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POLITICSIran-aligned Houthis seized control of Yemen’s port city of Mocha on Thursday and advanced down the Red Sea coast to strategic islands, military sources said, hours after President Donald Trump said he expected the Iran war to end after the U.S. midterm elections. Yemeni government military sources…
POLITICSScott Larsen was 4 years old when his dad, the New York City firefighter he was named after, was killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. His father, then 35, had recently been temporarily assigned to Lower Manhattan from his normal firehouse in Woodside, in the…
POLITICSGeorge Karatzias was appointed chairman of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Thursday, returning to the regulator just over two years after leaving to become an executive director at the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC). The Cabinet approved Karatzias’ appointment for a five-year…
POLITICSJustice and Public Order Minister Costas Fitiris should be congratulated for taking it upon himself to rationalise the issue of security details. The absurd practice of providing former presidents and former House speakers with a posse of policemen to drive them around and do their errands has been…
POLITICSMorocco’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that no evidence established involvement of Rabat in the mass crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in July, adding it rejected being drawn into Spain’s domestic political battles. More than 70,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, fueling…
POLITICSBrazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are statistically tied in a simulated runoff ahead of next month’s election, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll showed on Thursday, with the right-wing lawmaker now holding a narrow numerical edge over the leftist incumbent. The…
POLITICSRussian forces launched a broad onslaught on the industrial city of Pavlohrad in southeastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing seven, as well as striking a petrol station in the capital Kyiv and an international agribusiness facility in Dnipro as Moscow intensifies attacks on logistics and economic…
POLITICSSupervision of jointly owned apartment buildings is expected to move to district local government organisations (EOAs), after the interior ministry and the organisations reached an understanding on the plan at the House committee on Thursday. The transfer will depend on the EOAs’ conditions being…
POLITICSThe Turkish Cypriot legislature voted on Thursday to change their voting system and do away with the “mixed voting”, meaning that voters will now only be able to choose candidates from one party when the next legislative elections are held, most likely in December. Thursday’s vote passed through…
POLITICSA demonstration took place without incident outside the presidential palace late Thursday afternoon protesting the visit here by Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Organised by the Cyprus Peace Council and other anti-war groups, the protest drew a crowd of a few dozen. The organisation had described…