Archive 2024

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 ...

Yannis Asimakopoulos has worked as a food delivery driver in Athens for 17 years and cannot recall a hotter summer as a new heatwave gripped Greece this week. Authorities shut all ...

Fidias Panayiotou was one of four Cypriot members of the European parliament who voted against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen when her nomination was ratified by the European ...

Every week for the past 20 years, a group of Greek and Turkish Cypriots have gathered in a cobbled courtyard in Cyprus’s divided capital Nicosia to reminisce about the past ...

A policeman stationed in Nicosia was one of the two suspects arrested on Sunday evening for a fire that broke out on Saturday in Xyliatos area. The police said the ...

By Ashley Morgan As Angela Rayner arrived to take up her new role as Britain’s deputy prime minister, some online commentators went into meltdown – not because of her historic ...

In many cases, criminal charges are dropped or dismissed before the case ever goes to trial. For the defendant, this is a major relief, ultimately allowing them to continue their ...

Ursula von der Leyen won a second term as president of the European Commission on Thursday after pledging to create a continental “defence union” and to stay the course on ...

Solving the problems that exist in public hospitals is the primary goal of the health ministry, said Minister Michalis Damianos on Thursday. Damianos made these remarks from Famagusta General, part ...

A Milan court has ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni damages of 5,000 euros for making fun of her in a social media post, news agency ANSA ...

Under no circumstances are there discussions for a two-state solution for Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. His statements to the German Press Agency (GPA) were published in a ...