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Indonesia has boosted security around parliament in the capital Jakarta and in other major cities as demonstrators gathered for rallies on Thursday, a year after a wave of violent anti-government ...

A deadly flash flood near Nepal’s border with Tibet on Wednesday may have been triggered when the lower part of a glacier broke off and crashed on to the ...

A 23-year-old man and police officers were attacked by a gang in Limassol on Wednesday night at around 9pm. According to the police, the man was attacked by a group ...

The luxury lifestyles presented by some of Cyprus’ best-known social media personalities have proved far less impressive once tax officials looked beyond their carefully curated photographs. Audits of people with ...

Qatar’s prime minister will visit Tehran on Thursday in a bid to relaunch diplomacy after the US and Iran traded recriminations over Washington’s promise to increase economic pressure ...

After enjoying a summer of well-received measures giving “people some breathing space now”, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces a much greater test when parliament resumes next week – how to ...

A Pentagon review of US troop deployments in Europe will create at least four sets of options for Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth by November 6, well ahead of a December deadline ...

Six people were arrested for various offences, including drugs, illegal residency and failure to appear in court, during preventive police checks in urban areas across the island on Wednesday night. ...

A 41-year-old man was mugged in Limassol half an hour after midnight. Police said the man was riding his electric scooter in the Molos area of Limassol when he was ...

A 77-year-old man was seriously injured in an accident in Paphos on Wednesday. According to the police, at around 6.30pm as the man was driving his vehicle along Vasileos Stasikou ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said he was “deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life and devastation caused by the floods on the Nepal-China border.” “Our thoughts are with the ...

Nearly 1,500 people including at least 800 foreigners are missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet, authorities said on Thursday, after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into a Himalayan river, ...

The Association of Cyprus Banks (ACB) expanded its financial literacy initiatives during 2025 and the first half of 2026, supporting national efforts to improve financial education as Cyprus experienced strong economic growth ...

Thursday started off clear and sunny, however afternoon showers are expected in the mountains and inland in the afternoon. Meanwhile, a yellow weather warning has been issued for high temperatures ...

EU imports of goods from outside the bloc rose 9.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the previous quarter, while exports increased 5.4 per cent, according to Eurostat, as ...

Cyprus is due to receive three credit rating decisions in September, with DBRS Morningstar, Standard & Poor’s and Capital Intelligence Ratings scheduled to review the Republic’s standing before ...

The final weekend of August promises to bid us farewell with a packed cultural agenda. From events that admire the full moon that arrives this weekend to performing arts festivals, ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is moving ahead with plans to build an integrated European market for tokenised assets, Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said on Wednesday, warning that fragmented ...

The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) is set to launch annual briefings to inform the public about its progress, starting January 2027. “This initiative is in line with the ...

Newly elected Disy deputy Giorgos Pamborides, who served as health minister during Nicos Anastasiades’ first term, made some staggering revelations in an interview on a television show. He claimed that ...

The Animal Party Cyprus said on Wednesday that “significant and substantial differences” had emerged between its positions and those of Animal Welfare and Environment Commissioner Ilias Myrianthous following a meeting ...

There have so far been no reports of Cypriots being present in the area of the Himalayas affected by a landslide, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Foreign ministry spokesman ...

A huge wall of mud and rock collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China’s Tibet on Wednesday, triggering catastrophic flooding on the Nepali side ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday agreed to hold weekly meetings with the aim of achieving the requisite progress for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ...