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At least 300 Italian schools evacuated after email bomb alerts
By Reuters •Nov 11, 2026
ROME: At least 300 schools in Italy were evacuated on Wednesday after receiving the same bomb alert message, the education minister said. The secu...
US House blocks bid to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
By Reuters •Nov 11, 2026
WASHINGTON: Republicans in the US House of Representatives blocked an effort on Tuesday to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, winning a reprie...
US Treasury chief Scott Bessent moved to military base after Iranian threats
By Reuters •Nov 11, 2026
WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has recently moved from his Washington, DC residence to a US military base after Iranian threats aga...
Google upgrades Gemini with Memory summary
By WAM •Nov 11, 2026
Washington: Google has announced the launch of a new feature for its artificial intelligence assistant, Gemini, called Memory Summary. The tool allow...
Zelensky thanks UAE for providing reliable venue for negotiations
By WAM •Nov 11, 2026
Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the UAE for providing a reliable venue for negotiations after delegations from Ukraine, the Unit...
Dana White rejects Trump’s joking offer to become press secretary
By Reuters •Nov 10, 2026
UFC CEO Dana White put to rest speculation that he might be tapped to be President Donald Trump's next press secretary during an impromptu news conf...
Pentagon chief Hegseth expected to face House impeachment vote this week
By Reuters •Nov 10, 2026
WASHINGTON: Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, calls himself the secretary of war, part of his effort to rebrand a military he said was too weak...
Billionaire tax measure on California ballot defeated
By Reuters •Nov 10, 2026
SAN FRANSISCO: A billionaire tax that US Senator Bernie Sanders and other progressives championed as an antidote to economic inequality and a potenti...
Three workers die at Tata's India iPhone parts factory
By Reuters •Nov 10, 2026
CHENNAI: Three contract workers have died at a Tata Electronics factory that makes parts for Apple iPhones in India's southern Tamil Nadu state, the ...
Manama hosts signing of general agreement for GCC Railway Project
By WAM •Nov 8, 2026
MANAMA: The General Agreement for the GCC Railway Project was signed today in the Kingdom of Bahrain, on the sidelines of the 31st meeting of the GCC...
Poland begins two days of mourning after Krakow mass shooting kills six
By Associated Press •Nov 8, 2026
KRAKOW, Poland: Poland began two days of national mourning on Sunday after a 24-year-old man drove into a busy square in Krakow and opened fire, kill...
False alarms, real chaos: How fake bomb threats scrambled European flights
By Associated Press •Nov 7, 2026
Bomb threats targeted dozens of flights across Europe this week following a string of hoaxes that caused flight diversions and forced airlines to scr...
Astronomers spot rare double-ring system around white dwarf 1,600 light years away
By Reuters •Nov 7, 2026
WASHINGTON: Billions of years from now, the sun is expected to run out of fuel and greatly expand into what is called a red giant, eventually shedd...
Delhi world's most polluted major city on eve of Diwali, Swiss group says
By Reuters •Nov 7, 2026
BENGALURU: Delhi was the world's most polluted major city on Saturday morning, according to Swiss group IQAir's live ranking, as the Indian capita...
Saudi Arabia warns of potential danger in Yanbu oil hub as Houthi attacks continue
By Reuters •Nov 5, 2026
Saudi Arabia issued alerts on Thursday warning of potential danger in Yanbu, the kingdom's Red Sea oil export hub, as Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis ...
Bomb threats cause flight disruptions across Europe
By Reuters •Nov 5, 2026
A string of bomb threats has disrupted passenger flights across Europe in recent days, forcing diversions, emergency landings and security sweeps, th...
NASA space telescope plunges to Earth after two decades studying cosmic explosions
By Associated Press •Nov 4, 2026
Cape Canaveral, Fla.: One of NASA’s premier space telescopes plunged to Earth on Wednesday, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe’s bigges...
How Trump and Republicans lost the 2026 midterm elections, according to The AP Voter Poll
By Associated Press •Nov 4, 2026
WASHINGTON: After more than a decade with Donald Trump at the centre of US politics, most voters appear exhausted and exasperated by him, according t...
Social media ban is needed to protect children's brains: Australia
By Associated Press •Nov 4, 2026
CANBERRA, Australia: Government lawyers told Australia’s highest court on Wednesday that a world-first ban on children younger than 16 from holding s...
Democrats seize House and Senate in stunning rejection of Trump
By Reuters •Nov 4, 2026
WASHINGTON: Democrats seized control of both the Senate and House on Tuesday, scoring sweeping victories in Republican strongholds for the first time...
Abdul El-Sayed becomes first Muslim elected to US Senate
By Reuters •Nov 4, 2026
DETROIT: Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s open US Senate seat on Tuesday, according to media projections, becoming the first Muslim elected ...
New US travel declaration required from November 4
Nov 4, 2026
New travel requirements for the United States have come into effect, requiring all passengers travelling to the country, including those transiting t...
Hakeem Jeffries poised to become speaker of US House of Representatives
By Reuters •Nov 4, 2026
WASHINGTON: The Democrats' midterm election win puts Hakeem Jeffries in line to become the first Black speaker of the US House of Representatives, wi...
Taxing billionaires' wealth: California could become the first US state to do it
By Associated Press •Nov 3, 2026
SACRAMENTO, California: California could become the first state in the nation to tax the net worth of billionaires Tuesday under a ballot measure tha...
US Midterms 2026: Congress, Trump and the battle for power
By Reuters •Nov 3, 2026
WASHINGTON: Early voting has been underway for weeks ahead of the November 3, 2026, midterm elections, when US voters will elect members of the House...