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Members of the special forces’ underwater demolition team, chief of staff lieutenant general Georgios Tsitsikostas and MEP Loucas Fourlas braved the icy water of Limassol’s sea on Saturday to “...

A group of about 15 young people caused a fire in an abandoned metalsmith’s in the early hours of Saturday, next to a building housing agricultural workers. Nobody was injured. ...

Pope Francis on Saturday again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting the global community should study whether the ...

Presenting the entirety of current Chinese painting in a single exhibition is an impossible task. The 42 works by 19 artists on display here tell the personal stories of their creators through ...

The state health organisation said it would be looking into Friday’s reports regarding the embezzlement of more than €30 million for neurolysis treatments and would take action “if deemed necessary”. ...

The Fire Department responded to a total of 35 calls since Friday, 20 of which were fires. At 11.52pm on Friday, Paphos firefighters responded to a fire in a private vehicle that ...

By Patrick Maundu Baobab trees grow in arid and semi-arid parts of Africa, and have deep cultural and ecological significance. Some of these trees are thousands of years old. Global ...

Unficyp vehicles were still in the Frenaros-Vrysoulles buffer zone on Saturday morning, after tension escalated on Friday between peacekeepers and farmers cultivating their land. The UN filed a formal police ...

The departure of Syria’s ex-president Bashar al-Assad, “in the manner he left, cannot considered anything but a very positive development,” President Nikos Christodoulides told a gathering in Athens on ...

There are times, admits George Rotos, when he’ll run into someone he knows and pretend not to see them – not because he doesn’t want to talk to them ...

Julia Felton, Michigan State University and Crystal Cederna, Michigan State University Holidays are often depicted as picture-perfect moments: families blissfully united around a table filled with seasonal food favorites against ...

A fire totally destroyed a 125cc motorcycle on Saturday at 4am, in Strovolos. The bike was parked at the side of the road and appears to belong to a 28-year-old, ...

Police are close to solving a series of cases concerning recent burglaries and theft in Famagusta district, after arresting a 41-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman. The suspects’ apartment was ...

Dragons, princes and princesses of Cypriot fairy tales arrive at the Nicosia Municipal Theatre this Christmas Eve, coming to life in a unique performance. Up next at the 5th Nicosia ...

A yellow warning has been issued for thunderstorms over the weekend, starting at 11am on Saturday and ending at 4am on Sunday. The Meteorological Department expects isolated heavy thunderstorms, mainly ...

President Nikos Christodoulides condemned the attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday evening. In a post on X on Saturday, the president wrote that he is “deeply ...

By Farid Mirbagheri The recent escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has brought the region to the brink of a wider war that could engulf Lebanon, Iran and ...

Bank of Cyprus and Hellenic Bank on Friday announced a new raft of measures aimed at supporting vulnerable borrowers. The developments come after meetings at the presidential palace earlier in ...

The U.S. Congress passed spending legislation early on Saturday in a down-to-the wire burst of activity that will avert a destabilizing government shutdown ahead of the busy holiday travel ...

By Charles Ellinas Developments in Syria have been precipitous and momentous. Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of the Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that deposed al-Assad last Sunday, has ...

The Israeli military said it failed to intercept a missile from Yemen early on Saturday that fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, and the ambulance service said 14 people received mild ...

German authorities are investigating a Saudi man with a history of anti-Islam rhetoric as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg ...

The decline in eurozone business activity eased this month as the bloc’s dominant services industry bounced back to growth and offset a long-running contraction in the manufacturing industry, a ...

The lead European Union data privacy regulator for Meta (META.O) has fined the social media giant 251 million euros ($263.5 million) for a 2018 Facebook security breach that affected 29 million users. Meta ...