Two Spanish tourists were killed and three others injured on Tuesday in a hot air balloon accident in Turkey’s popular tourist destination Cappadocia, local authorities said. The balloon belonging to a private company took off [Read More]
A recent SBA Police charity football event in Happy Valley to raise money for the Pancyprian Anticancer Society and for vulnerable members of the communities attracted more than 1,000 people. Working alongside the Cyprus Football [Read More]
Malta played an important role during the Second World War, as Nathan Morley discovered on a weekend break to Valetta. It is no exaggeration to say that during the Second World War, Malta was the most [Read More]
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Monday vowed to reach a prisoners’ swap deal with Israel to release the Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails. Hamas’s pledge was made during a rally held before the [Read More]
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Monday that its peacekeepers carried out joint live-fire exercises with the Lebanese Armed Forces in southern Lebanon. This was the second such exercises in 2022 the [Read More]
The visiting UN special envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, on Monday called for progress on the political front to resolve the Syrian crisis. Speaking to reporters following his meeting with Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, [Read More]
The United Nations’ refugee agency is “deeply distressed” by the discovery of almost 100 naked men at the border between Greece and Turkey. Greek police said they rescued the 92 men who were discovered naked, [Read More]
Blustery weather is expected to continue across the Mediterranean over the next 24-hours. In Greece, rescue workers have recovered the body of a woman who is the second person to die in flash floods caused [Read More]
Turkey’s endorsement of Russia’s proposal to establish a natural gas distribution center in the country reflects its ambition to become an international energy hub, but the plan needs the participation of more producers than Russia [Read More]
A Palestinian man succumbed to the wounds sustained from Israeli soldiers’ gunfire in the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, near the West Bank city of Salfit, Palestinian medics said on Sunday. The Palestinian Ministry of [Read More]
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