Mexico City: A Mexican mayor allegedly faked her own kidnapping to embezzle $2 million worth of government funds disguised as ransom, local authorities said Thursday. Nancy Napoles, the municipal president of Tenancingo, several hours outside Mexico City, has proclaimed her innocence, calling the a»»»

Southampton, United States: Jason Day, the 2015 PGA Championship winner, withdrew from the 126th US Open in Thursday's first round due to a back injury. The 38-year-old Australian, who has been nagged by back injuries for years, had just completed the back nine to begin his round when he suffered t»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Lebanese Health Ministry says 18 people martyred, 33 others injured in preliminary toll of Israeli strikes on Nabatieh region in southern L»»»

Melbourne, Australia: Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has killed an estimated 13,000 southern elephant seal pups on Australia's remote Heard Island, scientists said, marking the first detection of the virus in an Australian external territory. Researchers from the Australian Antarctic Progra»»»

Arab Finance: Schneider Electric has signed a partnership agreement with GIZ Egypt, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), to accelerate the growth of climate-tech startups in Egypt, according to a press release. Both sides will join forces to expand»»»

President Sadyr Japarov signed amendments to the Law «On Internal Migration,» introducing simplified registration procedures for certain categories of citizens. The key change concerns registration at place of residence or temporary stay. Under the new rules, students from other regions will be abl»»»

Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Mogama, once the bustling epicenter of Egypt’s Governmental operations, is undergoing a significant transformation. By December 25, the Egyptian government aims to unveil this historic building as a state-of-the-art luxury hotel, a move that symbolizes the country’s drive towa»»»

DALLAS: As people gather across the US to celebrate Juneteenth on Friday, former President Barack Obama’s presidential center will open its doors to the public for the first time. Located on a sprawling campus on Chicago’s South Side, the center for the nation’s first Black president has been desig»»»

Israel said Friday four of its soldiers were killed in south Lebanon amid clashes with Hezbollah. Lieutenant Colonel Dor Gedalia Ben Simhon "fell in combat" along with three other soldiers whose names will be released later, the military said in a statement. Hezbollah said its fighters targeted "th»»»

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said Friday that "all of Lebanon must burn" after Israel's military announced the deaths of four soldiers there. "With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the secu»»»

The Government of Abu Dhabi has announced a new strategy for the private education sector, outlining four key priorities that will guide the sector’s next phase of development. The strategy reflects the leadership’s vision of nurturing confident generations who are firmly rooted in their national i»»»

Jakarta: Indonesia's National Nutrition Agency has temporarily suspended the free meal program for students during school holidays to improve program management and increase budget efficiency. The policy applies during school holidays, national and religious holidays, special holidays set by local »»»

Geneva: Switzerland announced Friday that planned talks following up on the deal to end the Middle East regional tension had been postponed, hours after US Vice President JD Vance's departure for the Alpine country was cancelled. "The planned talks between the US, Iran, Qatar and Pakistan have been»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Hezbollah fighters engage in fierce battles in defense of Ali Al-Taher Heights: Maariv Hebrew newspaper 19-06-2026 10:35 AM Latest News Urg»»»

Tunis, June 19 (TAP) – The weather on, Friday, will be partly cloudy across most regions, with cloud cover becoming denser in the western areas of central Tunisia during the afternoon.Winds will blow from the south in the north and center of the...»»»

Jerusalem: Israel’s military said Friday its forces struck targets throughout southern Lebanon overnight as Hezbollah reported intense fighting in the area, threatening the nascent agreement between Iran and the United States to end their war. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported at le»»»

The planned Friday talks between the United States and Iran at Switzerland’s Bürgenstock mountaintop resort have been officially called off, the Swiss foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday. The development follows a White House statement overnight confirming that Vice President JD Vance had withdr»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s new national carrier Riyadh Air launched daily direct flights between Riyadh and Dubai on June 18, operated by its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. Flight RX243 departed King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh at 2:05 p.m. Saudi time and arrived at Dubai International Ai»»»

MUZAFFARABAD: A territory-wide shutdown ‌in Pakistan-administered Kashmir has brought daily life to a standstill after the region’s deadliest unrest in years left at least 24 people dead in nearly ​two weeks of protests. The confrontation between local authorities and supporters of the recently ban»»»

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has set up secretive new cells in Iraq to carry out attacks on Gulf countries that host American forces, bypassing established militia networks to avoid detection, eight Iraqi sources told Reuters.Three or four cells, each comprising about 10 elite Ir»»»

PARIS: Musicians this weekend will for the first time publicly interpret music for flute and harp that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote as a 22-year-old while teaching an aristocratic French student. The unprecedented concert on Sunday at France’s National Library (BnF) comes after what it has called »»»

KINSHASA: Ebola is spreading again in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where conflict, mistrust and the lack of a vaccine have made the outbreak hard to contain. The virus, transmitted through close contact and bodily fluids, can cause a fatal haemorrhagic fever and has killed more than 15»»»

MELBOURNE: Police charged a third suspect on Friday with an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue that was allegedly directed by Iran. The 20-year-old man was one of three masked offenders who broke into the Adass Israel Synagogue, doused the interior with flammable liquid then set it alight in the»»»

Bo Wang ‘The Revolution will not be air conditioned’ While the Gil Scott-Heron lyric poem on which this work’s title plays (“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”) was a call to action for Black America in the 1970s, the Chinese artist’s video — a still from which is seen here — “begins with images»»»

DUBAI: Bob Odenkirk continues his transformation into an everyman action hero in this stylish action comedy from English filmmaker Ben Wheatley (“Kill List,” “Rebecca”). Odenkirk plays Ulysses, a lawman haunted by a shooting incident that left him mentally shattered and broke up his marriage. Now, »»»

TIJUANA: The Iranian football federation said Thursday it will lodge a complaint with FIFA claiming its team is being subjected to travel restrictions during the World Cup in North America. Iran wanted to fly from their base camp in Tijuana, Mexico, to the United States two days before their next m»»»

France on Friday urged Israel to "respect" a deal signed between the United States and Iran to end the Middle East war, the French foreign minister said after overnight Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. "This agreement provides for a cessation of hostilities, the Israeli government must respect »»»

Ajman: Thumbay Medicity welcomed Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Foreign Trade, UAE to its Ajman campus on Friday. It marked the Minister’s first visit to one of the region’s largest integrated hubs for medical education, healthcare and research, and it set the tone for a closer conversa»»»

Paris, France: Musicians this weekend will for the first time publicly interpret music for flute and harp that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote as a 22-year-old while teaching an aristocratic French student. The unprecedented concert on Sunday at France's National Library (BnF) comes after what it has»»»

On June 19, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prayers led by students at public high school football games aren't permitted under the constitutional separation of church and state. 1 of 6 | Demonstrators pray in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 27 2022. On June 19, 2000, the U.S. Supre»»»

Israel said Friday four of its soldiers were killed in south Lebanon amid clashes with Hezbollah. Hezbollah said its fighters destroyed three Israeli tanks and that clashes were ongoing, as Lebanese state media reported that Israeli strikes in the south killed at least 18 people. The fighting came »»»

Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people overnight in the Nabatieh region of southern Lebanon, state media reported Friday, despite a peace deal in the Middle East war that includes Lebanon. Lebanon's National News Agency said "the enemy committed several massacres" with a series of airstrikes after mid»»»

The State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) announced the disruption of a transnational criminal group operating fraud schemes against foreign nationals. According to the security service, members of the group were operating from within Kyrgyzstan and carried out fraudulent activ»»»

Abu Dhabi: The UAE and France are exploring new opportunities to expand cooperation in tourism, aviation, entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as the number of French companies operating in the UAE continues to grow. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Ba»»»

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan on Friday presented his maiden State Budget, unveiling an economic roadmap centred on governance, welfare, investment and long-term growth. Holding the Finance portfolio alongside the Chief Minister’s office, Satheesan tabled the revised 2026»»»

Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people overnight in the Nabatieh region of southern Lebanon, state media reported Friday, despite a peace deal in the Middle East war that includes Lebanon. Lebanon's National News Agency said "the enemy committed several massacres" with a series of airstrikes after mid»»»

Young mathematicians from Kyrgyzstan won three bronze medals at the Professor Shaltai Smagulov Republican Mathematics Olympiad among students in grades 6 and 7. According to the Ministry of Education, the final round of the intellectual competition took place in Almaty. Schoolchildren from Kazakhst»»»

QR payments in Kyrgyzstan have grown tenfold, reaching 908.6 billion soms. Almaz Baketaev, Chairman of the Board of the National Bank, stated during the 2025 financial year-end report in the Zhogorku Kenesh. It was noted that the number of QR transactions has also increased sharply, reaching 525.1 »»»

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Vice President JD Vance conducts a briefing for the media at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, June 18, 2026. Photo by Aaron Schwartz/UPI | License Photo June 19 (UPI) -- Scheduled talks to implement the U.S.-Iran memorandum aimed at de-escalating their war have been postponed, Swit»»»

The volume of construction works increased by 11.7% in the first four months of the year in as gross series, and by 10.3% as series adjusted according to the number of working days and seasonality, compared with the period from 1 January to 30 April 2025, according to the National Institute of Stat»»»

Contruction works recorded a modest increase in EU, in April 2026, compared to March 2026. However, Romania was the country with the strongest advance for that chapter, with a two figure increase from one month to another, according to data released by Eurostat on Thursday. According to those data,»»»

Romania's media market reached a net value of 838 million euros in 2025, up 5.4% from the previous year, according to the annual Media Fact Book 2026 report published on Thursday.The report's conclusions indicate a stable evolution of the overall market in 2026, against an economic and political ba»»»

The political and strategic decisions adopted at NATO and European Union level mark the beginning of a new economic cycle for the defence industry. The accelerated increase in military budgets, the adoption of unprecedented investment targets, and the pressure on existing production capacities are »»»

Romania has recorded its sharpest decline in recent years in the 2026 World Competitiveness Yearbook, published on Thursday by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne. Compared with the previous edition, Romania fell 12 places to 61st out of 70 economies analysed. I»»»

The European Commission (EC) has extended the ban on exports of sheep and goats from Romania to non-EU countries until 31 December 2026 and has also maintained the existing ban on shipments to European Union (EU) member states, acting Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tanczos Barna anno»»»

Three of the most established technology companies in South-Eastern Europe - Next Consult (Bulgaria), btProvider (Romania) and C4 Nexus (Bulgaria) - have announced the formation of a strategic alliance under a new brand, Trimaranix, creating one of the largest technology consulting groups in the re»»»

There are 11 programmes financed by the second Swiss Contribution, of a total value of approximately CHF 221.5 million (over RON 1.2 billion), being implemented in Romania, with the first reimbursement requests totalling CHF 805,269.17 (over RON 4.5 million), being submitted, and other applications»»»

The government approved on Thursday, through a memorandum, cooperation with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and financing for dedicated support under the ESF+ Programme project "Transparent, Open and Participatory Social Dialogue" to monitor and report on EU Counci»»»