Syrian ministers visit Riyadh in first trip abroad after Assad’s fall
Syria’s foreign and defence ministers met with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in Riyadh on Thursday in a landmark first visit abroad by members of the new ...
Sterling hits nine-month low, dollar rallies
Sterling dropped to a near-nine month low against the dollar on Thursday, hurt by the US currency’s relentless rise on expectations of dollar-supportive policies from incoming President Donald Trump
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Jurassic highway: Hundreds of dinosaur footprints found in UK quarry
Researchers have uncovered hundreds of dinosaur footprints dating back to the middle Jurassic era in a quarry in Oxfordshire, southern England, showing that reptiles such as the nine-metre predator Megalosaurus ...
Gaza population down by six per cent since start of war
An Israeli hostage held by Gaza’s Islamic Jihad militant group has tried to take his own life, the spokesperson for the movement’s armed wing said in a video ...
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Police probe motive in New Orleans truck rampage
Investigators in New Orleans were searching on Thursday for what motivated a U.S. Army veteran flying an ISIS flag from his truck to plow into a crowd of New ...
Saudi Arabia executes Iranians for drug smuggling, Tehran protests
Saudi Arabia executed six Iranian nationals for drug smuggling, state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday, prompting Tehran to summon the Saudi ambassador according to media reports.
The Saudi interior ...
Suspect in deadly Montenegro shooting dies after attempting suicide
A gunman who killed at least 10 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro died from self-inflicted injuries on Thursday after attempting suicide, the country’s interior minister, ...
Suspected people smugglers to face severe curbs under new UK laws
Suspected people smugglers will face severe curbs under new laws in Britain, the government said on Thursday, as it steps up efforts to fight illegal migration and strengthen border security.
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Islamic State: the group implicated in the New Orleans attack
By Michael Georgy and Tala Ramadan
The radical Islamic State group, which once imposed a reign of terror over millions of people in Syria and Iraq, has been implicated in ...
Israeli airstrike kills at least 10 in southern Gaza, medics say
An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families in the southern Gaza strip early on Thursday, medics said.
The 10 people, including women and children, ...
Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump Las Vegas hotel, killing driver
A Tesla Cybertruck exploded in flames outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on Wednesday, killing the driver and injuring seven others, and the FBI was investigating whether the blast ...
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Driver flying ISIS flag rams into New Orleans crowd, killing 15
A U.S. Army veteran flying an ISIS flag from his truck swerved around makeshift barriers and plowed into New Orleans’ crowded French Quarter on New Year’s Day, killing 15 ...
Congo sentences 13 soldiers to death in bid to boost discipline
A Congolese military tribunal has sentenced 13 soldiers to death on charges including murder, looting, and cowardice in what military authorities said was a drive to improve army discipline after territorial ...
Russian gas era in Europe ends as Ukraine stops transit
Russian gas exports via Soviet-era pipelines running through Ukraine came to a halt on New Year’s Day, marking the end of decades of Moscow’s dominance over Europe’s ...
Romania, Bulgaria fully join EU’s borderless Schengen zone
Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union’s Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries whose residents can ...
Puerto Rico’s power grid collapses
Puerto Ricans were without electricity on New Year’s Eve after a grid failure left nearly all of the island without power, although energy was slowly being restored.
Around 58 per ...
Breakaway Moldovan region Transnistria cuts heating and hot water after Russia stops gas flow
The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria cut heating and hot water supplies to households on Wednesday after Russia stopped supplying gas via Ukraine.
“There is no heating or hot water,” ...
Christodoulides visits US submarine in Limassol
President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday visited the United States navy’s nuclear submarine the USS Indiana, which had arrived in Limassol the previous day.
The ship’s arrival had been ...
Carter funeral service to be held at Washington National Cathedral on January 9
A state funeral for Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who died on Sunday at the age of 100, will be held at the Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9, according ...
Israel warns Houthis risk sharing same fate as Hamas, Hezbollah
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday issued what he called a final warning to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants to halt missile attacks on Israel, saying they ...
Putin says in New Year address that Russia will ‘move forward’ in 2025
President Vladimir Putin told Russians in a New Year address that the country would move forward with confidence in 2025.
Putin’s seasonal message was being broadcast at midnight in each ...
Greece raises €600 million through t-bill auction
Greece on Tuesday successfully raised €600 million through a three-month treasury bill auction, according to the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA).
The bills were sold at a yield of 3.00 per cent, ...
Gareth Southgate, Sadiq Khan, Keely Hodgkinson named in Britain’s New Year honours
Former England boss Gareth Southgate, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Paris Olympics gold medallist Keely Hodgkinson were among the hundreds named in King Charles’s New Year honours list published ...
Turkish banks target cost normalisation as rate cuts begin
Gradual interest rate cuts in Turkey next year will boost the banking sector and support demand for Turkish lira assets, Garanti BBVA (GARAN.IS) bank Chief Executive Mahmut Akten said ...