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France was on course for a hung parliament in Sunday’s election, with a leftist alliance unexpectedly taking the top spot ahead of the far right, in a major upset ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Sunday gave his “deepest apology” and expressed his respect for the people that died at the Mari blast 13 years ago. Palmas was speaking at the ...

Lewis Hamilton won his ninth British Grand Prix in a thriller on Sunday, challenged by rain and a charging Max Verstappen to win at the Silverstone track. With his win ...

French voters turned out in large numbers for the second round of a parliamentary election on Sunday that could see the far-right National Rally (RN) emerge as the strongest force, ...

Europe and the European Commission (EC) consider electricity grid interconnections between member states as strategically important, contributing to Europe’s energy security. They offer economic efficiency, provide reliability to the ...

Police arrested a 49-year-old woman on Sunday, as a suspect for promoting property sales in the north on Greek Cypriot land. The woman, from an EU country, was arrested at ...

A dead man was found on the Larnaca’s Finikoudes beach on Sunday, police said. The man was spotted around 4am. According to police, after he was found an ambulance ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar condemned on Sunday reactions by Cyprus and the EU, who said they made demarches following the north’s participation in a conference of the Organisation ...

The met office issued a yellow weather warning for Sunday night through Monday 5pm, due to high temperatures expected to affect the island. According to the met office, the weather ...

An evil bug is killing off our papoutsosyko, but vigilant measures can save them One of Cyprus’ superfoods, the prickly pear or papoutsosyko, lending its flavour and health benefits to ...

Ten years after it all began, Windcraft Music Festival returns to Cyprus village Next week The Windcraft Music Fest celebrates its tenth anniversary in the intimate village of Katydata, with ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said President Nikos Christodoulides is continuing concrete proposals that will lead to the restart of Cyprus talks, it emerged on Sunday. Ioannou was in Greece for ...

A bill which was discussed at the House finance committee on Monday which has been designed with a stated aim of recovering debts from football clubs may in fact reward ...

Hamas is waiting for a response from Israel on its ceasefire proposal, two officials from the militant Islamist group said on Sunday, five days after it accepted a key part ...

An increasingly embattled U.S. President Joe Biden will hit the campaign trail in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Sunday, as House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries meets with senior ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos spoke with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty on Sunday to discuss the strategic partnership between the two countries, the EU-Egypt relations and regional developments.  In a ...

‘As I left the office on Friday, people solemnly wished me luck, as if I was taking the Intercity Bus straight into a war zone.’ Julia Stern samples Cyprus’ party ...

A 39-year-old man was arrested in Limassol in a drug bust, where officers found dozens of packages of cocaine were found in his car, police said on Sunday. Police said ...

All chapters of the book – with the exception of the last one – reflect a brief review of recent Cypriot political history. In general, I agree with the comments of the ...

A 30-year-old man was arrested with 15.6 kg of cannabis in his suitcase at Larnaca airport, police said on Sunday. According to police, the man was found at his arrival in ...

Top seed Iga Swiatek crashed out of Wimbledon in the biggest shock of this year’s Championships so far but Novak Djokovic avoided joining her through the exit door despite ...

Bravo Theo Panayides for the full-page tribute to us, the older Nokia users (‘A tribute to those few who cling to old-style Nokias’, June 30). I have been considering a smartphone ...

A large fire broke out on Sunday morning in the Apesia area of Limassol, the fire services announced, bringing it under control later in the afternoon. According to fire services ...

Nothing else in France looks like the 1930s, so why should fascism? There really is a fascist movement in France, although it avoids torch-lit marches and jackboots. It has even ...