DOHA: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has received Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania HE Edi Rama, who is currently visiting the country. During the meeting, the relations between the two countries and ways to support and »»»

President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa concludes the 2025 G20 summit with the traditional passing of the gavel to the next G20 host nation on the final day of the 2025 G20 Leaders Summit on Sunday. Photo by Jemal Countess/UPI | License Photo Nov. 23 (UPI) -- South African President Cyril Ramapho»»»

Sofia residents protested over the weekend against amendments to the city’s Ordinance on Traffic Organization, which expand paid parking zones and increase parking fees and subscription rates. The demonstrations highlighted ongoing tensions between the municipality and local citizens over urban mob»»»

Dubai Municipality has launched the “My School Food” platform to improve the quality of school meals and promote better nutritional awareness among students. The initiative is part of a broader set of new programmes and regulatory measures aimed at transforming food safety standards and nutrition s»»»

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, received today Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania HE Edi Rama who is currently visiting the country. During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations and ways to support a»»»

A delegation of senior Hamas leaders discussed the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement on Sunday with the head of Egyptian intelligence, the Palestinian group said. Led by Hamas chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, the delegation arrived in the Egyptian capital on Saturday for talks on Sunday»»»

Two US men have been indicted for allegedly plotting an armed operation to take control of a Caribbean island, kill its male population, and enslave the women and children, US prosecutors have announced. According to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas, Gavin Rivers Weisenbur»»»

MP Ali Ammar of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc declared on Sunday that only the resistance will determine the appropriate time to confront ‘Israel’, speaking from the site of the recent Israeli aggression in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Ammar asserted that Israeli attacks have persistently target»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Seventeenth Gulf Heart Association Conference concluded its multi-day program in Doha with remarkable success, attracting more than 750 attendees and participants from 27 countries. Delegates included distinguished guests from Yemen, Iraq, the GCC region, and numerous Arab and inte»»»

Dubai: Kuwait’s Interior Ministry has announced a sweeping increase in residency and visa fees, with several categories facing significant hikes, Kuwait Times reported. The revised charges, published in the official gazette on Sunday, will take effect one month from now. They are part of the execut»»»

The Israeli military on Sunday killed Hezbollah's top military official, Haytham Ali Tabtabai, in a strike on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital that came despite a year-long ceasefire. His killing was announced by Israel's military. There was no immediate confirmation of his killing from Hezbol»»»

Israel killed the Hezbollah group's top military official in an airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday, the Israeli military said, despite a US-brokered truce a year ago. The strike, the first on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital in months, targeted Iran-backed Hezbollah's acting ch»»»

Top Ukrainian envoys met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Geneva Sunday to discuss President Donald Trump’s proposal to end Russia’s war on Ukraine. Speaking to journalists, Rubio described that first session of talks as “probably the most productive and meaningful meeting" since the Trump»»»

A Shiite cleric stands near Lebanese army soldiers at the site after an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday. Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a strike against Haytham Ali Tabatabai, a senior Hezbollah off»»»

The Municipal Election Commission (MEC) in the coastal city of Varna postponed on Sunday its decision on whether to remove Mayor Blagomir Kotsev from office, opting instead to request additional documents from the Municipality to clarify the periods of his absence. The Commission met to review thre»»»

President Donald Trump has accused Ukraine's leaders of showing "zero gratitude" for US efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war. His comments on social media came as Ukraine and its European allies hold talks with US negotiators in Geneva over a widely-leaked set of proposals seen as strongly favouri»»»

The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Lebanon has condemned the Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which resulted in a number of martyrs and wounded, describing it as part of the “escalating criminal attacks targeting innocent civilians in Lebanon.” In a statement on the X pla»»»

Tunis, Nov. 23 (TAP) – The Tunisian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LTDH) called for expediting the establishment of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Judicial Council “to protect rights and freedoms and guarantee the independence of...»»»

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has gotten off to a somewhat inauspicious start at the G20 summit in South Africa, almost tumbling face first into the floor. The gathering of leaders representing the world’s largest economies is taking place in Johannesburg on November 22-23. South Africa assumed th»»»

SAMARKAND: The State of Qatar, represented by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, participated in the high-level meeting preceding the 20th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), scheduled to be held in S»»»

Russia is bound to emerge the “absolute winner” in the Ukraine conflict should US President Donald Trump’s peace plan be adopted, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said. The US presented Ukraine with its latest draft plan to end hostilities with Russia this week. According to media reports, the»»»

The third edition of the Banking and Business Technology Forum kicked off in Misrata last Saturday (22 to 24 November) under the patronage of the Central Bank of Libya. The forum features wide participation, including banking leaders, technology, insurance, telecommunications, and electronic paymen»»»

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that good progress had been achieved at Geneva talks on resolving the Ukraine conflict. "I think we have made good progress," Rubio told reporters. He added that the talks in Geneva were ongoing. "We have had probably the most »»»

Addis Ababa: The death toll from Ethiopia's Marburg virus disease outbreak has risen to five, the country's Ministry of Health has said. In its latest update issued late Saturday, the ministry said the outbreak's case fatality rate now stands at 50 percent. Two additional infections were confirmed »»»

Tunis, Nov. 23 (TAP) - An Algerian parliamentary delegation from the Algeria–Tunisia Friendship Group of the Algerian People’s National Assembly, led by the group’s president Mohamed el-Hadi Tebessi, is paying an official visit to Tunisia from...»»»

Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s National Centre for Meteorology has issued a weather alert warning of heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, hail, and potential flash floods across several regions of the Kingdom from Tuesday through Friday. The weather system is expected to intensify over the western and northern re»»»

The G20 summit in South Africa, a gathering of the world's major economies, has ended with a joint declaration committing to "multilateral co-operation". The declaration, which covered climate change mitigation and economic inequality, was adopted despite objections from the US, which boycotted the»»»

Dubai: Visitors heading to the Big 5 Global at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) from 24–27 November should expect heavier traffic and significantly higher parking costs. A variable tariff has been activated for the Major Events Parking zone (Code X) to manage the surge in demand, with parking se»»»

The indefinite postponement of the Russian-American summit, which was due to take place in Budapest, has led to suggestions that the momentum from Russian President Vladimir Putin's meeting in August with his US counterpart Donald Trump has already disappeared. Russian Ambassador to the United Stat»»»

Tunis, Nov. 23 (TAP) - The weather, on Sunday night, will be partly to heavily cloudy in the far northern regions, with scattered showers, while the rest of the country will see overcast conditions.Winds will blow from the west, strong to fairly...»»»

An extremely rare sighting of a juvenile, migratory white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) has been documented at Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve - the first confirmed record of this species in Saudi Arabia in over two decades, reported the Saudi Press Agency on Sunday. The eagle was ob»»»

MUSCAT: Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs HE Dr Mohammed bin Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al Khulaifi has met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman HE Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud Al Busaidi, in Muscat. During the meeting, the two sides discussed bilateral relations and w»»»

Two Russian warships were intercepted in the English Channel by the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said. In the latest incident involving Russia's ships infiltrating UK waters, HMS Severn headed off the RFN Stoikiy, a corvette and Yelnya, a tanker, as they sailed west through the Dov»»»

Doha: The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has announced the resumption of construction on Packages 4 and 7 of the South Meshaf Roads and Infrastructure project, aimed at enhancing the road network and infrastructure services in the area to meet the needs of a growing population. Engineer Mohamed A»»»

A UK patrol ship has intercepted a Russian corvette and a tanker after shadowing them through the English Channel, the Defense Ministry said Sunday, adding that Russian naval activity around UK waters had increased by 30% over the past two years. With the past two weeks, the patrol ship HMS Severn »»»

As Emerging Europe heads into 2026, rising economic pressures and voter disillusionment are fuelling support for right-wing populist parties and anti-establishment movements across the region. Mak Kasapovic, Eastern Europe analyst at Oxford Analytica, commented during a webinar on November 20 that »»»

The latest version of the US draft plan for ending the war in Ukraine now includes most of Kyiv's "key priorities", its negotiator said Sunday, after holding a few rounds of talks in Geneva. The Ukrainian delegation assigned with a difficult task to ensure their national interests were included in »»»

Ukraine is rapidly emerging as a centre for defence and dual-use technological innovation, accelerated by the ongoing war, according to Maria Repko, deputy executive director at the Centre for European Strategy (CES). From autonomous systems to first person view (FPV) drones and cyber defence tools»»»

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reiterated his call to the international community to intervene strongly to stop the attacks and prevent any deterioration that would return tension to the region. President Aoun considered Israeli targeting of the southern suburb of Beirut this afternoon, coinciding »»»

Doha, Qatar: Tonight, November 23, marks the first night of Al Zubanah star, the last of Al Wasmi season stars. Its rise is expected to last for 13 days. According to Qatar Meteorology Department (QMD) During this period, signs of winter are expected to become more prevalent, with colder nights and»»»

The killing of a husband and wife from a Bedouin tribe in Syria’s Homs province on Sunday triggered renewed sectarian tensions. The bodies were found at their home in the town of Zaidal, “with signs that the wife had been burned,” state-run news agency SANA reported, adding that “sectarian slogans »»»

Fifty of the 315 children kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria's Niger State on Friday have escaped. The Christian Association of Nigeria says they have been reunited with their families. A major military-led search and rescue operation is under way for the remaining 265 children a»»»

The administration of President Donald Trump has considered dropping leaflets on Venezuela as President Nicolas Maduro turns 63 on Sunday. File Photo by Miguel Guiterrez/EPA-EFE Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The administration of President Donald Trump has considered dropping leaflets on Venezuela as President »»»

A man who heads up TGR, a network operating in the UK that launders cash for drugs gangs, illegal firearm suppliers and people smugglers, purchased a bank in Kyrgyzstan that facilitates sanctions evasion to the benefit of Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to a BBC report on a British National Crim»»»

Muscat: The Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HE Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al Khulaifi, met on Sunday with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman, HE Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud Al Busaidi, in Muscat. During the meeting, the two sides discussed bilateral r»»»

Israel has carried out an air strike on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time in months, targeting a senior member of the militant group Hezbollah, despite a ceasefire. The office of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the target was Hezbollah's chi»»»

Israel carried out an airstrike on a southern Beirut suburb on Sunday targeting a senior official of the Hezbollah group, despite a ceasefire between the two sides brokered by the United States a year ago. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strike, the first on Beirut in months, targeted th»»»

A man who heads up TGR, a network operating in the UK that launders cash for drugs gangs, illegal firearm suppliers and people smugglers, purchased a bank in Kyrgyzstan that facilitates sanctions evasion to the benefit of Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to a BBC report on a British National Crim»»»

Dubai: The Indian rupee hit a new all-time low of ₹24.26 against the UAE dirham, making it one of the strongest moments in years for Indian expats to send money home. (Check live forex rates here) Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.The fall came just before the weekend, a»»»

The US-drafted Ukraine peace plan could potentially “torpedo” the EU’s attempts to use frozen Russian assets to fund Kiev, the German newspaper Handelsblatt has reported. The European Commission has been seeking to issue a €140 billion ($160 billion) loan to Kiev secured against Moscow’s immobilize»»»