Cyprus, France hold joint search and rescue exercise (photos)
Cyprus and France held a joint search and rescue operation at sea on Friday coordinated by the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Larnaca. The exercise,...
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House president offers condolences to Austria and France after terrorist attacks
House president Adamos Adamou on Thursday sent letters to the presidents of the Austrian federal and national councils Andrea Eder-Gitschthaler and Wolfgang Sobotka and to...
France on alert as official warns of more militant attacks after Nice church killings
France’s interior minister said on Friday more militant attacks on its soil were likely and the country was engaged in a war against Islamist ideology...
Police cagey on whether additional security in place at French embassy
Police said Thursday they could neither confirm nor deny whether additional policing measures had been put in place at the French embassy in Nicosia, citing...
Three dead as woman beheaded in France, gunman shot dead in second incident (update 5)
A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist act at a church in the French...
President condemns incident outside French embassy, four arrests (updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday condemned an incident outside the French embassy in Nicosia in which protesters reportedly destroyed the country’s flag amid an ongoing...
Pakistan’s PM takes aim at Macron; asks Facebook to ban Islamophobic content
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan called on Facebook to ban Islamophobic content on its platform, warning of a spike in radicalisation amongst Muslims, hours after...
France becomes 7th country with more than 1 million COVID-19 cases
The number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections jumped over one million on Friday, making France the seventh country to reach that milestone. Over the past...
French police arrest nine after teacher beheaded in street
French police have arrested nine people after a suspected Islamist sympathiser beheaded a school teacher on the street of a Paris suburb on Friday, police...
France and Germany tell Turkey to stop provocations
France and Germany accused Turkey on Thursday of continuing to provoke the European Union with its actions in the eastern Mediterranean, and urged it to...
Sixth suspect arrested in France in connection with drugs haul
A man suspected of aiding in the importation of 72 kg of cannabis found at the Limassol port last May was arrested in France and...
Four stabbed in Paris attack near old Charlie Hebdo office
Four people were stabbed on Friday near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris that was attacked by Islamist militants over...
France reports new daily record in COVID-19 cases
France reported 13,498 new confirmed COVID-19 cases over the previous 24 hours, setting another record in daily additional infections since the start of the epidemic. The...
Two of France’s largest cities impose stricter COVID-19 measures
Marseille and Bordeaux, two of France’s biggest cities, faced stricter rules on Monday for beach gatherings, visiting the elderly in care homes and attendance at...
Greek PM welcomes departure of Oruc Reis, Turkey says it doesn’t mean anything (Update 2)
The Turkish seismic research vessel Oruc Reis has returned to Turkey following the expiry of a navigational warning, Navetx for exploration in the region, including...
Macron: Turkey is no longer a partner in the region (Update 2)
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that Turkey is no longer a ‘partner’ in the Mediterranean, upping the rhetoric against Ankara, even as Greek and...
Greece to bolster defence sector as eastern Med tensions rise
Greece plans to acquire arms, boost its armed forces and revamp its defence industry, the government’s spokesman said on Monday, as tensions with NATO ally...
France on the move in the Eastern Mediterranean
With its warplanes recently on exercise over Cyprus, while its warships patrol with the Greek navy, France is now more militarily active in the Eastern...
Trial of suspected Charlie Hebdo attack accomplices begins
Fourteen alleged accomplices to the Islamist gunmen who attacked the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo went on trial on Wednesday, as the country recalled, five...
Cavusoglu speaks to Borrell, Turkey cautions Macron over ‘red lines’
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu had a telephone conversation with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, Turkish media reported on...
