– Southeast Asian governments face a $264 billion annual shortfall in infrastructure funding, according to a new Asian Development Bank report. The region needs a total of $7.1 trillion in infrastructure investment through 2040, or about $476 billion a year.

The Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games will open on Saturday, October 31, and run until November 13, marking the first Olympic sporting event ever held on African soil. The Games will bring together the world’s best young athletes, with 2,655

– Germany’s new electric vehicle registrations surged 58% to 604,000 in the first nine months of 2026, helping lift global battery-electric vehicle registrations to a record 11 million, according to PwC. Worldwide registrations rose 12% over the period, driven mainly

– Strong non-oil and gas exports helped Indonesia post a trade surplus of $10.61 billion in the first nine months of 2026, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) announced on Monday. The non-oil and gas sector produced a $34.21 billion surplus between January

– Abu Dhabi entities signed four agreements with OpenAI on Monday, bringing the company’s frontier AI to the emirate’s government, energy and investment sectors. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of

The Apple iPhone Duo redefines the book-style foldable category by adopting a practical “passport” aspect ratio (5.4-inch outer display, 7.6-inch inner display), a crease-mitigating nano-texture matte finish, and a vapor-cooled 2nm A20 Pro chip. It foregoes Face ID in favor

– Bangladesh recorded 173 dengue deaths in October, its highest monthly toll of 2026, pushing the year’s total to 418, Reuters reported citing health ministry data. More than 133,000 people had been hospitalized with the mosquito-borne disease as of October

Business

– Southeast Asian governments face a $264 billion annual shortfall in infrastructure funding, according to a new Asian Development Bank report. The region needs a total of $7.1 trillion in infrastructure investment through 2040, or about $476 billion a year.

News

– Nigeria and the European Union have signed a long-awaited readmission agreement after about 10 years of negotiations. The accord sets out procedures to identify and return people who have no legal right to stay in Nigeria or in an

– Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a telephone conversation on Monday, focusing on efforts to end the war and on bilateral cooperation. Zelenskyy briefed Modi on recent developments in the conflict, India’s Press Information

– The UAE and Tanzania discussed ways to expand cooperation in economic, trade and development fields as Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan received Tanzanian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Thabit Kombo in Abu Dhabi. Sheikh Abdullah is the UAE’s Deputy Prime

– Pune’s Hinjawadi to Shivajinagar metro corridor opened on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for metro projects worth around ₹21,800 crore. Modi took part through video conferencing. The new Line 3 gives a

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Travel

– According to its 2027 central government budget draft, Türkiye aims to rank as the sixth-highest-earning tourism nation worldwide. Anadolu Agency reported that the draft allocates $244.5 million to the tourism sector, compared to $188.4 million in the current year.

Sports

The Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games will open on Saturday, October 31, and run until November 13, marking the first Olympic sporting event ever held on African soil. The Games will bring together the world’s best young athletes, with 2,655

Entertainment

MENA Newswire, LOS ANGELES: Ben Affleck has come under sustained scrutiny following recent public remarks in which he downplayed the creative capabilities and economic impact of artificial intelligence on the film and television industry. While Affleck characterized AI as a