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Protesters hold flares during a rally to protest the arrival of a cruise ship with Israelis in Piraeus, 14 August, 2025
Riot police block pro-Palestine protesters from approaching Israeli cruise ship in Greece
ATHENS — Riot police at Greece’s largest port cordoned off an area around an Israeli cruise ship that arrived early on Thursday to prevent several hundred protesters from approaching the vessel.Protests have been held at Greek islands and mainland ports along the route of the Crown Iris, several of which have led to clashes with police.At the port of Piraeus near Athens demonstrators held flares and waved Palestinian flags behind a cordon formed with riot police buses.Protest organisers, citing online posts from travellers, said off-duty Israeli soldiers were among the passengers."They are unwanted here and have no business being here," protest organiser Markos Bekris said. "The blood of innocent people is on their hands and we should not welcome them."Greece is a...
August 14, 2025

Riot police block pro-Palestine protesters from approaching Israeli cruise ship in Greece

Migrants disembark from a boat that rescued them after two vessels sank off the coast of Italy's Lampedusa island
Dozens of migrants killed after boats capsize off Italian coast
ROME — At least 27 migrants have died after two boats capsized as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy.Around 60 survivors were rescued from the seas off the island of Lampedusa, while the search for others continues.More than 700 people have died trying to cross the central Mediterranean this year, according to the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR).Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni offered her "deepest condolences" to the victims. A UNHCR spokesperson said there was "deep anguish" felt over the incident.More than 90 people were aboard the two boats before they capsized, Flavio Di Giacomo, spokesperson for the UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.A Somalian woman onboard one of the vessels gave a harrowing account to the...
August 14, 2025

Dozens of migrants killed after boats capsize off Italian coast

Pedestrians look at their phones while walking through St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 14, 2025
Russia blocks calls via WhatsApp and Telegram as it tightens control over the internet
MOSCOW — Russian authorities announced Wednesday they were “partially” restricting calls through the messaging apps Telegram and WhatsApp, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet.In a statement, government media and internet regulator Roskomnadzor justified the measure as necessary for fighting crime, saying that “according to law enforcement agencies and numerous appeals from citizens, foreign messengers Telegram and WhatsApp have become the main voice services used to deceive and extort money, and to involve Russian citizens in sabotage and terrorist activities”.The regulator also alleged that “repeated requests to take countermeasures have been ignored by the owners of the messengers”.A Whatsapp spokesperson said in a statement that the encrypted...
August 14, 2025

Russia blocks calls via WhatsApp and Telegram as it tightens control over the internet

A man watches a TV screen showing a news programme with an image of Kim Yo-jong, in Seoul, 4 June 2020
Kim Jong-un's sister mocks South Korean attempts to improve relations
SEOUL — North Korea has ridiculed South Korea’s attempts to restart dialogue, while denying that it has removed propaganda loudspeakers from the border as Seoul has suggested.Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, claimed on Thursday that the South Korean military was lying when it said Pyongyang had taken the measure in response to its own recent dismantling of its front-line speakers.The senior official said that North Koreans “have never removed loudspeakers installed on the border area and are not willing to remove them.”In response, South Korean army spokesperson Colonel Lee Sung-joon cautioned against “being easily swayed” by North Korean statements, suggesting that Pyongyang often makes false claims.The latest comments from the Korean peninsula come...
August 14, 2025

Kim Jong-un's sister mocks South Korean attempts to improve relations

Demonstrators protest against cuts to American foreign aid spending, including USAID and the PEPFAR program to combat HIV/AIDS, at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol
Appeals court backs Trump's foreign aid freeze, triggering global concerns
WASHINGTON — A US Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration can suspend or terminate billions of dollars of congressionally appropriated funding for foreign aid, seven months after the US president's executive order triggered a global crisis in the humanitarian aid sector.A divided panel of appeals court judges concluded that grant recipients challenging the freeze did not meet the requirements for a preliminary injunction restoring the flow of funds.The ruling clears any controversy surrounding the issue for US President Donald Trump, who, on the first day of his second term in the White House, issued an executive order directing the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to freeze spending on foreign aid.After groups of...
August 14, 2025

Appeals court backs Trump's foreign aid freeze, triggering global concerns

A woman touches the photo at the grave of her relative, killed in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in Nicosia, 20 July 2024
Greek and Turkish Cypriots unite to restore cemeteries along Green Line
NICOSIA — More than half a century after the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus, the island's communities are restoring each other's cemeteries.So far, restoration is under way at 15 cemeteries inside the Green Line, the demilitarised zone between the two parts of the island.There are also talks of extending the project, which is costing €700,000.After the Turkish invasion in 1974, churches, mosques and cemeteries were vandalised, damaged or abandoned.For decades, people were not allowed to cross over to the other side to leave flowers beside their relatives' graves."People come to our village to see their graves, their houses, we have people visiting to see where their ancestors are," said Haroula Efstratiou, president of the Greek Cypriot community of...
August 14, 2025

Greek and Turkish Cypriots unite to restore cemeteries along Green Line

US President Donald Trump is set to meet his Russian counterpart Vladmir Putin on Friday
US warns of additional tariffs on India if Trump-Putin peace talks fail
MUMBAI — US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned that Washington could increase secondary tariffs on India.He said the decision would depend on the outcome of President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday."We've put secondary tariffs on Indians for buying Russian oil. And I could see, If things don't go well, then sanctions or secondary tariffs could go up," Bessent said in an interview to Bloomberg TV on Wednesday.Earlier this month, Trump imposed a 25% penalty on India in addition to 25% tariffs for buying oil and weapons from Russia.The US has been trying to mediate a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, and on Wednesday, Trump warned of "severe consequences" if Moscow did not agree to a peace...
August 14, 2025

US warns of additional tariffs on India if Trump-Putin peace talks fail

Internally displaced Palestinians, including children, hold pots as they receive food from a charity kitchen
Humanitarian groups call on Israel to end 'weaponization of aid' in Gaza
JERUSALEM — More than 100 organizations have signed a joint letter calling on Israel to stop the "weaponisation of aid" into Gaza, as "starvation deepens".Humanitarian groups, including Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), say they are increasingly being told they are "not authorized" to deliver aid, unless they comply with the stricter Israeli regulations.Groups risk being banned if they "delegitimize" the state of Israel or do not provide detailed information about Palestinian staff, the letter says.Israel denies there are restrictions on aid and says the rules, introduced in March, ensure relief work is carried out in line with Israel's "national interests".According to the joint letter, most major international...
August 14, 2025

Humanitarian groups call on Israel to end 'weaponization of aid' in Gaza

Germany's Friedrich Merz hosted President Zelensky in Munich on Wednesday
European leaders tentatively hopeful after call with Trump ahead of Putin summit
MUNICH — European leaders appeared cautiously optimistic after holding a virtual meeting with Donald Trump on Wednesday, two days before he meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.Trump reportedly told the Europeans that his goal for the summit was to obtain a ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv.He also agreed that any territorial issues had to be decided with Volodymyr Zelensky's involvement, and that security guarantees had to be part of the deal, according to France's Emmanuel Macron.Speaking to Trump had allowed him to "clarify his intentions" and gave the Europeans a chance to "express our expectations," Macron said.Trump and Vice-President JD Vance spoke to the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Italy,...
August 14, 2025

European leaders tentatively hopeful after call with Trump ahead of Putin summit

Melania Trump
Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden for $1bn over Epstein claim
WASHINGTON — First Lady Melania Trump has threatened to sue Hunter Biden for more than $1bn after he claimed she was introduced to her husband by sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Lawyers acting on behalf of the first lady, who married US President Donald Trump in 2005, described the claim as "false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory".Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, made the comments during an interview earlier this month, in which he strongly criticised the president's former ties to Epstein.Donald Trump was a friend of Epstein, but has said the pair fell out in the early 2000s because the financier had poached employees who worked at the spa in Trump's Florida golf club.A letter from the first lady's lawyers and addressed to an attorney for Hunter...
August 14, 2025

Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden for $1bn over Epstein claim

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