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Morocco arrests 111 migrants headed for Spain's Ceuta

Morocco arrests 111 migrants headed for Spain's Ceuta

Rabat [Morocco], August 16: Moroccan police arrested at ​least 111 people as they tried to enter Spain's North African enclave...

Earthquake hits Spanish city of Granada

Earthquake hits Spanish city of Granada

Madrid [Spain], August 16: A magnitude 5 earthquake struck the Spanish city of Granada in the early hours of Saturday,...

Israeli strikes in south of the country kill at least 11​​​

Israeli strikes in south of the country kill...

Tel Aviv [Israel], August 16: At least 11 people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese health...

Funeral held for Australian Indigenous girl whose death sparked outback riots

Funeral held for Australian Indigenous girl whose death...

Sydney [Australia], August 16: Mourners gathered in Australia's Northern Territory capital Alice Springs on Saturday to bid farewell to a...

Australia gun buyback to start in November

Australia gun buyback to start in November

Sydney [Australia], August 16: Australia's New South Wales state will start a gun buyback in November, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...

GCC Secretary General condemns repeated hostile Iranian attacks on ADNOC tankers

GCC Secretary General condemns repeated hostile Iranian attacks...

Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], August 16: Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), has condemned the repeated...

MBZUAI develops landmark benchmark to bridge cultural, dialect gap in Arabic AI

MBZUAI develops landmark benchmark to bridge cultural, dialect...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], August 16: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is pioneering research to refine artificial intelligence...

UAE Team Emirates targets podium finish at Cyclassics Hamburg

UAE Team Emirates targets podium finish at Cyclassics...

Hamburg [Germany], August 16: Mexican cyclist Isaac Del Toro will lead UAE Team Emirates XRG at the 29th edition of...

UN warns Ebola claiming one life every 30 minutes in DRC

UN warns Ebola claiming one life every 30...

Geneva [Switzerland], August 16: The United Nations and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have issued a urgent warning over...

Meta tests AI scam alert feature on WhatsApp

Meta tests AI scam alert feature on WhatsApp

Washington [US], August 16: Meta has launched a new optional AI-powered scam alert feature on WhatsApp, currently rolled out as...

Mexico races to clear record seaweed surge from Caribbean beaches

Mexico races to clear record seaweed surge from...

Mexico City [Mexico], August 15: Mexico is scrambling to contain a record surge of foul-smelling sargassum along its Caribbean coast,...

Belgium records hottest day of 2026 amid ongoing heat wave

Belgium records hottest day of 2026 amid ongoing...

Brussels [Belgium], August 15: Belgium recorded its hottest 13 August since measurements began on Thursday, with 32,2 °C measured in...

French taxpayers' data stolen in cyber attack, French Finance Ministry says

French taxpayers' data stolen in cyber attack, French...

Paris [France], August 15: French taxpayers' ​data, both individuals and professionals, stolen in a cyberattack, the French Finance Ministry said.

Indonesia targets 30 GW of solar power in 2026

Indonesia targets 30 GW of solar power in...

Jakarta [Indonesia], August 15: Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said the government would build solar power plants (PLTS) with a...

UK government issues severe alert to warn of high risk of wildfires

UK government issues severe alert to warn of...

London [UK], August 15: An emergency alert has been sent to millions of mobile phones across the UK warning of...

Arab League, GCC affirm need for unifying efforts to address current regional challenges

Arab League, GCC affirm need for unifying efforts...

Cairo [Egypt], August 14: The League of Arab States and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have affirmed the importance of...

UAE strongly condemns targeting of two ADNOC vessels while transiting Strait of Hormuz

UAE strongly condemns targeting of two ADNOC vessels...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], August 14: The United Arab Emirates has strongly condemned and denounced the hostile Iranian attack that targeted...

Three dead, 17 injured in Cairo mall helium cylinder explosion

Three dead, 17 injured in Cairo mall helium...

Cairo [Egypt], August 14: Three people were killed and 17 others injured on Thursday following a helium cylinder explosion and...

Google unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash AI model for coding, agent workflows

Google unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash AI model for...

Washington [US], August 14: Alphabet's Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday, its latest AI model designed for software coding...

Germany records 12,500 heat-related deaths in 2026

Germany records 12,500 heat-related deaths in 2026

Berlin [Germany], August 14: Since the beginning of the year, approximately 12,500 people have died in Germany due to extreme...

Amlak Finance announces its H1 2026 financial results

Amlak Finance announces its H1 2026 financial results

Dubai [UAE], August 12: Amlak Finance PJSC announced its H1 2026 financial results for the period that ended 30th June...

Lebanon's Parliament approves abolition of death penalty

Lebanon's Parliament approves abolition of death penalty

Beirut [Lebanon], August 12: The Lebanese House of Parliament approved the proposal to abolish the death penalty during Tuesday's legislative...

National Media Authority announced as 'National Partner' of Arab Media Summit 2026

National Media Authority announced as 'National Partner' of...

Dubai [UAE], August 12: The National Media Authority has been named 'National Partner' of the Arab Media Summit 2026, which...

UN official warns of exploding situation in West Bank

UN official warns of exploding situation in West...

New York [US], August 12: UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Ramiz Alakbarov, has warned of...

S&P 500 drops for second day as tech slides

S&P 500 drops for second day as tech...

New York [US], August 12: Major US stock indices closed lower on Tuesday, weighed down by technology sell-offs and rising...

Anthropic launches tool to detect AI-generated novels

Anthropic launches tool to detect AI-generated novels

Washington [US], August 12: Anthropic has announced the release of a new tool designed to detect AI-generated novels by embedding...

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan pledge mutual defence as Middle East turmoil escalates

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan pledge mutual defence as...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], August 10: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday, wedding...