8+ hour, 16+ min ago  (326+ words) A vast state library in Moscow has so far taken 18, 000 "Russophobic" books from Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine and placed them in a special repository, its director "said on Thursday. Vadim Duda, head of the Russian State Library, said the books…...

18+ hour, 1+ min ago  (756+ words) While temperatures in the Gulf regularly climb above 40 C in June, commuters waiting for the bus in Doha do so from the cool comfort of air-conditioned shelters. In Dubai, delivery drivers drop into air-conditioned rest stations for a break during…...

21+ hour, 40+ min ago  (307+ words) The "red alerts" issued by the Meteorological Office are rare, serious, and speak just as much to the climate crisis facing planet Earth as they do to the immediate risks to human health in Britain, according to The Independent. Perhaps…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (547+ words) Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, fresh from a spat with US leader Donald Trump, met French President Emmanuel Macron to build on a nascent rapprochement and tighten ties. One of Europe's most prominent right-wing leaders arrived in the resort of…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (633+ words) Gulf Today Starmer's resignation comes as no surprise It can be said as a matter of routine observation, "Here goes another British prime minister'. Sir Keir Starmer, who brought the Labour Party to power through a landslide victory in 2024, has…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (345+ words) Sweden's Environment and Climate Minister'Romina Pourmokhtari brought her baby to an EU meeting on Thursday, in a barrier-breaking move she said showed it was possible to be both "a present minister and a present mother." Pourmokhtari arrived at the ministerial…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (621+ words) "When the city starts feeding the countryside, it means the country is done for," farmer Emil Deliev said from southern Bulgaria's mountains where small dairy farms are vanishing one after another. Despite its long tradition, the farming output of Bulgaria…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (790+ words) Global shares dipped on Friday after "US and Iranian negotiators called off peace talks, while the risk of official Japanese intervention simmered as the yen traded on "the brink of a 40-year low. The dollar headed towards its strongest weekly…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (122+ words) Gulf Today France cancels trains, alters school schedules as heatwave pushes temperatures to 40 C A new heatwave sweeping across much of France has led to the cancellation of dozens of train services and the adjustment or suspension of classes at…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (423+ words) He made his professional debut aged 15, playing with big swing groups and forming his first band, the Dollar Brand Trio, in 1958 when he was 24 years old. The following year, he joined The Jazz Epistles septet that included another music legend,…...