Britain’s incoming prime minister once boasted he could recite from heart the first hundred lines of Homer’s Iliad in ancient Greek. Boris...

South Korean warplanes fired hundreds of warning shots at a Russian military aircraft that entered South Korean airspace on Tuesday, defence...

Hong  Kong  police faced criticism on Monday for an apparent failure to protect anti-government protesters and passersby from attack by...

By Ali Sawafta SUR BAHER, West Bank, July 22 (Reuters) – Israeli forces began demolishing buildings near a military...

Israeli forces began demolishing buildings near a military barrier on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, in the face of Palestinian protests...

As Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cracked his country would be eager to do it again under his rule, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos...

British  Airways  and Lufthansa abruptly suspended flights to Cairo from Saturday over security concerns, but giving no details about what...

For a reputed “strongman”, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seems unusually nervous these days. A bombastic speech last week marking the third anniversary of...

Iran has taken a British-flagged oil tanker it seized in the Strait of Hormuz to Bandar Abbas port, where it and its crew will remain while an...

As Cypriots say, even 45 years later, July 20, 1974 was the day time stopped for Cyprus ; a day of infamy when the course of the nation’s...

President Donald Trump said there was “no doubt” the U.S. Navy had brought down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz this week...

Britain and Sweden agreed on Friday to study air combat co-operation over the next decade and opened the door to other potential partners in a...

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) – For some U.S. officials, the Trump administration’s failure to persuade  Turkey  not to buy a...

A Lufthansa plane bound for Frankfurt was evacuated at Belgrade airport on Thursday after police received a call saying a bomb was on board,...

For some U.S. officials, the Trump administration’s failure to persuade Turkey not to buy a Russian air defence system may have its roots in...

Joaquin Guzman, the convicted Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, has escaped twice from maximum-security prisons in Mexico, once by digging a...

FaceApp, the app that went viral in the past has once more attracted attention, as it allows users to see what they look at an older age. The...

Three men will face trial in Malta for their alleged involvement in the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia after the...

The remaining parties to the Iran nuclear deal do not see Tehran’s breaches as significant and do not intend for now to trigger the...

An annual look back at the past 12 months in local cinemas is unusually focused on Cypriot films this year says Preston Wilder It’s been a...