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A Turkish drone strike on Sunday killed a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant and wounded another in Iraq’s northern province of Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdish security sources said. The strike ...

Workers installed Ukraine’s national trident on an iconic monument depicting the Motherland in Kyiv on Sunday, replacing old Soviet symbols in one of the most visible examples of breaking ...

Authorities in northeastern China raised their emergency response level on Sunday as tributaries of the Songhua, a major river, rose to dangerous levels after days of heavy rain caused by ...

Twenty-one people were injured and 126 buildings collapsed after an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck the eastern Chinese province of Shandong on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The earthquake, 10 km (6 miles) deep, ...

“It’s not perfect, but it’s good. We’ve done something really good here,” said El Salvador’s vice-president, Felix Ulloa, defending the government’s no-quarter war against the ...

A necessary prerequisite for a solution to the Cyprus issue is having a coherent internal front, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday, addressing an anti-occupation rally, organised by Famagusta Municipality ...

The Philippines on Sunday accused China’s coast guard of blocking and water-cannoning a Philippine military supply boat in the South China Sea, condemning the “excessive and offensive actions” against ...

Russia launched a multi-wave overnight attack on Ukraine with 70 air-assault weapons including cruise and hypersonic missiles as well as Iranian-made drones, Kyiv’s Air Force said on Sunday, and at ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has instructed factories making missile engines, artillery and other weapons to boost capacity as an important part of bolstering the country’s defence capabilities, ...

Polish pipeline operator PERN detected a leak on Saturday evening in one line of the Druzhba pipeline, which carries oil from Russia to Europe, and halted oil pumping through the ...

Arsenal are determined to fight for all trophies in the new season as the Premier League runners-up begin their 2023-24 campaign against treble winners Manchester City in the Community Shield, ...

Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will pay the legal bills and sue on the behalf of people who have been treated unfairly by employers because of ...

By Stewart Prest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, have announced they’re separating after 18 years of marriage. The surprise announcement has stunned Canadians who ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting July 31: Hellenic Bank on Tuesday announced that chief executive officer Oliver Gatzke will be stepping down from his ...

Burning the holy Quran or any other holy book is a violent expression of hatred of believers by setting fire to the symbol of their faith and not a lawful ...

“Smart” technologies in homes reduce energy use and bills, prompting stepped-up European research in the field. By Helen Massy-Beresford They may lack the environmental wow factor of switching to an ...

IT DID NOT take long for the odious bank employees union Etyk to engage in self-righteous triumphalism, tinged with the familiar xenophobia, over the departure of the Hellenic Bank CEO, “...

Politicians love to talk about sustainable development, protection of the environment, the green transition, a sustainable tourism model and other such fashionable ideas that sound good. As with most things, ...

It’s a high bar, but companies reporting second-quarter earnings in recent weeks have talked up artificial intelligence even more than in the previous quarter. S&P 500 (.SPX) companies ...

Shares of PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) fell more than 8 per cent in premarket trading earlier this week as weak second-quarter margins at the digital payments firm overshadowed a strong forecast. ...

In late July the government unveiled a plan for ‘a solar panel on every rooftop’, with the primary goal of driving down high electricity costs for households. It came on ...

Local youth organisations are bringing celebrations and live music to the communities of the island. Two youth festivals are set for Sunday and the following Sunday offering summer entertainment. First ...

The signing of a memorandum of understanding in the field of higher education was agreed between the north’s ‘education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu and the Federal Minister of Education and ...

Senior officials from some 40 countries including the United States, China and India began talks in Saudi Arabia on Saturday that Kyiv and its allies hope will lead to agreement on ...