RIYADH: Two Mongolian saker falcons sold for a combined SR550,000 ($147,000) at the opening auction of the International Saudi Falcons and Hunting Exhibition, highlighting strong demand among falconry enthusiasts in the Kingdom. A young saker falcon was sold for SR150,000, while an adult bird fetch»»»

RIYADH: Gulf Cooperation Council countries recorded the highest value of outward workers’ remittances globally in 2025, with transfers reaching about $161 billion, official data showed. The figure rose 13.6 percent from 2024, marking a second consecutive year of growth after remittance outflows dec»»»

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Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Yemeni forces repelled and targeted Saudi reinforcements in eastern Al-Jawf after attempts to advance in the area failed. In a statement, Brig. Gen. Saree said the operation “resulted in the destruction of a large number of vehicles b»»»

Khartoum: An airstrike on two United Nations food aid trucks in Sudan's South Kordofan state killed one of their drivers, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Sunday, without specifying who was behind the attack. The trucks were travelling from Dilling to Kadugli on Saturday when they came under »»»

Ahmed Ragab races beneath five-year-old and catches him moments before impact Dubai: A young Egyptian man has been hailed for a split-second rescue after catching a five-year-old boy who fell from a balcony in Giza, in a dramatic moment captured on video. Ahmed Ragab was standing near a shop in the»»»

Gulf producers remain well below pre-war output as OPEC+ delays its next major move Dubai: OPEC+ agreed on Sunday to keep its oil production targets unchanged for November, as the conflict in the Middle East continues to keep output from key Gulf producers well below pre-war levels. Sign up for our»»»

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Member of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Hasan Fadlallah said the Lebanese government must establish an effective state presence in southern Lebanon before addressing the monopoly of arms or decisions concerning war and peace. “Give me a state presence in the south before discussing the »»»

RIYADH: Members of Saudi Arabia’s Masam project removed 1,256 explosive devices from various regions of Yemen last week. These include 1,201 items of unexploded ordnance, 41 anti-tank mines, and 14 anti-personnel mines, according to a recent report. The explosives were planted indiscriminately acro»»»

Nationwide support for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU alliance has collapsed to a historic low following a series of defeats in regional elections, a new poll suggests. The bloc’s popular backing stood at just 18%, its worst in German postwar history, according to a survey conducted by »»»

Tennessee’s prisons chief will step down following a failed attempt to execute death row inmate Christa Pike, Governor Bill Lee said on Saturday. Pike, who was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, remains unconscious and on a ventilator after su»»»

Ukrainian formations encircled in the Kharkov region lost more than 35 servicemen over the past 24 hours, while a UAV command post was destroyed, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. “Ukrainian losses inside the encirclement over the past 24 hours amounted to more than 35 servicemen. A UAV co»»»

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A passenger on Flydubai flight 1073 has described the actions of on-duty crew members who rushed into the cockpit to stabilise and land the plane after the co-pilot attacked the captain with a crash axe. The flight carrying 182 people en route to Israel was able to make an emergency landing in»»»

Brazilians began casting their votes on Sunday in a closely watch presidential election pitting incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva against right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro. Nearly 160 million voters will also pick lawmakers, senators and governo»»»

Latvian ​Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs was set to retain power and form a coalition after his centrist United List won parliamentary elections on Sunday, the biggest in the country's post-independence history. While the result is expected to reinforce the Baltic country’s pro-European and pro»»»

Bosnians head to the polls Sunday in elections that ​could impact how much influence Russia has over the small Balkan nation, with separatist Serb leader Milorad Dodik dominating the campaign despite his ban from public office. Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country marred by ethnic tensions, has s»»»

Bosnia is heading to the polls on Sunday after a general election campaign dominated by parties that identify closely with the ethnic divisions of its 1990s war. Voters will elect a vast number of officials across multiple tiers of government, in a complex system that has held the partitioned count»»»

Kyiv’s North bridge was hit in a new Russian attack on Sunday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, soon after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Ukraine's capital. Merz is on a surprise visit to demonstrate European support in the face of an upsurge in Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.»»»

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Sunday on an unannounced visit in a show of support for the country in its war with Russia. Merz's visit comes just a day after Russia warned foreigners and diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital, saying that "massive" new airs»»»

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Damascus, Syria, Oct. 4 (SANA) Director of International Organizations and Conferences at the Syrian Foreign Ministry Saad Baroud met Sunday with Maj. Gen. Anita Asmah, head and force commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), to discuss ways to strengthen coordination be»»»

Tokyo: Carlos Alcaraz qualified for the semi-finals of the Japan Open on Sunday after an ailing Denis Shapovalov retired to hand the world number three a 7-6 (7/3), 2-1 victory. His Canadian opponent was forced to withdraw after suffering an injury to his upper right thigh in the first game of the »»»

Muscat: Data from the report "Outward Workers' Remittances from the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, 2025," issued by the Statistical Center for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-Stat), showed that the GCC countries collectively recorded the world's highest total of»»»

Damascus, Oct 4 (SANA) Syria’s mushroom farming sector is expanding from small household operations into a potentially scalable agricultural activity, but high production costs, marketing challenges and the short shelf life of fresh mushrooms are constraining its growth, farmers and specialists say»»»

Russian strikes intensify, Indian-operated plant in Ukraine among latest targets A pharmaceutical plant in Ukraine’s Sumy region operated by India’s Kusum Group was largely destroyed in a Russian drone attack, with one person killed and several others injured, according to Ukrainian officials and m»»»

Criminal probe reopened as university faces questions over handling of 2024 case Dubai: Cornell University’s president has called the alleged gang rape of a student at a fraternity house “deeply disturbing” and pledged greater transparency as new questions emerge over evidence gathered in the 2024 »»»

Nagoya, Japan: The Asian Games in Japan's Aichi-Nagoya were officially declared closed on Sunday after more than two weeks of competition. The continent's biggest sporting spectacle, boasting more than 17,000 athletes and officials, is next scheduled for Doha in 2030.»»»

Oslo: Two people were shot dead and a third seriously wounded in a hunting incident in southeast Norway, police said on Sunday. A suspect has been arrested after the shooting on Sunday morning in Halden, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of Oslo, police said. "Three people were hit by bullets. »»»

MANILA: The Philippines accused China’s military and coast guard on Sunday of harassing Filipino government aircraft and boats in two areas of the disputed South China Sea. A J-16 fighter interfered with a Filipino Cessna 208 turboprop that was conducting a “routine military patrol” near Scarboroug»»»

Thrill rides, concerts, and culinary delights await at Dubai's Global Village Mark your calendars — Dubai’s favourite seasonal outing is back. Global Village Season 31 opens on October 14, bringing more than 90 cultures together through international food, shopping, live entertainment, cultural exp»»»

Riga, Oct. 4 (SANA) Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs is expected to remain in office and form a pro-Ukraine coalition after his centrist United List emerged as the largest force in Saturday’s parliamentary election, Reuters reported. With 97 percent of votes counted, the United List had secur»»»

Javier Milei is an unlikely champion of Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands. An admirer of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (who fought and won a war against Argentina) and an international ally of Israel (which is working with the British on a nearby oilfield), the libertarian»»»

Strikes on Ukrainian military facilities, defense-industrial sites and related infrastructure will be intensified following a statement by Volodymyr Zelensky, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The ministry said it had taken note of Zelensky’s statement that, in response to Russian strikes on defen»»»

The US has expelled two more members of the Iranian delegation that attended the UN General Assembly in New York after they allegedly ignored an order to leave the country, AFP and Axios reported on Saturday, citing a State Department official. US and Iranian negotiators separately met with mediato»»»

Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated across Spain to demand affordable rent and stronger protections for tenants amid a deepening housing crisis. Average rent has almost doubled over the past decade, according to property website Idealista. On Friday, parliament narrowly rejected two emerg»»»

AI’s rapid growth brings new responsibilities, from accuracy, privacy to individual rights The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) has affirmed that artificial intelligence is no longer a technology of the future, but has become an integral part of the present-day government workp»»»

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AL-MUKALLA: Yemeni government forces in the southwestern province of Taiz on Saturday repelled what local army officers described as some of the most “aggressive” assaults by the Iran-backed Houthis, as the army also launched strikes on targets in Houthi-controlled Sanaa. Local army commanders said»»»

Dubai: An attack on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz damaged its engine room, a British maritime agency said Sunday, without specifying when the incident occurred. An "unknown projectile" struck the ship but the crew were unharmed, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO) said. N»»»

Two people have ‌died and another was missing after heavy rains and flooding in Spain’s Catalonia region, authorities said on Sunday. Catalan leader Salvador Illa confirmed the death of a man after a wall collapsed in Tordera, a town to the north of Barcelona, in a message on his social media accou»»»

DUBAI: An attack on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz damaged its engine room, a British maritime agency said Sunday, without specifying when the incident occurred. Iran has sought to impose control over the vital shipping lane since the start of its war with the United States and Israel. It has rep»»»

Lebanese Ambassdor to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh Moawad has said that she is "grateful" to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for "his leadership, friendship, and support for Lebanon." "Mr. Secretary, your commitment to Lebanon, its sovereignty, and its people is deeply appreciated," the ambassador add»»»

Airplane mode: More than just a routine pre-flight instruction You hear it on almost every flight: please switch your phone to airplane mode. It is one of those routine instructions passengers follow almost automatically. A quick tap, a familiar icon on the screen, and you are ready for take-off. B»»»

Motegi, Japan: Defending world champion Marc Marquez won the Japanese MotoGP on Sunday to slice Jorge Martin's overall championship lead to two points with six events of the season remaining. Marquez pushed pole-sitter Martin into second place in Motegi after overtaking his fellow Spaniard midway t»»»

TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Iran is open to diplomacy but will respond decisively if the US resumes strikes, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday. "If our enemies again want to follow the path of military confrontation, our response will be more powerful than before. We will defend ourselv»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A system for orbital and radar control of missile-threat directions, as well as ensuring global monitoring of the situation in space, has been created in the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Sunday. “At the moment, the Space Forces have establishe»»»

More than 150 engineers and scientists are working on the 5 billion-kilometre mission Dubai: The spacecraft at the heart of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt has reached flight readiness less than two years after being developed, assembled and tested in the UAE, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed b»»»