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The Syrian army said on Monday that Israel had carried out a missile strike on Damascus International Airport and put it out of service, the latest in a string of ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he spoke with incoming Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, appointed last week to the post following his role as ambassador to the ...

Taiwan will plough an extra T$380 billion ($12.43 billion) in tax revenue back into the economy in 2023 to help protect the island from global economic shocks, including subsidies for electricity prices, ...

Russian drones targeted infrastructure in Ukraine’s capital and surrounding areas on Monday, damaging energy facilities and causing some power outages, officials said, as Russia extended its bombardment into the ...

A German tourist attempting to take pictures fell from a height of seven metres into the sea and was injured on Sunday. According to a police statement, at around 3 pm ...

Every cloud has a silver lining. So whether or not the sun sets on cryptocurrencies, its underlying technology, blockchain, has a bright future beyond just coins. By Tom Cassauwers Sam ...

On Monday the weather will be mostly clear, with temporarily increased high clouds in the morning. Winds will be mainly north-easterly, light to moderate, up to 4 Beaufort, and transient on ...

Binance’s $1 billion acquisition of bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital could be delayed or blocked by a US national security review, according to a Friday bankruptcy court filing. The crypto ...

“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” wrote Sam Johnson 250 years ago, and the Israeli prime minister has just confirmed ...

A young mother was killed on Saturday night in a car accident that occurred after 10pm on the Akrotiri – Kolossi road near the village of Trachoni. The deceased has been ...

2022 in review: more migrants are coming than are being processed or sent back and authorities can’t keep up Migration is a polarising topic, although it’s probably fair to ...

Time seems to be passing so quickly that it’s almost hard to believe that three years have gone by since the world was plunged into panic over a pandemic ...

For much of the global economy, 2023 is going to be a tough year as the main engines of global growth – the United States, Europe and China – all experience weakening activity, ...

And it’s time it published audited accounts The election result of the first round of the ecclesiastical elections was significant in that the voter turnout was striking low at 30 ...

Tottenham Hotspur’s hopes of regaining their place in the Premier League’s top four were scuppered as they suffered a demoralising 2-0 home defeat against Aston Villa on Sunday. ...

Croatia rang in two historic changes with the new year, as the European Union’s youngest member joined both the EU’s border-free Schengen zone and the euro common currency, ...

2022 in review: progress of sorts in the case of Thanasis Nicolaou 2022 was the year in which the case of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a ...

Violence that broke out in Larnaca in the early hours of Sunday left a 26-year-old man with two of his fingers amputated and multiple fractures to the skull, while a 29...

2022 in review: cheaper housing is in short supply There’s a lot to whine about and I’m generally pretty good at it, so here goes: decent housing is largely ...

The island’s Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Sunday said President Nicos Anastasiades has the option of referring the law on pre-primary education to the Supreme Court. Prodromou’s comments ...

Iranian police briefly detained several unidentified top-tier football players in a raid on a party on New Year’s Eve where alcohol was served in violation of an Islamic ban, ...

2022 in review: misinformation on a crucial topic for the young The debate in parliament on whether sex education should be mandatory in schools plummeted to one of the lowest levels ...

Paphos venue to stage a range of musical evenings in the first month of the year 2023 is officially here and with it, a new wave of cultural happenings arrives. In ...

Pope Francis marked the Roman Catholic Church’s traditional World Day of Peace on Sunday but the start of the new year at the Vatican was overshadowed by the death ...