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A court in southwestern Russia has sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to eight years in prison after finding him guilty of organising “extremist activities”, according to a spokesman for the ...

The lawyers who voided Elon Musk‘s $56 billion compensation as excessive on Friday sought a record a $6 billion legal fee, payable in the electric car maker’s stock. “We recognize ...

Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed his support for stronger relations with Cyprus. He made the remarks when the Cypriot High Commissioner to Ghana, who is based in ...

The US and other countries have expressed interest in providing humanitarian aid to Gaza via Cyprus, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. “It is known that the Republic of ...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Britain’s multi-ethnic democracy was being deliberately undermined by Islamist and far-right extremists, calling for a tougher approach to policing protests in light of an ...

Some Palestinians injured in a Gaza aid delivery disaster said on Friday that Israeli forces shot them as they rushed to get food for their families, describing a scene of ...

CVS and Walgreens, the two largest U.S. pharmacy chains, will start selling abortion pill mifepristone at stores in several states this month, drawing praise from President Joe Biden who ...

From air drops of humanitarian aid to supply ships from Cyprus, the United States is urgently seeking ways to feed the people of Gaza as Israel resists Washington’s push ...

Cyprus’ foreign ministry said on Friday it was “devasted by the many lives tragically lost” amongst civilians in Gaza who were trying to get humanitarian aid. Gaza health authorities said ...

Ecuador has requested Mexico’s permission to enter that country’s embassy in Quito and arrest former Ecuadorean Vice-President Jorge Glas, the Ecuadorean Foreign Ministry said on Friday. Glas, convicted ...

Elon Musk has sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, saying they abandoned the startup’s original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity and not ...

Last month was the warmest February on record in England and Wales, the Met Office national weather service said on Friday, pointing to the impact of human-induced climate change on ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) and the Bank of Greece (BoG) on Friday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation during a ceremony held in Nicosia. The signing ceremony took place ...

Thousands of Russians chanted Alexei Navalny’s name and said they would not forgive the authorities for his death as the opposition leader was laid to rest in Moscow on ...

France and Germany joined calls on Friday for an independent inquiry into the deaths of dozens of Palestinians awaiting aid in Gaza, an incident which Israeli media said could weaken ...

Iranians voted for a new parliament on Friday in an election seen as a test of the clerical establishment’s legitimacy at a time of growing frustration over economic woes ...

More than a billion people globally are now considered obese, a condition linked to an increased risk of numerous serious health problems, according to updated estimates from the World Health ...

The U.S. Senate soundly defeated an effort to stop the $23 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets and modernization kits to Turkey, which President Joe Biden’s administration approved after ...

A Russian-American detained in Russia on a treason charge carrying up to 20 years in prison told her boyfriend “it’s safe there” before she travelled to see relatives in Yekaterinburg, ...

A massive fire in Bangladesh that raced through a six-storey building home to restaurants where many families with children were dining has killed at least 45 people and injured dozens, the ...

Veteran left-wing political maverick George Galloway won a vote to become the new lawmaker for the English town of Rochdale on Friday, vowing to be a thorn in the side ...

A Russian man pled guilty on Thursday to U.S. charges that he smuggled large quantities of American-made, military-grade microelectronics to Russia, top U.S. justice officials said in a ...

Nicaragua’s government committed human rights violations that amount to “crimes against humanity,” a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts said in a report on Thursday. The report called ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday his government would find a way to end exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews from Israeli military service in the face of political pressures that ...