Shifting winds hamper efforts to contain wildfire in eastern Belgium

Aug 17, 2026

Brussels [Belgium], August 17: Firefighting teams continued battling a major wildfire in eastern Belgium on Sunday evening after it burned around 3,000 hectares of land...

Qatari Prime Minister, Syrian Foreign Minister discuss regional developments

Aug 17, 2026

Doha [Qatar], August 17: Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, and Asaad...

Morocco arrests 111 migrants headed for Spain's Ceuta

Aug 16, 2026

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

Earthquake hits Spanish city of Granada

Aug 16, 2026

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

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

Aug 16, 2026

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

Funeral held for Australian Indigenous girl whose death sparked outback riots

Aug 16, 2026

Sydney [Australia], August 16: Mourners gathered in Australia's Northern Territory capital Alice Springs on Saturday to bid farewell to a five-year-old ​Indigenous girl whose death...

Australia gun buyback to start in November

Aug 16, 2026

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

GCC Secretary General condemns repeated hostile Iranian attacks on ADNOC tankers

Aug 16, 2026

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

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

Aug 16, 2026

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