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Dubai: As the countdown to the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) reaches 100 days, a new educational resource developed as part of the Olympic Values Education Programme (OVEP) – the ‘We Run for Africa – Dakar 2026 Flame Tour Toolkit’ – has been la…

Damascus: UN Secretary-General Ant³nio Guterres arrived in Damascus on Saturday on an official visit during which he will meet with senior Syrian officials and visit UNDOF forces.

According to Emirates News Agency, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)…

Kuwait city: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), has signed a US$16 billion lease-and-lease-back agreement involving its entire domestic and export pipeline network with a consortium…

Toronto: Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, UAE Minister of Foreign Trade, led a government and business delegation to Toronto, Canada, aimed at deepening bilateral economic ties. The visit marked a significant moment in the evolution of UAE-Canada relat…

Manama: Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior announced on Friday it had sounded the country’s sirens. “The siren has been sounded. Citizens and residents are urged to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place,” the ministry said in a post on X.

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Madrid: A fast-moving wildfire, one of many raging across Spain, bore down on the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on Friday, forcing an evacuation and temporarily suspending operations at one of NASA’s most important tracking stations.

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Hong kong: Typhoon Noul is expected to bring winds and heavy rain to southern China, including Hong Kong, over the weekend, putting the region on high alert. Hong Kong’s Observatory reported that Noul, with maximum sustained winds of 130 kph (81 mph) …

Sulawesi: Indonesian rescuers are searching for a speedboat carrying 11 European tourists and two local crew members that went missing off a bay on Sulawesi island, officials said Saturday. The vessel departed Tanjung Unauna regency on Friday morning …

Madrid: The amount of land burned by wildfires across Europe has increased by 57% in four years, according to new data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Europe. Wildfires destroyed 2.2 million hectares of land in the WHO’s European Region in…

San francisco: South Korean conglomerates and global tech giants, including Nvidia Corp., have agreed to pursue cooperation projects totaling $950 billion, as announced by a senior presidential official. The collaboration was confirmed during a high-l…

Indonesia: The US has hit a 35-year high in measles cases, according to new figures from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The country has reported 2,318 confirmed cases of measles in 2026, spanning across 45 states within just …

Antalya: Trkiye’s Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK) has launched new initiatives to support clean technology startups ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP31), which the country will host in Antalya in November. COP31 wi…