Archive July 2024

Television news channels in Bangladesh were off the air and telecommunications were widely disrupted on Friday amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs in which nearly two dozen ...

U.S. President Joe Biden is working towards a decision on whether to stay in the presidential race that is good for the country, Senator John Hickenlooper told Reuters, noting ...

The met office on Friday issued a yellow weather warning for extreme high temperatures. The warning will be in effect between 11am and 4pm, with temperatures set to rise to ...

Donald Trump described on Thursday how he narrowly survived an attempt on his life, telling a rapt audience at the Republican National Convention in his first speech since the attack ...

Temperatures on Friday are set to reach a whopping 42 degrees Celsius inland, making the day a veritable scorcher. Temperatures on the coasts will be slightly lower, rising only to 34 degrees ...

In June, Cyprus’ annual inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), remained steady at 3 per cent, mirroring the previous month’s figure. Notable price increases were observed ...

Shares of Warner Bros Discovery rose more than 6 per cent on Tuesday after Bank of America (BofA) Global Research said the company could create more value for its shareholders if ...

General Motors on Monday declined to reiterate its previously announced forecast that it would have 1 million units of electric vehicle production capacity in North America by the end of 2025. A ...

There are “no plastics worse than others” when it comes to cleaning beaches, especially after parties or weddings when – in the name of creating a celebratory atmosphere – poppers propel thousands ...

Hopefully, we witnessed the last episode of the farce regarding the submission of asset statements by elected officials on Tuesday. For 20 years, within the framework of the so-called ‘pothen esches’ ...

France’s outgoing parliament president Yael Braun-Pivet won a second mandate on Thursday, in a vote that President Emmanuel Macron’s camp hopes will boost their chances to run the ...

A police officer was critically injured in a stabbing attack in Paris’ Champs Elysees shopping district on Thursday after a security guard at a boutique called police after spotting a ...

U.S. President Joe Biden expects to be able to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week depending on his recovery from COVID-19, the White House said on Thursday. ...

Thirteen people were killed as thousands of students armed with sticks and rocks clashed with armed police in Dhaka on Thursday, the worst day of violence so far in protests ...

The government on Thursday signed an agreement granting all workers in the central government and the broader public sector a 1.5 per cent rise on their base salary – the first such ...

Britain’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, hailed European unity on Thursday, saying deeper defence and security cooperation would better support Ukraine while shared intelligence could help tackle illegal migration. ...

The independent investigation into the circumstances behind the murder of Thanasis Nicolaou will plough ahead despite the certiorari (a writ or order by which a higher court reviews a case ...

The Embassy of Palestine in Cyprus denounced on Thursday the Israeli parliament’s rejection of a Palestinian state, calling the move a rebuff to the international community. “The insistence of ...

Live music sounds can be found all around the island these months as festivals and concerts make up a big part of the cultural agenda. Local musicians and invited stars ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Thursday announced they had found and seized a total of 75 kilograms of lamb meat which had been smuggled to the north from the Republic. The ...

Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas said the Olympics holds a special significance to him due to its Greek origins, adding that he is hoping to realise his dream of winning an ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday instructed his government to explore the possibility of offering financial and psychological support to the children of missing persons. The decision came as he met ...

The government has announced seven new agricultural priorities to be delivered by 2027 under the European Union’s common agricultural policy. The priorities were unveiled by Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on ...

Newly crowned European champions Spain rose to third in the latest FIFA rankings published on Thursday, while World Cup winners Argentina held on to the top spot following their Copa ...