Dubai: The UAE and Syria have explored ways to deepen economic cooperation and identify new investment opportunities across a range of strategic sectors, as both countries seek to strengthen commercial ties and expand private sector partnerships. The discussions took place during a meeting in Dubai»»»

Malang, Indonesia: Indonesian authorities battled Friday to contain a wildfire that has swept through Mount Bromo National Park on Java island, destroying more than 120 hectares as the country braces itself for an extreme El Nino-fuelled dry season. The fire started Monday near Mount Bromo in East »»»

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 China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project could potentially become part of a larger transport route across the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, and Turkey to Europe. This opinion was expressed by Toğrul İsmayıl, a professor at Kahramanmaras Sütçü Imam University, in a commentary to the Azerbaijani ne»»»

ISTANBUL (Sputnik) - Turkiye, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Friday signed a memorandum on collective defense on Friday, according to a joint statement from the countries seen by Sputnik. According to the Turkiye newspaper, the joint defense agreement provides for cooperation in the field of intellig»»»

Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement on Friday, pledging to strengthen collective security and deepen defence cooperation a»»»

A WhatsApp group named “FIFA World Cup 2026”, allegedly created to coordinate a small group of NEET-UG aspirants receiving privileged coaching, became one of the key digital trails that helped investigators uncover the alleged NEET-UG 2026 paper leak conspiracy, according to the Central Bureau of I»»»

In July 2026, the number of insolvency cases exceeded the threshold of 1,000, continuing the upward trend observed in previous months. According to the financial analysis platform RisCo.ro, while more than 900 new insolvency cases were opened in June 2026, the number increased to 1,016 in July 2026»»»

MAKKAH: Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan signed a defence agreement on Friday in Makkah, Saudi Arabia aimed at strengthening joint deterrence and expanding defense cooperation, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement stipulates that the an armed attack on any of the co»»»

ISLAMABAD: As Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Jeddah on Thursday, leading a high-powered delegation comprising federal ministers and Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, foreign affairs and defense experts said that the visit is expected to enhance defense and security co»»»

The Lebanese Army entered the southern town of al-Mansouri overnight to clear roads after Israeli shelling and strikes. To obstruct the Lebanese soldiers from deploying in the town and clearing the roads for residents to return, the Israeli military targeted the army's bulldozer, dropped sound bomb»»»

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi met on Friday with President Joseph Aoun, a day after a seventh round of Israeli-Lebanese talks concluded in Rome. Following the meeting, Patriarch al-Rahi praised President Aoun’s stances as "honorable" and "patriotic," emphasizing that maintaining national unity»»»

U.S. State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said in a statement that the seventh round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel was “fruitful” amid ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon. “Lebanon and Israel are much closer to reaching an agreement on advancing and expanding the pilot zones process,»»»

Washington has informed Israel through intensive contacts of the need to de-escalate in Lebanon, sources told Al-Arabiya on Friday. “Washington has stressed to the Lebanese side its commitment to the success of negotiations with Israel,” the sources said. The United States told Israel that it suppo»»»

The number of “Israelis” leaving the entity has risen by approximately 50%, with the sharpest increase recorded among high-income earners, professionals in the high-tech and medical sectors, and individuals between the ages of 40 and 50, according to Maariv newspaper, which added the potential annu»»»

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»»»

Child protection and the rule of law must go hand in hand. Anything less represents a failure of the institutions, and children are ultimately the biggest victims, the National Network for Children (NNC) said in a statement on Friday, following the killing of a 37-year-old man in Plovdiv, in connec»»»

Riyadh: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) strongly condemned the Houthi attacks on the Najran region of Saudi Arabia, which left several innocent civilians injured. In a statement today, GCC Secretary-General Jassim Mohammed AlBudaiwi said the attacks constituted a terrorist crime and a flagrant v»»»

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia Airlines' parent firm announced on Friday mandatory drug screenings for its pilots, after one of them tested positive for a cocktail of narcotics and was arrested in Indonesia for smuggling. Authorities at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport arrested the 39-year-ol»»»

A large-scale reform of medical education is being carried out in Kyrgyzstan following the presidential decree introducing a state monopoly on the training of medical and pharmaceutical specialists. Medical schools, followed by colleges, were first accredited by the state. Their actual ability to t»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed on Friday with members of the Russian Security Council additional measures to protect infrastructure facilities against terrorism. "Today we have a topic of additional measures to improve anti-terrorist security measures for infrastructu»»»

Dubai: The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment has confirmed that UAE markets are free of lettuce products linked to the cyclosporiasis outbreak. The Ministry said it remains in regular coordination with health and regulatory authorities to monitor and inspect shipments entering the country.»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Israeli occupation forces torch homes and properties in teh southern Lebanese border town of Houla: Al-Manar reporter 07-08-2026 13:48 PM L»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Al-Manar correspondent reports constant Israeli drone activity over Beirut’s Dahiyeh 07-08-2026 13:39 PM Latest News Urgent News Israeli oc»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Israeli occupation forces stationed at Radar post open machine gun fire towards the outskirts of southern Lebanese town of Shebaa 07-08-202»»»

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 »»»

Moldova does not recognise the legitimacy of privatisation transactions announced by the separatist authorities in Transnistria, and potential buyers risk losing their entire investment, Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Valeriu Chiveri said on August 5, commenting on plans by the administrat»»»

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»»»

Bulgaria is generating millions of leva in additional revenue due to the ongoing Danube crisis, as the regional energy market has reacted to the situation with higher electricity demand and exports, Energy Minister Iva Petrova said. Speaking to NOVA, Petrova said Bulgaria is currently exporting bet»»»

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»»»

Dubai: Videos of US President Donald Trump’s noticeably different hairstyle have sparked a fresh wave of jokes and speculation on social media. Trump appeared in Las Vegas on August 5 with hair that looked fuller, brighter and more strawberry-blond than usual, prompting online users to compare foot»»»

The debt of the Sofia heating utility, Toplofikatsiya, to public gas supplier Bulgargaz and the Bulgarian Energy Holding, which exceeds EUR 1.2 billion, is pushing the state-owned gas supplier toward insolvency, Energy Minister Iva Petrova said in an interview with Nova TV on Friday. She called on »»»

For those Americans who live in murder hot spots inside of the United States, life may seem like a daily reenactment of the O.K. Corral shootout. But surprising as it may be, the bulk of the nation is relatively safe from such violence. The US breathed a huge sigh of relief as the FIFA World Cup vi»»»

US President Donald Trump has dismissed Ukraine’s plea for more Patriot anti-air missiles following widespread reports that interceptor stockpiles have been significantly depleted by the war with Iran. Vladimir Zelensky has warned that Ukraine is running out of Western-supplied interceptors to fend»»»

Basel Aero, Rachel Szar, Hamdan Ball, and Yuval Abraham of "No Other Land" celebrate backstage in March 2025 after winning the Oscar for best documentary feature film at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles ile Photo by Pat Benic/UPI | License Photo Aug. 7 (UPI) -- An Israeli settler has been cha»»»

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi met on Friday with President Joseph Aoun, a day after a seventh round of Israeli-Lebanese talks concluded in Rome. Following the meeting, Patriarch al-Rahi praised President Aoun’s stances as "honorable" and "patriotic," emphasizing that maintaining national unity»»»

CAIRO: The Arab League condemned attacks carried out by the Houthi group on the Najran region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and on positions held by Yemeni government forces in Marib and Hadramawt, which resulted in casualties. In a statement, Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy affirmed tha»»»

The National Bank of Kyrgyzstan’s assets reached 830.4 billion soms in the second quarter of 2026. A year earlier, the figure stood at 713.1 billion. Thus, over the year, the regulator’s assets increased by more than 117 billion soms, or approximately 16 percent. These data are contained in the Nat»»»

BUDAPEST - The Hungarian oil firm MOL Group said on Friday its talks with the seller of the Serbian oil company NIS and the relevant authorities were progressing towards the final stage. In a Q2 2026 financial report, MOL highlighted a June 16 shareholder agreement on future management of NIS, sign»»»

As heatwaves and drought restrict power generation across Europe, the BWRX-300 technology offers something increasingly valuable: reliable nuclear energy with cooling systems that require much less water and can be adapted to a world of lower river flows and higher temperatures. When temperatures r»»»

Baghdad, Aug. 7 (SANA) Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein discussed regional and international developments, navigation security in the Strait of Hormuz, and bilateral relations with UK Minister of State for Middle East Affairs Stephen Doughty during a phone call on Thursday, the Iraqi Foreign Min»»»

Romania’s modern retail market added approximately 80,000 square metres of new retail space in the first half of 2026, compared with around 122,000 square metres in the same period last year, taking the total stock to more than 5.2 million square metres, according to Colliers’ report on the perform»»»