Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 “terrorists” to Turkey before the Turkish parliament will approve their bids to join NATO, President Tayyip Erdogan said. The two …

Former Pope Benedict, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign and a standard bearer for conservatives who yearned for a more traditional Church has died, ending an extraordinary period …

From Queen Elizabeth II to the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, here are some of 2022’s most notable deaths. January – 6: SIDNEY POITIER, 94, American movie star, the first …

A Turkish appellate court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a leading critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose jailing has added to tensions in Ankara’s uneasy ties with the …

China will stop requiring inbound travellers to go into quarantine from January 8 in a major step towards easing curbs on its borders, which have been largely shut since 2020. …

A blizzard that paralysed western New York over the Christmas weekend has killed more than two dozen people, as crews struggle to dig out the snow-bound region around Buffalo from …

Pope Francis is to return to Greece three fragments of Athens’ Parthenon temple, in what the Vatican called Friday a gesture of friendship. The fragments from the Parthenon on the …

Tens of thousands of Turks swarmed a central Istanbul square on Thursday in solidarity with the city’s opposition mayor after he was banned from politics ahead of next year’s presidential …

The legal challenges facing Eva Kaili sharpened Thursday as the Greek MEP, already accused of taking bribes from Qatar, faced a second investigation and a vote to strip her of …

A 4.4-centimetre-long lead projectile has been discovered in the Israeli town of Yavne, known to the Ancient Greeks as Ἰαμνία (Iamneea). Inscribed upon one side of the bullet, which was …