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The state health organisation said it would be looking into Friday’s reports regarding the embezzlement of more than €30 million for neurolysis treatments and would take action “if deemed necessary”. ...

The Fire Department responded to a total of 35 calls since Friday, 20 of which were fires. At 11.52pm on Friday, Paphos firefighters responded to a fire in a private vehicle that ...

By Patrick Maundu Baobab trees grow in arid and semi-arid parts of Africa, and have deep cultural and ecological significance. Some of these trees are thousands of years old. Global ...

Unficyp vehicles were still in the Frenaros-Vrysoulles buffer zone on Saturday morning, after tension escalated on Friday between peacekeepers and farmers cultivating their land. The UN filed a formal police ...

The departure of Syria’s ex-president Bashar al-Assad, “in the manner he left, cannot considered anything but a very positive development,” President Nikos Christodoulides told a gathering in Athens on ...

There are times, admits George Rotos, when he’ll run into someone he knows and pretend not to see them – not because he doesn’t want to talk to them ...

Julia Felton, Michigan State University and Crystal Cederna, Michigan State University Holidays are often depicted as picture-perfect moments: families blissfully united around a table filled with seasonal food favorites against ...

A fire totally destroyed a 125cc motorcycle on Saturday at 4am, in Strovolos. The bike was parked at the side of the road and appears to belong to a 28-year-old, ...

Police are close to solving a series of cases concerning recent burglaries and theft in Famagusta district, after arresting a 41-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman. The suspects’ apartment was ...

Dragons, princes and princesses of Cypriot fairy tales arrive at the Nicosia Municipal Theatre this Christmas Eve, coming to life in a unique performance. Up next at the 5th Nicosia ...

A yellow warning has been issued for thunderstorms over the weekend, starting at 11am on Saturday and ending at 4am on Sunday. The Meteorological Department expects isolated heavy thunderstorms, mainly ...

President Nikos Christodoulides condemned the attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday evening. In a post on X on Saturday, the president wrote that he is “deeply ...

By Farid Mirbagheri The recent escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has brought the region to the brink of a wider war that could engulf Lebanon, Iran and ...

Bank of Cyprus and Hellenic Bank on Friday announced a new raft of measures aimed at supporting vulnerable borrowers. The developments come after meetings at the presidential palace earlier in ...

The U.S. Congress passed spending legislation early on Saturday in a down-to-the wire burst of activity that will avert a destabilizing government shutdown ahead of the busy holiday travel ...

By Charles Ellinas Developments in Syria have been precipitous and momentous. Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of the Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that deposed al-Assad last Sunday, has ...

The Israeli military said it failed to intercept a missile from Yemen early on Saturday that fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, and the ambulance service said 14 people received mild ...

German authorities are investigating a Saudi man with a history of anti-Islam rhetoric as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg ...

The decline in eurozone business activity eased this month as the bloc’s dominant services industry bounced back to growth and offset a long-running contraction in the manufacturing industry, a ...

The lead European Union data privacy regulator for Meta (META.O) has fined the social media giant 251 million euros ($263.5 million) for a 2018 Facebook security breach that affected 29 million users. Meta ...

British manufacturers have reported the sharpest loss of confidence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of higher costs including tax increases by the new government, according ...

The European Central Bank should continue to cut interest rates in small steps and resist the temptation of trying to prop up growth in a currency bloc that suffers largely ...

Cyprus’ citrus trees may be wiped out if a sap-sucking bug thought to have found its way to the island last year through compost in travellers’ luggage, becomes infected with ...

Oelmek, the secondary school teachers’ union, is one of the main reasons public education has been in decline for years. For years, this union has been instrumental in falling education ...