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A yellow weather warning for thunderstorms was issued on Monday night, set to last until midnight Tuesday. Nicosia was hit with pouring rain and thundersorms storms as one resident told ...

Pope Francis came under criticism on Monday for telling Russian youths to remember that they are the heirs of past Tsars such as Peter the Great, who President Vladimir Putin ...

The met office on Monday warned of further heavy rains and thunderstorms after unsettled weather hit various parts of the island earlier in the morning. Parts of Cyprus woke up ...

Spain’s High Court prosecutor on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into whether national soccer chief Luis Rubiales might have committed an act of sexual aggression when he grabbed player ...

A social media firestorm has broken out on Monday, following attacks against migrants, their businesses, and cars in Chlorakas overnight, with the village mukhtar and a refugee NGO trading accusations ...

Who says summer activities are over? Open-air film nights are still on the agenda as the Home for Cooperation in Nicosia proposes a new event series in collaboration with Cinebur. ...

Applications for the government schemed aimed at revamping Nicosia’s walled city will remain open until December 2025 or until the budget runs out, the interior ministry said on Monday. The ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Monday he will have a new round of meetings with bank executives to see how lenders might refrain from raising interest rates again, as ...

The electricity supply of the north’s public broadcaster Bayrak and the Hala Sultan Mosque in Mia Milia were cut off on Monday, according to the north’s electricity authority (...

A decision-making meeting over Cyprus’ fires will be held next month, at the behest of President Nikos Christodoulides, it emerged on Monday. According to Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos who met ...

The Trikomo district court heard on Monday how Sefer Bugra Altundag killed 16-year-old Zehie Helin Reessur in January. In the latest hearing of Altundag’s trial, Trikomo police judicial branch ...

Two migrants who were admitted to the Pournara reception centre in Kokkinotrimithia were arrested and fined €2,400 on Monday after they were found with 47 packets of 200 cigarettes and 500 g of tobacco. ...

Britain’s National Air Traffic Service (NATS) was hit by a technical problem for several hours on Monday, causing widespread disruption to flights in UK airspace that it said would ...

French conservatives on Monday applauded the government’s decision to ban children from wearing the abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in state-run schools, but the ...

Police did everything necessary to ensure calm, order and security in Chlorakas, police spokesman Christos Andreou said on Monday, saying that they are “unjustly receiving criticism” and that on four ...

The European Union must be ready to admit new member states by 2030, European Council President Charles Michel told a forum in the Slovenian lake resort of Bled on Monday. “I ...

An ancient temple lost to the sands of time, rediscovered in 1885 but forgotten once again – only to be “rediscovered” in 2021, has finally been unearthed by a German team of archaeologists. ...

The auditor office said on Monday that health ministry permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki’s Egyptian dentistry degree is “authentic”, after weeks of speculation over its validity. The speculation reached fever ...

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what ...

The mother of Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales started a hunger strike inside a church on Monday to protest against what she called her son’s “inhumane treatment” over his ...

NIKI CHARALAMBOUS meets a woman who has set up a platform to promote the island’s traditions Dedicated fashion sustainability campaigner Christina Dymioti is working towards fashion having a positive ...

Poland and the Baltic states will close their borders with Belarus entirely if a “critical incident” involving Wagner mercenaries takes place, the Polish interior minister said on Monday, amid rising ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday night condemned the violent clashes that took place in Chlorakas, which led to arrests and hospital treatments after a number of migrants were attacked. “Violence ...

A total of 32 out of 45 staple food items have seen their prices increase, the Consumer Protection Service (CPS) said on Monday, in its July 2023 price observatory. Reductions were recorded for 13 ...