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Ukraine’s stepped-up strikes deep inside Russia enable Kyiv to negotiate the end of the war on an equal footing, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, just after one of the barrages ...

The Israeli military said it had intercepted rockets fired by Hezbollah into Israel on Wednesday, while Lebanese security sources said an Israeli strike hit a car near Beirut, testing a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged having called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crazy in an expletive-filled phone exchange over fighting in Lebanon, while the U.S. was trying to ...

Gulf hostilities flared again on Wednesday as Iranian attacks on Kuwait damaged its airport and injured dozens while the U.S. military carried out strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, ...

Britain’s home secretary Shabana Mahmood on Wednesday condemned as “completely unacceptable” violent protests which broke out over the case of an 18-year-old who was handcuffed as he lay dying ...

Ukraine struck an oil export terminal in St Petersburg hours before President Vladimir Putin’s annual economic forum got under way in an attempt to embarrass the Kremlin chief and ...

A second general strike in six months disrupted services across Portugal on Wednesday, halting trains, cancelling hundreds of flights and closing schools, as unions protested against the government’s labour ...

At least 21 people were killed in a fire at a hotel in Delhi on Wednesday, police said, in one of the worst such incidents in the national capital in recent ...

Gulf hostilities flared again on Wednesday, with an Iranian missile attack damaging Kuwait’s airport and the U.S. military carrying out strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, as diplomacy ...

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that talks between Washington and Tehran remain ongoing, dismissing reports that negotiations had been suspended amid regional tensions and Israeli military operations in ...

Italian police have arrested two Pakistani nationals in connection with the deaths of four Pakistani farm workers whose bodies were discovered inside a burnt-out minivan in southern Italy. The vehicle ...

President Nikos Christodoulides arrived in Kazakhstan on Tuesday for the first official visit by a Cypriot head of state to the Turkic nation in Central Asia. The visit coincided with ...

The future deployment of United States troops to Lithuania is under review, the country’s Defence Minister Robertas Kaunas said on Tuesday, confirming uncertainty over the arrival of the next ...

Israeli fire killed at least four Palestinians in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza health officials said. Medics said at least one person was killed and four ...

Cyprus’ candidate for the presidency of the 81st United Nations General Assembly, ambassador Andreas Kakouris, received 91 votes in the election held at UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, losing ...

Cypriot delegation head and vice-president of the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe, Nicos Tornaritis, called for Hagia Sophia to be returned to museum status during a meeting of ...

Britain on Tuesday set a target to cut emissions by around 87% by 2040 from 1990 levels as it increases efforts to meet net zero goals that it says will help to curb ...

British police faced a backlash on Tuesday over the case of an 18-year-old student who was handcuffed as he lay dying from stab wounds after his killer falsely alleged a ...

Iran is reviewing a proposed agreement with the United States to halt the war between the two countries, Iran’s Mehr news reported on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald ...

German Development Minister Reem Alabali Radovan on Monday was diverted to Larnaca airport, being forced to abort plans to visit Lebanon after Israel threatened to its attacks on the country’...

Lebanon announced a partial ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel on Monday in what would amount to a limited de-escalation of a conflict that has killed thousands of people and inflamed ...

Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles early on Tuesday in attacks that authorities said killed 18 people and wounded more than 100. The attacks on cities including ...

A gunman killed six members of his family, then took his own life, during a spate of shootings on Monday in the eastern Iowa city of Muscatine, a waterfront town ...

The medieval Beaufort Castle’s stone ramparts tower so far above south Lebanon that Israel could hail their capture as a strategic victory, even as it evoked the miseries of ...