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Police have arrested a priest who attacked metropolitan bishops at the Petraki Monastery in Athens on Wednesday by dousing them with acid. The seven bishops, who were meeting to consider ...

Spain claimed the biggest win of the tournament with a 5-0 thrashing of Slovakia in their final European Championship Group E match on Wednesday to finish second in the group ...

By Sabine Siebold June 23 (Reuters) – The European Commission will take action against Hungary over planned new restrictions on LGBT rights, the head of the bloc’s executive announced on Wednesday, ...

Greece will end the mandatory wearing of face masks outdoors and ease other remaining restrictions imposed to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities said on Wednesday, with infections now clearly on ...

U.S. President Joe Biden praised the courage of the Las Vegas Raiders’ Carl Nassib for becoming the National Football League’s (NFL) first openly gay active player and Japan ...

By Andrew Chung The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of a Pennsylvania teenager who sued after a profane social media post got her banished from her high ...

German health minister Jens Spahn has been angered by what he slammed as a “very irritating” UEFA decision to stop Munich’s Allianz Arena being lit in rainbow colours for ...

Warren Buffett on Wednesday resigned as trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations, as he delivered another $4.1 billion worth of ...

Only 10 per cent of institutional investment firms surveyed by JPMorgan trade cryptocurrencies, with nearly half labelling the emerging asset class as “rat poison” or predicting it would be a temporary ...

The European Innovation Scoreboard made public earlier this week testifies to the progress Cyprus has made in innovation, the Republic’s chief scientist Dr Nicolas Mastroyiannopoulos said on Wednesday after ...

More airlines on Wednesday joined legal action against the Britain over its travel curbs, adding to pressure on the government to relax restrictions that are putting businesses and jobs on ...

Russia said on Tuesday it had fired warning shots and dropped bombs in the path of a British destroyer sailing in the Black Sea off the coast of the Crimea ...

Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are set to meet on Wednesday to assess the possibility of a link between rare cases of heart ...

India said on Wednesday it has found around 40 cases of the Delta coronavirus variant carrying a mutation that appears to make it more transmissible, and advised states to increase testing. ...

Russia will work with the United States to locate cyber criminals, the head of the FSB security service said on Wednesday, a week after the countries’ leaders agreed to step ...

Alcohol, high-fives and talking loudly will be banned for the reduced numbers of Olympic ticket holders allowed into venues as organisers conceded a “sense of celebration” would be limited at ...

The northern Adriatic island of Krk, among the biggest in Croatia, looks headed towards energy self-sufficiency by the end of the decade in what environmentalists say is an example for ...

Britain’s Conservative government said on Wednesday it was planning to sell Channel 4, launched 39 years ago as an edgy alternative to the BBC and ITV, to help secure its future ...

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily announced that its last print edition will be on Thursday after national security police arrested another employee of the besieged newspaper. The end ...

Suspected Taliban fighters fired a rocket into a hospital in Afghanistan on Wednesday, sparking a blaze that caused extensive damage and destroyed COVID-19 vaccines though there were no reports of ...

Gold prices rose on Wednesday after US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pledged to keep interest rates near zero for some time, although gains were capped by a slight uptick ...

Turkey is in talks to secure currency swap agreements with four countries and is close to a deal with two of them, Central Bank Governor Sahap Kavcioglu said at a ...

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities or violent organizations, taking them offline for violating U.S. ...

British pilots on Wednesday urged politicians to save the summer holiday season through clearer travel guidance and provide direct financial support to rescue jobs as the industry grapples with an ...