Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally (RN) and an allied party have won enough seats in the French Senate to form a group for the first time. The breakthrough comes months before a presidential election in which polls currently put Le Pen in the lead. RN and the Union of the Right for the Repub»»»

London, Sept. 29 (SANA) Oil prices rose for a second straight session on Tuesday as persistent concerns over potential supply disruptions from the Middle East outweighed signs of a recovery in the region’s crude exports.Reuters reported that Brent crude futures rose 63 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $10»»»

Caracas, Venezuela: Acting President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez received today in Caracas the Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs HE Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al Khulaifi. During the meeting, the two sides discussed cooperation relations betw»»»

The Israeli military set off a significant explosion in the southern Lebanese village of Mansouri on Monday, Lebanese state media and AFP correspondents said as Israel said it had completed an operation in the area. "A massive explosion rocked the town of Mansouri in the Tyre district a short while»»»

General Manager Lucas Xie shares how Keeta expanded across all 7 emirates in just one year As Keeta UAE completes its first year of operations, we sit down with General Manager, Lucas Xie, to discuss the growth and expansion of the global on-demand food delivery platform from Chinese technology lea»»»

Singapore: Oil prices rose more than 2% in Tuesday's trading, supported by signs of a recovery in crude exports from the region. Brent crude futures increased by more than 2%, reaching $107.44 per barrel, while the most actively traded December futures also rose by over 2% to reach $99.87 per barre»»»

Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Tuesday that if his country's security was not guaranteed, no infrastructure in the region would be safe from attack, state media reported. "In a region where we cannot sell oil, no one else will sell oil either; or if our security is not guaran»»»

Defence officials hold talks to expand bilateral cooperation and Indo-Pacific security New Delhi: India and the United States have examined avenues to expand bilateral defence collaboration alongside deliberating upon shifting security imperatives across the Indo-Pacific region. The talks took plac»»»

The number of surveillance cameras in Kyrgyzstan is planned to be doubled from 10,000 to 20,000 by the end of 2026, Interior Minister Ulan Niyazbekov said at a staff meeting. According to him, the Interior Ministry will continue developing the Digital Police system and introducing modern technologi»»»

DAMASCUS: ‌Syria early on Tuesday said an explosion caused by sabotage on an eastern gas pipeline the night before halted the flow of gas to power stations. "A fire broke out Monday evening in a gas pipeline between the Al-Shoula area and Deir Ezzor due to the explosion of a sectional valve caused »»»

Lusail, Qatar: The FIA World and Middle East Baja Cups and the FIM Bajas World Cup are hotting up in advance of the Qatar International Baja on October 28th-31st. The Lusail-based event is the penultimate round of both the FIA World and Middle East Baja Cups and round five of the FIM Bajas World Cu»»»

Nagoya: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Carlos Alcaraz are all obsessed with it, and yesterday the fast-growing racquet sport of padel made its Asian Games debut with officials hoping a place at the Olympics is getting closer. Padel, a cross between tennis and squash on courts surrounded by gla»»»

New York, USA: The State of Qatar participated in the High-level Meeting to Commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, held on the sidelines of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Director of the International»»»

Kyauktaw, Myanmar: The death toll from a military airstrike on west Myanmar rose to 50 on Tuesday, two local aid workers said, the day after it struck a busy marketplace. “The death toll has reached 50” after Monday’s airstrike on Kyauktaw town of Rakhine state, said aid worker Wai Hun Aung. A seco»»»

The material is designed for use in social and industrial facilities and can prevent fire from spreading through engineering communications, even at very low temperatures, according to Rostec. The protection works in a smart way:It remains completely inert under normal conditionsIn the event of a f»»»

CAIRO: An Israeli airstrike killed Izz el-Din al-Baik, a leader in the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), in the northern Gaza Strip today, Tuesday, Israeli and Palestinian sources said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael K»»»

Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) President H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani met with H E Prime Minister of Mongolia Nyam-Osoryn Uchral on the sidelines of the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026, yesterday. During the meeting, they discussed ways to strengthen sports cooperation and support the deve»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar’s national chess team won the gold medal in Category E at the 46th World Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, held from September 15-28, with 206 countries participating. The team comprised Hamad Al Kuwari, Irfan Mohammed, Turki Al Kuwari, Khalid Al Jumaat and Mohammed Jerbi.»»»

Nagoya: Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage won javelin gold at the Asian Games yesterday to add to his growing collection and then set his sights on world and Olympic domination. The 23-year-old rising star has taken the javelin world by storm this year, winning at the Commonwealth Games, Diamon»»»

The National Directorate of Cybersecurity (DNSC) has published the schedule for the 2026 edition of the Bucharest Cybersecurity Conference (BCC2026), a reference event for the international dialogue on cybersecurity, to be organised with Bitdefender on October 20-22, 2026, in Bucharest.BCC2026 will»»»

Dialogue and consensus represent the most powerful weapon in turbulent times, when economic and social councils are under attack as institutions of dialogue and consensus, Sterica Fudulea, President of the Economic and Social Council (CES), stated on ...»»»

Sustainable peace requires strong institutions and dialogue, and the Union of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions of Francophone Countries (UCESIF) is working precisely in this direction, Eric Poppe, representative of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) for Cen»»»

Education must remain a right and a common good of humanity, and technology should be placed at the service of people, President Nicusor Dan stated on Monday in a message delivered during the "UNESCO 70 Romania Gala," an event organized as part of the "UNESCO 70 Romania - Celebrating the Past, Buil»»»

Ambassador of the United States to Romania, Darryl Nirenberg commented to the press in Constanta on the Wall Street Journal ...»»»

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Monday called for the further implementation of a framework agreement with Israel in his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington. Hezbollah attacked Israel in March this year, the latter responded with massive airstrikes and a ground invasion tha»»»

The mandate to represent the United States in Romania is held by the US ambassador to Romania, while representing Romania requires the endorsement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the approval of the prime minister, acting Foreign Minister Oana Toiu said on ...»»»

September 28, 2026 The United States and Romania celebrated the delivery of the first nine Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAVs) to Romania, ...»»»

Managers in manufacturing, construction and retail expect prices to rise in the September-November 2026 period, according to data published on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics ...»»»

Prime Minister-designate Siegfried Muresan met unaffiliated MPs on Monday as part of efforts to secure the votes needed for the investiture of his proposed government."We invited our unaffiliated colleagues to a meeting with ...»»»

Romania is facing a significant risk of a credit rating downgrade by S&P, although Erste Bank analysts’ base-case scenario is for the country’s rating to be ...»»»

Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) leader George Simion announced on Monday that his party would not vote for the Muresan Cabinet and said he had appointed a team to negotiate with all political parties with a view to forming a stable ...»»»

On Monday there were hearings between 14:00 – 20:00, the proposed ministers for Energy – Sebastian Burduja, Agriculture – Tanczos Barna, Defence – Radu Miruta, Transports – Catalin Drula, Finances – Alexandru Nazare, Economy – Irineu ...»»»

The prime minister designate, Siegfried Muresan stated on Monday that by deciding not to support the government he proposed, PSD ‘proved again that they placed their party before the country’ saying that, since his designation for this position, the Social-Democrats had been looking for pretexts fo»»»

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) National Political Council decided on Monday not to support the Siegfried Muresan Government."Today, the PSD made a firm, deliberate and irreversible decision: we will not vote for the Muresan Government. We ...»»»

François Picard is pleased to welcome Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center. She describes the US-Iran conflict as a dangerous combination of military escalation, diplomatic ambiguity and political calculation. Slavin sees an absence of true diplomacy: The recent indirect conta»»»

Toronto, Canada: The State of Qatar participated today in the Second International Conference on Returning Ukrainian Children, Detained Civilians, and Prisoners of War, held in Toronto, Canada, from September 28-29. The State of Qatar was represented at the conference by HE Minister of State for In»»»

Doha, Qatar: The National Planning Council (NPC), in collaboration with the Civil Service and Government Development Bureau, held its periodic Planning, Quality and Innovation Forum yesterday providing a platform for directors of planning, quality and innovation departments across government entiti»»»

Doha, Qatar: Researchers from the Department of Systems and Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) have examined the role of chronic low-grade inflammation in the rising incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC) in a new review published as the featured article i»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara), in collaboration with the Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Centre in Doha, has inaugurated the exhibition “From Roots, Across Cultures, to the Future.” Hosted in Gallery 47, the exhibition runs from September 27 to October 3, 2026, and is open daily»»»

Doha: Doha Festival City, Qatar’s leading retail, leisure, and lifestyle destination, in collaboration with the Qatar Sports for All Federation (QSFA), operating under the umbrella of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, welcomed nearly 800 runners representing more than 40 nationalities to RunFest 20»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) proceeds with its efforts to provide access to life-saving health and nutrition services in Yemen, with a new humanitarian project launched for the benefit of over 50,000 vulnerable people in Abs District, Hajjah Governorate. With a total funding of $6»»»

Russian troops struck the Bimobail and Parkovy data processing centres in Kiev — they handled data processing and information transmission for the Ukrainian army, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Here's the full list of targets hit during the overnight group strike:In Kiev and the region:A wareho»»»

More than 186 tonnes of pasture grass seeds have been delivered to regions as part of efforts to improve low-productivity land and restore degraded pastures. Land preparation and sowing operations are currently underway. Of the total volume, 20,486 kilograms of seeds will be sown in pelleted form. »»»

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Nagoya, Japan: South Korea were victims of another Asian Games transport mix-up in Japan when the bus carrying their men's volleyball team went to a venue an hour away from where they should have gone. The Games in Aichi-Nagoya have been dogged by organisational problems, with accommodation and tra»»»

Hublot and Jeff Koons, two visionary forces renowned for transforming the ordinary, unveil a revolutionary collaboration that seamlessly merges watchmaking art with contemporary art; objects, time and symbols, transforming them into cultural icons. Available in three editions – mirror-polished stai»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar University (QU) signs a cooperation agreement with Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services to enhance student support and strengthen collaboration in training, community engagement, and volunteer initiatives. The agreement was signed by Vice President for Student »»»

Doha, Qatar: The Deputy Minister for International Trade of Finland, Under-Secretary of State H E Jarno Syrjälä, is visiting Qatar from September 28-30 to strengthen the bilateral cooperation between Qatar and Finland, in investments, education, security and defense. Deputy Minister Syrjälä will be»»»

Doha, Qatar: Bassem Hemeida lived up to expectations by winning the 400m hurdles gold while Zakaria Ibrahim claimed bronze in the 3,000m steeplechase as Qatar’s athletics campaign produced two medals at the Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 yesterday. The two athletics medals took Qatar’s tally to seve»»»