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At least 24 people were killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb blast at a railway station in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, police and other officials told Reuters. ...

Emma Shortis, RMIT University On the Saturday before Election Day, I travelled from Washington DC to Charlotte, North Carolina, to attend one of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ last campaign ...

Police arrested a 23-year-old man on Friday evening in connection with burglaries and theft in Larnaca. At 1.30am, police received a call that a civilian had found a person acting ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is determined to use all technological means and the newest methods and techniques available to locate possible burial sites of missing persons on the ...

After sold-out shows in Nicosia in November 2023, the UK’s multi-award-winning comedian Jimmy Carr returns to Cyprus for more laughs. A show that will be on for one night only ...

A yellow warning has been issued for isolated thunderstorms from 8am to 6pm on Sunday. The Meteorological Department said the precipitation rate would be between 35mm and 55mm per hour, ...

Passenger traffic at Cyprus’ Larnaca and Paphos airports increased by 7.14 per cent in October 2024 compared to October 2023, according to the Transport Ministry. The ministry said this resulted in record traffic ...

House president Annita Demetriou and independent deputy Alexandra Attalides deserve praise for submitting two bills aimed at ending the benefits for life given to a president of the republic and ...

A consortium of financial technology and cryptocurrency companies including Robinhood (HOOD.O), Kraken and Galaxy Digital (GLXY.TO) this week introduced a joint stablecoin pegged to the US dollar. The ...

Nintendo this week cut its operating profit forecast for the year to March 2025 by 10 per cent to 360 billion yen ($2.36 billion), as its ageing Switch console loses steam. The latest forecast ...

The US Supreme Court is set to consider bids by two tech giants – Meta’s (META.O) Facebook and Nvidia (NVDA.O) – to fend off federal securities fraud lawsuits in ...

Human Rights Commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides on Friday raised concerns over the rising number of racially motivated attacks against foreign food delivery workers, despite the existence of laws and regulations ...

The Church of Cyprus has donated €1 million to the Hellenic Naval Academy, Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias announced on Friday. In a post on social media, he said the donation ...

Elam members marched on Larnaca’s Finikoudes beach on Friday night in protest against migration. The march made its way from Europe Square up the beach road and was billed ...

Cyprus’ long-term employment rate, that being those who have been unemployed for 12 months or more, is below the European Union average, according to the EU’s statistical agency Eurostat. At ...

Identifying irregularities in tender bidding will be a primary focus for the audit office over the next few years, auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou said on Friday during a House finance committee ...

Nicosia’s division makes headlines often and it is what comes to the minds of many when describing life in the city. Over the course of history, it has not ...

Opposition ‘MPs’ in the north “will not allow” Ziya Ozturkler, the man the ruling coalition declared as ‘parliament speaker’, to attend discussions over next year’s ‘state’ budget, ‘parliamentary’ finance ...

Ahmet Tugcu, the leader of the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek’s employees’ trade union El-Sen, on Friday announced he had filed two lawsuits against ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel over ...

The Cyprus problem was among the issues discussed during the two-hour meeting foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey had on Friday, in Athens, where they expressed their differing positions on ...

Cyprus is among the EU countries with the highest antibiotic consumption and rates of antimicrobial resistance, Health Minister Michael Damianos stated on Friday during a press conference for a campaign ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Friday called on the European Union to “stop acting as the Greek Cypriot side’s spokesman”. The ‘ministry’ was responding to EU High Representative ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a new EU-funded initiative aimed at promoting sustainable energy practices in Turkish Cypriot local communities. The contract amounts to €245,000 and will be ...

A vital part of Democrat Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign was tapping into the groundswell of women’s anger and political activism unleashed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision ...