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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday declared that COVID-19 was no longer a global health emergency, and the virus that led to more than 6.9 million deaths, disrupted the global ...

Cyprus and Israel are starting a new chapter in their bilateral relations where defence and military cooperation is concerned, Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas said on Friday. “We have set an ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were facing a bleak set of local election results on Friday with voters punishing his party after a year of political scandals, surging ...

King Charles will hold a reception on Friday for world leaders gathered in London for his coronation this weekend, the biggest ceremonial event to be staged in Britain for 70 years. ...

Russia’s main mercenary group threatened on Friday pull out of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in a new sign of tension among Russian armed forces as Ukraine readies ...

Whoever wins Turkey’s elections this month, the NATO-member is expected to maintain cordial relations with Russia that have already endured several years of dramatic change in Ankara’s foreign ...

– Andrew Maganga seized the chance to work as a World Cup security guard in Qatar last year, only to be fired along with some 200 others on the last day of ...

Turkey’s central bank is sticking to its inflation forecast of 22.3 per cent for 2023, Governor Sahap Kavcioglu said on Thursday – less than half of market expectations – even though the decline ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck on Friday off Japan’s western prefecture of Ishikawa, authorities said, as media reported some buildings had collapsed while people were injured. Chief ...

A global information campaign on handwashing is underway, to mark World Hand Hygiene Day, the Cyprus branch of the EU infection control committee (EUCIC) and the clinical microbiology society (CMI) ...

The French government must apologise to end a dispute over what Italy considers insulting remarks, including some on migrants arriving by boat, its foreign minister and deputy prime minister said ...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were facing a bleak set of local election results on Friday with voters punishing his party after a year of political scandals, surging inflation ...

Eight people were killed and 14 wounded in Serbia’s second mass shooting in two days and a suspect was arrested, authorities said on Friday, causing horror in a nation that ...

India and Russia have suspended efforts to settle bilateral trade in rupees, after months of negotiations failed to convince Moscow to keep rupees in its coffers, two Indian government officials ...

Cypriots are disenchanted with the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, as most have said they will not even be attempting to watch the first such event in over ...

The United Nations on Thursday fell far short of raising the money it needs for an operation to salvage 1.1 million barrels of oil from a decaying vessel moored off Yemen’...

A jury on Thursday convicted four members of the far-right Proud Boys militia group including its former leader Enrique Tarrio of seditious conspiracy, finding they plotted to attack the U....

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called off a trip to Paris on Thursday, saying the French interior minister had offended Italy and its Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with unacceptable “insults“. ...

The Serbian government said it had introduced a set of measures on Thursday to prevent potential violence in schools a day after a 13-year-old boy shot and killed eight students ...

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian ...

Jurors in Donald Trump’s civil rape trial on Thursday saw a video deposition in which the former U.S. president defended private comments he made in 2005 about grabbing women ...

Belgian police have arrested seven people on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack, the prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. The suspects had discussed several scenarios for an attack in ...

Strengthening the attorney general’s office in Cyprus, as well as sanctions against Russian and Belarusian entities on the island, were the main topics of discussion during the meeting between ...

Britain’s services sector kicked off the second quarter with its fastest growth in a year, boosted by new orders, but it passed the cost of rising wage bills on ...