Christodoulides visits US submarine in Limassol
President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday visited the United States navy’s nuclear submarine the USS Indiana, which had arrived in Limassol the previous day.
The ship’s arrival had been ...
Carter funeral service to be held at Washington National Cathedral on January 9
A state funeral for Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who died on Sunday at the age of 100, will be held at the Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9, according ...
Israel warns Houthis risk sharing same fate as Hamas, Hezbollah
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday issued what he called a final warning to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants to halt missile attacks on Israel, saying they ...
Putin says in New Year address that Russia will ‘move forward’ in 2025
President Vladimir Putin told Russians in a New Year address that the country would move forward with confidence in 2025.
Putin’s seasonal message was being broadcast at midnight in each ...
Greece raises €600 million through t-bill auction
Greece on Tuesday successfully raised €600 million through a three-month treasury bill auction, according to the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA).
The bills were sold at a yield of 3.00 per cent, ...
Gareth Southgate, Sadiq Khan, Keely Hodgkinson named in Britain’s New Year honours
Former England boss Gareth Southgate, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Paris Olympics gold medallist Keely Hodgkinson were among the hundreds named in King Charles’s New Year honours list published ...
Turkish banks target cost normalisation as rate cuts begin
Gradual interest rate cuts in Turkey next year will boost the banking sector and support demand for Turkish lira assets, Garanti BBVA (GARAN.IS) bank Chief Executive Mahmut Akten said ...
Syria eyes ‘strategic’ ties with Ukraine, Kyiv vows more food aid shipments
Syria hopes for strategic partnerships with Ukraine, its new foreign minister told his Ukrainian counterpart on Monday, as Kyiv moves to build ties with the new Islamist rulers in Damascus ...
Scores of Ukrainian and Russian POWs head back home after swap
Ukraine and Russia carried out a new exchange of prisoners of war on Monday, with the two sides bringing home a combined total of more than 300 former captives.
Kyiv brought ...
Tourists enjoy last days of patio heaters on Barcelona’s terraces
Tourists in Barcelona’s historic centre were enjoying the last days of gas-powered patio heaters before their use is banned in 2025 because of their carbon emissions.
The ban will come ...
Trump loses appeal of E. Jean Carroll $5 million defamation, sexual assault verdict
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when a jury found the U.S. president-elect liable for sexually abusing ...
Russian gas flows via Ukraine for last days as transit deal crumbles
Russia pumped gas on Monday to European customers via Ukraine for one of the last days before a key transit deal expires at the end of the year, marking the ...
Displaced Gaza newborn freezes to death and twin fights for his life as rain floods tents
Yahya Al-Batran woke up in the early hours of Sunday morning to find his wife, Noura trying to wake their newborn twin sons Jumaa and Ali as they lay together ...
Serbia indicts 13 for railway station awning collapse
Prosecutors in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad filed an indictment on Monday against 13 people in connection with the collapse of a railway station awning last month that killed 15 ...
Iran confirms arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala
Iran confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala for “violating the laws of the Islamic Republic”, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
Sala, 29, who works for ...
The Russian billionaires whose chemical factories fuel Russia’s war machine
Chemicals factories founded or owned by some of Russia’s wealthiest men are supplying ingredients to plants that manufacture explosives used by Moscow’s military during the war in Ukraine, ...
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US announces $5.9 billion in military, other aid to Ukraine
The United States on Monday announced nearly $6 billion in additional military and budget assistance for Ukraineas President Joe Biden uses his final weeks in office to surge aid to Kyiv ...
WHO chief calls for end to hospital attacks in Gaza after strike
The head of the World Health Organization on Monday called for an end to attacks on hospitals in Gaza after Israel struck one and raided another in the past few ...
Besiktas name Cypriot Adali as new chairman
Turkish sporting giants Besiktas JK on Sunday night named Cypriot businessman Serdal Adali as the club’s new chairman.
Adali secured a club record total of 8,901 votes among the club’...
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South Korea orders airline safety probe after worst domestic crash kills 179
South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country’s entire airline operation as investigators worked to identify victims and find out ...
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Jimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dead at 100
Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and ...
German politicians decry Elon Musk’s AfD support as ‘intrusive’ election influence
US billionaire Elon Musk drew criticism from German politicians from the government and opposition on Sunday for an opinion piece he wrote backing the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) which ...
Cyprus ‘deeply saddened’ by Korea plane crash
Cyprus’ foreign ministry on Sunday said it was “deeply saddened” by the aeroplane crash which occurred in South Korea earlier in the day and killed almost 180 people.
It offered its “...
2024 in Review
Doomed from the start: the Amalthea aid corridor
THE HORRORS inflicted upon Gaza in the last 15 months have invoked an urge to do something to feel like one is not simply a bystander and is on the right ...