Damascus,Dec.4 (SANA) President Ahmad al-Sharaa received the UN Security Council delegation and several UN officials at the People’s Palace in Damascus on Thursday, with several Syrian ministers in attendance. The visit highlights the international community’s support for Syria during its reconstru»»»

Damascus, Dec.4 (SANA)The General Company for Cement and Building Materials Industry and Marketing (Omran) has completed a new investment map for Syria’s cement sector. The plan is designed to attract local and regional partners, expand production, and enhance the competitiveness of Syrian cement p»»»

Business Forum Korea—Central Asia Economic Cooperation Platform 2025 is taking place in Bishkek today, December 4. Korean entrepreneurs visiting Kyrgyzstan were presented with the country’s investment opportunities. The Ministry of Economy’s press service reported. According to the press service, D»»»

After more than two years of intense fighting, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on Monday that they had seized full control of the Sudanese Army’s 22nd Infantry Division, the military’s last remaining stronghold in Babanusa, the capital of West Kordofan. Analysts say the fall of the strateg»»»

The driver of a Public Power Corporation (PPC) bus died on Thursday morning after suffering a heart attack en route to a plant in Kozani, northern Greece. The bus was carrying at least 20 PPC employees when it veered off course and ran into a protective barrier at the side of the road on the way to»»»

Farmers across Greece dug in their heels on Thursday, continuing their blockades of major highways and expanding rallies from Thessaly to Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus and western regions as the number of tractors on the roads continued to grow. The most severe disruptions remained in flood-hit Thessal»»»

A Greek Coast Guard officer has been accused of buying heroin from a 49-year-old suspected drug dealer who was arrested in Athens on Tuesday and is under investigation for possible links to a wider narcotics network. Police said Thursday the officer, who has not been identified, purchased heroin fr»»»

Tunis, Dec. 4 (TAP) – The weather will be partly to heavily cloudy over the far North and, at times, the Southeast, with scattered showers expected, according to forecasts from the National Meteorological Institute (INM),These showers may become...»»»

Dubai: US Central Command (CENTCOM) has created a new task force to oversee America’s first one-way-attack drone squadron in the Middle East, marking a dramatic shift in Washington’s response to Iran’s expanding unmanned capabilities, CNN has reported. Task Force Scorpion Strike, announced on Wedne»»»

At least 14,171 carcasses of shot stray animals were transported to the city’s landfill over the first 10 months of 2025. The figures were announced by Zholdoshbek Chushtukov, head of the municipal enterprise Tazalyk, during a meeting of the Bishkek City Council’s Standing Commission on Housing and»»»

SearchInform presented the results of a study analyzing key information security challenges in the Gulf Region. The survey included 116 respondents from various industries: primarily Information Technology and Information Security specialists and directors from commercial organizations and governme»»»

Private entrepreneur Nurgaly Asanaliev has officially handed over keys to apartments designated for seven manaschis. The Ministry of Culture of Kyrgyzstan reported. According to the ministry, the initiative aims to promote the country’s great cultural heritage — the epic Manas — and to help promote»»»

China said on Thursday it is working on streamlining rare earth export licenses - a key promised outcome after a meeting between US President Donald Trump and his counterpart Xi Jinping. "The government is actively adapting," Commerce Ministry spokesman He Yadong told reporters at a weekly briefing»»»

DOHA: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs HE Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi received a copy of the credentials of Ambassador of the sisterly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the State HRH Prince Saad bin Mansour bin Saad bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs wished the »»»

Supporters of the Velichie party held a demonstration outside the Palace of Justice in Sofia Thursday in support of those detained in a case related to the Historical Park project. Chanting "Resign," "We hate you for free," and "Freedom," the demonstrators demanded the release of Anatoli Savov, Nik»»»

Dubai: Thousands of travellers remain stranded and frustrated at major airports across India as IndiGo, the country’s largest airline, grapples with a massive wave of flight cancellations now entering its third straight day. At least 175 IndiGo flights were grounded early Thursday, following over 1»»»

The Egyptian economy is poised to achieve record real growth rates, averaging approximately 6.0% annually over the next twenty-five years (2025–2050), according to World Bank forecasts published in November 2025. Egypt is actively working to increase the economy’s capacity to create more job opport»»»

Dubai: A Delhi man has gone viral online after he used ChatGPT to outwit a scammer, build a fake payment link that secretly captured geolocation data and a front-camera image, and then confronted the fraudster with his own photograph and coordinates — forcing him to plead for forgiveness. The man d»»»

Israeli occupation forces launched a large-scale military campaign across the occupied West Bank overnight Wednesday into Thursday, conducting simultaneous raids marked by mass arrests, the conversion of civilian homes into military outposts, and reported assaults on medical personnel. Israeli bull»»»

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday a reset of Joe Biden's fuel-economy standards, arguing it will lower U.S. car prices -- but critics warned it would worsen climate change and leave drivers paying more at the pump. Trump was flanked in the Oval Office by the CEOs of Ford and Stellantis and»»»

The Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia has approved water intake limits and reservoir operation modes for the non-growing season of 2025–2026. So, for Amu Darya River, the total limit is set at 55.4 billion cubic meters, including 15.9 billion cubic meters for October—Apri»»»

An earthquake in China was felt across parts of Kyrgyzstan, the Seismology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences reported. According to the Institute, the quake, measuring magnitude 6 at the epicenter, occurred today at 1:44 p.m. The epicenter was located in China, 40 kilometers southeast o»»»

President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Thursday that Russia would take full control of Ukraine's Donbas region by force unless Ukrainian forces withdraw, something Kyiv has flatly rejected. Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of»»»

Economist Dimitar Chobanov has warned that the current policies are pushing Bulgaria’s budget toward a structural deficit that is already becoming apparent. He told the Bulgarian National Radio that addressing this issue requires stricter control over expenditures rather than relying solely on rais»»»

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in snippets from an interview, to be aired later on Thursday, that his country will take control of Donbass and Novorossiya by either military means or other methods. “It all comes down to this. Either we will liberate these territories by force of arms, or Ukr»»»

AVM Saravanan, one of Tamil cinema’s most respected film producers and the driving force behind the legendary AVM Studios, passed away in the early hours of Thursday. He was 86. Family members said he had been unwell for several months and died at 5.30am at his home inside the AVM Studio campus in »»»

Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The body of a Thai agricultural worker held hostage in Gaza for nearly 800 days has been returned to Israel, the Israeli government said Thursday. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a statement that the family of Sudthisak Rinthalak, 42, had been informed o»»»

China and France pledged deeper cooperation on global issues like the war in Ukraine and trade, as France prepares to take on the presidency of the Group of Seven next year. French President Emmanuel Macron met with China's Xi Jinping on Thursday morning as part of a three-day state visit focusing »»»

A United Nations Security Council delegation will visit Lebanon on Friday and Saturday after visiting Syria in the first-ever visit to the country. Slovenian U.N. ambassador Samuel Zbogar told a press conference on Monday that "the visit to Lebanon is the first official visit of the Security Counci»»»

A meeting took place in Ulan-Ude between Yulia Zhambalova, Commissioner for Human Rights in Buryatia, and Azamat Omuraliev, Consul and Head of the Kyrgyz Embassy’s Office in Irkutsk, Russia. The main outcome of the talks was an agreement to engage in comprehensive cooperation to protect the rights »»»

China will provide $100 million in aid to the Palestinians to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and support reconstruction efforts, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday. Xi was speaking at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron after their meeting in Beijing. X»»»

Doha, Qatar: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, HE Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi received Thursday a copy of the credentials of HRH Ambassador of the sisterly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the State Prince Saad bin Mansour bin Saad bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The Minister of State for Foreign Af»»»

Speaking in Parliament's debating chamber on Thursday, Interior Minister Daniel Mitov said that the Sofia Municipality had approved a protest, not a march, on December 1, and it was impossible, in practice, to secure the protection of a crowd moving along an unapproved route. Mitov was speaking at »»»

Paris, France: French authorities have isolated two people infected with the virus that causes Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS) who were among a tour group visiting the region, the health ministry said. MERS is a more deadly but less contagious variation of the Severe Acute Respiratory Sy»»»

Kolkata: A 21-year-old aspiring pilot was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his house in North Kolkata, said police on Thursday. The body was found hanging in his ancestral house in the Girish Park area. The deceased youth, identified as Soumyaditya Kundu, had returned from South Africa »»»

Dubai: The heavens and the hooves align this Friday evening as Dubai prepares for an unprecedented spectacle—where the year's final supermoon will rise dramatically over thundering thoroughbreds at Meydan Racecourse. For the first time ever in the UAE, audiences will witness world-class horse racin»»»

European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kovesi and Justice Minister Georgi Georgiev attended the opening of an office of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) in Sofia on Thursday. Bulgaria's acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov did not attend. In July, the Council of Ministers provided the »»»

Dubai: Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, has once again demonstrated his deep bond with the community — this time by highlighting the story of two Dubai-born girls w»»»

Israel has identified the remains of the hostage it received from Hamas on Wednesday as Thai agricultural worker Sudthisak Rinthalak, the prime minister's office said on Thursday. The body of Israeli police officer Ran Gvili, the last of the living and deceased hostages to be returned, is still in »»»

Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union, Germany, and Japan have announced the formation of a Steering Committee to guide the Yemen Maritime Security Partnership, in coordination with Yemen’s internationally recognized government. The announcement came during the par»»»

King Charles hosted German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a glittering, Christmassy state banquet at Windsor Castle on Wednesday evening. Among the famous guests were model Claudia Schiffer - who sat next to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer - film composer Hans Zimmer and violinist Anne-Sophie»»»

Dubai: A Kuwaiti university student has been killed and her companion critically injured in a tragic road accident in the United States, authorities confirmed. The crash happened early Tuesday morning in Clark County, Ohio, where 20-year-old female university student died at the scene, Almajlliss o»»»

South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang could face a record fine over a massive data breach of customer information, industry sources said Thursday. In this photo, a delivery truck is seen Wednesday outside a distribution center in Seoul. Photo by Thomas Maresca/UPI Coupang Inc. faces the possibility»»»

Dubai: The heavens and the hooves align this Friday evening as Dubai prepares for an unprecedented spectacle—where the year's final supermoon will rise dramatically over thundering thoroughbreds at Meydan Racecourse. For the first time ever in the UAE, audiences will witness world-class horse racin»»»

Romania is entering a phase where renewable capacity alone is no longer enough; the market now rewards projects that deliver predictability, flexibility and rapid operational stability. Enexus — acting simultaneously as developer, EPC and long-term operator — approaches this moment with a model bui»»»

PPC blue, the electric mobility division of the PPC group in Romania, continues to expand its national network by acquiring the Hermes Flow network, with 116 charging points. With the integration of the new stations, users will have access to a larger network of fast and ultra-fast stations, gradua»»»

Romania achieved significantly lower prices than the ceiling set by the authorities in the third CfD auction for wind energy. In total, nearly 316 MW were declared winners — above the minimum target of 290 MW set by the Ministry of Energy. The resulting price range, between €59.95 and €74.9/MWh, in»»»

Energy minister Bogdan Ivan stated that 90% of the 227 million euro in penalties that the ministry had in July on milestone 121 of the PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) were recovered.Bogdan told this to a press conference, where he was asked whether Romania will lose all the money from »»»

The Ministry of Energy is expected to play a coordinating role for the implementation of the national project to establish the Black Sea Artificial Intelligence Gigafactory, according to a memorandum adopted during Government's meeting."The memorandum approved by the Government proposes that the Mi»»»

The Ministry of Labor has received approval to conclude legal commitments for goods and services worth 827,000 lei.Of these commitments, 60,000 lei is needed to draft and print vouchers worth 50 lei that will benefit vulnerable energy consumers, according to a press release sent by the Government o»»»