“Devastating Iran’s nuclear facilities was…very hard to do,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly last month, “but for me it was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make as prime minister. Because if we hadn’t done it, we’d all be…
By Brendan O’Boyle Brazilians head to the polls on Sunday in the first round of a narrowly split election after a campaign dominated by corruption scandals, economic anxiety and accusations of US meddling. Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80, is seeking a fourth term, while Senator…
By Rohith Nair Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won a chaotic rain-hit Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia on Sunday for his first victory of the season after the race start was delayed by more than 90 minutes due to treacherous conditions at the Sepang International Circuit. Verstappen was the last driver to…
By Andreas Rinke and Felix Hoske The sound of air raid sirens and explosions rang out in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Sunday as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, pledging support for Ukraine and urging Russia to halt its escalating attacks. Merz will announce a…
Russia will intensify strikes on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday, responding to an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which he vowed increased attacks on Russian refineries. The ministry said Russian forces would step up attacks on…
Spanish police on Sunday cleared a migrant camp on a beach in the North African enclave of Ceuta, where tens of thousands crossed the border from Morocco over two months ago, the Spanish government said. More than 72,000 crossed the border from Morocco into Ceuta in late July. While most of the…
It’s no secret that Cypriots don’t read much. A Eurostat poll from two years ago ranked us second-last in the EU, behind only Romania. That poll made waves, and was much talked about. Digging deeper, though, reveals an aspect of the research that wasn’t so highlighted, and is actually even more…
Trauma is passed from generation to generation and if it cannot be stopped is will separate the island’s two communities, the leader of an upcoming workshop teaching women the importance of forgiveness said on Sunday. If we don’t find a way to stop this intergenerational trauma from being…
Two people have died and another was missing after heavy rains and flooding in Spain’s Catalonia region, authorities said on Sunday. Catalan leader Salvador Illa confirmed the death of a man after a wall collapsed in Tordera, a town to the north of Barcelona, in a message on his social media…
Croatia’s Luka Modric said he was ashamed of his side’s performance after they lost 7-0 to England in Rijeka on Saturday, the heaviest defeat in their history. Croatia’s previous heaviest loss was a 6-0 defeat by Spain in 2018. Modric, the country’s most-capped player, said the manner of the defeat…