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By Luigi Scazzieri Europeans have struggled to form a coherent response to the Israel-Hamas conflict that erupted after Hamas’ brutal attacks on October 7th. As the death toll has risen, ...

The United States, Britain and the European Union on Friday separately expressed concerns about Pakistan’s electoral process in the wake of a vote on Thursday and urged a probe ...

A funeral procession for former two-time Chilean President Sebastian Pinera wound though Santiago on Friday, past La Moneda presidential palace as thousands of people lined streets and rooftops holding flags ...

Former Pakistani prime ministers and bitter rivals Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan on Friday both declared victory in elections marred by delayed results and militant attacks, throwing the country into ...

The White House on Friday sharply criticized a report from a Department of Justice special counsel that suggested President Joe Biden was suffering memory lapses, saying it included inaccurate, gratuitous ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday appointed Maj.-Gen. Anatoliy Barhilevych as Ukraine’s new chief of staff, replacing Serhiy Shaptala. Zelenskiy, in his nightly video address, described Barhilevych as “an ...

Palestinian civilians in Rafah in the Gaza Strip need to be protected, but there should not be any forced mass displacement, the United Nations said on Friday after Israel began ...

Building permits decreased by almost six per cent in Cyprus between January and November last year, the statistic services reported on Friday. The number of permits amounted to 6,583 compared to 6,989 ...

The Cyprus Electricity Authority (EAC) did not decide on electricity hikes on Friday, passing the responsibility to the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (Cera) for failing to decide on price adjustments. ...

London police said on Friday that a man suspected of injuring several people last week by throwing a corrosive chemical on them is now presumed to have drowned in the ...

Local government reform has been grossly distorted by parliamentary amendments and is now rife with failures that will come with hefty costs across different municipalities, Interior Minister Constantinou Ioannou said. ...

A teen boy was found in another European country, after being reported missing from his home in Cyprus in July, police said on Friday. According to police, the 17-year-old boy ...

Housing problems will not be solved with the wave of a wand, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday. He stressed housing is one of the biggest problems – if not ...

Almost one in ten of Gazan children under five are now acutely malnourished, overwhelmingly as a result of Israel’s war on the territory’s Hamas rulers, according to initial ...

Smuggled sex toys, tobacco and other miscellaneous items from Turkey were found in a café and warehouse in a village south of Nicosia. The two locations are owned by two ...

The Research & Innovation Foundation (RIF) on Friday hosted its ‘Partner Day’ conference at the Hilton Hotel in Nicosia, in an effort to further foster collaboration between Cyprus’ research and ...

A draft bill to modernise the legal service and the audit office will be brought in front of the legislature within the year, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday discussed the Cyprus problem and policies impacting internally displaced persons with Morphou Mayor Victor Hadjiavraam. Hadjiavraam was invited to the Presidential palace in light of ...

Cyprus’ trade deficit reached €8.57 billion in 2023, marking an 18 per cent year-on-year increase, according to a report released on Friday by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), The report, which utilised preliminary ...

The number of traffic violations detected by fixed cameras fell by 75 per cent between the first and last quarters of last year, transport minister Alexis Vafeades said. Speaking to the ...

Qatar and Jordan will play an all-Arab Asian Cup final on Saturday where both teams are highly motivated to answer critics who gave them no chance of going so far. ...

A United Nations committee appealed for “massive psychosocial support” for children traumatised by violence in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Israel and said it would review Israel’s treatment ...

A resident at the Agios Stefanos foundation reported that she was physically and verbally attacked by a carer at the Limassol facility, police confirmed on Friday. The carer in question ...

National investment promotion agency Invest Cyprus on Friday expressed satisfaction with the meeting held on February 8 at the Presidential Palace, which aimed to provide support to foreign investors in Cyprus, ...