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A social media account called "Raise the Colours Operation France" late last year posted videos of far-right activists on France's northern coastline.

Von der Leyen's comments come as US officials will host the Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers at the White House for crunch talks later on Wednesday.

Iranian authorities have intensified their crackdown on nationwide unrest, blaming alleged "terrorists" and releasing graphic descriptions of violence to justify severe legal measures against those they label as "rioters" and "insurgents".

Plus, the battle over taxing billionaires.

Erfan Soltani, 26, was detained at his home in Fardis on 8 January.

Sixteen doctors from Limassol General Hospital have filed official complaints against their colleague, claiming that he refuses to respond to emergency calls and discharges patients without examination.

The anarchist group claimed responsibility for the attack on the DIPA party office in Limassol on January 10, stating that it was revenge for corruption.

Georgios Vassiliou was the third President of the Republic of Cyprus.

Euronews spoke to Ilya Hashemi, a popular online activist whose Telegram channel is a source of reliable news from within Iran, who has been among the few during the ongoing protests to cover and relay the scant information coming out of Iran despite a regime-imposed internet outage.

Many indicators appear to suggest that the United States is growing despite tariffs, not because of them.

Under Bill Pulte, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have pulled away from efforts to help low-income people buy homes.

The regime in Tehran is deliberately blocking communications to transmit its propaganda while preventing the truth from reaching the world, especially on the death toll which is reportedly still rising, MEP Hannah Neumann, who chairs the European Parliament's delegation to Iran, told Euronews Parsi.

Geoeconomic confrontation — ranging from sanctions to tariffs — is the top threat, found the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Global Risks Report on the eve of its annual meeting gathering the world's business and political elites, set to take place in Davos next week.

According to Customs data, the surplus was boosted by trade gains in December, with exports climbing 6.

Cyprus's reservoirs are filled to 10.

A 25-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a robbery committed against a delivery driver on January 12 in the Limassol area.

In Cyprus, former president George Vassiliou has passed away at the age of 94.

Roads in some mountainous areas of Cyprus are still open only to all-wheel-drive vehicles or those with snow chains.

Today in Cyprus it is up to +13C inland, +15C on the coast, and +3C in the mountains.

The figure analysts say dwarfs the death toll from any other round of protest or unrest in Iran in decades and recalls the chaos surrounding the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Its security forces have brutally defended the Islamic Republic, but the protests show that many Iranians consider it stagnant and ideologically hollow.

Under a near-total communications blackout, users of Elon Musk’s satellite service have gotten online without paying, an organization that works on web access said.

Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen of Greenland said on Tuesday that his country choses Denmark over the US a day before officials from the three governments are set to meet at the White House.

Last week, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum ordering the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organisations as they "no longer serve American interests," the White House said.

The ministry estimates as many as 1.

Tomorrow, January 14th, Cyprus will open its first ski trail in Troodos, Sun Valley I (Aphrodite).

According to the Henley Passport Index 2026, Cypriot passport holders can travel visa-free to 174 countries, and Cyprus ranks 14th in the world for the second consecutive year.

Residents of Paphos are complaining about high water bills.

The police have received new jet skis for patrolling and potential search and rescue operations in the areas of Ladies Mile and Episkopi Bay.

The top suggestions include spending more of the city’s budget on parks and libraries and fixing the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

Leaderless revolutions are, at times, a reaction to historical distrust of charismatic leaders who, after victory, themselves become the source of absolutist and oppressive power.

Cuba is facing the prospect of a new wave of emigration as instability in Venezuela threatens to deepen the island’s ongoing economic crisis.

A Paris appeal court will decide whether the far-right figurehead can run for president in 2027, as attention increasingly turns to her 30-year-old protégé and MEP Jordan Bardella.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas held talks in Berlin with German defence minister Boris Pistorius as challenges to the future of European and global security continue to mount.

Trump's remarks came as the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said over 2,000 people had been killed in anti-government protests.

War-related violence in Ukraine killed 2,514 civilians and injured 12,142 last year, a 31% rise in the number of victims from 2024, a UN monitor said.

Four municipal employees will be charged after footage of mistreatment of a sea turtle, filmed by tourists on a Paphos beach.

Cyprus is deporting a Russian citizen who illegally entered through the northern part of the island and was detained in Nicosia based on an international 'red notice' from Russian authorities.

Judge Aslı Kahraman sustained serious injuries when Muhammet Çağatay Kılıçaslan, opened fire, hitting her in the groin, according to the domestic press.

In one of the private kindergartens in Cyprus, a 14-month-old child suffered a fractured thigh, after which surgery was performed.

Farmers and residents of the Asprokremmos area in Paphos are concerned about stray dogs attacking sheep, goats, and other domestic animals.

Two brothers wanted for attempted murder in Limassol were handed over to Cypriot authorities after British base police detained them while attempting to escape by boat.

Russia fired 300 drones, 18 ballistic missiles and seven crise missiles at Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring a dozen others.

Jinchao Wei, an engineer on the USS Essex, was one of two California-based sailors charged in August 2023 with providing sensitive military information to Beijing.

The defense comes after Jerome Powell pushed back on what he described as pressure by the Trump administration to cut interest rates in the United States.

We take a look at the protests that have engulfed the streets of Iran.

Plus, the rise of at-home medical tests.

The Iranian authorities have imposed an information blackout as they try to quell protests, but eyewitness testimony and videos conveying the deadly toll have made their way out.

The demonstrations in the French capital came days before the final signing of the agreement, scheduled for Saturday in Paraguay, which would create a free trade area between the EU and Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay.

Doctors and pharmacists in Cyprus are facing serious difficulties due to the GeSY system failure, which has been ongoing for the second day.