Half of Russia’s 2023 oil and petroleum exports went to China
Half of Russia’s oil and petroleum exports in 2023 will have gone to China while India’s share has risen in two years to 40 per cent, Russia’s state news ...
Biden says US air strikes in Iraq aimed to deter Iran, militants from attacks
The U.S. military’s air strikes on Monday in Iraq aimed to deter Iran and Iran-backed militia groups from conducting or supporting attacks on United States personnel and facilities, ...
Turkish court refuses to release jailed MP despite top court ruling
A Turkish court refused on Wednesday to release the newly elected opposition lawmaker Can Atalay despite a Constitutional Court ruling that his rights to security, liberty and to be elected ...
Italian may regain use of hand after nerve transfer from amputated leg
A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralysed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in ...
Singer eyed as Israel’s Eurovision entry dies fighting in Gaza
An Israeli military reservist has been killed in the Gaza Strip just weeks after he successfully auditioned on a TV show that picks the country’s submission for the Eurovision ...
Former EU Commission President Jacques Delors dies at 98
Former European Commission President Jacques Delors, a founding father of the European Union’s historic single currency project, died on Wednesday at the age of 98.
Delors, an ardent advocate of ...
Anti-war candidate says Russian Supreme Court backs barring her from challenging Putin
Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld a decision to bar a former TV journalist who opposes the war in Ukraine from taking part in a presidential election in March, Yekaterina ...
Apple wins bid to pause Apple Watch ban at US appeals court
Apple scored a victory on Wednesday as a US appeals court paused a government commission’s import ban on some of its popular Apple smartwatches following a patent dispute with ...
Cypriot national killed in car crash in England
A tragic incident took place near Stoke-on-Trent in central England on Christmas Eve resulting in the death of 62-year-old Cypriot national, Charalambos Nicolaou.
Accompanied by his 17-year-old daughter, Nicolaou was ...
Erdogan says Israeli PM Netanyahu no different from Hitler
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was no different from Adolf Hitler and likened Israel’s attacks on Gaza to the treatment of ...
UK’s Hunt to deliver budget on March 6 as election looms
British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will present the spring budget on March 6, in what is likely to be the government’s last major chance to prepare the ground for an election ...
Navalny describes harsh reality at ‘Polar Wolf’ Arctic prison
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Tuesday confirmed his arrival at what he described as a snow-swept prison above the Arctic Circle and said he was in excellent spirits ...
Israel pounds central Gaza, dozens more Palestinians killed
Israeli forces pounded central Gaza by land, sea and air on Wednesday and Palestinian authorities reported dozens more deaths, including 20 in one attack.
Reflecting Israeli resolve to wipe out Hamas ...
Wolfgang Schaeuble, veteran of German politics, dies at 81
Veteran German politician Wolfgang Schaeuble, who served as a member of the Bundestag parliament for over half a century, has died aged 81, German media reported on Wednesday.
Schaeuble, who spent ...
Severe thunderstorms batters Australia, ten dead and thousands without power
Ten people were killed in Australia after severe thunderstorms battered the country’s east over the Christmas holidays, authorities said on Wednesday, with tens of thousands of properties still without ...
Actor Lee of Oscar-winning ‘Parasite’ found dead amid drugs probe
Lee Sun-kyun, an actor in the Oscar-winning film “Parasite”, was found dead on Wednesday in an apparent suicide in a car at a Seoul park after he was reported to ...
Gaza workers wrap bodies in shrouds in bombed-out northern Gaza
On a patch of sandy ground between collapsed masonry, burnt out buildings and damaged cars, civil defence workers move from body to body, wrapping white shrouds around a group of ...
US holiday retail sales grow 3.1 per cent, down from prior year, Mastercard says
“Consumers are still spending, but they’re still price conscious and want to stretch their budgets,” Sundaram said. He said the weeks between Cyber Monday and Super Saturday were a “...
Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant
Israel’s government agreed to give Intel (INTC.O) a $3.2 billion grant for a new $25 billion chip plant it plans to build in southern Israel, both sides said on Tuesday, ...
Blast near Israeli embassy in New Delhi, all staff unharmed
A blast occurred near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi on Tuesday evening and all staff were unharmed following the explosion, government authorities said.
“We can confirm that around 5:20 there ...
Iran’s Raisi to visit Turkey on Jan. 4 for talks focused on Gaza -Turkish official
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Ankara on Jan. 4 to meet his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan for talks likely to focus on the situations in Gaza and Syria as well ...
Iran undoes slowdown in enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade -IAEA
Iran has reversed a months-long slowdown in the rate at which it is enriching uranium to up to 60% purity, close to weapons grade, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on ...
Israel launches more Gaza strikes as Netanyahu says Hamas must be destroyed
Israeli shellfire slammed into central Gaza on Tuesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged no respite in attacks on Hamas, as residents of the coastal enclave mourned more dead in ...
Vessel near Yemen said to report drones, explosions in Red Sea
Two explosions in the Red Sea were reported by a vessel sailing off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday shortly after two unmanned aircraft were sighted, a British maritime authority ...