Israeli fighter jets on Friday carried out a series of airstrikes on facilities belonging to militant groups in the Gaza Strip in response to rockets fired from the coastal enclave, eyewitnesses said. Israeli army drones [Read More]
Protests broke out in several Lebanese cities on Thursday after the country’s currency nosedived amid a lingering financial crisis, the National News Agency (NNA) reported. At least four Lebanese cities, including the cities of Beirut, [Read More]
ATHENS – Facing soaring electricity and natural gas bills, Greek companies and households are turning to photovoltaics en masse this year to cope with the ongoing energy crisis. The phone of Nikos Tzortzakakis, operations manager [Read More]
Officials of Tunisia and the World Bank have met to discuss an electricity interconnection project by sea between Tunisia and Europe known as the ELMED Mediterranean power interconnector project. The meeting involved Tunisian Minister of [Read More]
ANKARA – In the old town of Turkey’s capital city, a one-of-a-kind chess museum offers visitors a journey through time and space with a wide variety of sets representing diverse cultures and traditions from across [Read More]
Israeli researchers recently discovered a unique ability of female locusts, Tel Aviv University (TAU) in central Israel. The findings, issued in the journal iScience last month, may contribute to new developments in regenerative medicine, as [Read More]
Challenging conventions and gender stereotyping, the first-ever female boxing club recently opened in Gaza. The club, which goes by the name Palestinian Center of Boxing for Women, currently has dozens of women aged between eight [Read More]
Thousands of workers across all sectors in Cyprus staged a three-hour island-wide strike on Thursday to demand inflation-linked pay increases. According to the country’s trade unions, 70,000 public sector and 40,000 private sector workers participated [Read More]
The number of overnight stays of foreign tourists in Israel’s hotels surged 785 percent year on year in 2022, found an annual report issued by the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics says. The nights of [Read More]
Greece’s main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance party tabled a censure motion against the government on Wednesday over allegations of surveillance of ministers, members of Parliament, generals, journalists and businessmen by the Greek National Intelligence Service (EYP). [Read More]
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