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Global petrol demand growth could halve in 2024, squeezing second-half refinery margins, analysts said, driven by a shift to electric cars in China and the United States and a return to ...

Columbia University canceled its main graduation ceremony after weeks of pro-Palestinian protests roiled the Ivy League college’s campus, but it will still hold smaller, school-based events. “Holding a large ...

France’s car industry will aim to ramp up electric car sales fourfold by 2027 under a strategy agreement to be signed with the government on Monday, just as the president ...

Britain’s financial watchdog will be asked next week to respond to growing political and industry criticism over its “naming and shaming” proposals, according to the parliament’s treasury committee. ...

The Ukrainian Embassy in Nicosia on Monday expressed its “deep disappointment” over permission given for Russian events to be held across Cyprus to commemorate Russia’s Victory Day this week. ...

In his second article, looking at the Cyprus problem from the viewpoint of a career diplomat, Andreas Pirishis, challenges the popular claim that foreign governments were always working against the ...

Road safety was on the top of the north’s ‘parliament’s’ agenda on Monday as it convened for the first time since the death of Greek Cypriot Photis Photiou ...

Two children were arrested on Monday in connection with an arson attack on a house in the Larnaca village of Kiti on Saturday night. The pair, aged 14 and 16 years old ...

Israel’s military carried out airstrikes in Rafah on Monday, residents said, hours after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate parts of the southern Gaza city where more than a million ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman said on Monday there may be “no Turkish Cypriots left” in some areas of the north in five or ten years’ time ...

Shots were fired at a parked car in Zakaki on Monday, police said. The shots were fired shortly after 3pm, with police currently believing they were fired from a small ...

The depletion of equity through a dysfunctional banking system leads to a separation of ownership from entrepreneurship and by the relentless pursuit of the wealthy of a return without the ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Tuesday, accused of having stolen copper coils from a water tank on the roof of his own father’s house. The ...

More than 1,200 people have signed up to participate in the government’s “e-Kofini” channel on the communication app Viber, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Monday. The Viber channel was ...

Sefa Karahasan, the Turkish public broadcaster TRT’s Cyprus correspondent, was arrested in the north in relation to the ongoing “fake diploma scandal” and appeared in court on Tuesday. Karahasan’...

Oil futures climbed on Monday after Saudi Arabia hiked June crude prices for most regions and as the prospect of a Gaza ceasefire deal appeared slim, renewing fears the Israel-Hamas ...

A woman from Kyrenia was arrested for practicing “witchcraft” and for taking money in exchange for promises of a Republic of Cyprus passport, the Turkish Cypriot police announced on Tuesday. ...

The disruption to container shipping traffic in the Red Sea is increasing and is expected to reduce the industry’s capacity between the Far East and Europe by some 15-20 ...

Two firefighting helicopters and a total of 18 crew members arrived in Cyprus from Jordan with the aim of boosting Cyprus’ firefighting capabilities ahead of the summer, the agriculture ministry said ...

United Nations Envoy Maria Angela Holguin is set to arrive in Cyprus on Tuesday and begin her latest round of meetings. She is expected to meet with President Nikos Christodoulides ...

McLaren’s Lando Norris capitalised on a bit of good fortune to win the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday, holding off Red Bull’s triple world champion Max Verstappen for ...

Leventis Gallery celebrates its 10th anniversary this year by expanding its horizons with specially designed programmes that enhance accessibility. Several events and actions are planned for the upcoming months, both ...

A 30-year-old man from Limassol has died after being involved in a road traffic accident on the road between Kalo Chorio and Limassol on Easter Sunday evening. The man, named ...

Easter Monday’s weather will be mostly clear and sunny but tempered by the possibility of isolated rain and even isolated storms in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to 25 degrees ...