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Over 400 people trapped by rubble in earthquake-stricken Tibet were rescued, Chinese officials said on Wednesday, with an unknown number still unaccounted for after a tremor rocked the Himalayan foothills and ...

Wednesday will be partly cloudy with temperatures rising to 18C inland, 20C on the coast, and 10C in the higher mountains. Winds will be mainly north-to south-easterly and in the ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) reported on Tuesday a decline in most deposit and lending rates in November, except for loans to non-financial corporations exceeding €1 million, which recorded an ...

The Economic Sentiment Index (ESI) in Cyprus recorded a modest improvement in December 2024, rising by one point compared to November, according to the Economics Research Centre of the University of ...

The volume of global crude exports in 2024 declined 2 per cent, the first fall since the COVID-19 pandemic, shipping data showed, due to weak demand growth and as refinery and pipeline ...

British house prices dropped unexpectedly last month for the first time since March although they finished the year higher than in December 2023, figures from mortgage lender Halifax showed on Tuesday. ...

The north’s ruling coalition partners “have not met in 20 days”, ‘deputy prime minister’ and DP leader Fikri Ataoglu said on Tuesday, as coalition partner YDP mulls a potential withdrawal. ...

The UN Secretary-General has for 60 years been issuing reports about the situation in Cyprus and for the renewal of the Unficyp mandate. Until recently, these reports were issued twice a ...

Social media platforms should be neutral and not interfere in other nations’ political affairs, the Spanish government’s spokesperson said on Tuesday, after X’s CEO Elon Musk commented on ...

Two men were fatally injured on Tuesday evening after shots were fired at a company in Bad Friedrichshall in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in southern Germany, local police said in ...

Germany is leading efforts for the European Union to ease sanctions imposed on Syria during the rule of President Bashar al-Assad who was ousted last month, the Financial Times reported ...

Turkey will carry out a cross-border offensive into northeastern Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia if the group does not meet Ankara’s demands, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on ...

American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died on Tuesday at the age of 86, his publicist said. Yarrow ...

US President-elect Donald Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out using military or economic action to pursue acquisition of the Panama Canal and Greenland, part of a broader expansionist agenda ...

Police launched a manhunt on Tuesday afternoon for a 39-year-old who was in custody for theft, who slipped through their fingers while being treated at Nicosia general hospital. The man ...

Hamas stood by its demand on Tuesday that Israel fully end its assault on Gaza under any deal to release hostages, and said US President-elect Donald Trump was rash to ...

A New York appellate court on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to halt his sentencing on Friday for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said on Tuesday he hopes to have good things to report about hostages held by Hamas in Gaza by the time ...

Lebanon is set to extradite the son of late senior Muslim cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi to the United Arab Emirates after the country’s caretaker cabinet approved the move on Tuesday, ...

Two teenagers were placed in custody on Tuesday for maliciously causing damage to AEL’s indoor stadium in Limassol last week. Police sources said the two boys, aged 15 and 16, were ...

Israel said on Tuesday pressure groups were pushing foreign courts to take action against Israelis over alleged war crimes in Gaza but described the actions as “propaganda activity” and said ...

A US judge temporarily blocked Special Counsel Jack Smith from releasing a report on his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump for his mishandling of classified documents and attempts to overturn ...

Four patients are currently intubated with flu in intensive care units, while seasonal infections and covid are pushing hospitals to their limits, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou ...

The Turkish Cypriot side on Tuesday crowed that a draft six monthly report issued United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on the state of play in Cyprus contains not a ...