Kuwait city: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), has signed a US$16 billion lease-and-lease-back agreement involving its entire domestic and export pipeline network with a consortium…

Hong kong: Typhoon Noul is expected to bring winds and heavy rain to southern China, including Hong Kong, over the weekend, putting the region on high alert. Hong Kong’s Observatory reported that Noul, with maximum sustained winds of 130 kph (81 mph) …

Busan: The United Arab Emirates has achieved a new global milestone with the inscription of Wadi Wurayah in the Emirate of Fujairah on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The announcement was made at the 48th session of the World Heritage Committee of the U…

Madrid: A fast-moving wildfire, one of many raging across Spain, bore down on the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on Friday, forcing an evacuation and temporarily suspending operations at one of NASA’s most important tracking stations.

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Paris: Becoming only the second Yellow Jersey in history to take victory on Alpe d’Huez, Tadej Pogacar won stage 19 of the Tour de France and produced a performance that will be remembered for generations.

According to Emirates News Agency, attackin…

Indonesia: The US has hit a 35-year high in measles cases, according to new figures from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The country has reported 2,318 confirmed cases of measles in 2026, spanning across 45 states within just …

Abu dhabi: UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organisation, in partnership with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), today announced the return of the Octagon to Abu Dhabi with UFC 333 at Etihad Arena on Saturday…

Madrid: The amount of land burned by wildfires across Europe has increased by 57% in four years, according to new data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Europe. Wildfires destroyed 2.2 million hectares of land in the WHO’s European Region in…