(Marca)- The summer of 2017 will be remembered by Josep Maria Bartomeu as the most agitated in his presidency of Barcelona. Problems have been constant and to compund matters, he has not always been right with his statements. Neymar's departureAt the beginning of summer, everything was...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 179 regime soldiers killed last August by the Islamic State in the Syrian desert, according to pro-regime news sites. The Assad army and its allies made advances in the central Syrian desert, also known as Badia since May. Such an advance left hundreds of...

Hurricane Irma killed eight people on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and left Barbuda devastated on Thursday as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at Florida. Television footage of the Franco-Dutch island of Saint Martin showed a damaged marina with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 4 Intelligence members killed and 5 more wounded in clashes with the Islamic State in Syrian desert east of Homs province, field sources told Zaman al Wasl Thursday. General Akram Mehrez, deputy head of Badia Intelligence brack in Homs was seriously injured as...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The negotiation committee of Homs northern countryside and the southern Hama met with the Russian delegation and regime officers on Wednesday over the proper ways to secure the de-escalation agreement and implementing all outstanding demands such as detainees release....

Dubai-based United Engineering Construction (UNEC) plans to raise around 1 billion dirhams ($272 million) in debt to finance its building work on a major shopping mall project, banking sources familiar with the matter said. The company is building the Deira Mall in Dubai for United Arab...

European national consumer bodies pressed Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) to fix all emissions-cheating vehicles by the end of the year, in a joint letter on Thursday showing mounting impatience with the German carmakers response to the Dieselgate scandal. VW has pledged billion of dollars to...

Hatf Saiful Rasul was 11 years old when he told his father, a convicted Islamic militant, that he wanted to leave school and go to Syria to fight for Islamic State. The boy was visiting his father in a maximum security prison during a break from Ibnu Mas‘ud, his Islamic boarding school,...

Vladimir Putin took a jab at Rex Tillerson on Thursday, joking that the U.S. Secretary of State had “fallen in with the wrong company” since he had awarded him a Russian state honor for his contribution to Russian-U.S. relations. Hopes of detente in Moscow’s relations with Washington...

Startup company Hotel Tonight, betting that superior mobile technology will give it an edge, is expanding its hotel-booking offerings and going toe-to-toe with the big online travel companies. Hotel Tonight early next month will allow users to reserve a hotel up to 100 days in advance...

Syria’s army said Israel targeted one of its positions in Hama province early on Thursday, which a war monitor said was a branch of the government agency accused by the U.S. of producing chemical weapons. The army statement said the airstrike killed two people and caused material damage...

 South Korean protesters clashed with thousands of police over the deployment of a defense system aimed at countering North Korean missile attacks, while China and the United States discussed options to rein in Pyongyang. The United States wants the U.N. Security Council to impose...

(Marca)- World number one Rafa Nadal provided Russian teenager Andrey Rublev with a tennis lesson on Wednesday, racing into the semi-finals of the U.S. Open with a ruthless 6-1 6-2 6-2 win.The 19-year-old, who grew up idolising Nadal and had the Spaniard's poster pinned up on his bedroom wall...

(Marca)- If Argentina don't manage to climb the South American World Cup qualifying table, Lionel Messi might miss Barcelona's encounter against Sevilla in November. The fifth-ranked team of the qualifiers is set to fight for their spot in the upcoming World Cup in Russia through...

Syria’s opposition must accept that they have not won the six-and-a-half year war against President Bashar al-Assad, U.N. peace talks mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Wednesday. De Mistura suggested the war was almost over because many countries had got involved principally to defeat...

The U.S. Virgin Islands for years redirected money intended to help pay insurance claims after large disasters for other needs, raising the vulnerability of residents as Hurricane Irma ravishes the territory. During years of yawning budget deficits, the U.S. protectorate tapped the V.I....

 The Syrian army and its allies are fighting to secure a corridor to troops in Deir al-Zor, a day after they smashed through Islamic State lines to break the jihadist siege. The army reached Deir al-Zor city on Tuesday in a days-long thrust that followed months of steady advances...

(Zaman Al Wasl) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon has sent text messages to hundreds of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon warning them that they will no longer be able to benefit from UNHCR’s monthly food allowance from the beginning of October. Zaman...

Brazil’s government is analyzing the legal and financial implications of relinquishing the right to veto certain strategic decisions in a few companies, the latest step by President Michel Temer to diminish the state’s role in the economy, Valor Econômico newspaper said on Wednesday....

 The EU executive said on Wednesday it was ready to institute court proceedings within weeks that could lead to fines for Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic if they refuse to take in asylum-seekers from Italy and Greece. Speaking to reporters after the EU’s top court, the...