CHICAGO: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is changing the way it participates in US elections, announcing that it will stop formally endorsing candidates, making direct contributions through its political action committee and earmarking donations after the 2026 election cycle. AIPAC, on»»»

By Staff, Agencies Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi has announced that all US forces, including military advisers, have withdrawn from Iraq, describing the departure as a significant step toward ending the foreign military presence in the country. Speaking to the Iraqi News Agency on Friday,»»»

Two suspects allegedly prepared orders while a third delivered them, knowing the contents Dubai: Kuwait has arrested three people accused of selling electronic cigarettes to secondary school students by concealing them inside food orders, in a scheme that police say was designed to evade detection »»»

A Google-backed programme will teach millions of children to use the internet safely Abu Dhabi: As the digital world evolves rapidly, the UAE is stepping up efforts to protect children from online threats and promote safe, responsible internet use. The approach brings together government entities, »»»

By Staff, Agencies More than 146,000 households across Taiwan experienced power outages as Typhoon Champi brought strong winds and heavy rainfall to the island, local media reported Saturday. According to Focus Taiwan, electricity had been restored to more than 122,000 households by Friday night. R»»»

Washington, Oct. 24 (SANA) U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Saturday that oil exports from the Arabian Gulf had exceeded levels recorded before the war with Iran began, despite Iranian attempts to disrupt energy shipments. In a post on X, Bessent said supplies had reached around 17 to »»»

The Black Sea Maritime Security Hub, which will operate from Varna (Bulgaria) and Constanta (Romania), is part of the European strategic approach to security in the region, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova said on Saturday during a visit to the Naval Academy in Varna together with Frenc»»»

They will not govern Israel, but Arab-majority lists could be the kingmakers in Israel's close-fought elections next week, guided by a voter base fed up with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In interviews with AFP, the heads of the two predominantly Arab lists put forward a shared objective ahead»»»

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar described the 1956 revolution as “possibly the most important revolution of the 20th century” in a major speech marking its 70th anniversary in Budapest on Friday. Addressing crowds in Kossuth Square outside Parliament, Magyar paid tribute to the heroes who res»»»

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Doha, Qatar: The Aligarh Muslim University Alumni Association Qatar (AMUAAQ) celebrated Sir Syed Day 2026 at City Centre Rotana, Doha, under the theme “The Power of Education: Empowering the Next Generation.” The event commemorated the 209th birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, the visionary f»»»

Prime Minister Edi Rama has reiterated his willingness to engage in dialogue with protesters as students, university professors and businesses prepare for a nationwide demonstration. On Saturday morning, Rama posted a video on Facebook showing a table set up outside the Prime Minister’s Office, wit»»»

DUBAI: Improving medical imaging, developing treatments against emerging viruses and finding new solutions to water scarcity — all reasons six female Arab scientists were recognized at the 13th edition of the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Middle East in Dubai on Thursday. The awardees, from S»»»

NAZARETH: They will not govern Israel, but Arab-majority lists could be the kingmakers in Israel’s close-fought elections next week, guided by a voter base fed up with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In interviews with AFP, the heads of the two predominantly Arab lists put forward a shared objec»»»

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that EU funds are once again accessible to Hungary, while European Council President António Costa emphasised the importance of democracy, national sovereignty and European unity. Both leaders addressed a commemorative session of the Hung»»»

By Staff, Agencies French President Emmanuel Macron has described a deadly shooting near Paris as the country’s first “racist terrorist attack”. A gunman opened fire from a car in Trappes and neighboring La Verriere on Friday morning, killing 26-year-old aspiring MMA fighter Pengo Bossio Wangi and »»»

Israel’s expanding operations in southern Lebanon are raising questions about how much territory its forces actually occupy, and how much they control through surveillance, firepower and the ability to launch attacks from forward positions. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has repeatedly cited »»»

By Staff, Agencies Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and conservative Senator Flavio Bolsonaro exchanged fierce accusations over infrastructure, public security and corruption allegations on Friday during their final televised debate ahead of Sunday’s presidential runoff. The debate, br»»»

Father recalls son's final moments after the airport blaze left him struggling to breathe Dubai: A Saudi father has paid tribute to his son, who died after helping fight a fire at King Fahd International Airport in Dammam following an attack on the facility. He hailed his son as a martyr who gave h»»»

The spokesperson for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Nader Zaki, said on Friday that the region is experiencing a state of anxiety and anticipation regarding signs of a potential additional escalation, noting intense diplomatic efforts to contain it before it occurs. He emphasi»»»

By Staff, Agencies Mohammad Mokhber, adviser and aide to Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said on Friday that the threats and psychological warfare pursued by US President Donald Trump and “Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reflect desperation amid the ongoing war against Iran. Mokhber st»»»

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in China’s border city of Dandong via a newly opened bridge linking the two countries, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said on Saturday. The announcement came about a week after the major new bridge was officially opened, 12 years after its completion»»»

Aden Governor Abdulrahman Sheikh narrowly escaped a ballistic missile strike on Wednesday when it landed near the city’s international airport shortly after he left the facility during a routine inspection tour. Sheikh, who also serves as Yemen’s minister of state, had visited Aden International Ai»»»

By Staff, Agencies The Chief of the General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Major General Ali Abdollahi stressed that Tehran will never allow US military vessels to enter the Gulf. He further unveiled that US naval forces are no longer capable of approaching the waters surrounding the strategic waterw»»»

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un guided the Third Meeting of KPA Company Leaders in Pyongyang, outlining measures to strengthen the army’s basic combat units and improve their readiness, KCNA reported. Kim stressed that stronger companies are central to building powerful armed forces and called on c»»»

Prime Minister Péter Magyar described the 1956 revolution and war of independence as perhaps the most important revolution of the 20th century on Friday in Budapest, at Kossuth Lajos Square in front of the Parliament. In his speech, the head of government pledged to carry forward the legacy of 1956»»»

How basketball and medicine helped an 18-year-old find community in Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi: Three weeks ago, Nicolas Cobos Rodriguez knew no one in Abu Dhabi. He is 18, in a new country, with three months of internships ahead of him and a dream he had never been close enough to touch: becoming a docto»»»

Europe’s growing defence budgets will not automatically translate into stronger military capabilities without new financing mechanisms, industry investment and greater cooperation between governments and financial institutions. This was the central message of the International Defence Finance Confe»»»

Nearly five years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba sees no end in sight. Ukraine’s former foreign minister (2020-24), he steered Kyiv’s diplomacy for more than two years of the war, mainly during US President Joe Biden’s administration. Now a senior fellow at Harvard’s Be»»»

Independent learning begins when adults guide, question and know when to step back The greatest gift we can give children is not the ability to know all the answers, but the confidence to find their own. We need to start developing independent learners much earlier than we do. Too often, independen»»»

Washington: Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have developed a blood biomarker approach that may help assess traumatic brain injuries and detect damage not visible on initial scans. Published in the journal Neurosurgery, the study examined two proteins, GFAP and UCH-L1,»»»

Anduril Industries CEO Palmer Luckey is working to clone and genetically engineer dogs for the American military, in a venture backed by the CIA and a biotech billionaire who plans on resurrecting prehistoric creatures. Texas-based startup Warhound unveiled the project on Thursday, announcing $200 »»»

Kinshasa: Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo administered the first vaccine doses on Friday in a major clinical trial aimed at halting the country's largest recorded outbreak of the Bundibugyo Ebola virus strain. The Phase 2/3 trial, known as Tumaini, was launched in Bunia, »»»

New York state woman charged with voting illegally says she recently learned she wasn’t a citizen A Syracuse, New York, woman who says she only recently learned she wasn’t born in the US has been charged with voting illegally, one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts»»»

NAIROBI: Kenya has recorded a second Ebola death, the health ministry said late on Friday, adding that the 65-year-old woman had developed symptoms during quarantine and was a close relative of a Kenyan man who died of Ebola earlier this month. The outbreak, which started in the Democratic Republic»»»

By Staff, Agencies Anger over Washington’s Middle East policies and growing financial pressures are eroding Republican support among Arab Americans, giving Democrats a substantial advantage ahead of November’s congressional elections, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll. The survey fou»»»

CHICAGO: In a move reflecting significant backlash against the growing involvement of pro-Israel political action campaign money, the leading pro-Israel lobbying organization in the US, AIPAC, has reversed its 2021 policy of publicly identifying candidates who receive their money. In election cycle»»»

Connectivity will be the focus of a summit to be held in Bulgaria next year, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on Friday. The upcoming summit was initially announced on September 16 by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her annual State of the European Union address. The meetin»»»

RIYADH: Survivors of the Oct. 10 Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh have recounted scenes of explosions, smoke and bloodshed, describing how they tried to help fellow passengers despite suffering serious injuries. Their accounts feature in a documentary titled “Before Boar»»»

DAMASCUS: Hundreds of Syrians took to the streets on Friday to protest against Israeli military incursions into southern Syria, a day after Israeli forces shot dead a man with Down syndrome during a raid on a village in Daraa province. Demonstrations were held in Damascus, Quneitra, Homs and Hasaka»»»

MAKKAH: A Saudi father who lost one daughter in the Oct. 10 attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh is holding on to hope for the recovery of his younger daughter, who remains under medical care. Saud Manahi Al-Sarrah told Arab News of his grief over the death of his daughter, Aroub, »»»

JEDDAH: France will honor its commitment to help protect Saudi infrastructure against Houthi attacks, French lawmaker Amal Amelia Lakrafi said in Jeddah on Thursday. “My colleagues on the Foreign Affairs Committee and I support Saudi Arabia because, for us, the Houthis are terrorists,” she said. “W»»»

By Staff, Agencies US President Donald Trump has called for Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota to resign, accusing her of identity fraud without presenting evidence establishing the allegation. Omar’s office has firmly rejected the claims, calling them “completely false.” In a Thursda»»»

By Staff, Agencies A cybersecurity incident disrupted online systems at Richmond Public Schools [RPS] in the US state of Virginia on Wednesday, forcing schools to shift to a technology-free learning environment while officials work to investigate the incident and restore affected services, ABC News»»»

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration’s top border official defended plans to build a wall and other infrastructure in Texas’ Big Bend region despite mounting opposition against the project and a court-ordered pause on construction, saying his goal of fortifying the country’s borders was “non-negoti»»»

Netanyahu received US President Trump's endorsement 10 days before the vote Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s consummate political survivor, is facing the fight of his life in Tuesday elections, drawing on over three decades of experience to convince voters he is still the only»»»

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is once again fighting for his political future, in a runoff election against Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro. After a dirty campaign, voters will decide on Sunday whether Brazil maintains its leftward trajectory or l»»»

Insults traded on social media and a combative debate have intensified the pressure ahead of a fiercely contested presidential run-off on Sunday, with only a few points separating leftist pro-union President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and far-right challenger Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former pres»»»

Dozens of protesters took to the Paris streets on Thursday despite bans on demonstrations ordered in multiple French cities following a weekend of clashes and widespread looting that marked France’s most violent unrest in years.»»»

Two leading Jewish groups want the EU’s next antisemitism tsar to also brief diplomats on foreign policy – despite the controversy it caused the last one, Katharina von Schnurbein. “EU external decisions have direct consequences for Jews living in Europe. Diplomats should hear from the person who s»»»