BELGRADE - Serbia received 470,000 tourists in May 2026, which is a 7.4 pct increase y-o-y, according to figures released by the national statistical office RZS on Tuesday. The tourists generated 1,209,000 overnight stays, which is a 5.5 pct increase y-o-y. Serbian tourists accounted for 629,000 ov»»»

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday the Gendarmerie, a special police unit, was significant not only for the police, but also for the defence of the entire country, and noted that it was important to keep its ranks filled to a high percentage. Vucic attended a demonstratio»»»

A public clash between Prime Minister Péter Magyar and Speaker Ágnes Forsthoffer has raised questions over unity within the Tisza Party, following an unusually sharp exchange in Parliament on Tuesday. Forsthoffer, who also serves as the party’s deputy leader, cut the Prime Minister short during pro»»»

Two U.S. envoys arrived in Qatar on Tuesday for talks with mediators about the implementation of an initial deal to end the war in Iran, an official said. The visit by Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump's special Mideast envoy, and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, comes after a weekend of cro»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education will announce the results of the General Secondary Education Certificate for the 2025-2026 academic year electronically on Thursday, July 2. In a post on X platform today, the Ministry said that the results will be available on the Ministr»»»

ATHENS: Greek ​rescuers were searching for people trapped after a four-story apartment block collapsed on Tuesday in the ‌Petralona area ‌of ​Athens, ‌the ⁠fire ​brigade said. Four people ⁠who were earlier reported trapped had been located and were safe, but the ⁠operation continued, the ‌service s»»»

DUBAI: The UAE’s first passenger train service between Abu Dhabi and the east coast emirate of Fujairah began Tuesday, cutting a journey previously made mainly by road to 1 hour 45 minutes. The inaugural trial journey departed from Fujairah Station and arrived at Mohamed bin Zayed City Station in A»»»

ROME: Italian police on Tuesday arrested four people suspected of carrying out an October bomb attack targeting a prominent journalist who had been threatened by the mafia. The blast in a residential neighborhood of Pomezia, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Rome, destroyed two cars belonging »»»

President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday praised the role of the Lebanese Army and its leadership, officers and soldiers in "extending state authority, maintaining security and stability in the country, controlling the borders, and protecting civil peace," the Presidency said. Aoun voiced his remarks in a »»»

RIYADH: Saudi Tadawul Group and the Regional Voluntary Carbon Market Co. have announced the first sustainability-focused edition of the Capital Markets Forum, titled “Select — Red Sea,” the Saudi Press Agency reported. The announcement was made at an event in Riyadh attended by officials from the c»»»

Spoodles the parakeet is officially the oldest in the world at the age of 32. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records June 26 (UPI) -- A South Carolina family's pet parakeet, Spoodles, was officially named the oldest in the world at the age of 32 years and 86 days old. Guinness World Records confi»»»

June 29 (UPI) -- A home security camera in Colorado captured the moment a man opened the door of his pickup truck and came face to face with a bear in the passenger seat. Justin Pickar's Nest camera at his Steamboat Springs home captured video of Andy Kerrigan's bear encounter in front of the house»»»

June 29 (UPI) -- A fireball lit up the early morning sky in the southern United States, with sightings reported in Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas Mississippi and Texas. Th fireball was caught on camera in multiple locations just after 5 a.m. CDT Sunday. The American Meteor Society received m»»»

A Michigan family's kitten is officially a Guinness World Record holder after a veterinarian verified he was born with 28 toes. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records June 29 (UPI) -- A Michigan family's kitten is officially a Guinness World Record holder after a veterinarian verified he was born»»»

DOHA (Sputnik) - Qatar is coordinating the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz together with Oman, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said on Tuesday. "We are coordinating with Oman on issues related to the Strait of Hormuz and ensuring the safe passage of ships," Al-Ansari»»»

Hasakah, June 30 (SANA) Wheat deliveries to government procurement centers in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province have reached 480,000 tons as harvesting enters its final stage, officials said on Tuesday. Abdul Hamid Dawoud, director of the Syrian Grain Trade Corporation’s Hasakah branch, said pr»»»

RIYADH: Funeral prayers were held on Monday for the 14 victims of the Saudi Aramco helicopter crash in Ras Tanura, according to the Saudi Press Agency. Eastern Province Gov. Prince Saud bin Naif, Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, and Deputy Gov. of the Eastern Province Prince Saud bin»»»

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Bulgaria is turning digital sciences into its priority policies, ahead of countries with much more opportunities, said President Iliana Iotova in her speech upon being awarded the title Doctor Honoris Causa by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on Tuesday. The ceremony took place in the central buil»»»

Gaza: Mother and Infant Daughter Martyred in Israeli Strikes A mother and her young daughter were Martyred, and several displaced civilians wounded, in an overnight Israeli airstrike that ignited a tent encampment in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, according to local correspondents an attack tha»»»

Doha, Qatar: QatarEnergy has signed a commercial discovery declaration for the Glaucus and Pegasus fields in Block 10, offshore Cyprus, as well as a collaboration statement, together with the Government of Cyprus and ExxonMobil. Signed in Nicosia, the declaration represents an important milestone i»»»

Construction of Khan-Teniri-8 residential complex, designed for 702 apartments, has begun in the town of Gulcho in Alai district. The State Mortgage Company reported. The residential complex will be one of the largest projects in Alai district. According to the project, 12 nine-story buildings will»»»

RIYADH: The Ministry of Municipalities and Housing concluded its urban beautification volunteer initiative after achieving its field and public awareness goals. A total of 10,213 volunteers participated, contributing more than 50,000 volunteer hours across all regions of the Kingdom. The initiative»»»

BEIJING (Sputnik) - China is ready to constructively and appropriately resolve trade disputes with the EU, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday. On Monday, the two sides formally established a mechanism for bilateral consultations on trade and investment, with the first mee»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a phone conversation with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. "Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev," the Kremlin said in a statement. P»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia intends to further strengthen trade, economic and investment cooperation with African countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. "Russia's trade with the continent exceeded $27 billion last year. It is growing at a rapid pace, but in absolute terms,»»»

GERB threatened to sue Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev over his allegations that GERB leader and former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is connected to road companies supplying crash barriers in generous public procurements. "Demerdzhiev, while he was a lawyer with a dubious reputation, could say w»»»

Dubai: A series of landmark rulings by the US Supreme Court on Monday significantly strengthened President Donald Trump’s authority over the executive branch while also placing limits on his power in key areas, including the Federal Reserve and election law. According to media reports, including CN»»»

DOHA: QatarEnergy announced fuel prices in the State of Qatar for July, with diesel and 95-octane gasoline (super) maintained at current levels, while 91-octane gasoline (premium) was increased. QatarEnergy set the prices of Diesel at QR2.05 per liter, Super Gasoline (95) at QR2.10 per liter, and P»»»

Dubai: Emirates Group-owned aviation services provider dnata announced it has been re-awarded a ground handling license at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) in the Netherlands. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.The seven-year ground handling licence at AMS allows dnata to»»»

Qorden AI, a Dubai-headquartered real-time language AI company, today launched Qordenate, a fully multilingual, simultaneous-translation video conferencing platform. Built in the UAE and rolling out internationally, Qordenate lets participants on a video call hear the conversation in their own lang»»»

In May 2025, Joseph Nye, the American political scientist and Harvard professor who coined the term ‘soft power’, died. For more than three decades, his concept shaped how governments, journalists, scholars, and diplomats thought about influence. Nye insisted that countries could get what they want»»»

Germany could reinstate the draft as early as July 2027 because the volunteer-based system is not sufficient to meet its military buildup plans, senior lawmaker Thomas Rowekamp told AFP. Following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Germany has pursued a major recruitment drive, aiming »»»

Manila: Thousands of demonstrators, many of them members of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), gathered Tuesday (June 30) along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) near the People Power Monument. The public protest prompted traffic closures as the influential religious group voiced support for Sen. Roda»»»

Cairo — Egyptian equities closed mixed on Monday, with the benchmark EGX30 falling below the 50,000-point level as foreign selling weighed on blue-chip stocks, while small- and mid-cap shares advanced and investors assessed Egypt’s plan to internationalise parts of its state IPO programme through d»»»

Doha, Qatar: Naseem Healthcare, a premier healthcare provider in Qatar, commemorates its two-decade-long service, reinforcing its commitment to clinical excellence and continuous professional development. As part of this landmark celebration, Naseem Healthcare announces the robust expansion of the »»»

Russia has temporarily introduced a complete ban on the export of gasoline and aviation kerosene. President Vladimir Putin announced it at a meeting with members of the government and heads of the largest energy companies. According to him, the restriction was adopted to stabilize the domestic mark»»»

SAKAKA: Prince Faisal bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, governor of Al-Jouf region, chaired the second-quarter 2026 meeting of the Supreme Coordination Committee for Supporting and Facilitating the Implementation of Projects and Services in the region at his office. During the meeting, Prince Faisal reviewe»»»

Opposition questions feasibility, alleges political pressure. The facilities of Samsung Electronics in South Korea. The company plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars to build a semiconductor cluster in the country’s southwestern region. Photo by Samsung Electronics June 30 (UPI) -- Two So»»»

Mediator Qatar said on Tuesday that no high-level meetings or direct talks between the United States and Iran were planned in Doha after Washington said it had sent a top delegation for negotiations. "To the best of my knowledge, there are no direct meetings scheduled between the two parties in the»»»

The Bishkek City Council adopted a resolution at its regular session «On Approving the Additional Service Coefficient for Reserving Burial Sites in the City’s Municipal Cemeteries.» The coefficient is calculated based on the area of ​​each plot, the maintenance period (10 years), sanitary cleaning »»»

Share: Beirut-A security deal between Israel and Lebanon risks entrenching a stalemate rather than resolving Israel’s underlying conflict with Hezbollah by tying Israel’s pullout from southern Lebanon to the Iran-aligned group’s disarmament, a condition regional analysts and politicians say is unat»»»

MADRID: More than one million undocumented migrants in Spain have sought legal status under a scheme that has defied a wider European crackdown on irregular immigration, the government said on Tuesday, the final day for submissions. The vast scheme was predicted to benefit around 500,000 people, mo»»»

GENEVA: The UN trade ‌and development agency warned on Tuesday that while the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will bring immediate relief ​to energy markets, vulnerable economies remain at risk from prolonged increases in food and fuel costs. Food and transport systems are likely to take longer t»»»

DUBAI: While up-and-coming musicians in the Middle East may have no shortage of talent or inspiration, promotional campaigns can be a challenge. Pierre Carnet, the managing director of MassiveMusic’s regional outpost, spoke to Arab News about how to raise the profile and oeuvre of musicians. Pierre»»»

One of Uktraine's wealthiest businessmen and his partner and 13-year-old son were seriously injured Monday after a parcel bomb detonated in a residential building in Monaco. Photo by Sebastien Nogier/EPA June 30 (UPI) -- A Ukrainian construction mogul and his partner and 13-year-old son were seriou»»»

A Budapest court on Tuesday handed a 27-year-old man a suspended prison sentence of between six months and one year for sending emails threatening acts of terrorism to several police headquarters and Hungary’s counter-terrorism unit. Budapest man sent multiple threatening emails According to the in»»»

Dubai: There was a time when home arrived not through a video call, but through an audio tape. For Nicolai De Guzman and his brothers, those recordings were the closest thing they had to their father, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Japan. Every tape has carried stories from thousands of kilom»»»

Knauf Gips Romania is progressing with the construction of a new plasterboard plant in Huedin, Cluj County, with works now reaching several key logistical milestones, according to a company press release. The project, a strategic investment worth EUR 88 million, is one of the largest recent develop»»»

Romanian companies will no longer be required to prepare and submit half-year accounting reports as of 30 June 2026, the Ministry of Finance has announced. The measure applies to 2026 only and is aimed at simplifying reporting requirements and reducing administrative burdens for businesses, without»»»