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Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Thursday, having travelled to Turkey to attend this weekend’s Antalya diplomacy forum. The meeting is ...

Former Austria goalkeeper Alex Manninger, who played for Arsenal and a string of Italian clubs, died in a road accident on Thursday aged 48, the Austrian Football Association (OEFB) said. The ...

Renowned Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad is to visit Cyprus next month and give a talk at Famagusta’s Eastern Mediterranean University, where she studied. Alaqad shot to fame in 2023 with ...

Britain’s easyJet warned of a bigger ​first-half loss on Thursday and said bookings were lagging last year’s as a result of the Iran war, with some investors concerned ...

Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was “being ravaged by a handful of tyrants”, in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on Thursday after ...

Britain’s Prince Harry on Thursday praised Australia’s “epic” leadership on curbing harmful social media use for teens, as his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, spoke of a decade ...

A 14-year-old student who shot at least nine people dead, including eight of his fellow pupils, at a school in southeastern Turkey had used an image referencing a 2014 U.S. ...

Optimism grew on Thursday that the Iran war may be near an end, with a key Pakistani mediator having made a breakthrough on “sticky issues”, a source said, although Iran ...

Iran and the United States have made some progress as they push for an agreement under Pakistani mediation, but more than halfway through a two-week truce big splits remain including ...

Russia unleashed missile and drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities overnight, killing 13 people, including a 12-year-old child, injuring several dozens and badly damaging buildings, officials said ...

Optimism grew on Thursday that the war in the Middle East may be near an end, with a key Pakistani mediator in Tehran and the administration of President Donald Trump ...

US Treasury ​Secretary Scott Bessent said on ‌Wednesday that the economy will be slower this quarter amid the ​Iran war, but it ​is in good shape and ⁠will rebound, adding ...

The International Monetary Fund expects at least a dozen countries to seek new loan programs to cope with surging energy prices and supply chain disruptions caused by the Middle East ...

Reports that the White House has requested a ceasefire in the Iran war are wrong, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Wednesday but added that discussions about a second ...

Iran could consider allowing ships to sail freely through the Omani side of the Strait of Hormuz without risk of attack as part of proposals it has offered in negotiations ...

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday it was targeting Iran’s oil transportation infrastructure by imposing sanctions on more than two dozen individuals, companies, and vessels. The sanctions ...

An international conference to raise funding commitments for Sudan has produced pledges of more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.77 billion) in humanitarian aid, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Wednesday. The ...

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has enacted legal reforms allowing life imprisonment for minors as young as 12 convicted of homicide, terrorism, or rape, according to the country’s official gazette. The ...

Pope Leo on Wednesday urged Cameroon’s government to root out corruption and resist “the whims of the rich and powerful”, in a forceful speech given in the presence of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump posted an apparently AI-generated image of Jesus embracing him on Wednesday, two days after he deleted a post that prompted criticism that the Republican president ...

Israel’s security cabinet will convene on Wednesday to discuss a possible Lebanon ceasefire, a senior Israeli official said, more than five weeks into a war with Hezbollah that spiralled ...

A 14-year-old student shot at least nine people dead including eight of his fellow pupils and wounded 13 others at a middle school in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, officials said, in ...

North Korea has made “very serious” advances in its abilities to turn out nuclear weapons, with the probable addition of a new uranium enrichment facility, as it stepped up activity ...

The EU’s age verification app for online platforms is ready and will soon be available to use, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday, as member ...