Pakistan's parliament has voted to give army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir new powers and lifetime immunity from arrest and prosecution, a move that critics say paves the way towards autocracy. The 27th constitutional amendment, which was signed into law on Thursday, will also make significant cha»»»

Tunis, Nov 14 (TAP) – The 2026 budget of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines, estimated at TND 5,326 million, accounts for 8.3% of the 2026 State budget when including energy-sector subsidies amounting to TND 4,993 million, and 0.52% when...»»»

Tunis, Nov 14 (TAP) – Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy Fatma Thabet Chiboub estimated that exports of packaged olive oil for the 2024–2025 season will reach nearly 40,000 tonnes, as the country enters a new production season.Speaking on Friday...»»»

In November 2018, Steve Bannon, formerly Donald Trump's chief strategist, was in the UK preparing for a speech at the Oxford Union. The event was interrupted by hundreds of protesters and Bannon, who was due to board a flight that night, told Jeffrey Epstein in an email: "Protesters slowed down spe»»»

The marks of the attack on Hamida Mosque, near Deir Istiya in the occupied West Bank, are still scattered on the ground outside. Charred furniture, lecterns and smoky curls of carpet are piled around the entrance - its guts emptied, and debris cleared, in time for Friday prayers. Dozens of men arri»»»

Tunis, Nov 14 (TAP) – The Ministry of Industry is Tunisia’s largest employer, Minister of Industry, Energy and Mines Fatma Chiboub Thabet announced.She added that the number of industrial companies employing ten or more workers stands at around...»»»

Tunis, Nov 14 (TAP) – Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy Fatma Thabet Chiboub said that inspection missions carried out during 2024 and 2025 have revealed several irregularities in violation of existing regulations.Files containing management...»»»

Lebanon has swiftly initiated a legal and procedural compliance process in response to what officials described as “very serious” US demands to curb terrorism financing, after a visiting US Treasury delegation delivered the requests to political and monetary authorities earlier this week along with»»»

3260314 KUWAIT -- His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, chairs the 34th meeting of the ministerial committee on major projects. 3260380 KUWAIT -- Minister of Information and Culture Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi inaugurates the "KLand" tourism and entertainment project. »»»

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (KUNA) -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held separate talks with his Argentine and Brazilian counterparts about ways of promoting their trade and investment relations."Today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs Pablo Quirno to congr»»»

In all too many ways, what has happened to Ukraine, particularly since 2014, is a very sad story. Two things that are especially depressing are what its own “elites” and its so-called “supporters” in the West have done to the country. Regarding the West, its contribution to Ukraine’s devastation ha»»»

The Bulgarian government adopted a decision on Friday appointing Rumen Spetsov as special commercial administrator to oversee Russian oil company Lukoil's four operations in Bulgaria. Up until now, Spetsov has been Executive Director of the National Revenue Agency. The decision was adopted without »»»

Trade agreements with President Donald Trump's administration mean Latin American countries will eliminate or ease requirements and licenses that restrict the entry of U.S. goods,-while the U.S. government will reduce or waive tariffs on some key exports from those countries, Photo by Francis Chung»»»

Swedish police technicians investigate the scene of Friday's bus crash into a bus shelter in Stockholm, Sweden. The incident left several injured and hospitalized. Photo by Claudio Bresciani/EPA Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A bus crash Friday in Stockholm left several dead after it ran into a bus facility, Swe»»»

Bangui, Central African Republic: Seven candidates have been approved to stand in the Central African Republic's December presidential election, including current leader Faustin Archange Touadera and two leading critics, the electoral body said on Friday. The opposition has accused Touadera, who wa»»»

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday described Tajikistan as a bridge to Central Asia and said his own country served as a gateway to sea-linked trade routes, according to an official statement, during a meeting with Tajik Defense Minister Col. General Sabirzoda Emomali Abdulrahim. Diplo»»»

By Staff, Agencies South Africa’s finance minister Enoch Godongwana says major global rating agencies consistently underrate African countries, giving them lower credit scores than peers with similar financial indicators. His remarks came a day after presenting a budget with an improved fiscal outl»»»

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian called Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on Friday to congratulate him on his "glorious success" in this week's parliamentary election. Sudani is the leader of an alliance of Shiite factions, some with close ties to Iran, and is currently negotiating t»»»

A double-decker bus crashed into a bus stop in Stockholm on Friday, causing fatalities and injuries, police said. Police said that several people were hit but they weren't immediately giving information on their number, gender or ages. Authorities were alerted to the crash at 3:23 p.m. on Friday. T»»»

Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza on Friday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said, in the latest step to fulfilling the terms of the fragile US-brokered ceasefire agreement. The bodies were returned after fighters late Thursday handed over the body of one of the last»»»

China on Friday warned Japan of a "crushing" military defeat if it uses force to intervene over Taiwan, and even cautioned Chinese citizens against visits to Japan, angered by its prime minister's remarks about the island, which Beijing claims. Tokyo on Friday summoned Beijing's ambassador to Japan»»»

Publisher Gutenberg won a court victory against Documento newspaper over unauthorized excerpts from former prime minister Alexis Tsipras’ book “Ithaca.” A judge issued a provisional order partially granting Gutenberg’s demands after Documento published an article titled “What Tsipras writes in the »»»

China has warned that potential military involvement by Japan in the Taiwan issue would be treated as aggression and met with a forceful response. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi recently suggested her country could intervene in the Taiwan Strait. Speaking in parliament last week, Takaichi s»»»

The Council of Ministers adopted a decision appointing Rumen Spetsov as special commercial administrator of Lukoil's four companies in Bulgaria, the cabinet’s press service announced on Friday. The government decision was adopted in absentia. Earlier Friday, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov convened»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The recent interview of Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsya has proved that Kiev’s true intent was not genuine negotiations but to delay talks and gain time for military position redeployment and weapon supply, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova s»»»

DUBAI: FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem says the new FIA Karting Arrive and Drive World Cup, which gets underway today, is reducing financial and technological barriers associated with karting to increase accessibility and widen global participation. The highly anticipated World Cup event makes i»»»

LONDON: A Palestinian mother offered a prestigious scholarship at a British university said she was left with an “impossible choice” after UK officials told her she could not evacuate from Gaza with her husband and three children, The Independent reported on Friday. Amany secured a Phoenix Space sc»»»

ROME: It would be “absurd” for Italy not to continue or even increase its military and civilian aid to Ukraine, Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on Friday at a meeting with European counterparts in Berlin. Crosetto said he had signed off on sending a 12th package of support for Kyiv, ad»»»

By Staff, Agencies Two Pakistani Supreme Court judges resigned on Thursday, just hours after parliament passed sweeping constitutional amendments that sharply reduce judicial independence and greatly expand the authority of the military. Justices Mansoor Ali Shah and Athar Minallah stepped down in »»»

RIYADH: The Saudi Health Endowment Fund marked World Diabetes Day, observed annually on Nov. 14, by announcing the launch of a new fund dedicated to supporting children with Type 1 diabetes across the Kingdom, aiming to significantly improve their quality of life and care by facilitating access to »»»

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said on Friday a response from the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) about whether Serbia's Russian-majority owned oil company NIS would be granted a new operating licence or not was due soon and that it remaine»»»

Palestinians in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank held weekly communal prayers on Friday after clearing insulting graffiti, broken glass and burn marks from a mosque they say was targeted by Jewish settlers amid a spike in attacks. Villagers in Deir Istiya who cleaned up the mosque told R»»»

Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev held a protocol meeting with the newly appointed Ambassador of France to Bulgaria, Marie Dumoulin, the ministry's press office reported on Friday. During the discussion, both sides expressed satisfaction with the excellent state of relations between Bulgaria and Fran»»»

Montenegro is considered to be one of the frontrunners to join the European Union, and it hopes to enter the bloc and the eurozone in 2028. The Western Balkans country of around 620,000 people began accession talks in 2012. Six years earlier, in 2006, it had emerged as an independent state aft»»»

Denmark's rotating presidency of the EU has been juggling a lot of difficult political balls: the climate negotiations ahead of the COP30 in Brazil, the "simplification" omnibuses that have run into political battles in the European Parliament, and much else. We travel to Copenhagen to talk to Denm»»»

London: US investment group RedBird Capital Partners announced Friday it had abandoned its takeover of The Telegraph, reigniting uncertainty over the British newspaper's future. RedBird said in a statement that it has "today withdrawn its bid for the Telegraph Media Group," which comprises the 170-»»»

KARACHI: Pakistan’s Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Syed Aamer Raza met Saudi Arabia’s top military leadership in Riyadh to discuss expanding defense cooperation under a strategic framework between the two countries, the Pakistan military said on Friday. The meeting came nearly two months after Pak»»»

BELGRADE - Serbian Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar hosted his Greek counterpart Adonis Georgiadis in Belgrade on Friday and the two ministers signed a bilateral memorandum of cooperation in health care. Before the signing ceremony, the ministers discussed models of cooperation between the two healt»»»

Geneva: The Swiss government announced Friday that it had reached an agreement with Washington to more than halve the steep 39-percent tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. "Switzerland and the US have successfully found a solution: US tariffs will be reduced to 15 percent," the Swiss governme»»»

JAKARTA: Indonesia is seeking to strengthen economic and defense ties with Jordan, as President Prabowo Subianto hosted King Abdullah in Jakarta on Friday. King Abdullah is on a two-day visit to Indonesia as a part of his Asia tour, which included stops in Japan, Vietnam and Singapore, and will con»»»

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign office said on Friday a meeting between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s special assistant on tourism and an Israeli official at a global travel fair in London was not authorized by the government, with the official later saying he did not know he was speaking to an Isr»»»

The Israeli army on Friday claimed that it has managed to confirm that Hezbollah’s so-called Unit 121 was behind the 2023 “assassination” of Lebanese Forces official Elias Hasrouni in south Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district. “This comes contrary to the rumors spread by Hezbollah, which claimed that he »»»

Asen Vassilev, co-chair of the opposition party "We Continue the Change," sharply criticized the government’s decision to nominate Rumen Spetsov as special manager of Lukoil Neftochim, calling the proposal a “pretty bad joke”. Speaking in parliament, Vassilev argued that Spetsov does not fulfill th»»»

Amsterdam: A 3.4-magnitude earthquake rocked a northern region of The Netherlands Friday, one of the strongest ever to hit the area that has been plagued by quakes due to gas extraction. The tremblor, which struck at 01:16 local time (0016 GMT) was the third-largest to hit the region of Groningen, »»»

Hungary will challenge the European Union's plan to end Russian energy imports and take the case to an EU court, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday. Speaking on state radio, Orbán accused the bloc of trying to sidestep his veto power over sanctions on Russian energy by using trade rules instea»»»

French President's advisor Anne-Claire Legendre has reiterated during a visit to Lebanon her country's readiness to provide all the necessary maps and documents to facilitate the border demarcation between Lebanon and Syria, Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji said. Meanwhile al-Jadeed TV reported that »»»

Britain has introduced a temporary exemption that permits continued business with two Bulgarian subsidiaries of the sanctioned Russian oil group Lukoil. The general license, issued by the UK Financial Sanctions Enforcement Office, enables companies and financial institutions to conduct transactions»»»

Jordan's king and Indonesia's leader on Friday held talks as the two longtime friends agreed to strengthen military cooperation and economic ties between the two Muslim-majority nations. King Abdullah II and President Prabowo Subianto share a long-standing personal relationship as alumni of the U.S»»»

A warning was received about the suspension of payments by "certain Bulgarian banks", as well as all bank card transactions involving entities linked to sanctioned entities such as Lukoil—not from November 21, but earlier, within the coming week, Justice Minister Georgi Georgiev said here Friday. H»»»

Defense Minister Atanas Zapryanov told the parliamentary defense committee that Bulgaria expects the F-16 Block 70 fighters to become fully operational in 2028. He stressed that until the new aircraft reach that stage, the country will have to continue supporting the MiG-29 fleet, since these jets »»»