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Geert Wilders, the Dutch populist whose anti-Islam comments have led to death threats, could become the next leader of the Netherlands following an election upset for his Freedom Party (PVV) ...

Dutch anti-EU far-right populist Geert Wilders, who has vowed to halt all immigration to the Netherlands, was set for a major victory in parliamentary elections on Wednesday, an exit poll ...

A speeding car crashed in flames on the bridge linking New York state and Ontario at Niagara Falls on Wednesday, killing two people in the vehicle and sparking a security ...

Thursday will be mostly clear with locally afternoon clouds in the mountains. Periodic episodes of dust are expected. Temperatures will rise to 23C degrees inland, on the east and south ...

Cyprus’ transport and storage sector experienced a robust annual growth of nearly 10 per cent during the third quarter of 2023, according to a report released this week by the Cyprus Statistical ...

Goldman Sachs says the possibility of a deeper group oil output cut is on the table when OPEC+ oil producers meet this weekend, and it expects Saudi Arabia and Russia ...

Britain’s economy is forecast to grow by 0.7 per cent in 2024, finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Wednesday, citing the latest projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The ...

The state intends to help with repairs at the Hambis Printmaking Museum in Plataniskia with the consent of the lessors of the two adjacent properties, Limassol district administrator Marios Alexandrou ...

Deputies at the House commerce committee criticised the government for the delay in appointing a Commissioner of the Development for Mountain Communities. The post had been vacant for more than ...

The recent rally that has lifted US stocks and bonds is more of a year-end rebound than a turning point, according to big money managers, who see fiscal and monetary ...

Tufan Erhurman, leader of the north’s largest opposition party the CTP, on Wednesday joined calls for those responsible for the collapse of the Isias hotel to be charged with ...

Questions have been raised in the north over meetings held by ‘MP’ Hasan Tacoy with Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz and his own ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel. According to website ...

South Korea on Wednesday suspended part of a 2018 military agreement with North Korea after Pyongyang defied warnings from the United States and drew Western condemnation by launching a spy satellite. ...

On a recent evening in Cairo, a worker cleaned tables in an empty McDonald’s restaurant. Branches of other Western fast-food chains in the Egyptian capital also appeared deserted. All ...

By Tom Cleaver and Andria Kades A 26-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Wednesday after having robbed a bakery and two kiosks. The man was found by police while ...

Cyprus is “the strongest supporter of Serbia’s European path”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. Christodoulides is in Serbia on a two-day visit and made the remarks following a ...

The European Parliament voted in favour of a bill to implement a number of reforms to the bloc’s treaties, including an almost absolute abolition of the principle of unanimity, ...

Ledra Music Soloists hosts a unique evening of chamber music for clarinet and piano with the internationally renowned clarinettist Gábor Varga and pianist Nicolas Costantinou on December 6. The two ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin told the leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) on Wednesday that it was necessary to think about how to stop “the tragedy” of the war ...

British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced tax cuts for workers before an expected 2024 election and he gave businesses permanent investment incentives in an attempt to speed up an economy that looks ...

A messy dispute broke out on Wednesday over whether Pope Francis used the word “genocide” to describe events in Gaza, with Palestinians who met with him insisting that he did ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Wednesday after attempting to smuggle two people to the Republic. He had been arrested on Tuesday while driving between Nicosia and ...

The attorney general (AG) dampened hopes for criminal convictions over sanctions evasion on Wednesday, after he told deputies those may be difficult to achieve but pledged there would be thorough ...

Greece’ Olympic rowing champion Stefanos Ntouskos will be the first torchbearer of the Paris 2024 Olympics relay after next year’s lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia, Greece’s Olympic Committee (HOC) ...