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Schools in Cyprus’ mountainous regions faced a day of disruption on Thursday, as heavy snowfall and ice kept key roads impassable. Authorities confirmed that several schools remained closed for a ...

Australia passed tough anti-hate crime laws on Thursday, including mandatory minimum sentences for terror offences and displaying hate symbols, in a bid to tackle a recent surge in antisemitism. The ...

President Donald Trump’s top aides staunchly defended his push to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza and have the US take over the war-ruined enclave, but they also backed away ...

Lending criteria for businesses and households in Cyprus remained unchanged during the third quarter of 2024, when compared to the previous quarter, according to the bank lending survey published by the ...

British services firms lost momentum last month as a looming rise in employer taxes led to the fastest job cuts in four years but price pressures remained strong, according to ...

OPEC oil output fell in January for a second month, a Reuters survey found, as a drop in exports from Nigeria and Iran offset a rebound from the United Arab ...

The recall of vehicles fitted with deadly Takata airbags is proving a nightmare for Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades, and not least because the grieving father of a young man killed ...

Cyprus is throwing away more and more renewable solar energy every year as production increases through the unprecedented proliferation of PV parks and government home schemes but with nowhere to ...

Snow was recorded falling on both the Troodos mountains and atop Kyparissovouno, the highest peak of the Kyrenia mountains, on Wednesday evening. The snow came as temperatures across the island ...

Serdal Gunduz, the secretary-general and 30-per-cent shareholder of Morphou’s Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU), on Wednesday pointed the finger at ‘MPs’ from the north’s largest party ...

Limassol’s school board was on Wednesday questioned over its installation of padel courts at schools by the House education committee. The padel courts are operated by private firms, with ...

The controversy surrounding the suspended former volunteer commissioner Yiannis Yiannakis’ ongoing salary payments was raised in parliament on Wednesday. During a discussion of the Cyprus youth organisation (Onek) budget for 2025 ...

Cypriot artists Nama Dama and Freedom Candlemaker will join forces for a unique musical evening in Nicosia to present highly-anticipated new albums in a performance titled Pagan Ageless Soul. The ...

A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday became the second one nationally to block Donald Trump’s administration from implementing the Republican president’s executive order aimed at curtailing birthright ...

Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco. While she hardly knew him, receiving his remains 85 years later ...

The Philippine lower house on Wednesday impeached Vice President Sara Duterte, the daughter of the country’s firebrand former leader, setting the stage for a rare, high-profile trial in the ...

The new migrant centre in Limnes, near the Larnaca district village of Menoyia, is to be completed by the end of the year, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Wednesday. ...

The original line-up of heavy metal legends Black Sabbath will play together for the first time in 20 years at a one-off concert in Birmingham, England, this summer, organisers said on ...

A bill to regulate adoption was approved by the ministerial cabinet on Wednesday, aiming to modernise outdated procedures and safeguard the best interests and fundamental rights of children. Deputy Welfare ...

Huseyin Tufekci, the director of Turkish Cypriot construction company the Tufekci Group, was arrested on Wednesday, accused of forging documents to win a tender for the construction of the north’...

The Supreme Court has ruled that the 2024 law imposing a special tax on credit institutions is unconstitutional. The law, passed by the House of representatives, was meant to fund state ...

Cyprus has recorded the highest ratio of departures to arrivals among EU member states in 2024, with a rate of 179 per cent. A total of 10,941 people left the country in the ...

Cyprus saw the first rain fall of the month on Wednesday, amounting to 2.8 millimetres, accounting for 3 per cent of the usual average amount for the month. The highest rainfall during ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved the provision of free bus travel for people whose vehicles have been immobilised as part of government decrees related to faulty airbags and other faults on ...