Kiev/Moscow: Two people were killed and 34 suffered injuries in Ukraine during Russian missile and drone attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Twelve Ukrainian regions came under Russian strikes, Zelensky said, adding that Kiev was targeted by 21 ballistic missiles launched in three»»»

ANKARA: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Turkiye on Thursday for a two-day visit seeking to forge a new partnership as Canada looks to reduce its dependence on the United States. Carney is making the first bilateral visit by a Canadian prime minister to Turkiye, although he traveled t»»»

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s administration is on track to deport about 660,000 people over the past year, a new report released Thursday shows, as arrests ramp up across the country fueled by billions of dollars meant to supercharge his immigration agenda. The report by the Migration Polic»»»

CUETA, Spain: Mari Carmen Mata remains furious with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez over his response to the mass arrival of migrants in Ceuta, a crisis complicating the Socialist leader’s bid for re-election next month. “We want nothing to do with him,” the 58-year-old nursing assistant told »»»

Discover Al Ain Museum: A Gateway to UAE's Rich Archaeological Past Abu Dhabi: Beneath the streets of Al Ain lie traces of communities that lived in the area thousands of years before the United Arab Emirates was founded. Now it is the country’s first museum that tells their story. Al Ain Museum wa»»»

TOLEDO, Ohio: US House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries listened from the front row at the old Ohio church as the Sunday congregation heard of scripture’s guidance for calming a gathering storm. “Wind, hush!” the speaker advised, describing the power to bring about change. Jeffries nodded along, t»»»

GENEVA: A Swiss woman and an Austrian woman kidnapped in Niger more than a year and a half ago have been freed, Bern and Vienna announced Thursday. Swiss national Claudia Abbt, 69, arrived in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi together with 76-year-old Eva Gretzmacher, Libyan media outlets reported e»»»

MoHESR flags non-compliant adverts, issues corrective plans after AI-enabled inspections Dubai: The UAE is stepping up its scrutiny of universities, technical and vocational institutions and training centres that fall short of the rules. The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoH»»»

JAKARTA: Indonesia should reconsider its involvement in US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan because it is being shaped by Israel and the US and lacks a Palestinian voice, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories told Reuters on Thursday. »»»

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump could hold a “historic” three-way meeting at the APEC summit in China, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov has said. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is scheduled to take place in Shenzhen, China, »»»

RIYADH: Operations at King Fahd International Airport in Dammam resumed and air traffic returned to normal on Thursday after an attack killed two people, Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said. The strike on Wednesday evening took place after two workers at an oil field in the Eastern Provinc»»»

Andrey Sushentsov, dean of the Faculty of International Relations at MGIMO and a member of the Scientific-Expert Council under the Security Council of the Russian Federation, discusses why Western Europe is so afraid of a direct confrontation with Russia, how the US is shifting the burden of the Uk»»»

JERUSALEM: Nine of the 10 suspects arrested ‌in an investigation into militant settler attacks on a US journalist and European diplomats have been released from custody and placed under house arrest, a law ​firm that represents settlers said. Masked Israeli settlers were filmed last week assaulting»»»

LONDON: Two Syrian security personnel were killed and five others wounded on Thursday during an operation targeting a Daesh-linked cell in Rankous, near the Lebanese border, security sources said. The Internal Security Forces said they carried out the operation with the General Intelligence Service»»»

YANGON, Myanmar: The son of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi told AFP she sounded “fairly healthy” after speaking to the detained ex-democratic leader on Thursday for the first time in more than five years. Suu Kyi, 81, is under house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw, according to Myanmar authorities, wh»»»

DOHA The State of Qatar has condemned the Houthi group's targeting of King Fahd International Airport in Dammam in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which resulted in the deaths of two people, injuries to others, and material damage. Qatar considered it a grave violation of Saudi sovereignty and a direc»»»

By Staff, Agencies The US State Department has issued internal assessments suggesting that violent crime in parts of Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador is comparable to that in some American cities, despite publicly warning US citizens about security risks in the same countries, CNN report»»»

The Islamic State (IS) has been defeated in its original core territories, Syria and Iraq. Despite the US military withdrawal from those states, the United States, its international Anti-IS Coalition, Iraq and Syria have powerful capabilities to keep the terrorist group suppressed. But many of the »»»

On 23 September 2026, after a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al‑Zaidi on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked the proliferation of weapons beyond state control to dangers that threaten a country’s unity and political cohes»»»

DIMONA, Israel: When Israeli voter Daniela Hermon heads to the polls next week, she will cast her ballot for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without hesitation. “A leader of this calibre emerges only once every century,” she said in her hometown of Dimona. Netanyahu is in the midst of a close rac»»»

Amman: Sunni Arabs in Iraq are increasingly growing frustrated over a “lack of representation”, a member of the Jabouri tribe from the Salah al-Din province who requested anonymity told Al Majalla. “They don’t see any sort of Sunni-Shiite conflict,” the man, who works with a non-governmental organi»»»

BEIJING: All countries should ‌enjoy freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and through the Bab Al-Mandab Strait, China and Djibouti said in a joint statement following ​a meeting of their foreign ministers in Beijing, expressing concern about the deteriorating security situation. Djibouti sits on th»»»

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.4510 dinars for one euro on Thursday, which is a slight change relative to Wednesday, the National Bank of Serbia said. The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m, down by 0.2 pct y-o-y and down by 0.1 pct relative»»»

World shares and U.S. futures retreated on Thursday as oil prices jumped more than 2% following a report by Iran's state television that seven oil tankers caught fire and were damaged in the Strait of Hormuz. If the report is verified, it would be the largest number of vessels damaged in the waterw»»»

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Turkey on Thursday for a two-day visit seeking to forge a new partnership as Canada looks to reduce its dependence on the United States. Carney is making the first bilateral visit by a Canadian prime minister to Turkey, although he traveled to Ankara i»»»

Cabinet will meet at 3:00 PM today, Thursday, at the Presidential Palace. The agenda includes a request from the Ministry of Justice to refer the case of explosives seized by Lebanese authorities last week to the Judicial Council. The explosives belonged to Hezbollah, and the group stated they were»»»

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said she plans to move her family to a new home after receiving death threats, as she recounted the events of a federal raid tied to an immigration fraud investigation. “Obviously, I can’t continue to live there,” the congresswoman told MS NOW’s Chris Hayes in her first in»»»

Celebrate culture with artisans, games, and workshops at Souq Al Qattara Abu Dhabi: At this year’s 12th Traditional Handicrafts Festival in Al Ain, Emirati heritage is something you try, not just something you look at. You can take a seat in the salon to see how hair was once styled, learn to wear »»»

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's stock market ended lower Thursday with the benchmark Hang Seng Index down 3.03 percent to close at 22,934.68 points. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index slumped 3.2 percent to 7,689.19 points, and the Hang Seng Tech Index plunged 5.03 percent to 3,793.93 points. Enditem»»»

Washington, United States: Governments and companies around the world shut down websites as they raced Thursday to protect themselves from hacks after artificial intelligence uncovered critical flaws in a widely used programming language called PHP. PHP helps run about 70 percent of the world's web»»»

The ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and IMA ​​(Institute of Management Accountants) ​​Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS) showed a small decline in confidence among accountants globally in Q3. While confidence remains higher than the near-record low in Q1 amid the outbrea»»»

The topics of markups on basic foods and this week's arrests of two mayors of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) dominate Thursday's news media. HOME AFFAIRS On Nova TV's morning show, MP of Progressive Bulgaria Stefan Belchev commented on this week's arrests of two MRF mayors - Radoslav Re»»»

Despite the disappointment among voters regarding the state of the economy in the US in recent years, there are observable effects and trends of social improvement. First and foremost, it’s important to note a significant decrease in the level of violent crime. Of course, after President Donald Tru»»»

Numerous websites worldwide, including government-run pages, temporarily went dark after the AI-assisted discovery of critical vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, which powers around 70% of the web globally. On Wednesday, the developers of the popular open-source programming language, »»»

As governments and corporations alike scramble to install a patch to fix fundamental security flaws in a programming language that helps run roughly 70 percent of the world's websites, here's what you need to know about how AI has helped bring these critical vulnerabilities to light. Artificial int»»»

"Coalition military presence is being built up along our borders," Belousov said at a joint meeting of the Russian and Belarusian defense ministries in Minsk. The North Atlantic Alliance plans to bring eight multinational NATO battalion tactical groups on the bloc's eastern flank up to brigade leve»»»

Istanbul: Top European diplomats will hold talks in Istanbul Friday with their counterparts from Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt for a meeting initiated by Ankara, a Turkish foreign ministry source said. Foreign ministers from the so-called E3 group — Britain, France and Germany — will me»»»

By Staff, Agencies Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has rejected proposals to impose term limits on elected officials, arguing that voters should have the final say over how long their representatives remain in office. Speaking Wednesday during an interview with journalist and podcast h»»»

Hungary has temporarily taken the magyarorszag.hu government portal and several other official websites offline due to a serious cybersecurity threat affecting systems worldwide. Zoltán Tanács, Minister for Science and Technology, said the precautionary measure was introduced after two critical vul»»»

Russian forces have liberated the village of Mirovka in the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. The liberation of Mirovka strengthens Russian positions in the eastern Zaporozhye region, expands their foothold deeper into Ukrainian defenses and allows them to establi»»»

Pact between Sharjah Health Authority and Medcare to benefit multiple groups of residents Sharjah: Sharjah Health Authority (SHA) has announced easier and affordable access to private healthcare for government employees in the emirate and their families after it entered into a new pact with Medcare»»»

Launched under the concept “The Journey Goes Both Ways,” the initiative represents an open-ended commitment and reflects one of the company’s core values: “We give Romania more than we take.” Through this commitment, Beyond Dracula aims to turn commercial success into a direct contribution to prese»»»

By Staff, Agencies Representatives of the Venezuelan government and the opposition linked to the 2015-elected National Assembly concluded their third round of national transition talks on Wednesday, reaching key agreements on political disqualifications and the recovery of frozen Venezuelan assets »»»

Nanmoku, Japan: In a misty mountain village in Japan, residents recently welcomed unlikely guests from a Peruvian district along the Amazon River, seeing a chance to revive an ageing community facing extinction. The mayor of Belen and two young women visited a care home on their trip to Nanmoku, a »»»

A Druze source in Syria's southern Sweida province who opposes the policies of Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has dismissed reports of plans to establish an Israeli military base in the province's southeastern countryside. The source also denied reports that the so-called National Gu»»»

Lebanon's Justice Minister Adel Nassar vowed to pursue an investigation into a shipment of Hezbollah explosives to the end, saying the probe was expanding as he pressed for the case to be referred to the Judicial Council on national security grounds. “There are no limits to the investigation,” Nass»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had detained a resident of Sevastopol, who provided the Security Service of Ukraine with information about the locations of military equipment and units of the Black Sea Fleet. The illegal activities of a Russian ci»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority on Thursday said that operations at King Fahd International Airport in Dammam have resumed and air traffic have returned to normal. The General Authority of Civil Aviation, in a social media post, also identified the fatalities, one Saudi citizen and »»»

Bulgarians go to the polls on Sunday, October 25, in the first round of a presidential election that almost nobody expects to be settled that night. There are 27 tickets on the ballot, the largest field since direct presidential elections began in 1992, yet the race has long since narrowed to three»»»

From our special correspondents in Pavlohrad – In Pavlohrad, a Ukrainian city less than 90km from the front line with Russia, there is no respite from war. Residents describe daily life under bombardment, caught between exhaustion and determination. Amid criticism of Trump, TikT»»»