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Lego’s sales of its colourful plastic bricks outpaced the overall toy market in the first half of the year, driven by strong demand in Europe and North America, according ...

German online takeaway food company Delivery Hero (DHER.DE) on Thursday reported stronger than expected growth it its second-quarter gross merchandise value and confirmed its full-year outlook on the back ...

Britain’s car production fell for the fifth consecutive month in July, hurt by manufacturers shifting to new models and temporary disruptions in the supply chain, industry data showed on ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou announced on Thursday that Cyprus will host the MED9 summit of agriculture ministers from September 1 to 3. The MED9 group is an alliance of nine Mediterranean and ...

Rule of law that is applied selectively is not rule of law. It is a form of authoritarianism in which the state decides who is allowed to break the law ...

The north’s ‘tourism minister’ Fikri Ataoglu on Thursday implored Turkish holidaymakers to choose to travel to the north instead of to the Greek islands for their holidays. Speaking to ...

Serbia on Thursday signed a landmark agreement with France’s Dassault Aviation AM.PA for the purchase of 12 new Rafale fighter jets for 2.7 billion euros ($2.99 billion). The agreement, signed by ...

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday he has asked the bloc’s members to consider imposing sanctions on two Israeli ministers for “hate messages” against Palestinians, ...

More than half of Libya’s oil production, or about 700,000 barrels per day, was offline on Thursday and exports were halted at several ports as a standoff between rival political ...

An F-16 fighter jet used by Ukraine crashed on Monday, Kyiv’s military said, the first such loss reported since the long-awaited arrival of the U.S.-made planes in ...

Liverpool were drawn on Thursday to face champions Real Madrid when they return to the Champions League, which has been expanded to a 36-team league format. The revamped competition has ...

The Israeli military and Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children ...

Rescue workers on Thursday located a 31-year-old man who had been reported missing after he went for a swim in the Peyia area in Paphos. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre ...

A man from Limassol reported to police on Thursday that he had fallen victim to a scam involving cryptocurrencies, where he claimed to have lost $260,000. According to the 49-year-old’s ...

The finance ministry reiterated on Thursday it’s not in a position to evaluate the mooted Cyprus-Greece electricity interconnector project as several parameters remain unknown, while the cost-benefit analysis provided ...

A special kind of shadow theatre performance will be held in Kato Moni this Friday, bringing the spotlight on a favourite character – Karagiozis. The Treasure Hunt performance is a shadow ...

Five tenants are refusing to vacate government refugee homes, causing delays to the ‘ktizo’ renovation project, it emerged on Thursday. The interior ministry is struggling to find a solution as ...

Napoli have signed Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea, the Serie A club said on Thursday. Financial details of the transfer were not revealed by either club but British media ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades’ decision to make four contract advisers permanent civil service employees has set a precedent that more former advisers are seeking to benefit from, it emerged on ...

French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Thursday to deepen ties with Britain over defence, security, migration and energy after a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Paris. Starmer and ...

The Committee of Media Ethics Cyprus (CMEC) strongly condemns the disclosure in some of the media of details concerning under-investigation sexual crimes, including abuse, abduction and exploitation, with victims who ...

Former supreme court judge George Arestis was on Thursday appointed as Special Adviser to the government on matters of ethics, the presidency announced. President Nikos Christodoulides finalised the appointment which ...

Cyprus decided on Thursday to ratify and implement the International Labour Organisation’s convention on eliminating violence and harassment at work, through three bills that will now be sent to ...

A pitbull which mauled its owner was shot dead by its owner’s neighbour on Wednesday night. The dog’s owner, aged 61 years old, was reportedly sitting in his garden ...