Abu Dhabi: UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received a phone call from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which the two leaders discussed strengthening cooperation across various fields in support of mutual interests under the Comprehensive Economic Partne»»»

Damascus, Aug. 1 (SANA) Defense Minister Maj. Gen. Murhaf Abu Qasra discussed regional developments during a phone call on Saturday with his Turkish counterpart, Gen. Yaşar Güler. The two ministers exchanged views on a number of issues of mutual interest, according to the Ministry of Defense’s Tele»»»

Doha: The Qatar Goodwood Festival presented by Visit Qatar concluded after a week of outstanding racing, cultural celebration, and strategic dialogue, further reinforcing Qatar's commitment to international sporting excellence and bilateral cooperation with the United Kingdom. The festival reached »»»

BOGOTÁ: Colombia’s government on Saturday blamed the nation’s largest remaining rebel group for an explosion outside a police base that injured 11 officers and killed a police dog. The attack took place early Saturday in Cucuta, a city along Colombia’s border with Venezuela, where drug gangs and re»»»

DAMASCUS: Syria’s Minister of Tourism Mazen Al-Salhani inaugurated the four-star Palm Village Hotel in Yaafour area of ​​Damascus countryside on Friday, following its renovation and modernization. The opening, attended by representatives of various diplomatic missions, took place as part of efforts»»»

TUBAS: Israeli forces on Saturday detained seven Palestinians, including two children, during military raids across the governorates of Nablus, Tubas and Bethlehem, while also storming several towns and villages. In the Tubas governorate, Israeli forces detained a 16-year-old child after raiding an»»»

Hungary will temporarily halt most rail freight traffic during the evening peak from Monday as the government introduces further emergency energy-saving measures following the sharp reduction in output at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant. The move is expected to reduce electricity demand by up to 90 me»»»

EL SALVADOR: Saudi Ambassador to Mexico Fahd bin Ali Al-Munawer presented his credentials to the vice president of El Salvador, Felix Ulloa, as Saudi ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, non-resident, of the Kingdom to El Salvador, at the Presidential Palace in El Salvador recently. The am»»»

Olympic canoeist David Hearn departs the Moultrie Courthouse with his attorneys, Norm Eisen (not pictured) and Mary Dohrmann, after pleading not guilty to damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., on July 9. Charges against Hearn were dropped Friday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UP»»»

Author: Sophie Gee In “The Barbarous Feast,” Sophie Gee argues that novels and eating rituals were interconnected, but conflicting, systems used to depict selfhood and represent personal inwardness in colonial Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Gee tells a vibrant story of how people living at th»»»

BEIRUT: Former Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh was transferred to prison on Saturday after being placed under police guard in a hospital, a judicial official told AFP. Salameh, who fell ill earlier this week on his way to court to face embezzlement charges, “was admitted and placed amon»»»

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina and South Korea are set to deepen their cooperation in the critical minerals industry, the Argentine foreign ministry announced Friday.The deal comes one day after Seoul entered a similar partnership with Chile, during a visit to South America by President Lee Ja»»»

AMMAN — Arab Bank Group reported positive results during the first half of 2026, with 7 per cent increase in net income after tax reaching $570.9 million as compared to $535.3 million for the same period last year.The Group maintained its strong capital base with a total equity of $13.5 billion, ac»»»

AMMAN — The government continues its efforts to mitigate the domestic impact of soaring global energy prices by freezing the primary prices of oil derivatives for the current month.The measure aims to curb transportation, production and industrial costs while stabilising commodity and service price»»»

Gaza: A Palestinian civilian died after sustaining wounds in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, medical sources said. The sources added that another Palestinian was shot and injured in the Al-Iqlimi area, west of Khan Younis, whi»»»

MOSCOW: An explosion Saturday near a Moscow cafe killed at least three people and injured another 15, police said, without saying what caused the blast. “From the information we have, an explosion happened today at around 8:10 p.m. (1710 GMT) near a summer cafe, causing three deaths and 15 injured,»»»

GENEVA: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is intensifying at an “exceptional” pace, the World Health Organization warned on Saturday, calling for a significant scaling-up of the health response. “This outbreak is now the largest recorded Ebola virus disease outbreak in the coun»»»

Europe's worst drought in decades is rippling through the continent's transport, energy and agricultural sectors, bringing shipping on parts of the Danube to a standstill, threatening nuclear power generation and exposing growing vulnerabilities as climate change pushes temperatures to unprecedente»»»

The eighth Jam on the River International Music and Arts Festival closed with a concert by Antoni Donchev’s All-Star Big Band in Debnevo on Saturday. Organizers said the four-day event drew about 23,000 people. Some of Bulgaria’s leading jazz musicians, including saxophonist Dimitar Lyolev, trumpet»»»

Washington: President Donald Trump on Saturday sharply criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's assessment that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of shoddy construction and not the work of vandals, as he claims. Pirro's office, in a court filing on Friday, moved to drop »»»

Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates has vehemently condemned the Iranian aggression against the State of Kuwait involving one-way attack drones. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that this aggressive attack flagrantly violates the State of Kuwait's sovereignty and imperils its se»»»

WASHINGTON: The head of US European Command has warned the Pentagon that without additional naval resources, he may no longer be able to sustain the current level of support for Israel’s air defense against Iranian strikes, The Washington Post reported. According to the publication, Gen. Alexus Gry»»»

ABIDJAN: Around 10 Nigerian soldiers have been killed in an attack by the Boko Haram group in southeastern Niger, local sources said, with the assault confirmed by state media. The attack occurred close to N’Guigmi, a garrison town in the Diffa marshy Lake Chad region shared also by Nigeria, Camero»»»

Acclaimed British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja and nine other expedition members died following an avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak in Pakistan, his climbing company confirmed on Saturday.  Renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja died with other team members in a powerful avalanche in Pakistan, his»»»

Bulgaria’s Defense Ministry has launched a public procurement procedure worth 17 million euros, including VAT, for the repair of up to 10 engines for the country’s MiG-29 fighter jets as Sofia seeks to keep the aging fleet operational until its new F-16 aircraft become fully ready for service. The »»»

Europe's worst drought in decades is rippling through the continent's transport, energy and agricultural sectors, bringing shipping on parts of the Danube to a standstill, threatening nuclear power generation and exposing growing vulnerabilities as climate change pushes temperatures to unprecedente»»»

FEATURE | Europe/Climate | Environment | July 30, 2026 "The Pyrocene is here," climate researcher Peter Dynes wrote on X on July 28, as wildfires near Bordeaux began generating huge pyrocumulus clouds intense enough to create their own weather – winds and lightning capable of igniting new fires. "A»»»

A mystery drone hit a US-owned liquefied natural gas carrier at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta on July 29, set it alight, and spread the fire to a second ship. Cairo took until the following morning to report the incident, likely from being in a flap about being sucked into the wider war wi»»»

A mystery drone hit a US-owned liquefied natural gas carrier at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta on July 29, set it alight, and spread the fire to a second ship. Cairo took until the following morning to report the incident, likely from being in a flap about being sucked into the wider war wi»»»

Soviet Ukraine once built some of Moscow's deadliest missiles: the Yuzhmash plant in Dnipro produced the SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile, technology reportedly still echoing decades later in North Korea's own missile engines. During the Soviet period, the Yuzhnoye design bureau in Dnipro d»»»