursday.These...»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia is ready for further cooperation with the Vatican on humanitarian issues, including family reunification, search of missing people and exchange of prisoners of war, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. "We are open to further cooperation w»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Shares of US billionaire Elon Musk's companies, SpaceX and Tesla, continued to decline for a second consecutive day, according to trading data. As of 15:06 GMT, Tesla shares were down 9.86% at $347.46 per share, while SpaceX shares had fallen 8.05% to $124.98. At the close of tra»»»

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he planned to visit Azerbaijan on Sunday, as a dispute over Baku’s new rules restricting Islamic headscarves in schools strained ties between the regional allies. “November 8 is Azerbaijan’s Victory Day. Unless there are extraordinary circumst»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, discussed the latest developments in the region and the progress of diplomatic efforts to strengthen security and stability, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Their telephone conversation »»»

Gaza: A Palestinian was killed and others were wounded today by Israeli occupation gunfire in the central Gaza Strip. Local sources in the Strip reported that a citizen was killed in a drone strike near the Zawaida municipality, while several others, including children, were injured in two strikes »»»

CHICAGO: President Donald Trump’s election-day pledge to end almost $4 billion in annual US military aid to Israel has come under renewed scrutiny after Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress and Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Senate candidate Trump singled out over the issue, defeated hi»»»

NEW YORK: Six people died in a fire that barreled through a two-story home in New York early Thursday and seven others were injured, including three firefighters, the city’s fire department said. More than 200 first responders quickly got to the fire in the row house in Brooklyn, in the borough’s S»»»

INNSBRUCK, Austria: An Austrian court convicted fallen property tycoon Rene Benko of aggravated fraud on Thursday, sentencing him to two years in prison at his third criminal trial after two earlier convictions for insolvency-related fraud. The aggravated fraud charge centered on a roughly €5 milli»»»

Presidential Adviser says honour reflects nation's commitment to recognising dedication Dubai: Dr Anwar Mohammed Gargash, Diplomatic Adviser to the UAE President, has praised His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, for hon»»»

The Azov* torture chamber in the Kiev region is part of a country-wide network of some of the most horrific crimes in modern times, Janus Putkonen, a Finnish geopolitical analyst and investigative journalist with the Patriotic Network, tells Sputnik, reflecting on his visit to Donbass after the Min»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The conflict in Ukraine is beginning to exhaust Europe both economically and morally, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini said on Thursday. "I will be frank and say that this war is starting to exhaust Europe morally and economically. The billions that are needed to help Ukraine ..»»»

Heavy rain, hail and strong winds forecast from Friday to Tuesday, Civil Defence warns Dubai: Saudi Arabia has issued a weather warning for thunderstorms, heavy rain and possible flash floods across most parts of the Kingdom from Friday until Tuesday, November 10, urging residents to exercise cauti»»»

JERICHO, West Bank: Israeli settlers moved into houses they say they purchased legally near the West Bank city of Jericho this week, while Palestinian officials say the sale documents were forged. An AFP reporter saw families with children moving into homes on the outskirts of the ancient city in t»»»

LONDON: A UK government lawyer on Thursday defended before Britain’s highest court the banning of Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organization, insisting that it was not a “non-violent protest group.” Palestine Action was proscribed in July 2025 after a string of protests targeting a UK military »»»

MOSCOW: The Kremlin denied Thursday it was behind cyberattacks that hit supermarket fridges across Europe this week, calling the allegations against Moscow “absurd.” Grocery stores in at least nine European countries saw fridge temperatures soar, forcing retailers to discard hundreds of millions of»»»