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Cypriot economist Rasit Pertev has been awarded the National order of Chad, the central African nation’s highest honour, at the end of a five-year term as the World Bank’...

A Norwegian man woke up to find a huge Cyprus-registered container ship mere metres away from his home, international media reported on Friday.  The Cyprus-flagged cargo ship, the NCL Salten, ...

The head of the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Thursday that a paramedic who survived an attack that killed 15 aid workers was spared because he asked Israeli soldiers for mercy ...

Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Friday over its decision to revoke the Ivy League school’s ability to enroll foreign students, ratcheting up White House efforts to conform ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade negotiators are pushing the EU to make unilateral tariff reductions on U.S. goods, saying without concessions the bloc will not progress in ...

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven democracies pledged on Thursday to address “excessive imbalances” in the global economy and said they could increase sanctions on ...

Flour and other aid started reaching some of Gaza’s most vulnerable areas on Thursday after Israel let some trucks through, but nowhere near enough to make up for shortages ...

Argentina is easing foreign currency reporting rules to encourage residents to start using an estimated $271 billion in cash dollars squirreled away in mattresses and foreign bank accounts, long held by ...

Britain signed a deal on Thursday to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after a London judge overturned a last-minute injunction and cleared the way for an agreement ...

The European Union is set to delay new, global rules governing banks’ trading again as it waits for more clarity about the US administration’s plans to deregulate its financial ...

U.S. President Donald Trump turned down the lights in the Oval Office on Wednesday and made South African President Cyril Ramaphosa the target of his latest geopolitical ambush of ...

The United States will bear legal responsibility in the event of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday, following a CNN report that ...

Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system aimed at freeing up more space in its overcrowded prisons. One ...

A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin erected in Moscow’s metro is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it’s a ...

The Green party and Dipa on Thursday issued statements calling on Cyprus’ government to take decisive action in light of a new military offensive having been launched by the State ...

Flash flooding on Australia’s southeast coast has killed three people and cut off towns, isolating tens of thousands of residents, as officials on Thursday warned more downpours were expected ...

Emergency services were on high alert in Crete on Thursday after a 6.1 magnitude quake hit off the Greek island, causing tremors felt across Turkey and Israel. The fire brigade said ...

When Jerusalem resident Ziv Halsband woke up to news that two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington had been killed, the software developer came to a disturbing conclusion: ...

The outlook for the US economy remains weak despite a temporary cooling of the US-China trade war, a Reuters poll of economists showed, with a debate over the country’s ...

Cyprus’ objection in discussions among European Union foreign ministers regarding a review of the bloc’s pact which governs its political and economic ties with Israel was “in terms of ...

US President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday with explosive false claims of white genocide and land seizures during a tense White House meeting that was ...

Pakistan’s army chief General Asim Munir is the most powerful man in the country, but his popular support has surged after the worst conflict in decades with arch-rival India, ...

No aid has reached people in Gaza, a U.N. aid official said on Wednesday, two days after the Israeli government said it had lifted an 11-week-old blockade that has ...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs once took an ecstasy pill shaped like President Barack Obama’s face, the hip-hop mogul’s former personal assistant testified on Tuesday at Combs’ racketeering and sex ...