Uzbek chess grandmaster Sindarov sets up world title match with Gukesh
Javokhir Sindarov wins the Candidates Tournament with a round to spare and will face India’s Gukesh next.

Javokhir Sindarov wins the Candidates Tournament with a round to spare and will face India’s Gukesh next.









Turkiye closely monitoring Israel’s regional manoeuvres in the Eastern Mediterranean as tensions widen.
No senior figure has been held accountable since the devastating explosion more than five years ago.
The latest vessel confiscation comes as regional tensions remain high, months after the June war with Israel and the US.
More than 218,000 people voted in TRNC leadership election that could shape the island’s political direction.

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Negotiations aimed at reuniting the divided island have been stalled since 2017.
Arrest comes shortly after Cyprus detains ethnic-Azeri suspected of planning attack on military base for Iran.
The border protection agency Frontex says irregular crossings into the EU over the Mediterranean rose last year.
After Israel launched its full-scale offensive in Lebanon in September, many fled to the Mediterranean island.

The EU’s foreign policy chief tells member states they are obliged to implement the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu.