45 m. ago Israel’s airlines evacuate planes to other countries after strikes on Iran

Israeli airlines El Al, Israir and Arkia said on Friday they were moving their planes out of the country, hours after Israel launched widespread strikes against Iran and braced for retaliation. The planes were flown without passengers, said a spokesperson for Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport, which on Friday closed until further notice. Israir said […]

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1 hour ago Cyprus convenes emergency security council after Israel strikes Iran

Cyprus convenes emergency security council after Israel strikes Iran  Philenews

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2 h. ago After years of waiting, Israel’s Netanyahu finally makes his move on Iran

Iran once ridiculed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the boy who cried wolf for his constant public warnings about Tehran’s nuclear programme, and his repeated threats to shut it down, one way or another. “You can only fool some of the people so many times,” Iran’s then-foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said in 2018 […]

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2 h. ago Air India flight makes emergency landing in Thailand after bomb threat

An Air India flight from Thailand’s Phuket to India’s capital New Delhi received a bomb threat on Friday and made an emergency landing on the island, airport authorities said. Passengers were being escorted from the plane, flight AI 379, in line with emergency plans, an Airports of Thailand official said. There were 156 passengers on […]

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3 h. ago Cyprus’ national security council convened, Estia plan activated

President Nikos Christodoulides has convened a meeting of the National Security Council on Friday following developments in the region after Israel launched a major attack on Iran. According to a tweet from government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis, the meeting will take place at the presidential palace at 5pm. In his post on X, Letymbiotis said: “Taking […]

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3 h. ago Cyprus’ national security council convened, Estia plan activated, police on alert

President Nikos Christodoulides has convened a meeting of the National Security Council on Friday following developments in the region after Israel launched a major attack on Iran. According to a tweet from government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis, the meeting will take place at the presidential palace at 5pm. In his post on X, Letymbiotis said: “Taking […]

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3 h. ago All flights between Cyprus and Israel cancelled, airspace closed

All flights between Cyprus and Israel, arrivals and departures, have been cancelled in the wake of the early morning Israeli attack on Iran. According to Hermes Airports website, arrivals and departures are suspended by the airlines operating the route, including Cyprus Airways, TUS, Sundor, Arkia and Air Haifa. Some ten inbound and outbound flights to […]

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19 h. ago €1 trillion frozen under fragmented EU regulations, says EBF official

European Banking Federation (EBF) director general Wim Mijs on Thursday sounded the alarm on the consequences of fragmented regulation in the European Union. Mijs stated that over €1 trillion in inactive capital remains locked, limiting banks’ capacity to support the economy and threatening the EU’s ability to achieve its strategic goals. Speaking at the general […]

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22 h. ago ΔΙΠΛΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΜΑΔΑ ΟΙ ΑΝΟΡΘΩΣΙΑΤΕΣ: Έφτασαν τις 3.000 διαρκείας!

Ανάρτηση από την Ανόρθωση που ενημέρωσε ότι έφτασε τις 3 χιλιάδες εισιτήρια διαρκείας. Φαίνεται ότι οι φίλοι της ομάδας ανταποκρίνονται στο κάλεσμα και βοηθούν με τον δικό τους τρόπο την ομάδα τους.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Anorthosis Famagusta Official (@anorthosisfc.official)

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24 h. ago Iran will not compromise on right to enrichment, says official

Iran will not abandon its right to uranium enrichment because of mounting frictions in the region, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday, adding that a “friendly” regional country had alerted Tehran over a potential military strike by Israel. The official said the tensions were intended to “influence Tehran to change its position about […]

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40 h. ago Marines poised to move into Los Angeles as protests spread across US

Hundreds of U.S. Marines were undergoing refresher training in riot and crowd control just outside of Los Angeles and will move into the city soon, a military official said, as protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration raids spread from California to other parts of the country. Trump’s decision to dispatch National Guard troops and Marines […]

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44 h. ago Ukraine brings home bodies of 1,212 soldiers killed in war with Russia

Ukraine brought home the bodies of 1,212 soldiers killed in the war with Russia, the Kyiv officials responsible for exchanging prisoners of war said on Wednesday. “As a result of the repatriation activities , the bodies of 1,212 fallen defenders have been returned to Ukraine,” the prisoner exchange coordination committee said on the Telegram messaging […]

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45 h. ago Two members of bizarre criminal group ‘to appear in court next month’

Two members of a bizarre criminal group which made headlines earlier in the year after using forged state seals and impersonating officials are to appear in Nicosia criminal court next month, according to reports on Wednesday. The Cyprus News Agency reported that the pair, the group’s 45-year-old alleged ringleader and a 62-year-old man who was […]

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48 h. ago Deputy minister denies censorship in architecture book withdrawal

The official withdrawal of a publication linked to the Cyprus’ participation in the 19th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, was not a matter of censorship due to politics but to legality, Deputy Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou told MPs on Wednesday. In a lengthy speech before the House education committee, Kassianidou said the authors did not have […]

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48 h. ago Cyprus, Greece and Lebanon unite to tackle tourism challenges

Tourism officials from Cyprus, Greece and Lebanon gathered in Limassol this week to discuss the future of the sector amid geopolitical uncertainty, climate risks and the growing influence of Artificial Intelligence. The panel brought together Cyprus Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis, Greece’s Minister Tourism Olga Kefalogianni, and Lebanon’s Minister of Tourism Laura Kazin Lahoud, […]

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53 h. ago UK pay growth slows as jobless rate rises to highest since 2021

Pay growth in Britain slowed sharply and unemployment rose to its highest in nearly four years in the three months to April, official data showed on Tuesday, potentially making the Bank of England less cautious about cutting interest rates further. Wage growth excluding bonuses slowed to 5.2 per cent, its weakest since the three months […]

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3 d. ago Israeli gunfire kills 17 people near Gaza aid site, health officials say

Israeli gunfire killed at least 17 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others as thousands of displaced people approached an aid distribution site of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in central Gaza on Tuesday, local health authorities said. Medics said the casualties were rushed at two hospitals, the Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp in central […]

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3 d. ago Drone war escalates: Hospitals hit in Ukraine, flights suspended in Russia

Russia and Ukraine exchanged intense drone strikes on Tuesday, disrupting air traffic and causing damage to civilian infrastructure amid a dramatic escalation in the air war between the two countries. In Ukraine, Russian drones hit multiple targets across the capital Kyiv and the southern port city of Odesa. Local officials reported damage to residential buildings […]

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3 d. ago National crisis looms as Trump sends military to quell immigration protests

The Trump administration ordered U.S. Marines into Los Angeles and intensified raids on suspected undocumented immigrants, fueling more outrage from street protesters and Democratic leaders who raised concerns over a national crisis. Some 700 Marines based in Southern California were expected to reach Los Angeles Monday night or Tuesday morning, officials said, as part of […]

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5 d. ago Microsoft offers to boost European governments’ cybersecurity for free

Microsoft (MSFT.O) is offering free of charge to European governments a cybersecurity programme, launched this week, to bolster their defences against cyber threats, including those enhanced by artificial intelligence, it said. After a surge in cyberattacks in Europe, many linked to state-sponsored actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, the programme aims to boost […]

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