Georgian Dream officials have offered supporters the same message for the better part of a year: a reset with Washington is close at hand. George Melashvili, chairman of the Europe-Georgia Institute, a Tbilisi based think-tank that follows Georgia's foreign policy and its relations with the West, a»»»

The US Senate on Saturday voted 50-49 to confirm President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Todd Blanche as the country's attorney general. Blanche was serving as the top US law enforcement officer in an acting capacity after Trump fired another loyalist, Pam Bondi. His confirmation caps one o»»»

GERB-UDF MP Hristo Gadjev, member of the parliamentary defence committee, commenting on Prime Minister Rumen Radev’s announcement that a drone had entered Bulgarian airspace near Kardam and exploded, wrote on Facebook, "Let’s see how Rumen Radev’s government will defend our national interest." Gadj»»»

A drone entered Bulgarian airspace from the direction of Romania early Saturday and exploded about 100 meters inside the border near the former Kardam border checkpoint, prompting authorities to strengthen surveillance and security measures along the country's northern frontier. The incident occurr»»»

At least eight members of Yemeni government forces and two civilians were killed Friday in new attacks by Houthi rebels in an oil-rich province. Houthi attacks on Yemen's Marib province killed at least 10 people Friday, according to a minister and military source, as the rebels escalated strikes on»»»

Tehran at War (Part 2/2). In Iran, the war with the United States is also fought through enormous, state-sponsored posters. Murals transform walls into billboards advertising the official narrative, designed to carry the government's voice far beyond its borders. FRANCE 24 examines this visual stra»»»

Dubai: The Dubai Consumer Protection Department has intensified inspection campaigns across retail outlets, markets and shopping centres as back-to-school promotions get under way, aiming to ensure compliance with promotional regulations, price transparency and consumer rights. Ahmad Ahli, Acting D»»»

Russian missile strikes killed three people, including a child, ​in ‌the Kyiv region on Saturday, said local authorities, as an air raid alert was declared in and around the Ukrainian capital. The attack came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Belgrade on a landmark visit»»»

New York: Major US stock indexes closed higher on Friday, with the S&P 500 reaching a record high as investors responded to weaker-than-expected US jobs data that reduced expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike in September. The S&P 500 rose 46.48 points, or 0.60%, to close at 7,756.44»»»

The US State Department announced late Friday that President Donald Trump's ​administration plans toprovide $1 billion in security assistance to Colombia as the country's new right-wing President Abelardo De La Espriella was sworn into office. De la Espriella, who calls himself »»»

Wi Sung-lac and Michelle Steel discuss ways to strengthen alliance amid security, trade and investment issues New US Ambassador to South Korea Michelle Steel (C), accompanied by her husband, lawyer Shawn Steel (L), arrives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul, South Korea, 04 August 2026. Ph»»»

Brian Curtis, deputy managing director for investigations, speaks at a hearing at the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating a helicopter that crashed while responding to a wildfire in Utah. File Photo by Alex Wong/UPI | License Photo Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A firefighting helicopter »»»

European buyers are demanding that Turkey provide documentation proving natural gas transported through Turkish territory is not of Russian origin, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said in an interview with A Haber TV on August 6. Bayraktar said Turkey is legally obliged to process »»»

Tunis, August 7 (TAP) - A partnership agreement to implement a project aimed at restoring degraded Aleppo pine ecosystems in Kasserine governorate, with funding worth S$2.48 million provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), was signed by...»»»

The UN's World Food Programme is finalizing a five-year renewal of its contract with US data software firm Palantir despite “key privacy concerns” raised in a leaked 2025 internal audit. The audit, seen by PassBlue and FRANCE 24, reveals UN misgivings about allowing Palantir to process data for the»»»

Sharon Gaffney is pleased to welcome Heather Kerr, Country Director for Congo at the International Rescue Committee. The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is unprecedented, not simply because of its scale, but because it spread undetected for months before it was correc»»»

One of our quirkier rituals is to write every year about why Russians view August as some sort of cursed month and to highlight what could happen this year. Or, to paraphrase (ex US Secretary of Defence) Donald Rumsfeld, the “known knowns” and, possibly, the “known unknowns”. But, of course, it is »»»

Russia has destroyed more than half of the Kyiv region's pre-war warehouse capacity since its full-scale invasion began, after strikes overnight on August 5 hit 10 warehouse facilities totalling about 100,000 square metres, according to Ukrainian real estate analysts cited by Ukraine Business News.»»»

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a mutual defence pact on Friday that would treat any act of aggression on one of the three nations as an attack on all of them, the allies said in a joint statement. However, it did not specify if the agreement would bind them to any particular military acti»»»

The concerts of several musicians accused of supporting former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad have been cancelled this summer in towns across Syria. People in the city of Homs tore down posters announcing performances by singers Mohamad Iskandar and Hossam Jneed, denouncing their previous links w»»»

Acting Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry Lyubomir Nikolov said Bulgarian authorities have found no evidence that fentanyl produced in the recently dismantled laboratory in Sofia was exported abroad, stressing that all identified shipments were intercepted before leaving the country. Speaking»»»

President Donald Trump participates in the signing of executive orders Thursday in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is shown at right. Trump signed an order imposing new rules on tariffs on polysilicon and related products. Photo by Aaron Schw»»»

A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay more than $500 million, finding the social media company created a public nuisance and harmed children. The ruling follows a March jury verdict awarding the state $375 million after finding Meta liable for exposing children to online predators and »»»

A student at a high school in Thailand's Nonthaburi province north of Bangkok killed six people, including three teachers and three students, in a school shooting on Friday. Police said the gunman killed his grandparents before opening fire at the school. Thailand has one of the highest rates of gu»»»

Italy's health ministry placed 27 cities, from Trieste in the country's northeast to Palermo in Sicily, on red alert ahead of the weekend as a blistering heatwave across much of Europe toppled temperature records and disrupted energy and transportation systems in several countries.  Italy plac»»»

In 1894, when the Belgian city of Antwerp was hosting a World's Fair, 144 Congolese people were forcibly brought to the city to be exhibited in the Congo Pavilion. In this "human zoo", seven Congolese men ultimately died of disease. Today, this shocking episode still haunts Belgium as one»»»

A dedicated cybersecurity agency should be established to bring Bulgaria’s fragmented cyber defense resources together under one structure, said Bozhidar Bozhanov, co-chair of “Yes, Bulgaria.” His comments came after the Ministry of Innovation and Digital Transformation announced on August 5 that u»»»

The Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), jointly with the Ministry of Economy, Investment and Industry, held its traditional annual awards ceremony honouring the most successful Commercial and Economic Affairs Offices (CEAO) for 2025, organized after the annual meeting of the heads of»»»

Bulgaria’s national informatics team, which will take part in the 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in Uzbekistan, was welcomed at the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) on Thursday, the hosts said on their Facebook page. The visit took pl»»»

Ukraine's stockpile of air-defence interceptor missiles is running down to zero this week, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's mounting desperation as the hunt for replacement ammunition fails is becoming impossible to hide, with the country's skies over its cities now largely undefended »»»

Energy Minister Iva Petrova said the protocol freezing the gas agreement between Bulgaria's Bulgargaz and Turkey's Botas for 15 months is confidential and will not be made public because it is an agreement between two commercial companies. Speaking to Nova TV, Petrova explained that the document fa»»»

Ukraine's stockpile of air-defence interceptor missiles is running down to zero this week, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's mounting desperation as the hunt for replacement ammunition fails is becoming impossible to hide, with the country's skies over its cities now largely undefended »»»

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has slipped to sixth place in a new public trust ranking of the country's political and military leaders, behind four military figures and his own former defence minister, according to a poll published on August 6 by the Center for Social Research Socis. This»»»

Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) have charged Olha Stefanishyna, until recently Ukraine's ambassador to the US, in a new illicit-enrichment case tied to the purchase of a Kyiv apartment, two days after she resigned her p»»»

Russia's Aerospace Forces launched 8,385 glide bombs at Ukraine in July, up 1.4% from 8,266 in June, an average of 270 a day, according to figures compiled from open-source strike monitoring. The increase came alongside a qualitative shift too, with Russia making heavier use of Unified Gliding and »»»

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Ceyhun Bayramov held a round of talks with Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha in Kyiv, with the two sides discussing energy cooperation, trade and the war with Russia, Report said, citing the Azerbaijani foreign ministry. Baku is positioning itself as a supplier o»»»

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Ceyhun Bayramov held a round of talks with Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha in Kyiv, with the two sides discussing energy cooperation, trade and the war with Russia, Report said, citing the Azerbaijani foreign ministry. Baku is positioning itself as a supplier o»»»

A few months ago, we launched our series in which we provided weekly summaries of the news from Hungary’s election campaign. The series continues so that we can report on developments following the historic election and on the steps taken by the new Tisza government. This week, we cover the followi»»»

President Iliana Iotova said on Friday Stefan Tsanev's writing urges people to seek meaning in the time they live in and to be guided by the moral compass of conscience. She made the remarks in a congratulatory address to the prominent Bulgarian playwright, writer and poet on his 90th birthday, the»»»

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Saudi Arabia's city of Jeddah on Friday, Saudi media reported, where he is expected to sign a defense agreement with the kingdom and Pakistan, sources have told AFP. Saudi Arabia's Alekhbariya television reported that the Turkish president had arriv»»»

US-backed negotiations between Venezuela's interim government and a faction of the opposition began on Thursday after nearly a week of delays, the two sides said. The talks aim to reshape the country's political system and lay the groundwork for eventual elections after years of political turmoil. »»»

Syria's Health Ministry said Friday that 14 people were wounded, three of them critically, but that there were no fatalities in the explosion of a minivan taxi a day earlier in a Damascus suburb. The Health Ministry had said Thursday night that two people were killed in the blast. In a statement Fr»»»

Australian specialist aviation operator Skytraders evacuated an American from McMurdo Station in Antartica on July 31. The American was transported to Christchurch, New Zealand, where they were receiving medical treatment as of Friday. Photo courtesy Skytraders Aug. 7 (UPI) -- An American was evacu»»»

South Korean activists who visited North Korean POWs in Ukraine were charged by police for violating passport laws, the activist group's leader said Friday. This January 2025 photo shows a North Korean POW captured by Ukraine. File Photo via President of Ukraine/UPI | License Photo Six South Korean»»»

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that trade negotiations with the United States had turned "nasty" after President Donald Trump derided America's neighbor and its leadership while threatening to expand tariffs. Carney said Canada remained engaged in the negotiations despite Trump's»»»

Ghana's central bank lost more than $1.7bn in 2025 running its gold-buying programme, the International Monetary Fund has said, even as the scheme helped rebuild the country's foreign reserves and prop up the cedi. The losses, disclosed in the IMF's 2026 Article IV Consultation and proposed Policy »»»

DUBAI: “Batman: Caped Crusader” has returned for a second season on Prime Video, and if you haven’t yet watched this spiritual successor to the iconic “Batman: The Animated Series,” there’s never been a better time to start the best superhero show on TV right now. Created by “TAS” co-creator Bruce »»»

DAMASCUS: Under the supervision of the Saudi Ministry of Energy, three Power Purchase Agreements were signed in the Syrian capital, Damascus, between Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Ahmed Al-Harfi Co. and the Syrian Electricity Co. Two technical cooperation agreements were also signed between Mohammed Ahme»»»

In the 1930s, Japan found itself battling against the spread of leprosy. Faced with the infectious disease, which attacks the nerves and deforms the body, the authorities confined leprosy patients to sanatoriums – some of them on the island of Nagashima. Even after the first treatments ap»»»