US pushes Iran for nuclear concessions amid escalating Middle East tensions US President Donald Trump stated that the US must "finish up" the war with Iran, adding that Washington will soon decide whether to bring the conflict to an end the "nice way or the not-so-nice way." During an address at an»»»

The number of Germans seeking conscientious objector status has risen sharply amid Berlin’s military buildup and debate over reinstating conscription, the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) reported on Tuesday. According to RND, whose parent company is partly owned by the ruling coalition’s Socia»»»

Prizes can motivate students, but they can also change the reason children want to learn Recently, at a community event, a group of teenagers was invited to take part in a learning challenge. They were asked to read, answer questions and collect points. Those who read regularly, answered correctly »»»

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would speak very soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the reported plague death of a laboratory technician, as Washington and the United Nations called for transparency from Moscow. Russian authorities denied that they were imposing a»»»

Kosovo ends political crisis with election of new president Kosovo parliament voted to curb the powers of its special war crimes court in a last-minute session that narrowly avoided another governmental collapse in the early hours of Wednesday (Oct. 7, 2026). The amendment, which was tightly negoti»»»

FAIRBANKS, Alaska: US Vice President JD Vance said in an exclusive interview with Reuters that Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction in ​its nuclear enrichment capacity to satisfy US demands and end the countries’ seven-month war, even as Washington was unsure how Tehran makes decisions in negoti»»»

In August, US employment in roles most exposed to AI for people aged between 22 and 25 shrank by 4.4 percent year-on-year. This means there's been a contraction every single month since October 2023, about a year after ChatGPT was first released. The high impact of AI on younger workers is one of t»»»

MOSCOW: Ukraine struck an oil tanker off the southern Russian coast on Tuesday evening, triggering a huge fire and black smoke cloud that blanketed parts of the resort city of Sochi. Both sides have heavily targeted commercial shipping around the Black Sea since the start of the conflict in 2022, w»»»

MIAMI: The Trump administration is creating a team of attorneys to represent children who traveled alone to the United States in immigration proceedings, which critics say would deprive them of having lawyers who aren’t employed by the government and could put them at greater risk of deportation. T»»»

Trump to discuss Siberian plague case with Putin amid global health concerns WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case of plague at a Siberian research institute. Speaking to reporters at the White Hou»»»

Three Indians rescued from Black Sea attack, one receiving treatment Bucharest: Embassy officials in Romania on Tuesday met the three Indian nationals rescued from commercial vessel MV ROYAD MAMMADOV after it was attacked in the Black Sea on Monday, with two of them accommodated at a hotel and the »»»

Ukraine drone strike ignites tanker fire near Russia's Sochi coast Ukraine struck an oil tanker off the southern Russian coast on Tuesday evening, triggering a huge fire and black smoke cloud that blanketed parts of the resort city of Sochi. Both sides have heavily targeted commercial shipping arou»»»

Paramount completed its acquisition of Warner Bros Discover on Tuesday, after a bidding war against Netflix. The deal closed following federal approval of a settlement between Paramount and 12 US states that tried to block the transaction on antitrust grounds. Opponents in the movie industry warned»»»

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro received on Monday endorsements ​from Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, two right-wing politicians who ran against him in Sunday's first-round vote, ​for ‌the runoff against President Luiz ⁠Inacio Lula da Silva later this month. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Anthon»»»

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro received on Monday endorsements ​from Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, two right-wing politicians who ran against him in Sunday's first-round vote, ​for ‌the runoff against President Luiz ⁠Inacio Lula da Silva later this month. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Anthon»»»

TRIPOLI: Libya’s parliament speaker, a supporter of eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar, was ousted on Tuesday after 12 years in the post, in what experts said may be a sign of a shifting political balance. MPs voted to replace Agila Saleh with Al-Salhin Abdelnabi Al-Obeidi, the parliament’s spokesman»»»

STRASBOURG, France — EU chief Ursula von der Leyen warned Tuesday against a push by Germany and other member states for "large cuts" to the EU's next long-term budget, saying "critical" European priorities were at stake.Germany and five other so-called "frugal" countries , Austria, Denmark, Finland»»»

BRUSSELS — EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic will travel to Beijing Thursday for two days of high-stakes talks aimed at staving off a trade war with China.The trip comes as the European Union has toughened its stance towards Beijing to defend businesses against what it believes is unfair competition in»»»

AMMAN — The Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC) and the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) hosted a business delegation from the US Chamber of Commerce to present investment opportunities across the industrial, logistics, digital technology and tourism sectors in the economic zone.Coordi»»»

DPA Berlin Qatar and India are among seven countries interested in hosting the 2036 Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Tuesday. An IOC statement said that Germany, Hungary, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey were the other interested parties before an October 31 deadline.»»»

Tribune News Network Doha Four Qatari high school students won week-long research laboratory experiences at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) when they triumphed in the college’s annual “Healing Hands” essay competition. The winning students were Abrar Al Khulaifi and Manayer Abdulaziz Al Ansari»»»

David Rush faces 20 years for defrauding $193M and leaking defence secrets A former senior CIA official who was arrested in May with a hoard of hundreds of gold bars worth more than $45 million in his home pleaded guilty to fraud on Tuesday. David Rush, 49, who held a top secret security clearance »»»

Share: Geagea calls for dismantling Hezbollah , says this is a Lebanese demand Geagea says that dismantling Hezbollah in lebanon is a necessity and called for linking US Aid to the Lebanese army to its performance in implementing the Framework agreement Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forc»»»

Kenya on Tuesday reported its first-ever Ebola death after a Kenyan national who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) died after returning to the country. Kenya is the fourth country to record an Ebola case in the current outbreak, which was declared in eastern DR Con»»»

It’s a protest movement that a broke, lame-duck French government did not see coming. Civil servants this Tuesday joining high schoolers now in their third week of picketing over long-deteriorating classroom conditions. The usual recipe for wearing down movements in France has recently been to matc»»»

Hundreds of thousands of students and their supporters took part in nationwide protests across France on Tuesday after weeks of student barricades protesting school conditions.  If the French government was hoping to drive its protesting high schoolers back into their classrooms with a whiff o»»»

JERUSALEM: US President Donald Trump’s year-old plan to end the Gaza war has stalled, with Israel mounting near daily ‌attacks and occupying around two-thirds of the shattered enclave where Palestinians face dire conditions. The initial phase resulted in a ceasefire on October 10, 2025 and secured »»»

RAMALLAH: Israel has barred Palestinian election officials from entering Gaza and Jerusalem to prepare for November’s long-awaited legislative elections in the territories, creating a fresh obstacle to the first Palestinian parliamentary vote in two decades. The Palestinian Central Elections Commis»»»

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia carried out a combined attack with sea and aerial drones against civilian vessels in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone, while Bulgarian Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov said it was still impossible to establish whether the drones were Ukrainian o»»»

A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Tuesday lifted the arrest warrant for Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, clearing the way for him to return home without fear of detention ahead of a general election in November. A Spanish judge on Tuesday lifted an arrest warrant for exiled former Catala»»»

Recent reports and videos of alleged recruitment irregularities are fuelling tensions between mobilisation authorities and Ukrainian society, while raising questions about the oversight and implementation of military recruitment. In a video posted on September 4, a man was forcibly taken into a pol»»»

A seventh man was arrested Tuesday over a major incident last month at a British military airbase used by the United States to launch strikes on Iran, police said. The arrest came a day after President Donald Trump said the United States had withdrawn all B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford because of "t»»»

LONDON: Recent satellite imagery has revealed the sheer scale of destruction in Gaza. But beneath the rubble covering large swathes of the enclave, what remains hidden is harder to quantify — and far more consequential. The latest UN estimates put the amount of rubble at about 61 million tonnes — r»»»

RIYADH: Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy said on Tuesday that the Department of Defense denied him access to a key military ​base in Qatar during a visit to the Middle East, describing it as part of a US government effort to conceal the impact of the Iran war. The Al Udeid Air Base is the largest»»»

WASHINGTON: Most families of the six soldiers killed in the deadliest attack of the Iran war will not be attending a major White House event for Gold Star families hosted by President Donald Trump. Only one family member of those killed in an Iranian drone strike March 1 on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait c»»»

WASHINGTON: A former senior CIA official pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Virginia to a charge that he abused his position and government funds to enrich himself by acquiring Florida real estate and hundreds of gold bars worth tens of millions of dollars, according to court records. David J. Rush fabri»»»

TEHRAN: Iran summoned French ambassador to Tehran Pierre Cochard on Tuesday over Paris’s treatment of protesters demanding better conditions in schools, state media reported, with French police having clashed for days with demonstrators. Iran accused France of “violent treatment” of the protesters »»»

WASHINGTN: US President ​Donald Trump said on Tuesday the biggest problem ‌for ‌him ​is ‌that ⁠nobody ​knows who is ⁠running Iran. “Their second group of ⁠leaders ‌are gone, ‌and ​the ‌biggest problem ‌I have is nobody knows ‌who the hell is ⁠running ⁠the country,” Trump said.»»»

Raqqa, Oct. 6 (SANA) In the cotton fields of northern Raqqa countryside, the day begins for women cotton pickers with the first light of dawn. Carrying their bags, they head into the fields to harvest what is locally known as Raqqa’s “white gold,” embarking on a long workday, or “sarwa,” that stret»»»

WASHINGTON: US authorities arrested a person in Washington state on Tuesday who they accuse of providing advice and offering to live stream a deadly mass shooting carried out last year in Canada. James Cody Bryant, 30, was detained on a charge of conspiracy to murder people in a foreign country in »»»

RAMALLAH: Israel has barred Palestinian election officials from entering Gaza and Jerusalem to prepare for November’s long-awaited legislative elections, creating a fresh obstacle to the first Palestinian parliamentary vote in two decades. The Palestinian Central Elections Commission was prevented »»»

MANILA: The Philippines is recording a boom in the number of halal-certified businesses as the government expands the local industry to tap into the multi-trillion-dollar global halal market. In the predominantly Catholic Philippines, Muslims make up around 10 percent of the country’s 120 million p»»»

STOCKHOLM: Swedish police said Tuesday they shot an armed man outside the Royal Palace in central Stockholm after receiving reports of a disruptive individual carrying a weapon. Police said officers responding to the incident opened fire on the man. “The man was hit and taken to hospital,” Stockhol»»»

CARACAS: Venezuela’s Cardon refinery, in the northwest of the county, has been halted amid a fire at one of its units, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. One source said the blaze was already under control, while two reported personnel had been evacuated. Other sources saw »»»

DAMASCUS: Syrian authorities have arrested a Daesh military commander accused of overseeing and planning a December 2025 bombing at a mosque in Homs that killed eight people and wounded 18 others. Syria’s Interior Ministry said intelligence and security forces detained Khaled Raed Birouni, also kno»»»

Paris, France: At least 488 people were arrested and 43 members of the security forces wounded Tuesday as tens of thousands massed in France to protest against poor conditions in schools, the interior ministry said. Most of the day's demonstrations were peaceful but there were sporadic clashes acro»»»

France and Germany are pressing Brussels to take a tougher line on China by creating new powers that could rapidly shut foreign countries out of the EU market. The proposal effectively tells Brussels to beef up its position as it prepares for negotiations with Beijing. It also marks a shift for Ger»»»

Hungary and Croatia have agreed to launch a joint natural gas exploration and production project, Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán and Minister for Economic and Energy Affairs István Kapitány announced following talks in Zagreb. The ministers held discussions with Croatian Economy Minister An»»»

The European Commission has formally presented Communication COM(2026) 705 final, titled “Preparing for a Larger Union,” outlining a strategic roadmap for adapting the European Union’s institutions, policies and budget ahead of future enlargement. The document proposes significant changes to the EU»»»