CHAIRMAN: DR. KHALID BIN THANI AL THANI
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: PROF. KHALID MUBARAK AL-SHAFI

World / Europe

UNHCR sounds alarm on funding crisis 12 Oct 2026 - 04:15 pm
Picture: UN Website
Stolen Renoir paintings found behind wall in France: prosecutor 12 Oct 2026 - 03:52 pm
(From L) Divisional commissioner of police and head of the Interdepartmental Judicial Police Service (SIPJ) for the Alpes-Maritimes department Eric Antonetti, Marseille public prosecutor Nicolas Bessone and National Director of France's Judicial Police Christian Sainte attend a press conference on October 12, 2026, following the recovery on October 9 of two paintings by French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. (Photo by Thomas Samson / AFP)
French supermarket chains say cyberattack forced refrigerator shutdown 12 Oct 2026 - 03:23 pm
(Files) This photograph taken in Agde on October 9, 2026 shows the logo of French supermarket Intermarche on the facade of a store. (Photo by Gabriel Bouys / AFP)
Americans Hall and Woodford win economics Nobel for stabilisation models 12 Oct 2026 - 02:29 pm
The winners of the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Robert E Hall (L) and Michael Woodford, are displayed on a screen at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on October 12, 2026. Photo by Anders Wiklund / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP
Minister's resignation rocks Germany's coalition 12 Oct 2026 - 01:04 pm
(Files) Co-leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) Baerbel Bas addresses journalists in Berlin on March 27, 2026. (Photo by John MacDougall / AFP)
Italian rice farmer beats heat with biodiversity haven 12 Oct 2026 - 11:16 am
Alice Cerutti, owner of Cascina Oschiena, holds a tray displaying four different types of rice at the farm in the countryside of Crova, near Vercelli, northwestern Italy on September 28, 2026. Photo by Marco Bertorello / AFP
Prince Harry, Meghan to carry out first joint engagement since UK return: reports 11 Oct 2026 - 03:40 pm
Britain's Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, arrive at the 2023 Invictus Games in Duesseldorf, western Germany on September 13, 2023. Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP
Pope says to be operated in 'coming days' for lung nodule 11 Oct 2026 - 02:31 pm
Pope Leo XIV waves to faithful during the Angelus prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter's Square, in the Vatican, on October 11, 2026. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)
Poland suspects assassination attempts on PM, defence minister: govt 11 Oct 2026 - 01:31 pm
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk looks on during the signing of agreements between Poland and France at the Main Town Hall in Gdansk, Poland, on April 20, 2026 during the French President's one-day visit to Poland. Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP
Trump, Zelensky clash over diesel deal as Russian strikes kill 21 10 Oct 2026 - 09:44 pm
Firefighters operate to extinguish a fire inside a clinic building after a Russian aerial attack on Kharkiv on October 10, 2026. (Photo by Sergey Bobok / AFP)
Man dies after tiger attack at UK zoo: police 10 Oct 2026 - 09:31 pm
Representational picture
Freight train derails in western Croatia, causing heavy material damage 10 Oct 2026 - 07:33 pm
Peninsula
UK zoo says 'serious incident' in tiger enclosure 10 Oct 2026 - 07:19 pm
Representational image
WHO urges shift from long-term psychiatric hospital care to community services 10 Oct 2026 - 03:15 pm
File photo
'No divisions, no borders', French astronaut says of seeing Earth 10 Oct 2026 - 11:00 am
European Space Agency (ESA) French astronaut Sophie Adenot reacts as she delivers a speech following her arrival at the Military Airport in Cologne on October 10, 2026. (Photo by Ina Fassbender / AFP)
South Africa's Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize 09 Oct 2026 - 12:37 pm
(FILES) New United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, South African judge Navanethem (Navi) Pillay poses in her office at the Palais Wilson, headquarters of the specialised UN agency as she takes up her post on Spetember 1, 2008 in Geneva. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
France pledges more teachers after school students vow no let-up 08 Oct 2026 - 11:37 pm
French police officers clash with protesters during a demonstration of high-school students at Place de la Bastille, in Paris, on October 8, 2026, as part of a nationwide protest movement over learning conditions. Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP
Russia says all clear after contact tracing in reported plague case 08 Oct 2026 - 07:10 pm
A security person wearing a face mask looks out from the door of an infectious diseases hospital in the town of Shelekhov, where an employee of the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute had died, in the Irkutsk region on October 7, 2026. (Photo by TATYANA MAKEYEVA / AFP)