Doha: China’s defense spending has maintained reasonable and steady growth over the past years, a Chinese military spokesperson said Sunday. According to Qatar News Agency, Wu Qian, spokesperson for the delegation of the People’s Liberation Army and the People’s Armed Police Force, made the remarks during the annual national legislative session. It was disclosed at the session that China’s 2025

Jerusalem: The Israeli occupation forces arrested today two Palestinians, one of them a child, in northeastern occupied Jerusalem. Local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested a young man and a child, after raiding and searching their parents’ homes in the town of Al Issawiya. According to Qatar News Agency, arrests have escalated in the West Bank since the beginning

Moscow: The Russian Ministry of Defense announced today that its forces have recaptured a couple of towns in Kursk Oblast, Russia, and in Sumy Oblast in northeastern Ukraine. According to Qatar News Agency, the ministry reported that Russian forces targeted Ukrainian Armed Forces units across multiple battlefronts and successfully repelled two counterattacks. It estimated Ukrainian losses from these operations at

Hamburg: Almost all flights to and from Germany’s Hamburg Airport have been cancelled over a sudden strike. A spokeswoman for the airport said that out of 144 arrivals and 139 departures scheduled for Sunday, only 10 flights took place. According to Qatar News Agency, the union Verdi announced that the strike was part of warning strikes at around a dozen

Doha: Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) and Google DeepMind co-hosted the 2025 Middle East and North Africa Machine Learning (MenaML) Winter School, gathering 141 local and international university students as well as industry professionals for a six-day program designed to equip them with critical skills in artificial intelligence (AI). According to Qatar News Agency, the

Kyiv: The Ukrainian military announced today that the number of Russian soldiers killed or wounded since the start of the war on Feb. 24, 2022, has risen to approximately 885,130, including 1,180 casualties in the past 24 hours alone. According to Qatar News Agency, in a statement, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that, since the

Damascus: Syrian legal experts and members of the committee drafting the constitutional declaration have underscored the declaration’s importance as a legitimate measure to oversee Syria’s transitional phase and guide the country toward stability and reconstruction, especially with the absence of an active constitution, while limiting the declaration’s jurisdiction to the interim period before a permanent constitution is adopted. According to

Doha: Director of the Muhammad Bin Hamad Al-Thani Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Dr. Aisha Yusuf Al Mannai, emphasized the significance of Ramadan in deepening the understanding of Islamic civilization and its historical contributions. Through Ramadan lectures and seminars, the cultural and scientific heritage of Muslims is explored, offering insights into their