The five-bedroom house in Cadogan Gardens, Knightsbridge, a stone’s throw from high-end store Harrods, belonged to Lebanon’s billionaire Hariri family and was sold to a businessman for £19.75 million ($24m). The family commissioned Mr Pinto to refurbish and interior design the Rutland Gate mansion, creating one of London’s most magnificent…

The European Union will temporarily shift back to coal to cope with slowing Russian gas flows, an EU official said on Wednesday, as a tight gas market and rocketing prices set off a race for alternative fuels. European leaders have rounded on Russia after flows through its Nord Stream 1…

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began a two-day visit to Egypt on Monday evening, the presidency in Cairo said, kicking off a regional tour extending to Jordan and Turkey. The crown prince’s regional tour comes weeks ahead of a visit to Saudi Arabia by US President Joe Biden, whose…

The 2022 Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (LCRP) aims to deliver critical assistance to more than three million people as vulnerabilities rise, and to support public infrastructure, services, and the local economy. Lebanon, which has an overall population of approximately 6.7 million, remains the country hosting the largest number of refugees…

European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas on Saturday called on Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot government to do more to stem migrant arrivals on the ethnically divided Mediterranean island. After a visit to an upgraded migrant facility outside the capital, Nicosia, Schinas said Brussels “won’t let the Turkish Cypriot community…

Australia has not signed up to a US-led statement about Israel and the Palestinian territories, instead raising deep concerns about “human rights abuses and the lack of progress towards a just and enduring two-state solution”. Gorely said Australia did not support the proposition that Israel was the only country that…

Israel and Egypt plan to boost gas exports to Europe under an agreement signed during a Cairo visit Wednesday by the European Commission president as the bloc seeks to wean itself off Russian gas. “Russia’s war against Ukraine has exposed our European dependency on Russian fossil fuels, and we want…

Comments made by Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on issues of ‘TRNC’ citizenship during a visit to the north were met by resistance by various members of society in the north on Tuesday. According to Turkish Cypriot daily Avrupa, the youth wing of the Socialist Democracy Party (TDP) in the…