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The Labour party is gathering in Liverpool for its first annual conference in government for 15 years. The party faithful ought to make the most of the occasion. This will be ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou is set to inform an EU Council of Agriculture and Fisheries, in Brussels, on Monday, about the outcomes of the MED9 Agriculture Ministers Summit held in ...

By Karen Raubenheimer It’s been 20 years since a paper in the journal Science showed the environmental accumulation of tiny plastic fragments and fibres. It named the particles “microplastics”. The ...

Germans in the state of Brandenburg were voting in a regional election on Sunday with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) expected to finish first, building on successes in other ...

Environmentally degraded habitats have been upgraded with the conclusion of the three-year Darwin Plus plan, Birdlife Cyprus said this week. Focussing on Akrotiri and Cape Pyla, the project restored important ...

House speaker Annita Demetriou said on Sunday that the situation with the Cyprus problem cannot become the country’s normality. Speaking at a church service in Mesogi, Paphos, Demetriou said: “...

Cultivated organic areas in Cyprus are 8 per cent of the land, up from 0.22 per cent 21 years ago, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Saturday. She added that the sector has ...

By Julie Kissick The British royals have long been a fascination. The wealth, pomp and ceremony surrounding them have placed them apart from the majority. It is hard to imagine ...

Police are investigating a burglary in Larnaca jewellery shop, where items worth €15,000 were taken, it emerged on Sunday. According to police, the burglary took place early Saturday morning, when masked ...

Although Serbs have existed as a distinct ethnicity for centuries, contemporary Serbia is the result of the breakup of socialist Yugoslavia and subsequent wars. Yugoslavia was formed after the end ...

Port police rescued a British couple in Limassol from the sea on Sunday, after the pair fought. The couple, a 27-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man, had an argument, which ...

In Brussels, the talk of the town is a report on the future of European competitiveness, calling for fundamental economic reforms to avoid a “slow agony” for the European economy. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has ranked the issue of Cyprus’ missing persons among his top priorities, Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Anna Aristotelous said on Sunday at a church ceremony for the fall ...

Sri Lanka elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president on Sunday, putting faith in the 55-year-old’s pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery following ...

A yellow weather warning has been issued for Sunday by the met office, who said there is a chance of strong storm in isolated areas. The met office added that ...

Hezbollah and Israel exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, as the Lebanese militant group sent rockets deep into northern Israeli territory after facing some of the most intense bombardment in almost ...

Two people were arrested in for throwing flares before the Anorthosis-Omonia football match, police said on Sunday. The match, held on Saturday night, was at the Antonis Papadopoulos stadium in ...

A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran’s South Khorasan Province killed at least 51 people and injured 20, Iran’s state media said on Sunday. The accident was caused ...

In a unanimous and trenchant judgment, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus sitting as a discrete Council in an application to dismiss the auditor-general for misconduct decided on Wednesday that ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting September 16: Following the recent announcement of a €30 million investment in premium AA games by Mad Crusader, a Cyprus-based ...

THE SLAUGHTER of the sacred cow by the Supreme Constitutional Court was bloodless, but it still left such a mess that it could take a long time to clear up. ...

Booking.com’s restrictions against hotels offering lower rates on their websites or on rival sites are unnecessary and could reduce competition, Europe’s top court said this week in ...

We have always had a rather ambiguous approach to the rule of law, which was evident once again after the Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision to remove Odysseas Michaelides from ...

Qatari Al Jazeera TV said on Sunday morning that Israeli forces stormed its bureau in the West Bank’s Ramallah city with a military order to close it for 45 days. ...