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Israeli fire killed at least four Palestinians in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza health officials said. Medics said at least one person was killed and four ...

Cyprus’ candidate for the presidency of the 81st United Nations General Assembly, ambassador Andreas Kakouris, received 91 votes in the election held at UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, losing ...

Cypriot delegation head and vice-president of the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe, Nicos Tornaritis, called for Hagia Sophia to be returned to museum status during a meeting of ...

Britain on Tuesday set a target to cut emissions by around 87% by 2040 from 1990 levels as it increases efforts to meet net zero goals that it says will help to curb ...

British police faced a backlash on Tuesday over the case of an 18-year-old student who was handcuffed as he lay dying from stab wounds after his killer falsely alleged a ...

Iran is reviewing a proposed agreement with the United States to halt the war between the two countries, Iran’s Mehr news reported on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald ...

German Development Minister Reem Alabali Radovan on Monday was diverted to Larnaca airport, being forced to abort plans to visit Lebanon after Israel threatened to its attacks on the country’...

Lebanon announced a partial ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel on Monday in what would amount to a limited de-escalation of a conflict that has killed thousands of people and inflamed ...

Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles early on Tuesday in attacks that authorities said killed 18 people and wounded more than 100. The attacks on cities including ...

A gunman killed six members of his family, then took his own life, during a spate of shootings on Monday in the eastern Iowa city of Muscatine, a waterfront town ...

The medieval Beaufort Castle’s stone ramparts tower so far above south Lebanon that Israel could hail their capture as a strategic victory, even as it evoked the miseries of ...

The British government published on Monday a second batch of documents relating to the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington, a saga which has led to questions over ...

The founder of an online Indian youth group that has amassed millions of followers in days said on Monday he plans to take his movement on to the streets with ...

Britain has blocked Cenk Uygur, a left-wing Turkish-American media personality, and his nephew, Hasan Piker, a U.S. left-wing commentator and influencer, from entering the country to speak at events, ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Monday, after meeting President Tamas Sulyok, that if the president does not resign the government will launch legal proceedings to remove him from ...

Malaysia has begun barring those aged under 16 from registering accounts on social media platforms, its communications regulator said on Monday, as it boosts efforts to protect minors from exposure to ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered attacks on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, signalling further escalation of a war that has complicated mediation towards resolving the U....

Iran is halting indirect negotiations with the U.S. after Israel ordered troops to push deeper into Lebanon to battle Tehran-backed Hezbollah, the Iranian news agency Tasnim said on Monday, ...

More than 200 people were injured and one person died in Paris following Paris Saint-Germain’s second consecutive Champions League win, the interior ministry said on Sunday, reviving France’s heated ...

Ukrainian drones struck energy targets across several Russian regions overnight, including an oil pipeline pumping station and an oil refinery, Russian and Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday, in an escalating ...

Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela claimed a record-breaking, fourth successive general election victory for his Labour Party on Sunday. “This is a victory of all the people based on the ...

US rapper Kanye West, who has been barred from performing in several countries due to past antisemitic comments, drew more than 100,000 fans to a concert in Istanbul on Saturday night. ...

Fireworks set off without permission by a traffic policeman during a late-night rehearsal for Italy’s Republic Day parade startled dozens of horses, sending them bolting through the capital and ...

Israeli troops have seized the 900-year-old Beaufort Castle and its strategic ridge in southern Lebanon, the military said on Sunday, a major advance against Iran-backed Hezbollah despite a ceasefire announced ...